The Better Offline Mailbag
Better Offline
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 687 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by producer Sophie Lichterman to answer questions about life, technology, and Better Offline itself.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:06.7 | CallZone Media. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello and welcome to Better Offline. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm your host, Ed Zittron. |
| 0:29.9 | Today I'm joined by the wonderful Sophie Lichtenen who will be overseeing our Q&A episode, our very first one. |
| 0:31.5 | Sophie, thank you so much for joining me. |
| 0:37.6 | Yeah, I'm kind of the Q&A MC over here at Cool Zone Media, as in you need somebody to ask you the questions. |
| 0:43.4 | And we've had wonderful questions from all of you this week. Thank you so much. We're going to try and do these every couple months, but I love hearing from you. Please post on the Reddit. |
| 0:47.7 | Please message me. You have my email, Easy at Better Offline.com, and that's EZ at Better Offline.com |
| 0:53.1 | for the Canadians and the British who listened to this as well. But Sophie, why don't we take it away? Yeah, I'm just going to jump through some of these questions and, uh, yeah. And like, thank you guys so much for submitting them. Like, we really genuinely appreciate it. It's cool. It's cool. It's cool that you have a podcast where people like you enough where they want to ask you questions. Yeah, it's sick. |
| 1:14.3 | All right. It's cool. It's cool. It's cool that you have a podcast where people like you enough where they want to ask you questions. |
| 1:12.8 | Yeah, it's sick. All right. I'm going to start with a question from Garrett Smart. Do you think AI is actually useful in any capacity, even as an assisted in the areas of art or programming, if so, why? |
| 1:29.0 | So when it comes to art, I think that there are new functions like slightly better |
| 1:34.7 | clone tools as well that I've heard people use, but really this is just a bridge from |
| 1:38.7 | Photoshop. I will say for the most part, art is not a great one because usually it's just getting rid of |
| 1:45.8 | the creative side. Programming's a more complex one. So there's an excellent video I'll link to |
| 1:51.0 | in the episode notes from the internet of bugs that Carl Brown, I think his name is. I really want |
| 1:55.1 | him on the show. Carl, if you're listening, please come on, where he kind of said that |
| 1:58.5 | generative AI code is different to what software engineering is. |
| 2:03.6 | Like, software engineering is solving a murder or an investigation far more than generative AI is just creating code. |
| 2:11.0 | Because software engineering isn't just spouting out code and saying, here we go, we're done. |
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