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by ryaniscool 5mo ago
Yes, it will take longer but all value comes from labor, so the consumption of the wealthy is literally produced by the working class. The rich can't eat money. Also, data centers, chips, and energy require massive working-class supply
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by ryaniscool 5mo ago
Yes, it was responding. One of my points was that it has nothing to do with society's expectations but people's lived experiences and observations. You seem to think I'm advocating for working your entire life. I'm just
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by ryaniscool 5mo ago
Ok but one of the great things about retiring when everyone else does is you have a community. If you stop working when you're young, everyone else in your network is probably still working. I'm not against early retirement. One o
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by ryaniscool 5mo ago
Sure working sucks, but have you tried not working? I think this is from lived experience because I've gone for stretches of not working (intentionally). It can be challenging to find a sense of fulfillment. I know it seems counter-int
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by ryaniscool 5mo ago
It's bizarre that some of the doomsayers are AI stakeholders. It's like they don't realize that most people don't have net worth in the 7-8 figures. I console myself with the fact that without a functioning economy, AI w
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by ryaniscool 5mo ago
No, it's not just text in -> text out. Skills can include scripts, tools, etc. The entire point of hooks is deterministic responses to signals from the LLM. You run a function in response to some event and the function is given json
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by ryaniscool 5mo ago
I might not be smart enough to grasp what you're saying because it sounds a little ridiculous to me. Do you mean the AI will "figure out" how to just do the things we use skills and hooks for today? Do you understand the diff
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by ryaniscool 7mo ago
Are you using a tool like Claude Code or Codex or windsurf? I ask because I've found their ability to pull in relevant context improves tasks in exactly the way you're describing. My own experience is that some things get better a
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by ryaniscool 7mo ago
I agree completely. I haven't noticed much improvement in coding ability in the last year. I'm using frontier models. What's been the game changer are tools like Claude Code. Automatic agentic tool loops purpose built for cod
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by ryaniscool 7mo ago
Ok, but the real issue with kids looking up porn is how it warps general expectations around sex. Singling out specific fetishes and taboos that involve consenting adults seems a little bit like misdirected moral panic. To be more specific,
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by ryaniscool 7mo ago
Yeah I feel like this will funnel everyone's opinion into sounding like it was written by an AI. Love the idea but the example they give with bears is absolutely hilarious. Calling bears dumb animals is offensive? God help us.
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by ryaniscool 7mo ago
If they tank the white-collar middle class, there won't be anyone to buy the goods and services their potential AI customers will be trying to sell. It's like a snake eating its own tail.
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by ryaniscool 7mo ago
> The thing with coding agents is that it seems now that you can eat your cake and have it too. We are all still adapting, but results indicate that given the right prompts and processes harnessing LLMs quality code can be had in the che
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by ryaniscool 8mo ago
Yes, AI companies are bleeding money with current pricing. Your AI usage is heavily subsidized by investor dollars.
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by ryaniscool 8mo ago
How far can Claude can take this beyond a cool demo. Does it become exponentially harder to add the missing features or can you add everything else you need in another two days? I'm guessing the former but would be interested to see wh
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by ryaniscool 8mo ago
Not my experience at all. Claude Code is impressive but it needs to be used iteratively for serious development and requires lots of testing. Need it to one shot that report against your db using React/Typescript? Or pump out a web for
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by ryaniscool 8mo ago
Jira has had free competitors that do at least 75% of what it does since it's inception. You could find a dozen on github that actually look good right now. In spite of this, Jira is bigger than ever.
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by ryaniscool 8mo ago
Sure, and Github is filled with these 10 feature competitors. Some even have active communities. Didn't seem to kill off the big SaaS players or even weaken them.
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by ryaniscool 8mo ago
Most of a software project's lifetime will be spent as a maintenance challenge. i.e. How do we add the 237th feature without adding to the performance problems that already exist. Hence, the desire to rewrite the codebase to incorporat
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by ryaniscool 8mo ago
Creating massive amounts of semi-structured data is the missing layer? I can see an argument for that if you're a non-programmer who wants to create something. Although, at some point, it's a form of programming. As a developer, I
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by ryaniscool 8mo ago
What are you coding with this? Is it a product you're trying to launch, an existing product with customers or custom work for someone else?
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by ryaniscool 8mo ago
You're on HN so I assume you're in a technical or technical-adjacent role. Of course, you could be an accountant at a restaurant supply company or something. Here's another data point for you. A few weeks ago, I had to do a s
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by ryaniscool 8mo ago
Low-code tools for actual developers is dying but AI might be the thing that makes low-code take off for the broader market. Software development will look very different five years from now. It could be filled with knowledge workers with
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by ryaniscool 8mo ago
I'm confused by this comment because there is an entire industry (personal injury attorneys) dedicated to extracting every dollar possible from the insurance company when an accident happens. I've personally known at least five pe
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by ryaniscool 9mo ago
Execution has gotten much cheaper in a small enough problem space. Yes, we get it, it's game changing. It doesn't mean you're building products. There's more to it than just writing code. Writing a formbuilder and saying
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by ryaniscool 10mo ago
One observation I've had recently. Postman files seem more popular the OpenAPI specs lately. Major SaaS companies will produce a postman file but not an OpenAPI spec. Two examples: Salesforce and Notion This is really unfortunate becau
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by ryaniscool 10mo ago
What are we arguing about? Is it the way he expressed his opinion? Would you agree that whether something is an opinion or fact is itself objective, for most cases at least? I ask because nobody is questioning whether or not what he states
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by ryaniscool 10mo ago
This argument over the semantics of how to express an opinion feels like a proxy for people who strongly disagree with him on remote work seeking an outlet. I say that because you (and everyone else who seems upset) clearly understand it&
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by ryaniscool 10mo ago
You're wrong (IMO) The onus should not be on the communicator to qualify every statement of opinion. This is tedious and unreasonable. Not prefacing what clearly is an opinion with "IMO" is not a jedi mind trick that makes ot
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by ryaniscool 10mo ago
It feels like you're blaming the author for the lazy thinking of someone who might read his opinion and take it as objective fact. The 7 times 9 analogy doesn't track it all. 7x9 = 63 is an objective fact by definition . His thou

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