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by throwaway13337 8mo ago
I was hoping 'respectify' could mean respect for the users. This is a very important problem space. Maybe the most important today - we desprately need a digital third place that isn't awful. But I think these attempts are mi
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by throwaway13337 8mo ago
I think we're after the same goal but have a different view of mechanism. Regulation enforcement against the anti-market behaviors would bring a lot of good. Putting too much power in any centralized authority - company or government -
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by throwaway13337 8mo ago
That's a feature, not a bug. It means normies will finally see value in open source beyond just being free. They'll choose it over closed source alternatives. This, too, makes a brighter future.
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by throwaway13337 8mo ago
I see this happening, too. We know that a lack of control over their environment makes animals, including humans, depressed. The software we use has so much of this lack of control. It's their way, their branding, their ads, their app.
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by throwaway13337 8mo ago
These companies are engaged in a sort of AI dumping. Cheap inference below cost. Price out competitors. Abuse your newfound dominance. It's the big tech playbook. I don't think it's going to work this time. Tools like OpenCla
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by throwaway13337 8mo ago
It's a good thing that there are so many LLM choices out there, then. Maybe the fundamental disagreement is whether LLMs will be a commodity product or not. I think they will be since there hasn't been an indicator that secret sau
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by throwaway13337 8mo ago
That's right. And don't forget that the chips it runs on are manufactured by companies I might not agree with. Nor the mining companies that got the metal. Nor the energy company that powers it. The wonderful thing about markets t
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by throwaway13337 8mo ago
Maybe we needed to go through this dark age to appreciate that sort of future. This sort of thing is more attractive now that people know the alternative. Back then, people didn't want to pay for anything on the internet. Or at least I
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by throwaway13337 8mo ago
This is the future we need to make happen. I would love to subscribe to / pay for service that are just APIs. Then have my agent organize them how I want. Imagine youtube, gmail, hacker news, chase bank, whatsapp, the electric company
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by throwaway13337 8mo ago
The real big deal about 'claws' in that they're agents oriented around the user. The kind of AI everyone hates is the stuff that is built into products. This is AI representing the company. It's a foreign invader in your
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by throwaway13337 8mo ago
>40% of total tokens go to coordination rather than actual task completion once you get past 3-4 agents Remarkably similar to humans.
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by throwaway13337 8mo ago
When I started coding, the web was just getting started. I wanted to code in a 'real' language like C. I didn't respect the web technologies. I do now. It's disservice to yourself to not use the tools available to accomp
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by throwaway13337 8mo ago
The implied faith in large organizations to handle your data securely is interesting.
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by throwaway13337 8mo ago
The importance of this cannot be overstated. LLMs are making software easier to write and releases are increasing. The app stores that were not seeing an uptick last year are now showing the uptick in releases. It is happening. This means s
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by throwaway13337 8mo ago
He's wrong about SEO being the differentiator. Quality matters. It's a huge trope to think your product didn't work for the market because the marketers beat you. I used to be that kind of developer until I made some products
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by throwaway13337 9mo ago
It's about control. Our tools are an extension of us as humans. When someone else is in control of those tools, it is alienating. Modern software is built to make us not masters of our own tools. Like your hand sometimes works for a co
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by throwaway13337 10mo ago
The tariff talk was ostensibly because the EU exported more goods to the US than the US exported to EU. The US exports far more digital services to the EU, though. Understanding those things, it would seem a particularly unwise framing for
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by throwaway13337 10mo ago
The path we're on is not inevitable. But narratives keep it locked in. Narratives are funny because they can be completely true and a total lie. There's now a repeated narrative about how the AI bubble is like the railroads and do
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by throwaway13337 11mo ago
As an anonymous coward on HN for at least a decade, I'd say that's not really true. When paul graham was more active and respected here, I spoke negatively about how revered he was. I was upvoted. I also think VC-backed companies
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by throwaway13337 11mo ago
I'm amazed at this question and the responses you're getting. These last few years, I've noticed that the tone around AI on HN changes quite a bit by waking time zone. EU waking hours have comments that seem disconnected from
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by throwaway13337 11mo ago
I'm a Google AI Pro subscriber (the $~20/month one). I don't think it's connected in any way, though. Their pricing page doesn't mention it. https://antigravity.google/pricing if it were true, it wo
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by throwaway13337 11mo ago
I gave it a fair shot. It is a vs code fork. There were some UI glitches. Some usability was better. Cursor has some real annoying usability issues - like their previous/next code change never going away and no way to disable it. Desig
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by throwaway13337 11mo ago
Markets tend toward monopoly like democracies tend towards dictatorship. In both cases, we need checks and balances to ensure that does not happen. When it does, that group tends to be weaker for it in the long run so evolution takes its co
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by throwaway13337 11mo ago
Yes. Thanks. Serf. Share-cropping on the lord's land. The lord gives you exactly as much as you need to live but can extract the rest. This isn't good for anyone as, history tells us, people are less motivated that way.
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by throwaway13337 11mo ago
Monopolies become entrenched because of network effect. Phone companies had the same problem until the government stepped in. Web standards are great. And the web is really something special. No one owns the web. I can publish my own websit
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by throwaway13337 11mo ago
Lack of autonomy is the most draining thing. Not many have the luxury to do what they think makes sense. I've been running my own small business for years. It's lonely to not have coworkers but work is extremely enjoyable. The aut
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by throwaway13337 1y ago
If the deal is still based around capped revenue, I wouldn't call it an ownership stake. As far as I know, they have not disclosed it. If you have more information about something concrete regarding ownership, I'd love to hear it.
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by throwaway13337 1y ago
Does Microsoft even have an OpenAI stake? Their original more public deal was revenue sharing up until they reached 100x $1 billion. That doesn't sound like a stake. They also had tech sharing valid until the OpenAI board declares &#x2
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by throwaway13337 1y ago
Useful. I wonder what an average accountant would score. I know LLMs have helped me identify many mistakes accountants have made on my behalf. Some mistakes that could have cost me a lot of money if not caught.
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by throwaway13337 1y ago
I'm surprised by the contraversy of my comment. Maybe I should have been clearer. The banking /system/ in europe is superiour. It's crazy that the US isn't part of the IBAN system. ACHs suck, etc. Revolut and Transf

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