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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
Sparked the environmental movement, to name but one major impact.
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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
This is where they are headed. But the real price will be a lot less.
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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
TikTok, cloned by Meta, still winning. Slack, cloned by Microsoft, still winning. Skyscanner. Dropbox. Snapchat. Dating Apps. All cloned. Still going. The tech is not the business.
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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
This is mislead by the nerd philosophy that the tech is the business. It absolutely isn’t, the tech is a small part of a startup. Witness that Spotify continues to exist despite being known and replicated by the major giants. Poetically exp
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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
Better idea. Watch online feedback on this feature. Then implement things users want. Go niche. Join the forum and help them use Claude to its limits. Then be the next step for power users.
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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
Better than the US at producing almost anything at this point. There are a few tiny islands of advantage left for the US in advanced engineering but they won’t last. Prediction: China will win the new race to the moon for this very reason.
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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
I don’t know how widely this observation has been made, but relatedly it is very hard to be a very attractive person. I’m very much glad to be average. I’ve known a few very attractive people close up, and their lives are difficult. One exa
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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
I don’t think that aphorism is actually true. What’s the right thing that’s going to follow being complicit in Gaza and bombing Iran?
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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
Thank god you're a software developer and not a cleaner.
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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
Everyone on HN: "people are so irrational, they never see the importance of embracing technology; why are people so close-minded? It's all vested interests. At least us nerds use _logic_ to evaluate the situation. All these idiots
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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
Attio
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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
SpaceX is an incredible business and too important to fail. By rolling his other businesses into it, Elon protected them from failure. Something to admire is his ability to always find the chess move. Like, you could see Twitter is a disast
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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
And it’s far more important in capitalism than your products. With the advent of AI, startups become solely about marketing, sales, and defensibility. So most of the capitalist system will become of this nature. Doesn’t seem like such a goo
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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
There is compaction, which is analogous to gc
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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
Agreed. This also explains why maths is so difficult for humans. It doesn't come "naturally" to use, we have to force ourselves to use it and it "makes our head hurt".
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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
The point is that artisanal code is to a first approximation a thing of the past. Most engineers will not have a job writing code in these niches that survive, and thus coding as a career is effectively dead.
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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
You could also have had the courtesy to put that in your original post. But let’s not get meta. I did a quick test and it detected an AI summary of a random topic, even after two prompts to disguise it. So as expected it may have become a l
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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
Yes, and my point was about the dangers of generalising from this instance.
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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
I’m not sure I follow, but I don’t hear anyone asking those questions of the bad software we already have today.
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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
Yep, that’s the most prominent example of a system built without code review I can also reach for. Whether all such systems also suffer critical flaws is another question entirely. And whether that matters is a further unknown.
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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
Brilliant insight. The success of LLM reasoning, ie “telling yourself a story”, has greatly increased my belief that humans are actually much less impressive than they seem. I do think it’s mostly pattern matching and a bunch of interacting
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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
AWS yes. Most code no.
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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
They are already at this point - they just think the world needs to catch up. They don’t review the code most of the time. They believe it’s just a matter of becoming comfortable with the idea you don’t write code. Seems plenty of startups
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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
He’s still making money out of adverts on Web 2.0 platforms. A lot of money. Clearly Zuck is a brilliant businessman. That does not mean he is a brilliant technologist. He doesn’t have to be, so long as he can keep making money. Eventually
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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
Doubt warehouse management systems will fit in there, and only critical systems at banking. But yes agree with the rest, which probably makes up a tiny tiny fraction of the software created today, and will be orders of magnitude smaller as
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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
Most AI advocates I know believe this period, reviewing every line of code, will come to an end when models improve. So there will be no bottleneck. We will simply test and ship, with AI doing all the code and review.
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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
It will be written much the same as now, but using AI to improve quality through code inspection etc. Just because nearly all software is going to be written by AI, does not mean critical infrastructure will be.
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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
AI will fix it, same way AI wrote it. At the behest of a human. When they fire everyone, juniors will fix it with AI. This is in general. I wouldn’t recommend this at critical services like AWS.
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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
What’s one company that has revisited this recently and what’s their detection rate on what sample?
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by rhubarbtree 7mo ago
Haha well not my analogy, analogy is not a good way to reason, but Geneva in this situation is exactly the exception that proves the rule. Thanks for emphasising my point.

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