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by codingdave 1mo ago
The author of this caught my attention, because they were part of the group who put together Forum 2000 backs in the late 90s. (And Forum 1900 when the Y2k bug hit it.) It was an early web site where you'd post a question, and an AI ha
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by codingdave 1mo ago
> It is quite clear that AI is massively affecting everything around us. Is it? It is affecting our work, sure. But almost nothing outside of that has changed. In my "real" life, we're still doing the same thing. People te
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by codingdave 1mo ago
Yes, we have patches of milkweed in the un-mowed areas - it was one of the primary reasons were started letting those areas go wild in the first place.
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by codingdave 1mo ago
> you often want to leave a nice pattern Even when it comes to mowing, different people have different goals. I live out in the country, and tall grass means bugs and ticks, so my mowing tries to strike a balance of short grass near the
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by codingdave 2mo ago
I absolutely don't learn content from AI. LLMs still are at the point where they sound plausible to non-experts, but are just wrong about things you know well. So if you feel you are learning successfully with an LLM teacher, guess whi
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by codingdave 2mo ago
'Great' is subjective. If you care about the same things as he does, a lot of his work is great. If you care about totally different things, none of his work is great. Whatever you feel about it, it would be inaccurate to say that
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by codingdave 2mo ago
You build slowly, and make sure that every business transaction is profitable. This is the exact opposite of VC-funded where they build fast and don't care if they are burning their runway down because they either grow fast enough to m
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by codingdave 2mo ago
> I invite one & all to try my invention free. Repeatedly. Daily. Ad nauseum. With no other engagement on HN. Yeah, we got the invite, Cary. You can stop posting it every day now.
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by codingdave 2mo ago
This is an interesting premise, but doesn't there need to be some level of app owner involvement for a deployment to work? Handling secrets, configuring the environment, etc. If you can just drop AI slop online and it runs, then almost
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by codingdave 2mo ago
"guy who will benefit if everyone adopts AI is promoting AI" Don't confuse this for anything more than what it is - a corporate leader delivering his marketing message.
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by codingdave 2mo ago
But that is exactly the point. Air conditioning doesn't keep heat out - it burns energy to change the air once the heat has gotten in. There are ways to keep it out in the first place. FWIW, it isn't either/or - we practice k
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by codingdave 2mo ago
By what measurement? They all surely beat air conditioning in terms of energy usage.
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by codingdave 2mo ago
The sewing machine analogy is a good one. The problem I'm seeing is leadership who sees the t-shirt company succeed with sewing machines, so goes out, buys 100 sewing machines, then puts them in the kitchen because they are a bakery an
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by codingdave 2mo ago
Again, you are self-promoting, not engaging with the community. And now you are abusing the title to try to tell a story. That isn't how HN works. Read: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html You also might
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by codingdave 2mo ago
> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by codingdave 2mo ago
Agreed on the problems, but how will an LLM fix any of that? Even if it does somehow give you the right answer, it cannot perform procedures or prescribe medicine. You still need to get an appointment for anything beyond information. Your i
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by codingdave 2mo ago
The fact that things like that get into a production app at all is the bigger point. AI slop doesn't even hit a base level of "it works on my machine". When some piece of an app just doesn't work, regardless of whether i
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by codingdave 2mo ago
> because of the overwhelming demands and random priority changes that expect you work beyond scheduled hours. Bootstrapping your own thing will give you more of that, not less. It takes an established business to be stabile to the point
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by codingdave 2mo ago
This is cool, and clearly a popular post, yet also... doesn't the 'Show HN' guidelines specifically exclude lists and reading material? With the massive drop in quality that AI has brought to Show HNs, this is a great example
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by codingdave 2mo ago
> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by codingdave 2mo ago
If it were commonplace, there wouldn't be a post and discussion about it. Cheap? Arguable - while it didn't cost thousands, it wasn't free. Cheap is in the eye of the beholder. Efficient...How do we even measure that? The mas
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by codingdave 2mo ago
There is no single answer to that. The best channel depends entirely on what audience your product is for. FWIW, my most successful products had zero social media marketing. Barely any online marketing at all. Radio and in-person events was
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by codingdave 2mo ago
From the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html > Can I ask people to upvote my submission? > No. Users should vote for a story because they personally find it intellectually interesting, not because someone h
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by codingdave 2mo ago
It isn't winning or losing. It is just a job that either worked out or did not. And not a waste - even if you all you take away from this is experience and knowledge, that is not a waste.
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by codingdave 2mo ago
Odds are it won't make a huge difference - everyone has a life to live outside of work. Even if it does cause some career stagnation, any decrease in your career because of having kids is going to be a good thing. Absolutely nobody get
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by codingdave 2mo ago
Great, he can provide that feedback on the monthly thread, too. Make that thread better, don't noise up the whole site.
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by codingdave 2mo ago
If you built this for yourself, then you are your entire market. Either you like it and it is good, or you don't and it is not. But if you built this to sell to others, you skipped the most important step: Researching the market to kno
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by codingdave 2mo ago
Seriously? There is a monthly thread on this that was just posted 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884984 Re-posting the same question just creates noise.
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by codingdave 2mo ago
Some variation of "Look, I made a place where anonymous traffic can post content" gets posted every couple months. And usually is taken offline within a few hours/days once the author realizes that the tech is not the problem
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by codingdave 2mo ago
This isn't really a Show HN. There is no product here to try out and discuss - it is just you selling ad space.

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