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Why Are We Still Doing This?
- Schiendelman 7mo agoThis page bothered me with two popups and an ad above the content before I got to start reading.
- ericmcer 7mo agoHe wants $7/mo to read hot takes like: "Anthropic turned $30 billion into $5 billion. That’s…bad. That’s just bad business." Is this his first time looking into the tech industry?
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- nh23423fefe 7mo agoImmediate close
- tptacek 7mo agoPost Opus 4.5, this pundit who does not write software has concluded that the case for coding agents has gotten weaker, not stronger, to the point where we might as well declare the debate settled in his favor. It takes him 8,000 words to do so.
- johnnyanmac 7mo agoHe uses financial numbers to back it up. What are SWE's using? The stock market?Is the DOW being 50k enough of a justification?
- tptacek 7mo agoOh. Sorry! I didn't realize he was using Financial Numbers to back it up.
- Havoc 7mo ago> boosters are no longer allowed to explain what’s good about AI using the future tense. You can no longer say […] I look forward to seeing how author think he’s going to enforce the rules he dreamed up for other people. Honestly wth
- johnnyanmac 7mo agoPeople need answers and decisions now, not in some magical future. The moment the stock dries on AI, suddenly "the future" won't be a good topic. Investors are cashing in on this whole economy as we speak.
- TaupeRanger 7mo ago"You're not allowed to tell me that the fledgling technology that has been getting steadily better for the past 3 years is likely to continue getting better." ...and there's my cue to close the window.
- johnnyanmac 7mo agoWe've already seen signs that progress is slowing. Companies are so desperate to try and prove that this is linear or even expontial growth. But in reality it feels logarithmic.
- cjbenedikt 7mo agoHe is single handedly one of the best analyst of this ridiculous AI bubble and the money that eventually will be destroyed.
- 0gs 7mo agohe's a smart guy bc his day job is PR for AI companies.
- mahemm 7mo agoMy FAANG employer launched a service ~6 months ago that today seems millions of DAUs. This service was 100% vibe coded. This service was created 20x faster than the median launch, and had notably fewer issues than the median launch. If AI stopped improving today, it would be a technological leap equivalent to a new high-level language paradigm for us.