aristofun

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by aristofun 8mo ago
Great phrase “protfolio driven design”, together with “cv driven software engineering” they contribute to “metrics (not even profits) driven businesses”. Did end users ever had any leverage or it was always like this, I wonder
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by aristofun 8mo ago
This (elderly) is the ultimate UX test that most products and apps and websites fail miserably. Modern UX is a joke. I wonder how we got so low from standing on the giants shoulders in the early days (I still miss my Sony Clie Palm OS organ
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by aristofun 8mo ago
One thing I know for sure - this thing benefits mainly builders and renovators, not end users.
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by aristofun 8mo ago
Would you rather trust your life to a doctor or some AI expert? What about a million dollar instead of life? A fate of your startup? Your point breaks pretty quickly when it comes to real deal, not anecdotes and journalists’ stories.
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by aristofun 8mo ago
How can a tree fall in the wood where nobody there?
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by aristofun 8mo ago
If you expect it to _do_ things for you - you're setting yourself up for failure. If you treat it as an astonishingly sophisticated and extremely powerful autocomplete (which it is) - you have plenty of opportunities to make your life
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by aristofun 8mo ago
I bet some manager came up with a perfectly reasonable explanation why it couldn’t be done in this release ))
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by aristofun 8mo ago
> Are you saying that one cannot make a living just hacking around? You probably can survive, but not come even close to the salary you'd get being hired by some well established company. The distinction is what you put first - busi
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by aristofun 8mo ago
Did you notice how you used the word “solopreneur” thus supporting my point.
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by aristofun 8mo ago
NO! We have enough regulations already
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by aristofun 8mo ago
Could you be more vague and generic?
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by aristofun 8mo ago
TL;DR persistent auto updated context feature is requested
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by aristofun 8mo ago
This example once again shows me that being “pure” indie solo hacker is not sustainable. You have to be first and foremost indie entrepreneur and indie salesman and only then you can afford free hacking if you have time left.
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by aristofun 8mo ago
Boooring :)
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by aristofun 8mo ago
Absolutely not. Every codebase has some nuances but majority folows very similar rules and patterns. There is nothing to mitigate just don’t expect that something trained on A would suddenly be good at B
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by aristofun 8mo ago
> I use tabs instead of spaces for indentation. It seems like the model is massively weighted on code written using spaces (duh) LLMs by nature are not very good at peeing against the wind. Also on average they are only as good as the av
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by aristofun 8mo ago
How do you afford OCR receipts in a free app?
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by aristofun 8mo ago
Why this llm crap is here??
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by aristofun 8mo ago
Can you recommend specific books?
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by aristofun 8mo ago
Why shallow and likely generated posts of a “Knowledge Management Advocate” get so many stars on hn? Just because of a hype?
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by aristofun 8mo ago
This has been quality answered many times by smartest people but nobody cares. Take Kant for example and go improve yourself, as the only part of the world you can really change.
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by aristofun 8mo ago
Who cares about heroku in 2026? It’s a dead horse
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by aristofun 8mo ago
yes, recursively selling tools for shovel makers can be even better :)
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by aristofun 8mo ago
Because selling sophisticated shovels in the gold rush is much more profitable than finding gold and trying to make and then sell jewelry
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by aristofun 8mo ago
Who cares about bmw except gangsters and narcissistic psychopaths these days anyway? The quicker they bury themselves the better for everyone, more market space will remain for good car manufacturers
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by aristofun 8mo ago
I wonder for every Dropbox how many similar products are there in the graveyard. Technically I understand the market fit as the point where your unit economy starts making ends meet and showing positive dynamic. If for every dollar spent (o
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by aristofun 8mo ago
Exact reason why there is no actual consistent non-contradictory atheism view, only agnosticism and theism can be logically sound.
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by aristofun 9mo ago
which one?
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by aristofun 9mo ago
Typescript is the best thing that happened to web development since web development. I just hope they will not overengineer and ruin it moving forward
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by aristofun 9mo ago
Would you care to explain to an average dumb developer like me what’s the point of all this and what actual end user problem does it solve?

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