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by rprend 8mo ago
1.6 percent of global GDP blows my mind.
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Every bug report has four parts(dolphinmade.com)
1 points by rprend 8mo ago|0 comments
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by rprend 8mo ago
Damn, this is the first thing to make me decide to try Codex, as a loyal Claude Code user.
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ARY: Always Repeat Yourself(dolphinmade.com)
3 points by rprend 8mo ago|1 comments
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by rprend 8mo ago
This is interesting. Do you know of any examples of successful tech companies built by non-technical founders?
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The Internet of Babel(dolphinmade.com)
1 points by rprend 8mo ago|1 comments
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by rprend 8mo ago
An alternative web where every page is pure state. It contains every possible website. Most are nonsense. But navigate correctly, and you find the one you need.
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by rprend 10mo ago
They’re not lying when they say they have AI write their code, so it’s not just promotion. They will thrive or die from this thesis. If present YC portfolio companies underperform the market in 5-10 years, that’s a strong signal for AI skep
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by rprend 10mo ago
AI writes most of the code for most new YC companies, as of this year.
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by rprend 10mo ago
Yep, they call them World Models. Here’s the cutting edge: https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/marble-world-model Google deepmind is working on one too.
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by rprend 10mo ago
<1 year old startup with fullstack javascript monorepo. Hosted with a serverless platform with good devex, like cloudflare workers. That’s the typical “claude code writes all my code” setup. That’s my setup. This does require you to fit
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by rprend 10mo ago
There’s plenty of developer talent. You don’t see microsoft office competitors because it’s a bad business to start. “Remake microsoft office suite, but cheaper” won’t work. I’m sure dozens of people have tried.
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by rprend 10mo ago
I like it.
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by rprend 10mo ago
In your heart you either believe something or you don’t. I am happy to live in a world where so many people follow the courage of their convictions, even if they sound insane or uncomfortable.
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Coding agents can't build products(dolphinmade.com)
1 points by rprend 10mo ago|0 comments
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by rprend 10mo ago
Look it's fine to have contrarian opinions that left is right, everything is backwards, whatever. But when it comes to business and money, these things are quantitative and falsifiable. If you have a better understanding than the idiot
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by rprend 10mo ago
Which brands lose money on ads? Why are they still in business? > consumers have a lot of money that they dole out. More ads wont increase the cut of money Consumer spending is not a fixed pie chart or a zero sum game. US consumer spendi
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by rprend 10mo ago
Every greenfield project uses claude code to write 90+% of code. Every YC startup for the past six months says AI writes 90+% of their code. Claude code writes 90+% of my code. That’s today. It works great. I have a faster iteration cycle.
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by rprend 10mo ago
Do you think consumer brands lose money when they pay Google to do advertising? Do you think digital ads have a negative ROI for the brands that buy them? If so, why do they keep buying more? Wouldn’t they lose to more efficient companies?
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by rprend 10mo ago
ChatGPT is not a model, it is a product. My credit card charges me for ChatGPT, not GPT5. Products have moats because once you solve the problem and become a habit, consumers never switch. Nobody switches from Google, nobody switches from I
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by rprend 10mo ago
Yes you get it. Obviously “writing code” will die. It will hold on in legacy systems that need bespoke maintenance, like COBOL systems have today. There will be artisanal coders, like there are artisanal blacksmiths, who do it the old fashi
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by rprend 10mo ago
Average big tech alternative. Doesn’t solve your problems, doesn’t scale, terrible UX, but at least it’s run by fanatics.
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by rprend 10mo ago
> it’s horrible, i use it every day > the alternatives are great, i never use them Every time.
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by rprend 10mo ago
They sell a product, not a model. ChatGPT is a product, GPT5 is a technology. If you hope that ChatGPT will be worthless because the underlying technology will commodify, then you are naive and will be disappointed. If that logic made sense
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by rprend 10mo ago
They do make money on inference.
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by rprend 10mo ago
“Port it to a different language” a language that’s more out of distribution? Bad devex. Store data as an unreadable binary file? Bad devex. Stay in distribution and in the wave as much as possible. Good devex is all you need. Claude code t
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by rprend 10mo ago
Accurate for me. Accurate for basically every startup from the past 12 months. Prob not for legacy codebases, though.
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by rprend 10mo ago
People pay for products, not models. OpenAI and Anthropic make products (ChatGPT, Claude Code).
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by rprend 1y ago
Microtransactions are unworkable with traditional financial instruments. Electronic funds transfers and online credit card transfers must (by law) be reversible, and reversibility means cost to the issuer, which means fees for the merchant
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by rprend 1y ago
Google sucking isn’t google’s algorithm getting worse; it’s the internet getting more competitive and polluted. If you magically turned on the recommendation algorithm from 2010 but with today’s internet, the results would be far far worse.

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