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by keeda 6mo ago
The power of AI is that it amplifies individual capabilities. So the same aspect that lets employers reduce their headcount also lets individuals start ambitious projects that would have previously required an entire team... and hence, a si
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by keeda 6mo ago
My personal take, which seems to be consistent with what these folks are saying, is "OMG there's this huge radioactive asteroid that's going to flatten our world, but its gamma rays also give us weird superpowers, here are
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by keeda 6mo ago
My take is "simonw and his retiree friends" spend a lot of their time exploring this disruptive new technology and sharing their learnings (for free!) so that everybody can leverage it too... and yet so many people see that as som
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by keeda 6mo ago
And there should be a daily reminder that as long as we live in a Capitalist society, what befell the Luddites will also befall those that try to resist an economic force of this magnitude. Would you rather feel justified in the knowledge t
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by keeda 6mo ago
I think a critical limitation is that the database offering is designed for a very specific philosophy (which, honestly, the rest of the platform is too) and not suitable for general purpose use. The 10GB limit per DB is unsuitable for even
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by keeda 7mo ago
Ah gotcha, that makes complete sense. On that open/close aspect, however, this case is interesting because the leaked code was for a product that was shipped to users' machines in the wild. I'd say that while Anthropic, to yo
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by keeda 7mo ago
I don't see how that is relevant? I thought the point under discussion was that code does not matter until PMF, and that this would be an illustrative example because there was no code until PMF. Like, from the users' perspectiv
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by keeda 7mo ago
But the manual workflow was the step-by-step recipe the founders iterated on until they got traction; the product that came later was just an embodiment of that workflow as code.
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by keeda 7mo ago
LinkedIn actually sued HiQ Labs, which scraped LinkedIn to do exactly this (and this extensions scanning is likely a defense mechanism against similar attacks): https://epic.org/documents/linkedin-corp-v-hiq-labs-inc&#x
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by keeda 7mo ago
I'm probably missing something. Pre-PMF code by definition is not yet proven to solve a specific pain point, so why does it matter? I think the crux here is the OP means the "quality of code" doesn't matter until PMF, on
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by keeda 7mo ago
Their technical accomplishments are doubtlessly notable, but does the expected business growth justify this valuation? Honest question, how many things do we really need to send up there that reducing the cost to orbit by 100x will trigger
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by keeda 7mo ago
These days, Google AI overviews regularly add a qualifier to the effect of "... according to this comment on Reddit <link>" That's basically a UX trick to entirely sidestep being held accountable for the results, but se
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by keeda 7mo ago
I know appeal to authority can be a fallacy, but there is something to be said for appeal to a preponderence of concurring authorities. Multiple notable personalities known for their technical chops have been endorsing AI assisted coding, s
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by keeda 7mo ago
That's true but generally that applies to purely abstract mathematics. If the mathematics is truly abstract, no form of IP anywhere would protect it. That has always been (rightfully IMO) the realm of scientific publications. Otherwise
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by keeda 7mo ago
I think what you're looking for is patents. I've said it before, but I think patents are the only protection left for innovative software and "the little guy." It always was, really, but it's blindingly apparent tod
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by keeda 7mo ago
If we know the outcome of that code, such as whether it caused bugs or data corruption or a crappy UX or tech debt -- which is potentially available in subsequent PR commit messages -- it's still valuable training data. Probably even m
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by keeda 7mo ago
I'm optimistic that AI will actually increase the proportion of good code in the future. 1. IME AI tends to produce good code "in the small." That is, within a function or a file, I've encountered very little sloppy co
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by keeda 7mo ago
> Does performance not matter? No, unfortunately. In a past life, in response to an uptime crisis, I drove a multi-quarter company-wide initiative to optimize performance and efficiency, and we still did not manage to change the comp
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by keeda 7mo ago
Huh, layoffs in India? That's weird, because most tech companies are freezing headcount and laying off people in the US and increasing headcount in India. I wonder if that says something about the prospects of NetSuite, which is the or
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by keeda 7mo ago
A lot of bad software today is attributed to "vibecoding" even though these trends have been existing since before LLMs. Like, people have been complaining about Windows for decades before AI came on the scene, except these days t
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by keeda 7mo ago
Anecdotally, I've noticed a correlation between spikes in LinkedIn social activity and subsequent job changes, after which the activity (typically) subsides again. The activity doesn't even have to be actively posting, just reacti
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by keeda 7mo ago
It's not really "creating more compute" it's just a natural outcome of everyone desperately grabbing whatever becomes available. The dynamics make sense for all parties involved. Firstly, it's very clear now that ev
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by keeda 7mo ago
OpenAI also signed an agreement with AWS. And Anthropic has signed on with Microsoft as well as GCP. The underlying dynamic is that no single cloud provider has the capacity required to host all the demand, so the frontier AI labs have no c
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by keeda 7mo ago
Look at any of the large developer surveys out there, AI adoption is up to 80 - 90%; ICs absolutely are enamored with AI too. HN, and social media in general, is largely an echo chamber of the loudest voices that tend to skew negative, but
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by keeda 7mo ago
Alternatively, they yelled back then and were dismissed but now have some political ammo to push their case. I mean, if it was actually backfiring enough, they would not have to "fight" for it now, Windows PMs themselves would be
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by keeda 7mo ago
Or heck, with the amount of $$$ on the line, cash-strapped nation states could even finance their warfare this way. Like that $14M bet on when an attack would land in Israel: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47401044 --
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by keeda 7mo ago
Ugh, I'm triggered. The hardest part about learning French in school was these damn accents. I never quite got the rules and could not memorize the spellings, and so in my written tests I'd just randomly throw in some accent on so
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by keeda 7mo ago
> To a first approximation, everybody else involved has lost billions. "Lost" implies they have nothing to show for it. But they do. Depending on who you're looking at, they have data centers, GPUs, as well as billions i
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by keeda 7mo ago
The sibling comment is dead, which is unfortunate because it's accurate, and brings at least some data that matches what I've anecdotally observed. I can't find a single article in my news feed that is overwhelmingly positive
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by keeda 7mo ago
Other comments have pointed out that packages on PyPi might not be the best metric and posted other countering evidence like spikes in GitHub contributions or mobile app submissions or even mobile app revenue. However I think open source pa

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