johnsillings

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1. 31.▲
   by johnsillings 9mo ago

   selling to big pharma companies as a startup is hard, so huge props on getting adoption there. the product looks very slick.
2. 32.▲
   by johnsillings 9mo ago

   thanks for putting this together!
3. 33.▲
   by johnsillings 10mo ago

   super smart. congrats on the launch!
4. 34.▲
   by johnsillings 10mo ago

   i love this. had my doubts when i read the premise, but this might replace chatGPT for me for learning stuff.
5. 35.▲
   by johnsillings 10mo ago

   this is super cool - congrats on the launch!
6. 36.▲
   Ask HN: What is the best Christmas movie?

   7 points by johnsillings 11mo ago|10 comments
7. 37.▲
   by johnsillings 11mo ago

   really appreciate it! as far as coding tools go, Cursor is my workhorse.
8. 38.▲
   by johnsillings 11mo ago

   different models altogether! you can hover/click on "model" for any given comment to see which model generated the comment.
9. 39.▲
   by johnsillings 11mo ago

   <3
10. 40.▲
    by johnsillings 11mo ago

    Hey all, John here. I just wanted to say a big thanks for all the support on this project. Yesterday was a roller coaster of, "oh, I guess nobody cares," to "well, I'm proud of it anyway," to "wait, people are
11. 41.▲
    by johnsillings 11mo ago

    Probably a bug – sorry! I'm looking into it now. Safari on mobile?
12. 42.▲
    by johnsillings 11mo ago

    the economist is one of my favorite archetypes
13. 43.▲
    by johnsillings 11mo ago

    that's a great suggestion
14. 44.▲
    by johnsillings 11mo ago

    ah, good callout. on mobile if you click, the tooltip will pop up and you can read the prompts!
15. 45.▲
    by johnsillings 11mo ago

    If you're trying to access the site – I broke it (unintentionally) and am fixing it now. Sorry about that! Stand by. Edit: we're back.
16. 46.▲
    by johnsillings 11mo ago

    It was a pretty iterative process to get to something that felt 'real' – I was going for 90% accuracy, with a little extra abrasiveness since I thought it would be funny. I started with the archetypes but the comments weren't
17. 47.▲
    by johnsillings 11mo ago

    ;-;
18. 48.▲
    by johnsillings 11mo ago

    yeah, I think those are too close / probably redundant. good catch
19. 49.▲
    by johnsillings 11mo ago

    rekt
20. 50.▲
    by johnsillings 11mo ago

    They actually sent me a nice email. I think it came from a good place.
21. 51.▲
    by johnsillings 11mo ago

    Something like this? https://news.ysimulator.run/item/1286
22. 52.▲
    by johnsillings 11mo ago

    Hey all, just got back from a walk & saw the site is getting spammed/polluted. Rolling out a fix now. Sorry about that!
23. 53.▲
    by johnsillings 11mo ago

    Rolling out a fix now.
24. 54.▲
    by johnsillings 11mo ago

    I'm rolling out a fix. But agree, that would have been great!
25. 55.▲
    by johnsillings 11mo ago

    that is a great idea.
26. 56.▲
    by johnsillings 11mo ago

    bahah
27. 57.▲
    by johnsillings 11mo ago

    Great suggestion – added!
28. 58.▲
    by johnsillings 11mo ago

    Ah, I'm so glad you like that part. (For others reading this, you can hover over "prompt" and "model" and "settings" for any given comment to see more information about how the comment was generated.)
29. 59.▲
    by johnsillings 11mo ago

    That's a great callout – appreciate it.
30. 60.▲
    by johnsillings 11mo ago

    A friend of mine was speculating about the same thing. I'm totally happy with it just existing as a toy, but if it serves some useful purpose, even better!