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A classic hype merchant sales pitch: believe me, I was a doubter just like you, but I saw the light thanks to [insert latest model]! (Which for anyone familiar

by toraway 8mo ago

A classic hype merchant sales pitch: believe me, I was a doubter just like you, but I saw the light thanks to [insert latest model]! (Which for anyone familiar with your long comment history as a regular HN poster, is comically absurd to imply. You've been reliably adamant that AI will demolish this or that entire industry overnight for years at this point).

laserlight 8mo ago
GP commenter got my attention during the last few days. Judging by their claims of productivity, they should have been a billionaire already. I'm curious to know their motivation behind making such outrageous claims.
- sph 8mo ago
  I’ve seen their outrageous comments so often I wonder if it’s Sam Altman’s alt account. Probably the biggest AI snake oil merchant on the forum these days, with a sadistic pleasure at seeing people losing their job to AI.
echelon 8mo ago
> You've been reliably adamant that AI will demolish this or that entire industry overnight for years at this point We'll see who's right. I never said "overnight". Let's check in at the decade's end. Y'all dunked on me in 2019 when I said AI was coming for Hollywood. Have you seen Seedance 2.0? It's coming for us too. I've written five nines, active-active systems that handle billions of dollars of money movement daily. These systems can work in those contexts. I didn't think we'd be here this soon, and I actually thought LLMs were a dead end. I was wrong. I'm not trying to sell Claude Code. I hate the concept of hyperscaler companies. I want there to be viable open source coding models - there just aren't. I'm merely reporting on my findings. I sit at my machine for hours now in a prompt, review, test cycle. It's addictive. I'm getting more done at a faster rate than any time in my professional career. I'm excited, and I'm also worried. I don't know what happens after this. If you've seen how much I praise AI, then you've also seen how much I rail against monopolies. I am worried these giant companies are going to take the means of production from us. I don't think enough people are freaking out about this. It's a very real possibility. I'm just going to keep building. But you should pay close attention to what's happening.
- CamperBob2 8mo ago
  You're not wrong in principle, but you've made some specific extraordinary claims. If you're really that productive, generating useful work product at a rate of 20 kloc/day by yourself, people would pay just to learn how you're doing it! Y'all dunked on me in 2019 when I said AI was coming for Hollywood. Have you seen Seedance 2.0? Being right at the wrong time is often worse than just being outright wrong, I've found.

by toraway 8mo ago

laserlight 8mo ago

GP commenter got my attention during the last few days. Judging by their claims of productivity, they should have been a billionaire already. I'm curious to know their motivation behind making such outrageous claims.

sph 8mo ago
I’ve seen their outrageous comments so often I wonder if it’s Sam Altman’s alt account. Probably the biggest AI snake oil merchant on the forum these days, with a sadistic pleasure at seeing people losing their job to AI.

echelon 8mo ago

> You've been reliably adamant that AI will demolish this or that entire industry overnight for years at this point We'll see who's right. I never said "overnight". Let's check in at the decade's end. Y'all dunked on me in 2019 when I said AI was coming for Hollywood. Have you seen Seedance 2.0? It's coming for us too. I've written five nines, active-active systems that handle billions of dollars of money movement daily. These systems can work in those contexts. I didn't think we'd be here this soon, and I actually thought LLMs were a dead end. I was wrong. I'm not trying to sell Claude Code. I hate the concept of hyperscaler companies. I want there to be viable open source coding models - there just aren't. I'm merely reporting on my findings. I sit at my machine for hours now in a prompt, review, test cycle. It's addictive. I'm getting more done at a faster rate than any time in my professional career. I'm excited, and I'm also worried. I don't know what happens after this. If you've seen how much I praise AI, then you've also seen how much I rail against monopolies. I am worried these giant companies are going to take the means of production from us. I don't think enough people are freaking out about this. It's a very real possibility. I'm just going to keep building. But you should pay close attention to what's happening.

CamperBob2 8mo ago
You're not wrong in principle, but you've made some specific extraordinary claims. If you're really that productive, generating useful work product at a rate of 20 kloc/day by yourself, people would pay just to learn how you're doing it! Y'all dunked on me in 2019 when I said AI was coming for Hollywood. Have you seen Seedance 2.0? Being right at the wrong time is often worse than just being outright wrong, I've found.