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making Sublime — for you and for me.
sari
@sari
making Sublime — for you and for me.
The thing that Copilot gave us that we, again, only realized in retrospect was this randomized psychological reward. It’s like a slot machine where the ongoing cost of using it at any given moment is not very high, but then periodically you hit this jackpot where it generates a whole function for you and you’re utterly delighted .

The underlying characteristics of a new technology can determine potential, and in wide-ranging ways—there's a sense in which the ancestor to Twitter's, Instagram's, Snapchat's, and TikTok's voracious demand for constant attention from users who can access them from anywhere is all descended from the very trivial and definitely-a-toy Tamagotchi.
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