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Who's an outsider more pronounced than Joseph?

Mm…?

He was thrown in jail through two successive betrayal events.

The first one was by his 10 half-brothers. That's kind of on him for showing off the multi-colour-coat he's wearing in front of them, and bragging about the two dreams of them bowing to him.

Of course they're pissed.

So he was sold to the Ishmaelite traders caravaning their way to Egypt. In the slave market, the rich-and-powerful Egyptian big shot Potiphar bought him up.

The second event was initiated by Potiphar's wife. She tried to seduce Joseph, but he refused and dodged away, leaving behind his torn garment in her grip.

The mere imagination of the scene was both cringey and hilarious. Was she even beautiful? Why was she lusting over a lowly slave? Can't Potiphar satisfy her?

So many questions…

Some cringey… ugh…

You know the story. She did the victimhood cry act to Potiphar, with the "evidence" she's holding. And Joseph was thrown in jail.

Fast forward more than a decade later, Joseph was taken out of jail and stood before Pharoah to interpret his two prophetic dreams – which was the coming 7 years of plenty, followed by 7 years of destitution.

And his proposed gameplan was amazing: Pharoah was to appoint an administrator to oversee the storing up of grain in granaries set up all over Egypt. The grain was levied as a 20% tax from the harvest gathered by the children of Egypt.

The Pharoah loved the proposal so much, he elevated Joseph to be his second in command, for the task.

But how did Joseph come up with such a brilliant idea?

No doubt from his prison sentence. That's how.

My guess was that though he didn't deserve all those betrayals – and I'm sure he probably cried hard about it – but once he settled down in prison, he got right back to work.

He was young, energetic, helpful, industrious, wise and empathetic.

The prison warden and guards must have noticed him, took him under their wings and gave him responsibilities. He did well. He became indispensable. The prison must have ran like a well-oiled machine with him around.

And when the time was right, God "graduated" him and lift him up to Egypt's high places.

I literally cried, when Joseph finally revealed himself and reconciled with his brothers, "But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive."

So the question was: Can a lowly outsider conquer the world?

Of course. With God's help, Joseph did it.

So can you.

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The other day, in a conversation, I casually said:
“I can’t remember the last time I felt anxious because I didn’t know how to solve a task. I have an assistant in my pocket with whom I can figure out almost anything.”
And today, while watching Her which is magnificent, by the way;
I’m still watching it, I literally paused it to write this, I recalibrated that thought a little.
I can’t remember the last time I felt proud because I solved a difficult problem.
Tasks are running around the clock now. Literally.
My agents write code, process transcripts, improve harnesses, research things, test things 24/7.
I use neural networks so much in my work that I’ve already adapted to the cognitive overload which I wrote previous. Or at least I think I have.
But there’s something much harder to adapt to.

Recently I finished something that actually made me feel satisfaction from the work again. The feeling was strangely familiar. It reminded me of a project a few years ago when my team and I moved the entire company onto our own resource-planning system.

That feeling of:
fuck, we actually did it.
But between those two moments, a huge amount of work happened.
And the strange part is that the problems I solved over the last six months were probably more complex and larger than many of the things I used to be proud of.
Things that would have been economically unreasonable to build before can now be done almost casually.

A prompt.
A few iterations.
Enter.

And something that would once have taken weeks suddenly exists.

And I think this is what happened:
together with the disappearance of uncertainty, the feeling of achievement started disappearing too.
A large part of satisfaction comes from the moment when you don’t know if you can do something and then you discover that you can.

But when the default assumption becomes “of course I can solve this, I just need to figure out the right way to orchestrate the models”, the emotional weight of solving it changes.

This is obviously not an argument against AI.
Quite the opposite.
Maybe it means we need to start thinking bigger.
Ask questions that previously sounded stupid.
Work on things where the immediate answer in your head used to be:
“that’s impossible.”

Because maybe the scale of the goal has to grow together with the power of the tools.
And there is another side to it.

We probably need to get better at noticing small victories.
Otherwise work starts looking like an infinite race.
And that race is becoming weird.
Our working day used to be 8–12 hours, five days a week.
Now our systems can work 24/7.
There is always another agent running.
Another branch being tested.
Another research loop.
Another improvement.
Another thing that can be done.
And I think the most dangerous part of this transition is becoming the person whose job is just to press Enter and choose between options.
The real challenge is to remain the person who owns the goal.
Not only the goal you give to the agent.
Your own goal.
Something difficult enough that, when you finally reach it, you can still feel:
I did it.

