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I mean, yeah. "Person who spends time publishing content online is doing it for self promotion" doesn't seem particularly notable to me. 24 years of self promot

by simonw 7mo ago

I mean, yeah. "Person who spends time publishing content online is doing it for self promotion" doesn't seem particularly notable to me. 24 years of self promotion and counting!

fc417fc802 7mo ago
I am always outraged when youtube creators ask me to like and subscribe. /s
- i_love_retros 7mo ago
  Not the same at all. For that to happen you would have to explicitly visit their channel (forgive incorrect terminology, I don't use youtube). If someone kept posting on hackernews asking you to subscribe I hope you wouldn't appreciate it. swillison is spamming a communal public feed with self promotional comments about vibe coding, quite obviously because they, like the rest of us, are panicking about not having a career in a few years.
  - simonw 7mo ago
    The more time I spend actually working with these tools the less I fear for my future career. Building software remains really hard. Most people are not going to be able to produce production quality software systems, no matter how good the AI tooling gets.
    - fc417fc802 7mo ago
      Conversely, if the models ever make it to the point where they can replace ~all developers we will presumably have achieved AGI or even ASI and all other jobs will also be eliminated more or less simultaneously. So at least we'll all be in good company (and there probably won't be much point to marketing yourself in that case).
  - fc417fc802 7mo ago
    Forums traditionally included signature blocks at the end of messages. If someone linked his youtube channel there would that be objectionable? Assuming the preceding message was on point of course. Posts on HN are analogous to videos on youtube. A channel is analogous to an HN user profile.
i_love_retros 7mo ago
Dude it comes across, maybe only to me, as a bit shameless. Or maybe it's just that there are so many people lapping it up like you're doing a public service that I find tedious. I wish hackernews had a block feature but alas it doesn't. Maybe I'll vibecode a browser extension.

by simonw 7mo ago

I mean, yeah. "Person who spends time publishing content online is doing it for self promotion" doesn't seem particularly notable to me. 24 years of self promotion and counting!

fc417fc802 7mo ago

I am always outraged when youtube creators ask me to like and subscribe. /s

i_love_retros 7mo ago
Not the same at all. For that to happen you would have to explicitly visit their channel (forgive incorrect terminology, I don't use youtube). If someone kept posting on hackernews asking you to subscribe I hope you wouldn't appreciate it. swillison is spamming a communal public feed with self promotional comments about vibe coding, quite obviously because they, like the rest of us, are panicking about not having a career in a few years.
- simonw 7mo ago
  The more time I spend actually working with these tools the less I fear for my future career. Building software remains really hard. Most people are not going to be able to produce production quality software systems, no matter how good the AI tooling gets.
  - fc417fc802 7mo ago
    Conversely, if the models ever make it to the point where they can replace ~all developers we will presumably have achieved AGI or even ASI and all other jobs will also be eliminated more or less simultaneously. So at least we'll all be in good company (and there probably won't be much point to marketing yourself in that case).
- fc417fc802 7mo ago
  Forums traditionally included signature blocks at the end of messages. If someone linked his youtube channel there would that be objectionable? Assuming the preceding message was on point of course. Posts on HN are analogous to videos on youtube. A channel is analogous to an HN user profile.

i_love_retros 7mo ago

Dude it comes across, maybe only to me, as a bit shameless. Or maybe it's just that there are so many people lapping it up like you're doing a public service that I find tedious. I wish hackernews had a block feature but alas it doesn't. Maybe I'll vibecode a browser extension.