diff --git a/content/english/news/summer-update-2025.md b/content/english/news/summer-update-2025.md index c9f80dd..f011bb5 100644 --- a/content/english/news/summer-update-2025.md +++ b/content/english/news/summer-update-2025.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ title: "Our Summer Update" meta_title: "" description: "See where we stand halfway through the year" -date: 2025-06-21T12:00:00Z +date: 2025-06-22T12:00:00Z image: "/images/hmc/ocean.jpg" categories: ["Press Release"] author: "Abner Coimbre" @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Catch up on our progress this year. Ticket discounts end soon! **Things to Discuss** - Conference Theme: Handmade at Home -- Shutting Discord Down +- Discord Off-Ramp - My Thoughts on AI - Bonus Video: Is Handmade like Suckless? @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ Someone reading this may be a worthy candidate and not even know it. Send an inf {{< button label="Submit a Talk" link="mailto:submissions@handmadecities.com" style="solid" >}} --- -### Shutting Discord Down +### Discord Off-Ramp It's not controversial to say I want to shut down Discord: everyone can sympathize for one reason or another! I’ve already left all servers except for my own [HMC](/discord) and [TC](https://terminal.click/discord). I’m moving us to [Revolt](https://revolt.chat) with an invite-only system. Here’s how it’ll work: @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ Revolt won't be foolproof of course. The host could go rogue and invite randos, --- ### My Thoughts on AI -All right, it's a stretch to call my take on artificial intelligence a "real" philosophy, but it is informed from personal study. +All right, it's a stretch to call my take on artificial intelligence a "real" philosophy, but it is informed from careful study. I'm no longer a stranger to AI; I can effectively use the [cline](https://cline.bot) bot and deploy MCP servers. I review, quantize, and self-host open models. I stay on top of the "latest and greatest" and have vibe coders on speed dial (I keep dissenting opinions closer than friends.) @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ However, it fails at novel problems and isn’t practical for my systems program Let's imagine LLM agents become essential for true innovation: the top 5% of 'manual' coders are officially threatened! From what I observe at our in-person events, there remains the eternal craving for what's purely human. -Even the True Believers conceded to me users will crave Handmade projects the same way people crave artisanal crafts, furniture or goods. They called this futuristic market fringe - I call it sustainable. +Even True Believers conceded to me users will crave Handmade projects the same way people crave artisanal crafts, furniture or goods. They called this futuristic market fringe - I call it sustainable. **TL;DR:** I don't lose sleep over my craft disappearing. I lose sleep over the automation of mediocrity. @@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ Anyone who made it this far deserves a cool video! I've set up a permalink at [t Over the years some new community members think [suckless](https://suckless.org) and Handmade are similar if not the same. Out of respect for both, I felt it was time to clarify. +The payoff is worth it if viewers watch patiently. + *P.S. Don’t expect a deep philosophical breakdown. Instead, I casually compare their signature terminal software against my own: two real-world products from different ideologies.* Your indie organizer,
Abner Coimbre