CityOfThrowaway

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by CityOfThrowaway 10d ago
You can imagine: 1. I have a bunch of data or research that I've gathered with a unique hypothesis 2. Having gotten my arms around that pile of information, I believe I have a compelling thesis to put forth 3. I design the narrative ar
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by CityOfThrowaway 11d ago
Europe loves to regulate, which absolutely reduces your ability to adopt
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by CityOfThrowaway 3mo ago
This particular company is literally bootstrapped and makes hundreds of millions of dollars profitably
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by CityOfThrowaway 3mo ago
Then the offers are fair and your assessment of your labor value is disproven by the market rate.
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by CityOfThrowaway 3mo ago
Using your own logic, if we need investors to make the whole thing work, then an investor playing their role has obviously earned their take. If they didn't exist, many things would simply never have been created.
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by CityOfThrowaway 3mo ago
So what? He owned the stock, he gets to share in the gains. If we believed that the only people who should be morally allowed to benefit from asset appreciation are the people who actively work for that company, the entire economy would col
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by CityOfThrowaway 4mo ago
This is usually founder-led not investor led
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by CityOfThrowaway 4mo ago
I've raised venture from a lot of the big firms (and a lot of small firms) and have never had any of them attempt to force me to use anything.
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by CityOfThrowaway 4mo ago
It's a term of art that straightforwardly means people who embrace AI-assisted programming. As opposed to the very large number of engineers who actively don't like it, or have enough change aversion to have avoided it.
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by CityOfThrowaway 4mo ago
Sure, but we're talking about Coinbase, which is a relatively young company not staffed with a bunch of old people in the first place. It's totally random to accuse them of using "AI-native" to fire old people.
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by CityOfThrowaway 4mo ago
No, it's obviously not. There is nothing about being old that prevents you from being AI-native.
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by CityOfThrowaway 4mo ago
In some sense, the fun pockets still exist of course. On the other hand, the algorithmic schelling points starve weird-ish corners of scale. The network effects + psychological draw of the single stream feeds is a powerful force. The algori
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by CityOfThrowaway 5mo ago
OTOH, if you're willing to accept human-level error rates... why would you not do so at a burst-scalable task per minute and 1/1000th the cost? I've built large human data entry operations. Variable throughput, monotony, hi
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by CityOfThrowaway 5mo ago
I think this is a bit dramatic of a comment. Credit card numbers relayed over the phone are not deterministic... "four three uh let's see sorry my vision is bad six eight..." Easy versions of problems are easy. But reality is
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by CityOfThrowaway 5mo ago
I dunno what use case you're thinking this is for. The use case for this is that many enterprise customers want SaaS products to strip PII from ingested content, and there's no non-model way to do it. Think, ingesting call transcr
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by CityOfThrowaway 5mo ago
> Regarding bad weather; if winter is bad enough for bicycles to fail, then certainly it is not safe to drive either This is a big claim with no justification. Cars have dynamic traction control, internal temperature control, etc. You ma
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by CityOfThrowaway 6mo ago
This basically boils down to, "Sure, we recommended you work with scammy low-quality auditors, but if you actually use them it's your own fault... we're just an automation tool!" In other words, I'm reading this as
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by CityOfThrowaway 8mo ago
You say that there's no skill in using AI, and then go on to explain how you used AI in an unskilled way to produce something that neither worked correctly nor taught you anything. It strikes me that if you developed your skill set aro
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by CityOfThrowaway 10mo ago
Are they your ideas if they go through a heavy-handed editor? If you've had lots of conversations with others to refine them? I dunno. There's ways to use LLMs that produces writing that is substantially not-your-ideas. But there&
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by CityOfThrowaway 10mo ago
I'm anon, but also the farthest thing from a progressive, so I find this post amusing. I don't disagree with a lot of what you're saying but I also have a different frame. Even if we take your claim that LLMs don't make
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by CityOfThrowaway 10mo ago
In a lot of ways, I'm thankful that LLMs are letting us hear the thoughts of people who usually wouldn't share them. There are skilled writers. Very skilled, unique writers. And I'm both exceedingly impressed by them as well
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by CityOfThrowaway 11mo ago
As the saying goes, "If you're not a liberal when you're 2.5, you have no heart, and if you're not a conservative by the time you're 4.5, you have no brain"
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by CityOfThrowaway 11mo ago
But should it? To whom is that useful?
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by CityOfThrowaway 1y ago
Completely agree. On the autism spectrum, I'm almost certainly very low. But going through the simulator felt like... yeah this all sucks but is very much in the realm of things that I experience and feel on any given day. It didn&#x27
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by CityOfThrowaway 1y ago
It's sarcasm
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by CityOfThrowaway 1y ago
Yes, it might be true that most people aren't willing to keep their money under their beds for security reasons. But it shouldn't be illegal or somehow indicative of criminality. Same thing with self custody of crypto.
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by CityOfThrowaway 1y ago
One of the ways you know if you're really practicing this is if you actively disqualify potential customers after the first call. Not them disqualifying you, but you actively saying, "Hey, not sure we are the right solution for yo
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by CityOfThrowaway 1y ago
There's two ways to answer this: 1. On one hand, walled gardens like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc, are most of the internet and they decidedly use React (or similar) frameworks. So from that perspective, the statement is sorta tri
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by CityOfThrowaway 1y ago
The idea here is right, but the word "debt" is not the right word at all. A burden, a liability, a drag. But not debt.
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by CityOfThrowaway 1y ago
I agree that it might not be reasonable to expect people to keep up with the latest. For this specific thing (LLM-assisted coding), we are still in nerd territory where there are tremendous gains to be had from keeping up and tinkering. The

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