You're right. I used glow before creating leaf, and the more I used it, the more I found myself wanting features like a persistent TOC, search, watch mode, and mouse support.
That led me to build leaf as a more GUI-like Markdown reader for the terminal.
Recently, an inline mode (leaf --inline) was added for users who prefer the simpler glow-style experience.
I will say the project itself does not look like slop, just the linked post, super low quality making your efforts look lower quality
I too have tried other projects and then used Ai to build a more personal one. This seems to be the new modus operandi. It's very easy to point an ai at a project and have it build a new version with differences.
My current project like this is an alternative to and built on typesense
I may end up including a terminal markdown browser not that your project planted that seed in my head. Reverse uno and add search to yours? (highly recommend using typesense as the base for that, so many great features)
yw, there are good and bad places to promote projects. I think we've passed peak slop hype here and are getting back to putting in more effort before we share. Keep the rest of us up-to-date on progress!
I don’t use ai for any human to human communications. I don’t even really use it for grammar anymore. I’d rather post my own authentic style (blunders and all) then get my thoughts blended by the language grinder into sludge
I don’t receive that much personal communication that’s AI copy paste. It is somewhat easy to tell when someone is writing with AI. I usually don’t read articles that have strong AI tells for example
This is definitely the way. I don’t think long term that full agentic engineering without writing code is sustainable. I think it definitely leads to atrophy
This is such a bad take it’s crazy. Assuming a higher IQ person has better long horizon thinking and levels of abstraction seems blatantly false.
Recent example is SBF (and crypto buddies) who probably had a high IQ but had pretty short term thinking I would say.
Still trying to use IQ as a measure of intelligence is also pretty wild. Plenty of things high IQ people can’t do (like relate to others as evidenced by the post).
(Note: I don’t know my IQ so this might just be low IQ cope)
Good reasonable take. I think the tradeoff on AI automation is trading skill development, brain muscle growth, and technical understanding for speed. You have to balance it so you are net faster but also growing. Otherwise you are just indistinguishable from any other prompter.
I’m unconvinced by people specializing in “agentic engineering techniques” like managing agent swarms/spec writing/harness tuning. Regardless of how complex your set up is I don’t think you are actually growing your skillset/problem solving abilities if your only interaction with code is prompting. I also think those “skills” have a finite lifetime as each generation of model and harness requires different ways to hold them.
Eventually if the AI promise is meant to happen (which I’m skeptical), LLMs will be able to fully manage their own swarms/write their own specs without requiring our input. Only spending time learning how to get better results from today’s AI is basically a waste for your long term growth.
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