AstroBen

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by AstroBen 1y ago
> it’s about having the market share to force people to do business with you The answer to this is regulation. See: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/apple-updates-app-... Outside of a monopoly the
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by AstroBen 1y ago
People don't make buying decisions from a purely rational headspace, though. Charge too much for the upfront ticket and people will go to someone advertising it for lower (but with additional back-end services that are must-have) My gu
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by AstroBen 1y ago
If these things are genuinely so universally hated won't they just be.. capitalism'd out of existence? People will stop engaging with them and better products will win What book store will stock AI slop that no-one wants to buy?
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Bit obvious isn't it? A girlfriend simulator
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How has it been going? I've been thinking of trying this model but a bit worried about how much harder it would be to make it sustainable as a business
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And a person's contribution to a business isn't their one-day or one-week productivity. Those juniors eventually learn how not to create that ball of mud.. well at least they used to If LLMs short circuit our growth as developers
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Does that transfer, though? I'm not sure we can expect its ability to approximate physics in video form would transfer to any other mode (text, code, problem solving etc)
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Our society should have a way of protecting people that invest a decade into mastering a field from being made obsolete overnight. They're not business owners banking money the whole time and now needing to pivot, they're regular
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Yeah and then what happens in 2026 onwards? No one's going to put in the work to create high quality original content when they can't monetize it..
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Yup this is where 90% of the productivity benefits come from for me. Instead of needing to spend an hour scouring documentation I can ask an LLM and have an answer in 5 minutes
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by AstroBen 1y ago
What can the government do? Some more ideas: I don't agree with regulating it but taxing sugar, heavy sweeteners, and fast food and invest it into a universal healthcare system. Invest in improving walk-ability and bike-ability in citi
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by AstroBen 1y ago
> it should increase opportunities by lowering the cost of iteration and scaling our impact This is very much up for debate and the weakest point of the argument I think. If developers are now 2-3x (remains to be seen..) as productive wh
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also it's often mixed with tobacco when smoking it.. so maybe it's just the tobacco -.^
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Static typing isn't free. Dynamic typing is perfectly viable to build any sized software - there's living proof, far from dead So we're only left with personal opinion
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by AstroBen 1y ago
No software job I've done has come with clear, explicit requirements. Its all been a mess under the hood and half my job has been figuring out specifically what they even want
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Even if unintentional, pushing of products is already happening. If you ask any AI for a tech stack to create a web app you'll get recommendations for Vercel, AWS and co. This is going to be the new SEO
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> That tiny bit of friction is enough to defeat the ingrained impulses I don't know how people can keep saying this when I have first hand experience with it not being enough
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Having tried that many times, it just doesn't work for me Maybe others have better luck
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by AstroBen 1y ago
my problem with things like this is that it's trivially easy to just.. stop the script. What's the point when it adds so little friction?
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by AstroBen 1y ago
> How to fail at a product website ..but they've been really successful in their niche.. maybe your intuition is off?
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Huh? Who do you think are creating and buying the ads? Ads are supposed to get the word out about products. No-one is making ads with the intention to annoy people
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by AstroBen 1y ago
> not having to expend brain energy to solve problems, and they're mistaking that for productivity Couldn't this result in being able to work longer for less energy, though? With really hard mentally challenging tasks I find I
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by AstroBen 1y ago
I had an LLM sort a crap-tonne of my notes into category folders the other day. My god that was helpful
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Side note but the contrast between background and text here makes this really hard to read
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Saying they're biased isn't a good argument against their claim. You actually have to disprove the claim
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Can you give an example of where monkey patching made debugging hard? I have a decade of Ruby experience and can't think of a single time it was an issue This is one of those things that sounds like it'd be a problem but it real
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the allure of the new and shiny
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by AstroBen 1y ago
If you're looking for something to invest in for the long term I think Rails wins by a mile. They have the funding, investment and strong companies dependent on it to keep it marching forward - both the framework and surrounding librar
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> Lab grown meat can't come fast enough Yeah, but 6 US states have now banned it Humans are a billion miles away from considering plant preferences
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by AstroBen 1y ago
KYC requirement + OpenAI preserving all logs in the same week?

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