mvvl

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   by mvvl 5mo ago

   "Ads don’t influence responses" - they just arrive in the same payload, measured with four layers of attribution and politely pretend to be coincidences. Schrodinger’s monetization: completely separate, yet somehow there.
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   by mvvl 5mo ago

   The problem isn't that it can't write good code. It's that the guy prompting it often doesn't know enough to tell the difference. Way too many vibe coders these days who can generate a PR in 5 seconds, but can’t explain
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   by mvvl 5mo ago

   This is only going to get worse with LLMs. Now people can "contribute" garbage code at 10x the speed. We're entering the era of the "read only" maintainer focused on self-defense.
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   by mvvl 5mo ago

   Tbh, for me there’s basically no difference between a repo with 2k stars and one with 20k. Stars only matter when there are very few, like if it has almost none, that’s a red flag. Otherwise it’s just noise.
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   by mvvl 6mo ago

   My first project came from a former coworker who moved to a new company. That's pretty much it. Can't tell you any clever acquisition strategy. For this sort of work you need a critical mass of credibility and connections. The mor
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   by mvvl 6mo ago

   one thing worth pointing out is that the legacy private railways work because they were never nationalized and had decades to quietly buy up land around stations before it was worth anything. That's really hard to replicate from scratc