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by munk-a 5mo ago
It is weird that they're putting all their eggs in one basket though. Wouldn't a more sensible business move be to launch that platform (and advertise it heavily) but maintain the old search UX to fend off competition? Going all
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by munk-a 5mo ago
Google famously dragged on development of Glass for more than a decade stubbornly failing to admit that nobody wants to look like a cyborg the entire time only to be swept aside by Meta when they built a device that was glasses first with s
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by munk-a 5mo ago
A viable path to becoming a billionaire or a viable path to build something that met its goal? There are several notable educational content companies that run on quite minimal budgets once they have the platform and other (mostly) capital
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by munk-a 5mo ago
It's going to be dramatic - it's unclear how much of their DAUs are organic and how much is through their PE usage deals. There's a large amount of organic usage certainly, it's a useful tool, but there are quite a few
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by munk-a 5mo ago
You underestimate that YouTube has become what TV was for the majority of young people. Premium is relatively lucrative - but the ad revenue is insane. If Google can succeed in building an AI to generate slop to hold eyeballs fixed on the
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by munk-a 5mo ago
Anthropic as well. The private equity partnerships for guaranteed users are going to make their numbers look great.
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by munk-a 5mo ago
Is the US actually winning the commercialization war? The US is definitely delivering more commercial products but if all of those products are deeply unprofitable and need to buy users with unrealistic discounts (or direct cash payments[1
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by munk-a 5mo ago
LLMs are great for problem exploration. Especially with the decline of Google I think we're at a point where it's less difficult to get an LLM to spit out something that'll accomplish a task sorta compared to actually findin
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by munk-a 5mo ago
Analysis paralysis is a danger always - don't aim for perfect, but aim for flexible. Make sure the decisions you're spending the most time on are the most important. A well designed data structure is far more impactful on perform
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by munk-a 5mo ago
Modular frameworks are worth their weight in gold when compared to "highly opinionated frameworks". I don't mind something that's highly opinionated - and highly opinionated is an excellent trait for a library or tool.
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by munk-a 5mo ago
The job of an architect and good technical management is to teach non-technical management the true costs of their decisions. It's not an easy job by any measure and LLM driven know-nothings in management can make it far more frustrat
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by munk-a 5mo ago
I don't want that to be limited to just architecture though - proper initial factoring of a software product is invaluable at the large and most microscopic level.
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by munk-a 5mo ago
You are always limited by some legacy software/database. If you're not limited by some legacy software/database initially then you will have such a large problem scope that you'll create your own legacy software/dat
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by munk-a 5mo ago
You can and you must replicate state in a complex system. The key is that state should always have an explicit owner and other carriers of that state should understand that their version of the state has some inherent lag or inconsistency
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by munk-a 5mo ago
I strongly prefer the phrasing of "When do we actually need to have six people involved on this?" It's often valuable to set a momentum and prune obviously poor decision branches before bringing proposals to a wider audience.
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by munk-a 5mo ago
Pretalking is highly valuable. Making sure that key stakeholders have an aligned vision and are invested in defending it before opening up a discussion (or dictate, depending on the culture) to a wider audience is necessary. Occasionally
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by munk-a 5mo ago
Minimizing side effects (e.g. functional programming) is a good habit in general. But when we're talking at the scale of a company's entire software solution state is the enemy of everything that is good. You never want to work o
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by munk-a 5mo ago
I work in this space as well - I know that my particular work is much less abstract (we're modeling the healthcare industry) than some others. But as a designer of the system you must understand the industry and while you don't ne
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by munk-a 5mo ago
You're correct that it absolutely isn't free but the gall of Google to, once they have all the data, to turn around and demand additional payment for continuing to store all the data they sought out and that they've resold ma
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by munk-a 5mo ago
It was a famously hard task. It was an ingenious idea for an unexpected task that falls outside of the bounds of predictable normal input but is still readily comprehended by the public. Unfortunately, as soon as it's a famously h
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by munk-a 5mo ago
Eh, I think that does happen but is much less likely then either acquihiring or killing a potential competitor.
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by munk-a 5mo ago
A program that is generated at runtime is fine (we have interpreted languages and often compile on demand) - the issue is with the non-deterministic nature of the output. I think the core issue is that non-deterministic output is great for
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by munk-a 5mo ago
Just on a personal note as someone who worked in the game dev industry for far too long and is still suffering for it... if > Why am I awake at 1:00am, ruining my brain and body, trying to get this feature finished before the end of the
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by munk-a 5mo ago
I can type faster than I can think of the correct things to type. My experience may be non-standard but I think for most serious software folks the code has never been the bottleneck.
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by munk-a 5mo ago
Yes - I absolutely endorse destroying the orchard at this point.
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Or having some silly notion that the post service should be profitable. Public services generally provide public good that outweighs their cost. Trying to quantify and charge for that cost is a useless exercise.
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by munk-a 5mo ago
I, personally, have found the adtech bloat (for both disk space and processor usage) to be a huge issue for quite some time. If this is the hill where the public decides to take a stand I'll happily stand beside them to try and revers
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by munk-a 5mo ago
If Rockstar games can be criticized for Hot Coffee then Chrome can absolutely be criticized for such bloat ware.
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by munk-a 5mo ago
Well if you make laugenbrötchen and I make peach cobbler then we can swap and our friends can have both! Experimental baking and cooking is a passion hobby of mine and it's such a nice topic that allows quick iteration and wild variat
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I think I just have a strange personal definition of injustice - but the effort put into growing this orchard to destroy is could have gone to better projects. The fact that so much of an investment is being wasted is, to me, a misallocati

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