mattbuilds

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by mattbuilds 2mo ago
In fact, I think a good heuristic is probably the opposite. The type of person who becomes that rich is probably more willing to scam than the average person.
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by mattbuilds 6mo ago
No one put words in your mouth, they asked you a question. You are the one who made the initial comparison to B2C apps, so it seems like a fair question to me. Your comment implies that its standard and the app isn't doing anything out
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by mattbuilds 6mo ago
Yea clearly. There is nothing in here at all even worth discussing.
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by mattbuilds 11mo ago
Got any evidence of this or is just vibes based?
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by mattbuilds 1y ago
That’s a false equivalency, sorry that some of us think companies should actually be responsible for the things they produce.
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by mattbuilds 1y ago
I’m not saying coding is easy, but when it comes to games it is the easy part. Lots of people can code, very few can make something actually fun. Knowing how to code (or how to use an engine/blueprints/visual scripting) is just th
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by mattbuilds 1y ago
I’m sorry but the difficult part of making games isn’t the coding, it is making something that is appealing and enjoyable to play. An LLM isn’t going to help with that at all. How is it going to know if something is fun? That’s the real wor
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by mattbuilds 1y ago
I personally don't dismiss or advocate for AI/LLMs, I just take what I actually see happening, which doesn't appear revolutionary to me. I've spent some time trying to integrate it into my workflow and I see some use cas
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by mattbuilds 1y ago
True but if you are building it for yourself then you will still have something useful in the end. Chances are that you also probably enjoyed or took satisfaction in the process of building it. Also, if it is truly a passion project and not
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by mattbuilds 1y ago
Got any evidence on that or is it just “vibes”? I have my doubts that AI tools are helping good programmers much at all, forget about “running circles” around others.
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by mattbuilds 1y ago
According to your logic, a CEO should attempt to destabilize and influence the government's responsibility so they can maximize shareholder value. And guess what, that is exactly what happens in reality. You can't just simplify re
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by mattbuilds 1y ago
That is not a moral obligation, it is in fact the opposite. It is a lie that people tell themselves and the world to allow themselves to make immoral decisions for their own benefit. I’m not saying running a company is easy and I know that
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by mattbuilds 2y ago
Is it really the best approach though if we sink all this capital into it if it can never achieve AGI? It’s wildly expensive and if it doesn’t achieve all the lofty promises, it will be a large waste of resources IMO. I do think LLMs have u
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by mattbuilds 2y ago
Just to further your point, we are in a thread about Kubrick who did numerous book adaptations including Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, The Shining, and Clockwork Orange and this is just off the top of my head. Tons of directors adapt novels. Bri
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by mattbuilds 2y ago
It’s funny because in my many years of development I don’t think I’ve ever encounter a “mess of shell scripts” that was difficult to maintain. They were clear, did their job and if they needed to be replaced it was usually simple and straig
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by mattbuilds 3y ago
The way I tend to look at it is to solve the problem you have. Don't start with a complicated architecture because "well once we scale, we will need it". That never works and it just adds complexity and increases costs. When
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by mattbuilds 3y ago
I've had similar things in the past. What was the case for me, and maybe for you is that I was using the idea of "organizing" and "planning" to procrastinate doing actual work. I was working on difficult problems an
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by mattbuilds 3y ago
The reason is growth. A sysadmin will make sure the lights stay on and the place doesn’t burn down, but they aren’t creating a new revenue stream. And when all these companies need to grow forever, they need to be creating new things, which
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by mattbuilds 3y ago
Which is funny, because they aren’t very good at it.
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by mattbuilds 3y ago
I mean he’s a mouthpiece for Thiel, not really that surprising. His livelihood depends on viewing the world in a very specific way.
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by mattbuilds 3y ago
Perfectly said, that was the exact point I was trying to make. I've seen so many bad decisions made in the name of "future proofing". The the future comes and you are fighting those decisions. I wonder if people switch jobs a
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by mattbuilds 3y ago
I really disagree with the pros listed on over-engineering, specifically "future-proofing" and "reusability". I doubt you can accurately predict the future and whatever assumptions you make will likely be wrong in some w
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by mattbuilds 3y ago
Obviously we can’t prove this, but my instincts are that we don’t do things with probabilistic decision paths. Not very scientific of me, but I just don’t buy that’s how we make decisions.
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by mattbuilds 3y ago
I wish we could stay away from generalities. There is no one size fits all answer to questions like "should I take funding?". The answer depends on your goals and where you are competing. If what you are trying to do is capital in
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by mattbuilds 3y ago
If you are taking hundred of millions in funding, sure you need to capture the market of "all the people". If you build something that's just for a certain group of people, you can compete by just having a better product that
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by mattbuilds 3y ago
Yea I actually think it's similar to something that happens with my 2 year-old. He thinks putting shoes on means we go outside. So when he wants to go outside, rather than saying "outside", he goes and gets his shoes. The int
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by mattbuilds 3y ago
I think the VC world's obsession with growth has tainted how we (me included) view things, especially stuff like social media. There is a fixation with growing and doing it rapidly that I believe is harmful. I don't know when this
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by mattbuilds 4y ago
Any chance you could go a little more in-depth with what you mean? Why are the ideas so bad and what can someone who gets it recognize in them? Just curious.
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by mattbuilds 4y ago
Thanks for this, it's great. I've never explained it as clearly as these two do, but this has always been my philosophy and what I try to aim for when developing software. I find that a lot of times people opt for easy, thinking
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by mattbuilds 4y ago
I actually agree with you a good amount. I was never saying that you don't need management, just that first you need quality people. I do think you can have a good team with poor managers that still preforms, but I can't think of

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