danjl

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by danjl 1y ago
I have noticed that many of the AI generated slop posts intentionally contain grammatical and spelling errors. Sometimes missing or inappropriate words. Clearly this is intentional and designed to make it seem more like a human wrote it, wh
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by danjl 1y ago
This article says a lot more about sales and sales people than it does about AI
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by danjl 1y ago
Exactly. Do not use blur to hide information. Blurring simply "spreads out" the data, rather than removing it. Just search (you know, on Google, without an LLM) for "image unblur".
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by danjl 2y ago
"I'm not bitter! No chip on my shoulder."
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by danjl 2y ago
People are bullish because, despite your rant about quality, even you still use it every day: > I use GPT, Grok, Gemini, Mistral etc every day in the hope they'll save me time searching for information and summarizing it. Even worse
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by danjl 2y ago
Though we seem to disagree, perhaps less than you might think, I'm very happy that my comments made you think for so long and write so much in response. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out over time.
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by danjl 2y ago
While a co-founder can help, it can also ruin everything. As you say, there are other relationships and ways of interacting that can easily fill the same role, ie. advisors, board members, customers, etc. Statistically, I think that co-foun
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by danjl 2y ago
That's an excellent list of positive strokes. I wanted to punch up your bullet on talking to people. Face to face is always better. It pulls me out of the void. Rather than chatting on text-based social media, set up video chats. Goin
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by danjl 2y ago
I've been writing code since before GUIs existed. Last year, many, probably most experienced programmers were skeptical about using LLMs to help write code. This year, there are vanishingly few who don't use an LLM every day. Word
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by danjl 2y ago
Because what you describe in the chat has a much more significant impact. Sure, you could mimic each little mouse click and short cut, or you could say "make the arms longer", or "write a test for the new endpoint".
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by danjl 2y ago
AI chat will replace the huge number of menus and complex interactions in many content development applications. In VSCode, for example I rarely touch 98% of the UI anymore. I just use Copilot. I no longer need large, complex chunks of the
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by danjl 2y ago
Nice reference! The URL in the preface is dead.
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by danjl 2y ago
There are many customers that care about owning their own data. Despite what you might think, there are lots of companies that do not trust sending their data to the cloud. In addition, there are lots of companies and individuals that have
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by danjl 2y ago
Those are good points, but, of course, until your platform takes over the world, I would argue that browsers are not going anywhere, and work now, bearing in mind the corner cases you mention. Seems to me that fixing those persistence issue
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by danjl 2y ago
If you use a local, browser-based database, and allow your app to be installed as a PWA, then you are ejectable? The only "server" is just a host for HTML+JS that your browser automatically downloads when you visit the site. The a
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by danjl 2y ago
Future code bases will contain more detailed specifications, design documents, and company guidelines and the code will become more of a byproduct, generated as needed. I already do this more and more with my LLM config files. This has alre
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by danjl 2y ago
Developers are either forced to track their time, or their time is tracked for then by the company for a very practical, but stupid reason: taxes. There are R&D tax credits, at least in the US, that require a breakdown of developer time
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by danjl 2y ago
This says a lot more about YC than it does about AI based programming.
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by danjl 2y ago
Writing code is easy compared to supporting, debugging and enhancing code. AI is much better at "greenfield" coding where you start from scratch, either on an entire app or a new feature. For anything non-trivial, it is terrible a
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by danjl 2y ago
Apple should Open Source its OSes and internal apps. Of course this is very NOT-Apple, but it would allow folks to fix their apps. There's really no advantage to keeping it all proprietary. Apple's software teams are completely un
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by danjl 2y ago
The short term results are known, but we have very little data about the long term effects as of yet.
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by danjl 2y ago
Your criticisms seem to attack the less important bits. If Marcus' view was the majority opinion, your comments might make sense. But the AI and AGI hype is everywhere, and we need a great deal more of "correct-but obvious" c
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by danjl 2y ago
If you just want to display pages of mixed text and images, it would be much easier. However, browsers are closer operating systems, capable of supporting rich desktop apps, without the antiquated desktop APIs. Browsers have more sophistica
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by danjl 2y ago
The answers to your questions come from your customers. Spend your time reaching out to customers and talking to them one-on-one. Do not tell them about your product or technology. Read "The Mom Test" to learn how to ask the right
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by danjl 2y ago
Startups are a terrible way to make money. It is far far easier to make money at a larger company than it is at a startup. It's even worse if you start the company yourself. The chances that you'll ever make money are pretty small
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by danjl 2y ago
This discussion is not about technology. It's about technical people learning that business, product and users are actually important. The best advice I can give technical people about working at startups is that you should learn every
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by danjl 2y ago
Or, slightly more realistically, $1M/yr, which is probably 10x what they were getting before, and seems realistic given the events.
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by danjl 2y ago
Simple, obvious answers appeal to a broader, less-knowledgeable set of people. In fact, it really doesn't matter if there is any basis for the answer, like a lower-dimensional approximation. If repeated enough, more people tend to
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by danjl 2y ago
Actually, it is probably much easier to replace the business people with AI then it is to replace the programmers.
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by danjl 2y ago
The underlying problem here is best fixed by engineers learning just enough about business to start their own companies, without the people that think of them as overhead.

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