raw_anon_1111

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1981.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
Don’t conflate two different investment models. 1. Investors who want to invest in companies with a growth story and want the company to grow bigger and be “successful” enough to exit either via an acquisition or the public market. But of
1982.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
There is a huge difference between reconciling things for your own business strategy and reconciling things in accordance with federal public company reporting standards for publicly traded companies. These standards are different than IRS
1983.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
Yes because when I need a small bag of snacks to put in my backpack before a flight, my first stop is to Costco and buy everything I need in bulk.
1984.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
I just replied to another comment. I lived in the most exclusive part of Atlanta for awhile where there was a Dollar Store right next to the Publix right next door to our $2500/month apartment. https://www.yelp.com/sea
1985.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
And with the pipeline Voice -> free text -> LLM -> standardized JSON -> call API to do stuff. The only “hard” part in 2025 is the LLM. Everything after that is what I call a “10000 monkeys problem”. Just throw some developers
1986.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/gemini-is-an-increas... This is a little older. I know things improve a lot quickly. https://www.slashgear.com/1521993/google-gemini-ai-replace-s.
1987.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
I guess I should have been more precise with the actual question - what do people do with AI that would cause Apple to be behind as long as they can access chat from their phone? Apple doesn’t need an “AI strategy” just to be able to run a
1988.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
Daring Fireball has been doing the one ad a week in RSS with no tracking for over a decade. The sponsors must think they work. You could always buy a Stratechery subscription - which is great by the way. Some of that money goes to Gruber f
1989.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
What are they doing with AI besides an improved search if they aren’t developers?
1990.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
Apple seems to have an AI strategy - throw $1 billion at Google for its models.
1991.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
Yes Siri has stagnated. But both Google and Amazon tried to add LLMs to their assistants and they are both worse now than they were before according to reports. Siri could be better if Apple just threw 10000 monkeys at it and configure it
1992.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
I bet you didn’t try that this year when every single part of the federal government is actively trying to harm people.
1993.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
There is very little novel about most B2B CRUD and internal bespoke apps that most developers are doing. The novel part if any is implementing the business vertical logic
1994.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
Saying it only targets the vulnerable because of high unit prices is like saying the local gas station is a rip off that only targets the vulnerable because prices are higher. I lived in a city that’s in North Metro Atlanta (Johns Creek) wh
1995.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
While I agree, for the most part this comes under state regulations. Especially red states are always trying to cut taxes and the government at the cost of not having enough inspectors.
1996.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
For public consumption - year.version. For libraries and even the internal version number of a public product like an OS release where developers still want to say. if os.version > x: standard semantic versioning.
1997.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
My thesis is the game is going to be won - if you define winning as a long term profitable business - by Google because they have their own infrastructure and technology not dependent on Nvidia, they have real businesses that can leverage
1998.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
As far as Uber, was it better when there was both a medallion system monopoly in cities like New York and less access to cabs? Where people had to rent overpriced medallions and couldn’t make any money Or sometimes depending on what you loo
1999.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
> IMHO, "tech optimism" reached its peak in 1969 when Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the Moon. Not everyone was so optimistic. You just didn’t hear about it on mainstream media https://youtu.be/goh2x_G0ct4?si
2000.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
No commoditizing your complements is buying up your complements, it’s either working with a standards committee together with the also rans to take on the market leader or open sourcing your competitive product to sell more of what you car
2001.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
Even more so, it’s harder for two vibe coders to work in a single repo where AI is making repo wide changes.
2002.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
Exactly. For consulting company, you have to track how much time you spent on a project. I am allocated for a project for 100% for a week, sure we are going to bill for that week. But we don’t get paid until the project requirements are m
2003.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
The question I’m trying to answer is why are keeping metrics important at all? From my experience working on and being the third highest contributor to what was a very popular open source “AWS Solution” in its niche, we kept metrics because
2004.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
That’s part of the project management tracking but that’s not strictly hours. Those traceability artifacts are in order 1. the signed statement of work - this is the contract that is legally binding. 2. The project kick off meeting where we
2005.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
Having good team cohesion is all well and good. But when it’s time to get promoted, what are you going to say “I pulled well defined Jira tickets off the board”? When you get ready to interview for your n+1 job, and you spent months grindi
2006.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
Exactly this. I’m still friends with my former manager at AWS who is now an L7 “very important person” over a service there and another former coworker who is a tech lead over another service. He’s an L6. I can guarantee you neither of
2007.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
You did see the part about the four year stint at BigTech in between? Unless you think the second largest employee in the US is a “small little company”. I also added an HN submission that made the front page a couple of days ago by a staff
2008.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
The company I work for has paid subscriptions to Lattice, Bonusly, SalesForce, Gong, Zoom, Jira, Slack, GSuite, Rippling (a YC company), OneRange and Notion. No we aren’t going to sign a 1000 seat license to pay for a dumb AI, VC bait three
2009.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
Exactly, I can’t imagine that a “senior” developer needs to track everything that carefully. Hell I work at a consulting company full time as a staff consultant where we do have to record hours and I don’t go into any detail whether I’m on
2010.
by raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
As a senior employee. This is just the opposite of what I would expect. (I’m not the author of this) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46146451 As a senior employee first at a startup from 2018-2020 and then as a staff

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