AstroBen

That's awesome! You could probably put Adobe out of business if you charge 10% their price.

If you did Illustrator in an afternoon it should only take a week or two for the whole product line?

You can control the major narrative on social media — about anything you want

What we think others around us think has a big effect on our own behavior

Haven't we been complaining about leetcode interviews for the last 10 years? How is them requiring AI familiarity any different

I think it depends. People should branch out more and try different sports. I'm sure there's something most people could find that just happens to be exercise

I was like that when I was into lifting weights. I wanted the results, but found the process incredibly grueling

With running/cycling I like the activity, not that interested in the results

It's only unpleasant and stressful when you're unfit. I cycle 4-6 hours a week and it's wayyy more pleasant than sitting around at home

Just reading that plan would take weeks or months

100,000 lines is approx. one million words. The average person reads at 250wpm. The entire thing would take 66 hours just to read, assuming you were approaching it like a fiction book, not thinking anything over

I've seen this too. What's confusing is they don't seem to be accomplishing anything? They're not pushing products

What's the point? To prime the account for later?

Ah, you're right.

I actually looked it up after I made that comment and it looks to be a 10% reduction in relative risk per 10g extra fiber consumed

Considering Americans as an example only get 10-15g per day, and it's perfectly possible to get 60g.. that could have a huge impact

I wonder if it's due to diet. Endurance athletes love their simple carbs, highly processed gels. I've seen plenty of cyclists taking gummy bears on rides for fuel, or a concoction that is effectively sugar water to drink

The study referenced is really light on details and they don't say if they controlled for that

My breakfast: 80g oats, 2tbsp chia seeds, 1tbsp ground flax, a shitload of frozen berries, 50g of mixed nuts (walnuts, almonds, whatever), raisins or other dried fruit

Delicious and has more than the recommended fiber in one meal. I didn't like oats much until I learnt how to make them taste good

I wonder why fiber is never brough up with this. Only ~5% of people get enough fiber and it lowers your risk a lot

TUIs have gotten so good lately. I love the design on this

Here's my definition of good writing: it's efficient and communicates precisely what you want to convey in an easy to understand way

AI is almost the exact opposite. It's verbose fluff that's only superficially structured well. It's worse than average

(waiting for someone to reply that I can tell the AI to be concise and meaningful)

> what was interesting about a "Show HN" post was that someone had the technical competence to put something together

Wouldn't the masses of Show HN posts that have gotten no interest pre-AI refute that?

You're right, a lot of the style can be changed from its default. I don't think you can get rid of the soulless aspect though - the lack of underlying relatable consistency.

Especially once you go past a page or two.

When you get to the actual content so much of it just doesn't make sense past a superficial glance

Soulless drivel is very accurate

No worse than "junior developer" assuming they were looking to move on from it

Writing SEO content for random sites was of course the lowest skilled writing job. Ideally they'd have higher aspirations than that though.

Maybe those people didn't even want to be writers. They just wanted an easy job.

This type of cadence.

You know the one.

Choppy. Fast. Saying nothing at all.

It's not just boring and disjointed. It's full-on slop via human-adjacent mimicry.

Let’s get very clear, very grounded, and very unsentimental for a moment.

The contrast to good writing is brutal, and not in a poetic way. In a teeth-on-edge, stomach-dropping way. The dissonance is violent.

Here's the raw truth:

It’s not wisdom. It’s not professional. It’s not even particularly original.

You are very right to be angry. Brands picking soulless drivel over real human creatives.

And now we finish with a pseudo-deep confirmation of your bias.

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Before long everyone will be used to it and it'll evoke the same eugh response

Sometimes standing out or wuality writing doesn't actually matter. Let AI do that part

Of course people will buy software.. but the 80% margins we had of yesteryear won't be there

The result of the barrier to entry being erased is that prices will also be driven to 0 as products are commoditized

It's hardly worth going into a market when you're 1 of 1000 and profit margins are at 3%

Any creativity you add, new spin you put on it, new features, innovation.. all that has negligible cost to copy

I don't think we're quite there yet, but this is where it's quickly heading

Your creativity will be copied within days

People here saying creativity or having a good idea is the moat

You know that if anything you build gets traction, it'll be cloned by 100 people, right?

I'm not sure its a complete nail in the coffin but its definitely going to make things much harder

Lower barrier to entry = much more competition, lower prices, lower profit margins

Couple hundred dollars

..a month

..multiplied by how many small businesses globally?

Jesus people aren't actually falling for their "we're ethical" marketing, are they?

if they want to prove the model's performance the bike clearly needs aero bars

The stakes are very different, both for themselves and society at large if they're set free. They're fighting for their life and freedom, not just a relatively small rent payment

These people have also already shown their character, at least at one point in their life. They're capable of heinous acts and being deceptive is pretty in line with that

It's a much higher bar for them to clear than everyone around me needs to

The thing in the back of my head is that everything they say is tainted by the crimes they committed

How do you empathize, or trust that it's not just a ploy to try to get out?

You don't think it's possible you'd notice if you, or the people around you, produced 6 months of work in 3 weeks?

The case where it's not obvious is when the effect is <1.5x. I think that's clearly where we're at

Some of my friends bought a tonne of bitcoin when it was around ~$100 because it was clearly the future. I'm still not sure if I was an idiot or smart to reject that

Best guess: a few months and it'll spread through dev communities that the effect is a lot more modest than the extreme claims are making it out to be

6-12 months before non-technical leaders take notice and realize they can't actually fire half their team