davnicwil

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by davnicwil 1mo ago
I wonder how much of this universal lesson will be rehashed to fit the aftermath of what's currently going on with vibe coding etc. I think it's pretty likely that in, let's just go for the round number and say 80% of cases,
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by davnicwil 1mo ago
but when you criticise it you don't feel obliged to point out it's of course useful. This is just obvious unstated.
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by davnicwil 1mo ago
I agree and I think there is also a more insidious meta aspect: for every comment like this there is the worry that some X multiple more people hold that view but won't say it. Everyone else also thinks like that and so isn't norm
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by davnicwil 1mo ago
I find it so interesting how many comments about AI start with a disclaimer that of course it's very useful, before pointing out a negative of any sort. I do it too so it's not a criticism, but I find it kinda interesting cultur
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Why the UK is dithering over what to do about e-scooters(bbc.com)
2 points by davnicwil 2mo ago|0 comments
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by davnicwil 2mo ago
In situations like this the answer usually comes by flipping it and assuming they do understand, and asking why it makes sense now. It's probably just the old 'fake loader' psychology, to be honest. Waiting without knowing
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It's not empowering to hand off the details(davidnicholaswilliams.com)
225 points by davnicwil 2mo ago|147 comments
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You Cannot Escape the Details(davidnicholaswilliams.com)
3 points by davnicwil 2mo ago|0 comments
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You Cannot Escape the Details(davidnicholaswilliams.com)
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by davnicwil 2mo ago
Having reflected on this I agree with you. Yes, it's annoying, and blame does lie with me for it happening because I did let friends know about the launches for this on HN, and the comments that come from that are entirely predictable.
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by davnicwil 2mo ago
> I find it amusing that people assume the worst for things they understand little about, rather than trying to learn. I don't know if you intended this to be exclusive of the opposite, but I do often find actually the opposite thin
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by davnicwil 2mo ago
I heard some advice recently, I think in an article here on HN, to just use a big company registry where it's not their profit center, indeed may even be netural to loss making, to drive other business. This makes total sense to me. I&
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Why the UK is dithering over what to do about e-scooters(bbc.com)
2 points by davnicwil 2mo ago|0 comments
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by davnicwil 2mo ago
Ha, it's an ambiguous title. Yeah the post is about not using AI in the actual note-taking process. You will be unsurprised to learn though that I largely haven't used AI to program it. The main ways I do are documentation/re
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by davnicwil 2mo ago
It's 100% intended for use in businesses! I guess the whole point of it is that it isn't a transcription / automated summary tool :-) It's a tool for people who want to use their own brain to pick out the key notes and a
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by davnicwil 2mo ago
Indeed, you are probably right. My bad and I deleted my initial defensive riposte.
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by davnicwil 2mo ago
deleted comment - I will never learn to ignore this kinda thing (referring to GP comment). It's difficult to not get defensive when you put a lot of work into something and you receive what you feel are very unfair / unjustified c
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Why I'm building a note taking app without AI(withdocket.com)
19 points by davnicwil 2mo ago|16 comments
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by davnicwil 2mo ago
Selling to individuals can be a hugely more robust predictable business, the problem with selling by the pallet load is spiky revenue that can also quickly fall off a cliff if larger customers stop buying. The other problem is sales negotia
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Show HN: Docket (system for active note-taking) now self-hosted after HN asked(withdocket.com)
9 points by davnicwil 2mo ago|4 comments
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Show HN: I made my note-taking system self-hosted after HN asked(withdocket.com)
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by davnicwil 2mo ago
> The next time you ask the LLM for another endpoint with the same access rules, the model won't start from first principles. It'll start from the other four copies already sitting in your repo. To be honest I'm not sure h
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by davnicwil 3mo ago
One way I like to think about is that often abstraction is an automation for a task that doesn't need automating. You hardly ever change the thing and if you do, changing it in two or three places 'manually' is really not a b
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by davnicwil 3mo ago
I think there's a strong chance this is a case of it creating a whole new market though. There are people whose current behaviour/situations will happen to benefit from this, and that may be a niche, but seems like there's a
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by davnicwil 3mo ago
> this exponential line of thinking It's a clever argument because if you question it, you're reminded of the entire history of technological development which is, guess what, exponential. You're sometimes also dismissed a
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by davnicwil 3mo ago
well to be fair that's right now, I think the question is what about in 6 months, 12 months, 2 years? Where do these improvement curves go? Does the gap close, do they intersect for practical purposes (factoring in cost etc)? Or is the
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by davnicwil 3mo ago
on the other hand failing at it or pushing it to the edges until they figure out where if anywhere it would actually make sense (which is I believe the entire crux of their strategy) might equally reasonably be helping their brand. I don&#x
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by davnicwil 3mo ago
This won't happen in most cases because the valuable thing is largely the knowledge encoded in the software, which the buyers of the software don't have and don't want to have since they're focused on their own business.
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by davnicwil 4mo ago
I agree and I think the most concrete demonstration of this for me is actually the current air. It's basically the idea of the pro of 10 years ago but realised flawlessly, and improved upon actually in most ways, for significantly chea
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by davnicwil 4mo ago
I think there's a ton of examples where this is true for lower level stuff like open source where you see the internals. For commerical products it certainly exists too, for example in those cases where you know the product is built by

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