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Hi Nick, first of all, very cool of you to respond here instead of letting us all sit in the dark. I think that's what makes HN special. That said, is it not a
by lionkor 7mo ago
Hi Nick, first of all, very cool of you to respond here instead of letting us all sit in the dark. I think that's what makes HN special.
That said, is it not a little bit weird that you want to protect yourself from scraping and bots, when your entire company, product, revenue, and your employment, depends on the fact that OpenAI can bot and scrape literally every part of the internet? So your moat is non-hydrated react code in the frontend?
- Schiendelman 7mo agoDon't beat up an engineer for decisions made by company leadership. It's really inappropriate.
- diebillionaires 7mo agoYeah, no one is responsible for what they do as long as someone else tells them to do it.
- lionkor 7mo agoThey decided to work at this company, I think it's a reasonable discussion to have?
- SilasX 7mo agoWhile I would generally sympathize on that front, it doesn't really apply here. None of the management-level desiderata he appealed to require that the user experience be broken this bad. There is very little bot deterrence from prevention of typing at that stage, while it heavily impacts user experience, especially on mobile. I elaborate here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575982 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575982