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by apsurd 7mo ago
No, this thread and sub-discussion is about specifically early web fundamentals. The web is special in this sense, it's intentionally long-lived warts and all. So the fundamentals pay outsized dividends. The rube goldberg machine that
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by apsurd 7mo ago
The web/html is a great analogy. I too am in no rush to be hyper effective with LLMs. In fact i want to deliberately slow down because ai-native coding is so exhausting. That said, your point about the leverage of learning html and web
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It can be implicit though. The llm person having a blast is compelled to push everyone to see what they see. If they have a leadership role at their company, then the getting-left-behind drum does get banged in the form of "ai native c
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by apsurd 7mo ago
I'm genuinely asking why are we goaling on overtaking the most valuable companies in human history? Startup advice, as i understand it, is about innovation: expanding the pie. I sound like a VC shill. Don't mean to be, i know it&#
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by apsurd 7mo ago
why does one need to take on ASML? I had to look it up, semiconductors. ASML market cap is ~500B. Meta market cap is ~1.5T. i'm no facebook fan but it was started by a dude in a dorm room. So I think saying "well those times are g
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by apsurd 7mo ago
It makes sense to me to try to be good at Capitalism. You're right, it may be a fool's errand, but what's the alternative? FWIW, can't believe I'm replying to literally "throwaway random number" but Capita
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by apsurd 7mo ago
But it doesn't make the survivors wrong about their experience. Two truths: their experience did happen roughly how they said it happened + they got very lucky. Seems like all the other 9 that died insist on telling the one that surv
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by apsurd 7mo ago
This is defeatist. What do I know, I don't run a billion dollar startup. But there's a valuable "necessary but not sufficient" insight to all good advice. The lean startup IS good advice. The best I can do with your argu
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by apsurd 7mo ago
https://webflow.com/ is what i blame for the fade-in on scroll module. 15 years ago it did look very polished, boutique, professional. Now that it's a module everyone can do, everyone literally does it for every module
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I agree with that.
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by apsurd 7mo ago
This isn't in defense of perfectly crafted code. It's about NO CODE. Do not write (ai-moar) code! It's not the code that is the problem. I understand the need for MVP to bring an idea into reality. It's the feedback that
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by apsurd 7mo ago
Seems like you're your saying there is a such a thing as regenerative, light-weight multi-tasking? no.
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by apsurd 7mo ago
Insightful and helpful to peer into another company's experience. Mostly agree with your highlighted points. > The single biggest potential productivity gain though I think is being able to do something else while the agent is codin
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by apsurd 7mo ago
The intention of the title is to say your main problem. The problem separating you from $PROFIT$: 1. Idea 2. ??? 3. Profit Coding effectively is definitely one problem. And you're right that AI helps with that proble
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by apsurd 7mo ago
lol. for whatever reason what came to mind is "it's like alcoholics anonymous". it's so liberating to be self-aware that we have a problem. I JUST WANT TO CODE! It gets us all. And it makes us better I think, to care abo
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by apsurd 7mo ago
Thanks for the story. I also spent time as a delivery driver at an italian restaurant. It was a blast in the sense that i look back at that slice of life with pride and becoming. Never got the chance to be a waiter, but definitely they were
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by apsurd 7mo ago
What do you mean doing it the "right way" from the get-go, as then paired with more features, ballooning projects, and never launching? Is that why it's in quotes because it's the opposite of the right way? If there&#x27
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by apsurd 7mo ago
Ah, that last line made it make sense, thank you! > You can change "suppose both are true" to "suppose the rules of a logical system permit stating both are true". It's calling out a potential flaw in the system
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by apsurd 7mo ago
> As a demonstration of the principle, consider two contradictory statements—"All lemons are yellow" and "Not all lemons are yellow"—and suppose that both are true. I am not understanding why we are freely supposing b
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by apsurd 7mo ago
Gotcha. the engineer generalization was to plant a stake in the ground. I do hear that quite often, especially from higher titled engineers. in any case, definitely admit it's not all of them, and perhaps it's even a vocal minorit
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by apsurd 7mo ago
Aren't you proving the point that it's nuanced? Thread seems to be saying LLMs are great because they do the dirty work and leave the fun work to humans. The counter-point is not exactly that LLMs aren't capable of doing dirt
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by apsurd 7mo ago
You forgot the /s at the end. Can't imagine you really think "the market forces" all point toward a utopia for the workers ? We're all just gonna get paid for 2 hours of work a day and post pics from the beach with
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by apsurd 7mo ago
> And we don’t shed so much ink wondering if digital spreadsheets are a moral good or not because perhaps they robbed the accountant… Caught my eye. I do think we should wonder and hold intentionality around products, especially digita
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by apsurd 7mo ago
Also how the being fake doesn't even have to be malicious. now every tom, dick, and harry wants to create content. All the world's a stage, follower count go up.
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by apsurd 7mo ago
interesting comparison to cooking. cooking is a chore and takes effort and people enjoy cooking.
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by apsurd 7mo ago
JS frameworks are very much in the "full-blown app" category. As an example, the "react" is just a view layer is a purest pov, to me (or whatever the given framework in question is). Nextjs, Vercel, supabase, lovable, a
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by apsurd 7mo ago
TS is very AI native to the point i'd agree it's near magical in terms of contract. However, the fact its still the js ecosystem with react, thing is even though it's super productive in churning out the code, there's to
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by apsurd 7mo ago
both statements are true though. rails excels in the AI world because it's extremely cared for and intentional with language. and there's a ton of built up knowledge. fwiw that headline is cringey for sure. but DHH has proven hims
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it's like you're saying SQL injection happens if you're running sql on the client so if it's on the server you're fine. that's not how it works. and i'm fairly sure most all apps deal with databases, unle
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by apsurd 7mo ago
+1 on the economic value line. Not everything needs to be about money but if you get paid to ship code it's about money. And now we have coworkers shipping insane amounts of "features" because it's all free to ship and b

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