ivanbalepin

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by ivanbalepin 2mo ago
> get to a billion dollar valuation without at least a small sales team Craigslist came close! and that was before AI.
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by ivanbalepin 3mo ago
> The author himself never experienced the things he's writing about not all of those things, but a good part, he did. He was extremely broke at several points in his adult life, and served in prison, and was almost executed, so he&
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by ivanbalepin 7mo ago
by "maintainability" and "rarely remembered by the engineer" i'm assuming the bigger concern (beyond commenting and sane code) is once everyone starts producing tons of code without looking - and reading(reviewing)
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by ivanbalepin 7mo ago
that's a good take > getting software that does what you want so then we become PMs?
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by ivanbalepin 8mo ago
According to Peter Walker from Carta: > the company re-cap'd employees at a more realistic valuation a couple years back. So looks like all employees benefited here which is a major win. Respect to the founders for looking out!
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by ivanbalepin 10mo ago
i get what you are saying, but i don't think it's fair to call it bike shedding, getting the keys right is also important, one can easily screw up that part too
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by ivanbalepin 10mo ago
that is some brutal self-honesty right there
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by ivanbalepin 10mo ago
if this is referring to Cloudflare, they are not yet particularly known for any major non-sales layoffs, ai or not.
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by ivanbalepin 1y ago
> the men (and woman) of the party probably weren’t thinking much about their place in history that's like the first sentence
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by ivanbalepin 1y ago
> they were offering Java tools free to schools for teaching and research This is also underrated considering there once was an era when you had to pay a lot of money to use a compiler (or almost any software, really) and had to pay a lo
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by ivanbalepin 1y ago
https://archive.is/RXqnL
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Meta's Days of Giving Away AI for Free Are Numbered(bloomberg.com)
7 points by ivanbalepin 1y ago|5 comments
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by ivanbalepin 1y ago
What's impressive is that somebody, somewhere keeps collecting a nice stash of Eastern Baltic cod otoliths in hopes that somebody else would come along and invent a new way to use them.
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by ivanbalepin 1y ago
same here, i dread CSS because it has to look good visually, not regress, work on a ton of devices and is very time-consuming to get right. But every time i tried Cursor with different models it produces CSS code that is just really bad. An
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by ivanbalepin 1y ago
probably meant "underbanked" - has an account but credit shot so no cc's
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by ivanbalepin 1y ago
Yes, that's a good point. However, how much of this finer-grain lending flexibility translates into more favorable underwriting (to help cover the unbanked) is not clear. The author did not mention any data to that effect.
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by ivanbalepin 1y ago
Enjoyed the article, but the author was correctly questioned in the substack comments how is this any different than a credit card for the borrower and what justifies the "interest-free" myth here, since the BNPL payoff period lar
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by ivanbalepin 1y ago
if they are optimizing for cost, which they are obviously not, then of course it would take them less to build. If they are optimizing for time, and the actual aforementioned "vibe code" step may not even be the most time-consumin
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by ivanbalepin 1y ago
it still takes time to spec out, build and sell to a comparable size user base, even with 10 people. And you're not guaranteed the same results if you just try to clone all of that. If the price is right, why not take the shortcut.
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by ivanbalepin 2y ago
> Code is a liability This is so true! Actual writing of the code is such a small step in overall running of a typical business/project, and the less of it the better.
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Anything's Better Than Zero: Creators Reluctantly Sell Their Work to Train AI(bloomberg.com)
4 points by ivanbalepin 2y ago|0 comments
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by ivanbalepin 2y ago
Speaking for one of those metro areas I'm familiar with: maybe in SF city limits specifically (where they still are half the Uber's share), but that's 10% of the population of the Bay Area metro. I'm very much looking fo
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by ivanbalepin 2y ago
but that is not my problem my passport has been through a washing machine accidentally and i can still present it in the remotest of countries no matter the internet or whatever, and it works in the US, yes they are switching to face recogn
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by ivanbalepin 2y ago
This is great. Also i wish someone made Adblock for these "tools" that get shoved in your face by every service today, like Amazon's "Rufus" or BofA's "Emma" take up like half the mobile screen, utter
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by ivanbalepin 2y ago
Not confident but overconfident in this case. Clearly nobody has ever told him it's a crappy question (unless you're interviewing for a math PhD or something), and wrong on top of that, and he didn't have enough self-awarenes
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by ivanbalepin 2y ago
I'd imagine there is a big difference between ML-based heuristic detection for traditional AV and testing for malicious prompts, no? Like, why can't BofA kill Paypal difference.
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by ivanbalepin 2y ago
i wouldn't go that far, it's still a very fun language and a rich culture.
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by ivanbalepin 2y ago
Nice! i guess some things like "Segmentation fault in RecursiveIteratorIterator->current() with a xml element input" could be triggered on a website externally?