mattmaroon

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by mattmaroon 4d ago
They host the ads. They have some app and integrate Google’s ads in it, then click the ads with the boy network in their app.
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by mattmaroon 20d ago
The demand for fast, cheap, good enough models has always been borderline infinite, it’s the supply that’s going to take off.
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by mattmaroon 20d ago
It’s never told me that, but it does help me fix problems. For instance the other day I noticed that my state unemployment insurance rate had increased from 0.75% to 12.75%. I absolutely could have spent hours of my time scouring the websit
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by mattmaroon 22d ago
I would say 90% of people do not yet realize how useful it is. It is not useless to them, they just don’t understand yet what it can do. And there were a few years there where a lot of BS AI hype turned them off to it. So a lot of people ri
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by mattmaroon 25d ago
You gotta think long term. This is going to cause all those lumber companies to plant more forests and 40 years from now when they’re big enough boom, 3 new jobs servicing the autonomous tree harvesters.
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by mattmaroon 27d ago
Me too.
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by mattmaroon 28d ago
Right now you have a window. AI can do a huge chunk of the work you were doing last year, and outside of programming, nobody seems to know about it yet. I've cut 10 hours a week out of my schedule in the last several months just in tim
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by mattmaroon 1mo ago
Ah. Yeah. I can’t wait until the tooling for non-programming tasks catches up to the tooling for programming. I’m sure it will happen. Most of the software world started off aimed at developers (because they made it) and then found its way
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by mattmaroon 1mo ago
Do you work in the space?
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by mattmaroon 1mo ago
Oh I’m just using ChatGPT, I haven’t dives into getting anything to run locally yet. That’s on the off season project list.
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by mattmaroon 1mo ago
I do where possible. I build MCP servers into custom tools. But a lot of it is stuff like filling out permit applications on government websites, or reading festival websites and applying, etc. I will say one thing that frustrates me is the
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by mattmaroon 1mo ago
Also, I have certainly gone down some unproductive rabbit holes figuring out what to do with it. Time spent on it is an investment, just like automating anything. You spend hours upfront to save them on an ongoing basis. But, I think I’m on
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by mattmaroon 1mo ago
Huge gaps. I expect the tooling to get better for non-programmers. Codex and Cowork are great, but you still feel like you’re trying to hammer the square peg through the circle hole often when using it for non-programming tasks. The AI is g
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by mattmaroon 1mo ago
Yes. Bureaucracy for sure when I throw festivals. ChatGPT pulls permits for me. (I think that uses a lot of tokens because of the browser control?) Manages the admin side along with some tools I built in Lovable via mcp servers. Marketing d
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by mattmaroon 1mo ago
There. I have the business plan with two seats and I use them both and blow through it pretty fast. I think it’s because much of what I have it do involves using a browser. For instance I have it pull various permits from cities and there’s
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by mattmaroon 1mo ago
All white collar work will be done by AI soon, there won’t be scaling down, just scaling up. I do food trucks and festivals and I’ve got AI doing so much of my non-meatspace work now that I’m buying $10-$20 a day in tokens. At that rate, ha
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by mattmaroon 2mo ago
I make my own all natural energy drink. I too don’t like coffee much, no matter how hard I’ve tried, but also those things have a lot of chemicals other than caffeine in them. You can buy powdered caffeine derived from green tea. I do bottl
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by mattmaroon 2mo ago
Things aren’t poorly thought out just because they’re a short internet comment. I could easily have delved into the background belief that’s deeply-rooted in Buddhist philosophy. Thinking humans aren’t special isn’t necessarily nihilism, it
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by mattmaroon 2mo ago
It was a Hacker News comment, not a doctoral thesis. People like you are why this site so desperately needs a block feature.
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by mattmaroon 2mo ago
And yet the cheapest car can easily outrun any human who ever lived. Everything is unique if you look into it closely enough. I would say that’s not the same as special, though I admit this is just semantics.
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by mattmaroon 2mo ago
You could say that about any religion given only a one sentence high level summary. “A guy in the sky made us in seven days.” has no serious, philosophical grounding.
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by mattmaroon 2mo ago
I see all of this as the cognitive dissonance created when humans are confronted with what scientists have been telling us forever: we’re not that special. We’re just piles of atoms, as are rocks, dogs, computers, and all of the other intel
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by mattmaroon 2mo ago
Well, I don’t think I’ve gotten to mc-festival scale yet so I don’t know. I’ve got a few festivals in the 25k attendee range, which is big but I have vended at some that are and order of magnitude bigger. The biggest fest I do, Circleville
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by mattmaroon 2mo ago
Mine are food-focused.
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by mattmaroon 2mo ago
It’s more than just that (though I’m sure that’s part of it). The thing about festivals is they have real economies of scale. For instance sponsors value getting in front of 25,000 people really highly, but they don’t value a 2,500 person f
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by mattmaroon 2mo ago
Interesting. I’ve been debating starting a social media channel teaching people how to do it.
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by mattmaroon 2mo ago
Everyone does. That’s why publishers put care into cover art.
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by mattmaroon 2mo ago
“I’ve come to believe that part of today’s problem of social alienation is a problem of too many free riders.” I started planning street festivals a few years ago. It’s now a lucrative and growing business for me. The demand for events at a
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by mattmaroon 2mo ago
I assume that of all of them as a basic security precaution.
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by mattmaroon 2mo ago
Fair point. But they still have more potential customers than any other individual ISP. Lack of potential customers is not their limiting factor.

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