Because when the government decides you've done something wrong from said video (even if you haven't), it's up to you to prove your innocence. That's a direct contradiction of what the US was founded upon, and creates a very slippery slope.

> Yet we constantly see all this devaluation of the practice of software engineering ("code was always the easy part" - bull-fucking-shit)

Whenever I've used this phrase or seen other people use this phrase it's never been in the context of software engineering. It's always been in the context of literally just spitting out code that a compiler will accept. Believe it or not, a lot of students in CS cohorts have significant struggles fighting the compiler because they just don't understand the language they're programming in and are slow to become proficient (if they ever do). Thus, a lot of people have this idea that writing code, and I mean literally just spitting out something that compiles and runs is hard.

Doing that is indeed quite easy today. That's what we mean by "coding was always the easy part".

Writing code that actually scales into something bigger and is constructed in a way that meets requirements and is flexible? That's a whole different ball game. That's software engineering.

I have been asked numerous times now: "Did you ask Claude?"

It's insulting.

I've been pretty interested in cars lately, and Engineering Explained has some great videos. They can stretch a bit longer than 20 minutes, but I'll just pause the video and come back to it later when I have time.

And given that I've been interested in cars lately, Delivrd is a channel of this guy that negotiates car deals for a living, and it's actually really interesting to see the different behaviors of car dealerships. His videos are longer, but you can kind of just skip around since it's basically just livestream clips.

And finally, I've been watching lots of older spongebob, south park, and family guy episodes. Man those are hitting the spot right now.

What questions in particular are you thinking of that's purely about the engineering and ultimately not the political agenda?

Why did you need Mythos to do this? There's nothing that seems inherently difficult about what has been built here.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like you've built a fancy looking site for a service that essentially generates a prompt for something that may be related to your business, and throws it into each of the major AI services (chatgpt, claude, gemini, etc) to see if it name drops your brand... and you want to charge $49/mo for that?

If you can get someone to pay you that, more power to you, but sheesh.

...why? This is something you could automate in about an hour using your own LLM subscription to drive the prompts.

Just mentioning this since no one else has yet: it could be your tonsils and/or adenoids, so it may also be worth seeing an ENT if you suspect this is the case.

Cause driving is fun and these systems get in the way without providing any noticeable benefit to me.

I tried lane keep assist in an audi a5 sportback, and it was genuinely terrifying to me. It felt like it was trying to drag me into oncoming traffic when going around curves.

Automatic braking sounds great on paper but practically speaking doesn't work out in my opinion, and once again seems to get in the way. Many people have reported getting frequent alerts while driving or even having ghost braking going on with their Subaru EyeSight systems. This wouldn't be an issue if I could confidently remove the system from my vehicle, but right now I practically can't without doing some heavy lifting on my own.

That definitely addresses the privacy issue, but some of the automatic braking and driver awareness monitoring is a bit much for me. For example, Subaru now puts a camera in the dash that frequently scans your face and makes a beeping noise if it thinks you're not paying attention. As you can imagine, it beeps a lot.