robertnowell

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by robertnowell 3mo ago
the main concern here is what is needed to create and sustain that growth rate. here are three potential issues: 1. there is a short term incentive for lying -- tricking people can get you a long way (e.g. delve) 2. there's a genuine l
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by robertnowell 3mo ago
if they are selling to a business, the biz will pay if it solves their problem. if the solution doesn't solve their problem, or something else solves their problem that is easier / cheaper / better, the business will not pay.
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by robertnowell 3mo ago
their number one priority is solving their problem so they can realize their organization's mission, and that's how it should be. if the translation is good enough to solve their problem, then it doesn't need to be any better
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by robertnowell 3mo ago
the version of this skillset that stays employed is "now I translate 10000x more than i could before by managing a fleet of agents. by encoding my experienced taste and judgement into robust evals, I've helped my ai translators be
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by robertnowell 3mo ago
head in the sand
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by robertnowell 3mo ago
if it was valuable, people would pay for it
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by robertnowell 3mo ago
unfortunately this person will soon be unemployed. not because their skills are no longer relevant, but because they are taking a principled stance defending now irrelevant skills.
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by robertnowell 3mo ago
unfortunately this person will soon be unemployed.
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by robertnowell 4mo ago
this is like telling a student driver they have to push their car by hand instead of putting their foot on the pedal.
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by robertnowell 4mo ago
fair point, but it is not a tesla-style “giant iPad” primary inputs while driving are buttons and knobs
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by robertnowell 4mo ago
you are correct, I amend my claim. the interiors are nice, but overall imo the car is a design failure.
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by robertnowell 4mo ago
imo the exterior looks like a cartoon BYD and should be killed with fire. however while folks are negative on Ive for the car shape, he only designed the interiors not the car body, and the interiors are kinda lovely car interior design: -n
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Show HN: Agentic simulator for marketing email A/B testing(inbox-wars.com)
2 points by robertnowell 4mo ago|0 comments
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by robertnowell 4mo ago
> Every software developer knows that you can’t make projects go faster just by typing faster. If that were the case we would all be taking typing lessons. ^ this statement is false. typing infinitely fast would make software development
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2-d dungeon visualization of 51 real OpenClaw AI engineering tasks [video](youtube.com)
1 points by robertnowell 6mo ago|1 comments
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by robertnowell 6mo ago
interesting visualization of 51 real engineering tasks completed by openclaw ai engineers during March 2026 I was having a hard time explaining how my OpenClaw ai engineering orchestrator runs a structured engineering process by dispatching
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by robertnowell 1y ago
just made an ai graphic designer for marketing emails learns about your brand and creates custom email graphics for headers etc pretty cool what gpt-image-1 can do if curious, can check out https://graphic-design.email
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by robertnowell 2y ago
what’s an example of a code search problem that vscode’s native search fails to solve?
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by robertnowell 2y ago
illustrated with midjourney: https://open.substack.com/pub/robertnowell/p/ai-a-means-to-o...
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Building an app in Vision Pro using my voice(robertnowell.substack.com)
2 points by robertnowell 3y ago|1 comments
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by robertnowell 3y ago
Vision pro + AI allows me to create a decent looking, functional user interface just by talking about it. While feeling like I'm on a mountaintop, immersed in nature.
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Someone is wrong on the internet: Midjourney magazine is cool(wired.com)
2 points by robertnowell 3y ago|2 comments
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by robertnowell 3y ago
midjourney magazine is "soulless and embodying the threat AI poses to journalism", merely "pages upon pages of large images of varying quality in varying genres... captioned with the prompt used to generate them". The au
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Ask HN: Best toolkit to build any web or mobile app (for developers)
3 points by robertnowell 5y ago|1 comments
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Figma to React in One Click(rendition.unicornplatform.page)
4 points by robertnowell 5y ago|0 comments
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by robertnowell 5y ago
Rendition creates a two-way sync between design and code. It’s a figma+github plugin that will write UI code for you from designs. To do this, it compiles figma designs into react code and creates a pull request in your repo. It also syncs
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Show HN: Rendition – compile figma into react, and react into figma(rendition.unicornplatform.page)
6 points by robertnowell 5y ago|1 comments
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The greatest tech entrepreneur(americanbusinesshistory.org)
1 points by robertnowell 5y ago|0 comments
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by robertnowell 5y ago
Interesting, do you have experience with web agency work? I've never thought about the challenges they face, but they must face this challenge all the time
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by robertnowell 5y ago
Ah, so what you're saying is that a big problem that dev+design teams will encounter is that they need to be able to iterate on designs together, so a real solution here would need to be able to integrate updates to the design into the

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