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SimonW is the king of hacker news clickbait these days. He basically chooses the most clickbaity headline possible and then posts it up to hacker news. The act

SimonW is the king of hacker news clickbait these days. He basically chooses the most clickbaity headline possible and then posts it up to hacker news. The actual content itself is almost always totally banal and adds nothing new or insightful to the world. No one was arguing that AI was going to build an engineering team, I haven’t read or heard or seen this take from anyone. Taking up this controversial notion as the premise of an article (as though it’s actually a thing), when no one was positing it in the first place, is a classic way of driving traffic to your blog.

bruth 2y ago
I don't know Simon personally, I do know he has been blogging for a very long time and many of his posts are for his own benefit of recall, not necessarily intended for an external audience. Also He did not post this, a different person did.
sureglymop 2y ago
I disagree. He posts on his blog all the time, and he has a whole section to just things he found interesting and thus reposted. I know because when adding his RSS feed it was at first a bit overwhelming (multiple updates daily). It's his own website – but it's not him who posted it here. Let the guy post on his website what he likes.
felixleungsc 2y ago
Or maybe the non clickbaity ones just don't make it to HN?
Edd1CC 2y ago
I saw someone posit this exact idea at EuroSTAR in Stockholm on Wednesday, fwiw. Two guys from an Australian company suggest this & how both development and testing will be totally prompt based. It got the reaction you’d expect, but it does exist.
ohthatsnotright 2y ago
> No one was arguing that AI was going to build an engineering team I don't think the CEO of NVIDIA agrees with your statement here[0] if he's advocating for nobody learning to code anymore because AI will do it all for the domain experts, which would remove the need for an "engineering team" in his view. [0] https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/jensen-huang-advises-against-learning-to-code-leave-it-up-to-ai https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...
- mhuffman 2y ago
  Do you think the CEO of NVIDIA is comfortable deeply cutting the engineers at NVIDIA because, after all, it is just a matter of time before the LLMs create better chips? Or is this puffery?
drcongo 2y ago
This is an awful take. As others have noted below, simonw didn't post this to HN, someone else did. Personally I love his blog, I love the humility of anyone posting out loud as they learn.
simonw 2y ago
Yeah, this one really isn't a good example of clickbait - it's a summary of a (really good) post written by someone else that I put on my linkblog, illustrated with some quotes (because I know many people wouldn't bother reading the whole thing) - with no intention of submitting to Hacker News. This one was clickbait: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/ https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/

bruth 2y ago

I don't know Simon personally, I do know he has been blogging for a very long time and many of his posts are for his own benefit of recall, not necessarily intended for an external audience. Also He did not post this, a different person did.

sureglymop 2y ago

I disagree. He posts on his blog all the time, and he has a whole section to just things he found interesting and thus reposted. I know because when adding his RSS feed it was at first a bit overwhelming (multiple updates daily). It's his own website – but it's not him who posted it here. Let the guy post on his website what he likes.

felixleungsc 2y ago

Or maybe the non clickbaity ones just don't make it to HN?

Edd1CC 2y ago

I saw someone posit this exact idea at EuroSTAR in Stockholm on Wednesday, fwiw. Two guys from an Australian company suggest this & how both development and testing will be totally prompt based. It got the reaction you’d expect, but it does exist.

ohthatsnotright 2y ago

> No one was arguing that AI was going to build an engineering team I don't think the CEO of NVIDIA agrees with your statement here[0] if he's advocating for nobody learning to code anymore because AI will do it all for the domain experts, which would remove the need for an "engineering team" in his view. [0] https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/jensen-huang-advises-against-learning-to-code-leave-it-up-to-ai https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

mhuffman 2y ago
Do you think the CEO of NVIDIA is comfortable deeply cutting the engineers at NVIDIA because, after all, it is just a matter of time before the LLMs create better chips? Or is this puffery?

drcongo 2y ago

This is an awful take. As others have noted below, simonw didn't post this to HN, someone else did. Personally I love his blog, I love the humility of anyone posting out loud as they learn.

simonw 2y ago

Yeah, this one really isn't a good example of clickbait - it's a summary of a (really good) post written by someone else that I put on my linkblog, illustrated with some quotes (because I know many people wouldn't bother reading the whole thing) - with no intention of submitting to Hacker News. This one was clickbait: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/ https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/