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by johnfn 8mo ago
This is pretty obviously false? I get downvoted quite frequently on HN for posting comments that go against what people typically think. For instance, I find it quite difficult to discuss the productivity gains of AI because any comment I m
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The Reasonable Conclusions(johnfn.substack.com)
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by johnfn 8mo ago
Didn't we have a post the other day saying that the number of "Show HN" posts is skyrocketing? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47045804
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by johnfn 8mo ago
I am not throwing away evidence. I am saying "You are correct that removing React would make most websites faster. It would also be a strategy that few places should pursue."
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by johnfn 8mo ago
The success of an organization is very rarely dependent solely on website performance. Speed is just one dimension in a vast and multi-dimensional optimization space. Spending time improving performance means you are necessarily not spend
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by johnfn 8mo ago
Then just run Claude Code in a PTY and proxy requests in and out?
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by johnfn 8mo ago
> When conflicts arise people most frequently become emotional and complain about the situation than make any decision towards resolution one way or the other. That is a psychological problem called cognitive conservatism[1]. About the h
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by johnfn 8mo ago
It doesn't surprise me that you got a lot of people upset at you. "Dumping React" is not a viable strategy for the large majority of organizations. This would be like saying that you could improve performance by rewriting the
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by johnfn 8mo ago
It seems easy enough to say this, but I think reality is more complex. What about all of Apple's library dependencies? What about the dependencies of those dependencies? What about the Linux kernel? What about openssl? What about..?
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by johnfn 8mo ago
I have to be honest with you: I am the biggest AI booster alive, and even I would never buy a book fully written by AI. Maybe ask me again in 5 years, but I just don't think the quality is there. That being said, I think you might be o
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by johnfn 8mo ago
Seems very cool, if it works :) My suggestion here would be to provide a TS playground environment where I can inspect and poke around to see that the types really do work. I'd also love to see some more complex queries with joins, etc
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by johnfn 8mo ago
If you don't mind some unsolicited and blunt feedback: I suspect the reason this didn't get a lot of traction is that it is unclear why customers would want this. Sorry, that's probably too harsh, but I find it difficult to i
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by johnfn 8mo ago
This is explained in the article.
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by johnfn 8mo ago
This article is very clearly AI generated. I’d rather read the prompts next time, thanks.
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by johnfn 8mo ago
It was trivial to debunk two statements in your post just by reading a little bit. I would need to spend more time to verify whether he "faked benchmarks for financial gain", but given your track record on the other points (and ho
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by johnfn 8mo ago
Thanks for the response! My suggestion would be that if multiplayer aspects are really the key differentiator between Obsidian and your app, you should let the user see that straightaway. Maybe drop them into a shared workspace with other p
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by johnfn 8mo ago
This looks neat! I suppose I might ask the hard questions - how does this compare to Obsidian, which is my go-to "real time notes app that roughly feels like dealing with a plain text file but better"? I would also make a small su
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by johnfn 8mo ago
I did actually read the post -- or at least the first two pages, until the increasingly unhinged comments started to get a little redundant and I figured I had gotten the gist. > implying that only a few people (like himself) saw COVID c
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by johnfn 8mo ago
I use AI for an hour+ without interference fairly regularly, typically once a day, sometimes more. Why would you doubt that to the point that you call people like me a liar?
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by johnfn 8mo ago
I don't really understand what you are trying to say with this comment.
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by johnfn 8mo ago
I'm not sure what to say about calling someone a "liar" for stating that AI can work for hours unattended. I can prompt AI and have it run for an hour+ at a time and get good results out of it. I have no reason to lie; this i
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by johnfn 8mo ago
Even if I grant you that, surely we’ve moved the goal posts a bit if we’re saying the only thing we can think of that AI can’t do is the life’s work of a man who’s last name is literally synonymous with genius.
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by johnfn 8mo ago
The idea is a properly aligned model would never do this, no matter how much it was pressured by its human operator.
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by johnfn 8mo ago
Consider that an iPhone zero-day could be used to blackmail state officials or exfiltrate government secrets. This isn't even hypothetical; Pegasus[1] exists, and an iPhone zero-day was used to blackmail Jeff Bezos[2]. This was funded
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by johnfn 8mo ago
I use this argument because it has a lot fewer logical leaps than the "claude code decides to murder me" argument, but it turns out that if you are on the side of "AI is probably dangerous in the wrong hands" you are act
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by johnfn 8mo ago
I mean, sure, but I don't want to give my aggressive enemies a bunch of weapons to use against me if I don't have to - even if that's not the primary thing I am concerned about.
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by johnfn 8mo ago
I don't think it's a meme. I'm not an AI doomer, but I can understand how AGI would be dangerous. In fact, I'm actually surprised that the argument isn't pretty obvious if you agree that AI agents do really confer p
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by johnfn 8mo ago
What is "everything else" in your view? Just curious -- I really only seriously use models for coding, so I am curious what I am missing.
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by johnfn 8mo ago
I am unfortunately in level 8. God help me. But honestly building an agent orchestrator is a really fun problem. It's like building an IDE and then using that IDE to build itself. Or building a programming language and then coding in t
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by johnfn 8mo ago
I find if you just ask the agents to resolve the conflicts they do a pretty great job. It's even better if you can feed them all the context while resolving the conflict.

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