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by codingdave 2mo ago
Blog posts are explicitly excluded from 'Show HN'. Of course, since the post is about Show HNs, just remove the colon from the title and now it matches the title on the page, which is also one of the posting guidelines. https:&#x
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by codingdave 2mo ago
The problem with this effort is that they are drawing the wrong conclusion. Yes, Bauhaus had heavy influence on the last 100 years of architecture and other areas, especially in the corporate spaces. So it was a valid proof that an intentio
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by codingdave 2mo ago
Oh, good catch - they did it on an earlier post, too. And now the parent comment has been edited to not ask a question.
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by codingdave 2mo ago
And who are you hearing that from? Designers and engineers? Or managers who want it to be true?
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by codingdave 2mo ago
Sure, if you are hiring one person to do two jobs, it is going to be a struggle. Even two jobs that are related to each other - if they have different skill sets, it is two different roles. Take racing as an example. Drivers and mechanics a
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by codingdave 2mo ago
No, I've found that LLMs are only effective on popular stacks. On niche stacks or legacy stacks, you get back code that doesn't even run - syntax pulled from other languages, object models and APIs from stacks that are not the one
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by codingdave 2mo ago
It is difficult to believe you are approaching this in good faith when you started with drug testing and background checks, then pivoted to it being about tax brackets, are replying to most comments to be sure your perspective always has th
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by codingdave 2mo ago
The author of this caught my attention, because they were part of the group who put together Forum 2000 backs in the late 90s. (And Forum 1900 when the Y2k bug hit it.) It was an early web site where you'd post a question, and an AI ha
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by codingdave 2mo ago
> It is quite clear that AI is massively affecting everything around us. Is it? It is affecting our work, sure. But almost nothing outside of that has changed. In my "real" life, we're still doing the same thing. People te
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by codingdave 2mo ago
Yes, we have patches of milkweed in the un-mowed areas - it was one of the primary reasons were started letting those areas go wild in the first place.
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by codingdave 2mo ago
> you often want to leave a nice pattern Even when it comes to mowing, different people have different goals. I live out in the country, and tall grass means bugs and ticks, so my mowing tries to strike a balance of short grass near the
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by codingdave 2mo ago
I absolutely don't learn content from AI. LLMs still are at the point where they sound plausible to non-experts, but are just wrong about things you know well. So if you feel you are learning successfully with an LLM teacher, guess whi
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by codingdave 2mo ago
'Great' is subjective. If you care about the same things as he does, a lot of his work is great. If you care about totally different things, none of his work is great. Whatever you feel about it, it would be inaccurate to say that
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by codingdave 2mo ago
You build slowly, and make sure that every business transaction is profitable. This is the exact opposite of VC-funded where they build fast and don't care if they are burning their runway down because they either grow fast enough to m
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by codingdave 2mo ago
> I invite one & all to try my invention free. Repeatedly. Daily. Ad nauseum. With no other engagement on HN. Yeah, we got the invite, Cary. You can stop posting it every day now.
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by codingdave 2mo ago
This is an interesting premise, but doesn't there need to be some level of app owner involvement for a deployment to work? Handling secrets, configuring the environment, etc. If you can just drop AI slop online and it runs, then almost
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by codingdave 2mo ago
"guy who will benefit if everyone adopts AI is promoting AI" Don't confuse this for anything more than what it is - a corporate leader delivering his marketing message.
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by codingdave 2mo ago
But that is exactly the point. Air conditioning doesn't keep heat out - it burns energy to change the air once the heat has gotten in. There are ways to keep it out in the first place. FWIW, it isn't either/or - we practice k
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by codingdave 2mo ago
By what measurement? They all surely beat air conditioning in terms of energy usage.
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by codingdave 2mo ago
The sewing machine analogy is a good one. The problem I'm seeing is leadership who sees the t-shirt company succeed with sewing machines, so goes out, buys 100 sewing machines, then puts them in the kitchen because they are a bakery an
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by codingdave 2mo ago
Again, you are self-promoting, not engaging with the community. And now you are abusing the title to try to tell a story. That isn't how HN works. Read: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html You also might
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by codingdave 2mo ago
> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by codingdave 2mo ago
Agreed on the problems, but how will an LLM fix any of that? Even if it does somehow give you the right answer, it cannot perform procedures or prescribe medicine. You still need to get an appointment for anything beyond information. Your i
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by codingdave 2mo ago
The fact that things like that get into a production app at all is the bigger point. AI slop doesn't even hit a base level of "it works on my machine". When some piece of an app just doesn't work, regardless of whether i
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by codingdave 2mo ago
> because of the overwhelming demands and random priority changes that expect you work beyond scheduled hours. Bootstrapping your own thing will give you more of that, not less. It takes an established business to be stabile to the point
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by codingdave 2mo ago
This is cool, and clearly a popular post, yet also... doesn't the 'Show HN' guidelines specifically exclude lists and reading material? With the massive drop in quality that AI has brought to Show HNs, this is a great example
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by codingdave 2mo ago
> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by codingdave 2mo ago
If it were commonplace, there wouldn't be a post and discussion about it. Cheap? Arguable - while it didn't cost thousands, it wasn't free. Cheap is in the eye of the beholder. Efficient...How do we even measure that? The mas
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by codingdave 2mo ago
There is no single answer to that. The best channel depends entirely on what audience your product is for. FWIW, my most successful products had zero social media marketing. Barely any online marketing at all. Radio and in-person events was
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by codingdave 2mo ago
From the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html > Can I ask people to upvote my submission? > No. Users should vote for a story because they personally find it intellectually interesting, not because someone h

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