mattbrewsbytes

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by mattbrewsbytes 5mo ago
In the dot com boom there were companies spending like $100+ on ads per $1 of revenue. The cost of customer acquisition was insanely high because of the hype of ecommerce and it was being subsidized by VC and IPO's. This AI boom feels
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by mattbrewsbytes 5mo ago
The race to invent variants of Gas Towns, Ralph loops, pump out videos, blogs, etc. showing off greenfield development with cleverly named agents running in parallel is another case of engineering people diving head first into Resume Driven
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by mattbrewsbytes 5mo ago
I think there's merit in a privacy first, no ads, no global/viral content app/service like this; there have been a lot of threads here on HN with related sentiment. I think the challenge is more a business problem - how do yo
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by mattbrewsbytes 5mo ago
Back then your typical management, who frequently followed "you can't go wrong with picking IBM" in their decision making, would question open source software and take actions to stop it from being used (like blocking sites i
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by mattbrewsbytes 5mo ago
Its 10x code generation with .5x quality at best and all other parts of the SDLC are at 1.x or worse. AI is not delivering 10x shareholder value, anywhere. Software developers have quite the level of hubris about how important they are to c
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by mattbrewsbytes 5mo ago
If you want to look at facts (these come from yahoo finance): 36% of their stock is held by institutions, another ~9% by insiders. Ebay is 95% held by institutions (that sounds insane but I don't follow markets, maybe its normal) and i
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by mattbrewsbytes 5mo ago
Its always been like this, I think some of it is perspective. When you reach your early twenties you are likely exiting a childhood and schooling bubble where your focus has been friends, family and school. Once you emerge from that and sta
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by mattbrewsbytes 5mo ago
That HN is turning into reddit with posts that don't contribute to the startups, tech, engineering, entrepreneurship, or science topics that its contributors used to focus on.
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by mattbrewsbytes 5mo ago
Reciprocal agreements aren't new, sometimes they're used to gain access to a market the other party already has established a foothold in for other industry segments. These companies operate in the same general industry: tech&#x2F
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by mattbrewsbytes 6mo ago
I recall reading multiple AskHN posts about people trying to get attention from a cloud provider because they ran up thousands of dollars in charges accidentally. I've seen large companies do this too, even if you think something is ju
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by mattbrewsbytes 6mo ago
I think you hit the nail on the head. This is a new VibeCodeBro culture where people are putting out a lot of media content about "building is easier than ever now and its a gold rush", "you can have the agents work for you w
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by mattbrewsbytes 6mo ago
Agents, skills and rules are just text files with instructions to the LLMs on how you like your output. At this point I don't think it really matters what you call anything or where you put them in your system, as long as you tell the
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by mattbrewsbytes 6mo ago
I think this is a lot more common and I suspect people decide to do monthly and that they'll cancel after catching up on shows ... and then they don't cancel. So I'm sure the streaming services don't care that people do
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by mattbrewsbytes 7mo ago
> Epic has many stable and valuable businesses I don't think their approach is getting to stable, valuable businesses and keeping them that way. Their company name is Epic, not Mediocre BlueChipGameCo. I think their approach has bee
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by mattbrewsbytes 7mo ago
Developers are going to be more productive, just not how you think. If history is going to rhyme, then the software industry will enter into a self-serving productivity craze building all sorts of software tooling, frameworks, ralph wiggum
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by mattbrewsbytes 7mo ago
I have a CS degree and they taught class with Pascal, not exactly a marketable skill so I did tech support at first. Every day I still feel stupid about something, I think that just goes with the industry we're in. There is too much g
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by mattbrewsbytes 8mo ago
I think even if AI can help developer productivity, there are a lot of other elements to software delivery and speeding up developers isn't necessarily going to speed up overall project delivery. A hard question to answer then is, wha
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by mattbrewsbytes 8mo ago
You asked for tools/methods. > I've spent hours and hours unsubscribing, deleting, uninstalling, toggling settings,but then I find myself reinstalling, resubscribing You already know the tools and methods. This is more of a psy
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by mattbrewsbytes 8mo ago
Its more about being a servant leader and not a bottleneck than literally being "not needed". Its a mindset of wanting your team to be able to operate without having to check with you (the EM) on every little thing. I've also
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by mattbrewsbytes 9mo ago
I think a better analogy than building construction is cars. You need to do active maintenance and fix things on cars to keep them running, you may even change out a radio or wheels, etc. like minor feature development, but you're not
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by mattbrewsbytes 9mo ago
Some "yanks" align their identity with their vehicle. There are songs about trucks but yes a van or mini-van are more flexible. There are many that buy trucks for off road capabilities but probably 70% or more of truck owners don&
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by mattbrewsbytes 9mo ago
If its a 737 delivering pallets of dog food or humans in seats, the safety concerns are the same. They take off and land at the same airports and can collide with other airplanes. The stuff on the plane doesn't mean there are differen
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by mattbrewsbytes 9mo ago
The latest "tool" for me is just Apple Notes for me with a todo list of tasks on a page. Its a struggle for me to get any momentum going on personal projects. I think its because I'm a person that is externally motivated - li
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by mattbrewsbytes 9mo ago
> That type of content drives brand and product hype via views/engagement Product hype might be hard with developer/tech types of tools. Devs have very good BS radar and "hype" is sometimes all there is in a lot of co
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by mattbrewsbytes 9mo ago
The rolling timeline seems like a good approach to not have free users take a ton of storage but I would think even allowing free users to post video/images content at all is going to consume a lot of storage. It might be worth thinkin
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by mattbrewsbytes 9mo ago
It’s fundamentally not viable in the sense of mass adoption. Security conscious and tech nerds (like HN audience) might do it but mass adoption, aka crossing the chasm from early adopters and onwards, isn’t feasible because all the aunts, u
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by mattbrewsbytes 10mo ago
Some honest, maybe hard to hear feedback: as a solo developer with no customers and no traffic you probably shouldn’t be doing anything with cloud services. Cloud providers have many scalable services that mostly come down to them being pai
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by mattbrewsbytes 10mo ago
How is this any bigger than Disney and all the media channels they own?
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by mattbrewsbytes 10mo ago
Can you elaborate more on your last sentence and running VMs? How does 32GB set aside for VMs and GPU accelerated let you run native Windows? Is there special/newer VM software that is used? Is it still virtualbox? Outside of docker c
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by mattbrewsbytes 10mo ago
There is something to be said about what the ROI is for normal (i.e. non AI/tech) companies using AI. AI can help automate things, robots have been replacing manufacturing jobs for decades but there is an ROI on that which I think is e

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