cyanclouds

Finance and Media = annoying ass industries

Think of a typical news site with millions of ads flying in as you try to read - they are the causers of this shit ad world

Look what happened to YouTube after the news showed up there.

Look at the clusterfuck that is housing and banking.

Compare how any other vertical is ran by the main players vs Finance and Media - the two most shittily ran industries in the West.

One huge downside is there's no moat, so anyone can be a coach and sell courses. Even ex-clients who are already comfortable talking in sessions like this can turn into direct competition after seeing how you do it.

On the customer side of things, there's no way to "prove" how effective coaches really are since there is no hurdle to entry and they aren't accredited.

It's not like framing a house or software engineering or legal counsel, in that way.

Another downside might just be the vicarity of it. Instead of spending time and energy improving yourself, you're focused on improving others. Some of your biggest success cases may leave you feeling oddly empty. Maybe there's a case where helping a client becomes directly at odds with helping yourself - which do you choose?

The personality upkeep. Coaches, instructors, and mentors aren't really allowed to have off days - you are the beacon that moves others forward. You have to act and be motivating, positive, and encouraging no matter how you're actually feeling that day, or when you have a rude or uncharismatic client.

Low pay overall ($384 in 7 months). My strong opinion is that nobody should do any in-person client work of any kind (photography, massage, therapy, coaching) for less than $50 USD per hour, given communications overhead and transportation costs. If the work in question is valued at less from your research, there's not enough opportunity to justify doing it IMO (at least not for the money) - unless you see some trajectory where it scales or amplifies. If you can offer the service completely virtually and bring on other mentors, that's an example of a trajectory where it scales.

Sometimes you have a great idea and passion that just needs a slight change in how it's brought to market.

The case study of the LLM getting the basic Mono framework usage wrong seems outdated.

They're pretty flawless at any framework now, React, SwiftUI, Unity - literal skill issue if you can't get good code out of an LLM.

If an LLM can write a nuanced paragraph about any topic, it can certainly write a simple [insert popular framework] component which has considerably less potential variation.

Consider that there are 100k+ words in English, 90k+ in Spanish, and 77 in C# (38 in JavaScript!).

The LLM can write code.

Can it make software? No. Because software is a lot more than code.

But the LLM can write code.

Any anti-AI takes moving forward are going to have to acknowledge that I think

Correction: Whenever you can tell it's an AI image, it discourages you

It's all about big booties

The cuties with cooties

Corporate duties and African rubies

It's the doobies and boobies

That see K's like Louie

Shake out the loogies

And K-shape the Louis

Not just replies but submissions.

A mod literally reworded my title and it doesn’t say that anywhere lol

Come on guys

They’re not AI comments. They are very often regular people just sharing viewpoints which many times seem totally fine.

Sometimes they will [dead] a joke just because it was a joke. Not even offensive just grumpy mod doesn’t want humor so it’s gone.

But that is gutting the site of all its good content.

All that remains is “kagi” “Claude” and the same 4 topics

They’ll go back years deleting old comments that were fine just to “get” the user even more.

Problem is you’re ruining the site

Who said I have a theory? I just don’t believe it’s AI since I’ve seen the [dead] comments.

I don’t know what the reason for a mod to mark so many harmless often useful things as [dead] could be.

Sometimes a mod will appear and totally rip a person apart for what I felt was a regular comment. I see power tripping mods here have a mental breakdown over non-issues and ban people and remove all their comments ever posted.

I’d never use it.

It already seems like most of the comments are that Simon guy and Chris Marshall NY lol. There’s like 10 people left who are allowed visibility.

Seems like the whole site will soon be [dead]

There are far more shill/bot comments that HN gets paid for btw (Claude, kagi, and that bs)

I don’t believe that. Almost all the ones marked [dead] are real, normal comments simply disagreeing with the official HN viewpoints.

That’s why lying is the new meta. Lying works better than ever in fact they’re making us lie with the way things are going.

You’ll get more interviews and higher salaries with a simple lie.

Or you get fired for telling the truth.

I’m 1000% lying from now on.

Reminds me of a recent interview where they asked to what extent I used AI for dev and cautioned that it would be problematic if I said I never used it.

So I say the areas I use it.

Rejected: We need people who can work without AI.

Felt so dumb. I’m never telling the truth again.

We need something new fast.

Shake off all these brands and overly confident predators everywhere.

I’d love a reset. Better if there’s a technical step to keep mainstream out.