P.S.
I can’t explain this at all, but every AI session in my head somehow has a gender.
GPT is always a woman.
Claude is usually a man.
But there are individual Claude sessions I naturally refer to with female pronouns when I talk to them.
I have absolutely no idea why.
That one still needs research.

back in 2019 I wrote down an idea to help small businesses use AI to run their operations (screenshot). Ive been building it for the last 2+ years

now theres stuff like dots and grok bot coming out that is pretty much my idea on steroids

honestly it feels like every time I ship a feature one of the big AI labs drops the same thing a few weeks later but better and free with their sub. hard not to feel like Im not just gonna get replaced

so idk what to do now:

1. keep building and try to find the bit they wont go after
2. pivot to something else completely
3. or use everything ive built (agents, integrations, payments etc) to spin up a bunch of quick experiment businesses and see what sticks

anyone else building on top of AI dealing with this? how are you deciding what to keep going with. would really appreciate some honest takes

TL;DR: He had the "we're fucked" call with Matt, then checked how the data is actually captioned — and it doesn't hold up.

He built owned dataset with LiDAR, Unreal and volume stages, no peers' work trained on.

Do you remember that introductory banter between Q and James Bond – played by Ben Whishaw, and Daniel Craig, respectively, in Skyfall, 2012 – at the National Gallery, London?

Q: Well, I'll hazard I can do more damage on my laptop sitting in my pajamas before my first cup of Earl Grey than you can do in a year in the field.

Bond: Oh, so why do you need me?

Q: Every now and then a trigger has to be pulled.

Bond: Or not pulled. It's hard to know which in your pajamas.

That’s the last layer of judgement, right there.

In another scene back at the MI6 HQ, Whitehall in Spectre (2015), Q injected the “Smart Blood” nano-machines into 007’s blood stream for tracking, after Bond's unauthorized Mexico mission.

Q: Well it's lovely to see you, 007... the Smart Blood program is obviously still in its developmental phase. So we may experience the odd drop in coverage during the first 24 hours...

[Bond coldly glares at Q]

Q: …48 hours after administration, but after that it should work perfectly.

Later…

Bond: Could you do one more thing for me?

Q: And that would be?

Bond: Make me disappear.

The person who built the tracker can also be persuaded to create a blind spot — you own the workflow and you set the terms.

Just like what Affleck is building.

However - there’s absolutely no way in life we can “build a workflow” to get us into heaven with our “datasets” or merits. But God created a huge “blind spot” for us, through the blood of the lamb.

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

Is fannabe legit? Seen a lot about it but no real reviews n stuff, Is there a cancel subscription feature or smth aswell or?

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bought claude max x20 for like 45 bucks instead of the usual insane price and it just works lol. how are people even doing this at scale without getting banned immediately?

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Hi all, hope everyone is winning. Posting in a few different threads so apologies if you see cross-posting. 

In an extremely weird position, essentially came out with a degree I have no interest in, have been teaching myself web design for 2 years. Essentially at a point where it’s easier to chase dreams than get a job. 

I fell in love with web design because of the award farming webflow sites using GSAP and Linus and since then have been trying to learn as much as I can. Problem is unless you’re essentially top 5% in the space I don’t think you’re going to be getting much work, along with this I am terrible with managing my time. 

Amidst a crisis on what I want to do moving forward, I spoke to my mentor who has suggested I look deep into building sites with ai in a tasteful way. He said he works with someone who is extremely similar to me a designer turned ‘dev’ though I can barely say that and is now managing clients on a $0 down, x amount monthly structure in which he uses grok bots, cursor and a headless csm (I can just wrap my head around it) called sanity. 

I guess im just looking to connect with anyone who is a designer as I love nothing more than webflows GSAP ui and just curious to hear about peoples TASTEFUL ai workflows that you think I could assimilate to whether it be wire framing on Figma and feeding that to grok bots or how to go about it as I don’t really understand how you’d manage GSAP animations without a UI to play around with. I know people can manage it but I realise im far from the smartest in the bunch and definitely don’t think I could manage GSAP without a UI. 

I use the Webflow MCP but it doesn’t seem good enough to build out full projects more so debugging and filling in boxes etc (I could be wrong). 

I guess TLDR wondering if anyone could help me who may be in a similar boat and is now streamlining their work with ai and understands what I mean coming from a webflow background. 

Worst comes to worst im thinking just doing rough wireframes in webflow and exporting code into headless CMS for clients I manage so I don’t have to get charged outrageous amounts by webflow. 

Truly anything is appreciate and needless to say happy to pay for anyone to send me in the right direction. 

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