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by csallen 1y ago
This is the right answer. Usage of products is determined by what people are driven to do. People are driven by their desires and their problems. And most of these are fairly simple and mundane… eating, paying the bills, feeling healthy, co
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by csallen 1y ago
I've always been fascinated by aphorisms, maxims, proverbs, and those sorts of things. What is it that makes them so enduring, so satisfying, and so seemingly true? Why are we attracted to this form of expression moreso than longer and
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by csallen 1y ago
Yes, but the author is inaccurate about its current capabilities
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The other half of the title is not what I'm complaining about, and has no effect on the inaccuracy of the first half of the title, which is what I'm complaining about
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by csallen 1y ago
The article is literally titled, "AI can't even fix a simple bug," reinforces the claim that "the technology can’t understand a simple bug" multiple times, and willfully ignores all the good that it can do. Anyone w
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by csallen 1y ago
Okay, so write an article about how the hammer companies are dumb. Don't write an article about how hammers can't drive nails. Why is this complex?
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by csallen 1y ago
AI is a tool. Just like any other tool, there are people who use it poorly, and people who use it well. Yes, we're all tired of the endless parade of people who exaggerate the abilities of (current day) AI and claim it can do more than
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by csallen 1y ago
If your networking skills and levels of resourcefulness are such that you're asking random people on HN how to talk to investors, it's very unlikely that any of these investors will invest in you. So the answer is to invest heavil
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What's the difference between parroting the internet vs parroting all the people in your culture and time period?
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When I say "I can't imagine" or "it's hard to image" I don't mean that literally. Obviously in reality I can imagine and it's easy to imagine, as evidenced by my example of movie credits. What I&#
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You're most likely to get credit by being unique and irreplaceable. In other words, if the work would not have happened without you. If someone else could have been easily hired to do the work you contributed, and if in that case the w
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Oh it's 100% AI generated. Look at the back brown leather chair to the right. It's supposed to have a blanket on it, but instead it's a garbled mess
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Books are not like gambling, they are gambling. you exchange dollars for chips (money — some libraries even give you digital credits for "tokens") and spend them on a book in exchange for the chance of getting something good out
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> "If that were true, all profits would go to the customers." Why? What does that mean? > No, you are hired because the company and its owners can extract the profits from your work. Laying you off could mean nothing to c
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by csallen 1y ago
This analysis framework you're providing would've missed YouTube (pre-revenue; no incumbent successes; crowded with competitors like Google Video, Metacafe, Vimeo, etc). It would've missed Instagram (pre-revenue; no massive p
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by csallen 1y ago
Some relevant and timeless facts: - Generating revenue from customers is about more than just creating a great product. You also have to reach lots of customers and convince them of your value. Many naive idealists think only product matter
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Processes are always changing and getting easier. The process you grew up with was far easier than what people had to do decades before you, which was easier than the process decades before that, etc. It's easy to fret about, "How
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Curious what you mean by dozens of llm apis. Different models? Or different tool calls?
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It's actually quite doable to build your own deep research agent. You just need a single prompt, a solid code loop to run it agentically, and some tools for it to call. I've been building a domain-specific deep research agent over
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> You can't argue for humans with a person who wants to get rid of humans Literally the point of the article was that they successfully did that
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by csallen 2y ago
It's been going well! Not profitable yet, but spending more time on it in 2025, so it will be soon I think. I'll actually be in NYC visiting Channing this coming week, perhaps we'll do an impromptu event for IHers in the area
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by csallen 2y ago
That's because the big budget creators are very good at business, which has four parts[1]: not just the product, but also the revenue model, the market, and distribution. Big budget studios are AMAZING at distribution. They blow indie
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by csallen 2y ago
Games: > "On platforms like Steam, indie games constitute the vast majority of new titles. For instance, in 2021, approximately 98% of the 11,700 games released on Steam were from indie developers. This trend has continued, with in
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by csallen 2y ago
People aren't motivated by principle so much as they are by self interest.
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> The ONLY reason to have any law prohibiting unlicensed copying of intangible property is to incentivize the creation of intangible property. That was the original purpose. It has since been coopted by people and corporations whose in
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by csallen 2y ago
This is the exact opposite of the truth. Look at YouTube. Look at SoundCloud. Look at all the fan fiction sites out there, internet mangas and manwhas and webtoons, all the podcasts, all the influencers on X and Instagram and TikTok and eve
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by csallen 2y ago
1. There are an infinite number of careers that do not currently exist, because their business models do not make sense. I do not think it's a great idea to keep laws on the books, that limit the creativity and rights of hundreds of mi
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by csallen 2y ago
1. Download Cursor 2. Tell it to make you something 3. Get frustrated when it doesn't work 4. Think about how to revise your prompt 5. Repeat from step #2
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Example?
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The legal system doesn't require you to prove your innocence

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