Comment by johnwheeler | Hacker News Reader

Comment by johnwheeler | Hacker News Reader

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I am super difficult to work with I don’t care. I disagree with you totally, I think the new age of entrepreneur will be totally authentic with how they feel and that is exactly why I put my face on it.

The message resonates, and I AM building an audience.

My audience is not you. My audience is people who are sick of putting up with having to act a certain way to fit into the labor force. I’m tired of that. I don’t want to have to rely on my skill of being a politician. I suck at it. I want to rely on my own efforts and talents and now is that time with my friend ChatGPT.

I am also honest and rational, and I try to say what I feel without hurting others but I failed this time. Apologies.

This is what I’m talking talking about people think that you have to be easy to work with. It’s just not true if youre Solorpreneur. You make decisions faster, and I don’t want to beat around the bush. This is happening.

People really get angry when you tell them teamwork isn’t always the best solution for some problems. But it’s the truth, especially in the age of ChatGPT. make decisions faster.

The reason I’m being so forceful is because I really believe in this I just built myself a business using ChatGPT and I know firsthand the type of automation that it does in programmers are not seeing it. They are just sitting around saying to themselves that it can’t code there is a huge shift coming. I could scream it at the rooftops.

I’m saying, no, I’m claiming that I have special experience with ChatGPT that a small percentage of other programmers have right now. People are not seeing it.

But yes, sorry about the get smoked part and that’s not very nice. I wish I could edit it.

I actually found this part offensive because it's so patently untrue

> It's not that useful.

I’m actually a super nice person.

> My audience is people who are sick of putting up with having to act a certain way to fit into the labor force.

> I disagree with you totally, I think the new age of entrepreneur will be totally authentic with how they feel and that is exactly why I put my face on it.

I think the problem is that we live in a society - you always have to interface with people somehow. Whether it's your investors, bankers, customers, employees, etc. If you act unkind then people won't want to invest, work for you, or lend you money.

You don't have to behave a certain way to be in the labor force, there are plenty of jerks in the world who are actively employed. And you're "playing the game", whether you want to or not. If you're trying to start or grow a business, you're absolutely having to behave in ways that other people have dictated. You have to follow regulations, you have to pay your taxes exactly like you're told, you have to pay minimum wage, you have to collect and remit sales tax, you have to hire people without discriminating against protected classes.

Allowing yourself to act like a jerk isn't the rebellious act you think it is. If anything, the opposite is actually what's counter-culture. Being kind and generous to your employees, paying them more than you have to or what the market dictates, not laying people off even if it's the best financial decision, giving less experienced candidates a shot even if there's a more obvious choice - these are the things that you "can't do" in business and basically never see. You should rebel against the system by being nice.

Didn’t even read it,

But bothered enough to respond I guess?

No, I just don’t like fighting with people. That’s all people people do on here is think they know everything and tell everybody what’s right and what’s wrong didn’t read it because I don’t wanna fight with you. Have a nice day.

Isnt that literally what you were doing in the original comment? Telling someone they’re wrong?

Parent comments after yours don’t seem argumentative to me, just conversational

Being polite and friendly isnt the same as playing politics. People will care more about your opinion if you show that you care about their opinion too.

Food for thought: when thousands of people get their technical skills even because of chatgpt, people's skills will be even more the defining factor to success

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