stevepotter

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by stevepotter 6d ago
I switched into medical 4 years ago because my top priority was making something that directly improves peoples lives. Early in my career it wasn’t so much of a concern. Now it’s a must. There are many companies like this. Highly recomme
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by stevepotter 15d ago
I think we agree. I think we’ve barely touched the surface on its applications. It’s digitized reasoning. That’s hard to wrap one’s head around. My hope is that the vertical applications that gain traction aren’t from a handful of compa
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by stevepotter 15d ago
I’m an expert software engineer. I would categorize something that multiplies my productivity by > 2x is transformative. AI has certainly done that and more for me
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by stevepotter 15d ago
Because it’s so powerful and versatile. The other day my wife took a picture of our living room and chathgpt picked out the perfect rug. That’s both a better search and avoided, say, an interior decorator. In that scenario it’s kinda bot
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by stevepotter 24d ago
I advise people to seek out small companies, ideally ones going through product/market fit. Like, they recently came up with something to sell and have begun selling it. Resource-constrained, good growth, not super explosive. You ca
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by stevepotter 1mo ago
I made a small change a while back that resulted in a lot of fat loss. I'm a startup CTO, kids, wife, 2 dogs, etc. Every Sunday I prepare lunch meals for the week. I make a big vat that consists of spinach, kale, riced cauliflower,
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by stevepotter 1mo ago
I once asked a question like this for an interview. "Tell me what happens when you press the Buy button on a web site". It really helped me gauge a sense for the person's interests and expertise. Like some folks just talke
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by stevepotter 2mo ago
I never understood the copy paste thing. Shadcn just reeks of a fad, and even after doing copy paste and trying it, I didn’t see what the big deal was. But enjoy it, y’all. One of the benefits of AI is that HN isn’t clogged with talk of
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by stevepotter 2mo ago
Love love love mantine.
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by stevepotter 3mo ago
It's inevitable that someone will build a good robot to do these mundane chores. But is that a good thing? I vacuum every night and during that I get some great thinking done. If I had a robot vacuum, I can said with certainty I wo
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by stevepotter 3mo ago
Same. I got spooked after a car pulled out on the country highway I was doing 160 on. Then ran out of money and sold it. I just rode my Dads Harley, first ride in 20 years. Was nice but I’m good. I have a longboard and a little hill onc
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by stevepotter 3mo ago
All I ever hear are horror stories. Can someone tell me a good story about VC that isn't Facebook or something?
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by stevepotter 4mo ago
Svelte is cool although I didn't have some big epiphany. I'm not going to use Svelte because "it compiles" and "is faster" when my existing React app performs very well. Plus there are some libraries for my s
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by stevepotter 4mo ago
I remember in 1999 being so psyched about changing a button image on mouseover. Went hard on jquery, little bit of angular and bootstrap. React was big for me because it’s one way data binding solved the kinds of bugs I had spent years d
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by stevepotter 4mo ago
You are mixing local and federal politics. This is a town issue and would likely have happened regardless of who occupied the Oval Office
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by stevepotter 4mo ago
Others have provided details about how it works. I suggest zooming way in on that image and you'll start 'breaking though' the surface and that'll help you get an idea of how it works. Important thing is there is no de
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by stevepotter 4mo ago
Maybe not at first. Regardless of when they get replaced by tech, you’ll see those jobs get saturated and wages go down. Which sucks because they are already low
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by stevepotter 4mo ago
This is a good take. I’d like to know how you think this is going to shake out over the next few decades
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by stevepotter 4mo ago
I'm the same way, which makes sense because for 20 years I've done things by hand, tediously managing every line. I hired a few fresh grads and they have no problem just going with the default AI output. As long as it works, they
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by stevepotter 4mo ago
I’m working on ways to evaluate and give feedback on surgical techniques. But you just helped me find a new pivot. Thanks! And yes I’m on the toilet.
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by stevepotter 4mo ago
I couldn’t quite understand exactly how it was exploited. It sounds like there is some cache that is shared across action runs and they took advantage of that. Is that at the core of it?
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by stevepotter 4mo ago
Be careful there. The whole "just wait 6 months" thing is problematic. It gives you an excuse to make a mess now, because "in 6 months" AI will magically fix it. It also belittles the human resources. "I heard th
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by stevepotter 4mo ago
I also love to build. And I'm mourning the loss of coding as a craft that is sought after and well compensated. I like to get my hands dirty and it feels wrong that I can basically write specs and the real labor that I love is done f
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by stevepotter 4mo ago
I wasn’t talking about unit tests. Was talking about tests that accelerate development, where you can setup everything and test a feature by just pressing enter vs clicking around or whatever. The tests are how you build features, so I do
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by stevepotter 4mo ago
Which to me is why it’s so important to build cooler and crazier shit. A web app to facilitate some business process was always boring, but at least you got to code. Now it’s just boring. The thing I’m building right now is pretty wild,
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by stevepotter 4mo ago
For me, if I can make a kickass testing system that people love so much that they actually build features with it and it’s not an afterthought, then maintenance becomes much easier. It’s often called test driven development but I’ve rarely
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by stevepotter 4mo ago
Agree. I didn’t like being forced to use it. There was some edict based on some different past problems. My service was a devops thing and didn’t really have a data plane. A regular db would have been perfect but would have required some
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by stevepotter 4mo ago
I was such a fan of it that I ended up working there for 4 years. Now I avoid it and encourage others to do the same. AWS used to have a nifty tool called "policy analyzer" or something that monitored for permissions used by a ro
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by stevepotter 5mo ago
Upper management wants to say they use AI and spend is an easy indicator. That trickles down and ultimately the engineers spending a lot is seen as good. It’s just a lazy measurement, like cloud usage or number of microservices used to be
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by stevepotter 5mo ago
Well played

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