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Just because you’re not a good developer, doesn’t mean you can’t be a “good” developer.

The problems is the best devs aren’t the ones doing all the work. You have shitty devs too who are barely thinking or checking anything mixing slop code in with what whatever the best devs are doing, so it all eventually turns to shit.

What do you mean? you’re on HN.

Please keep the missed attacks on screen instead of rushing to the next request and just leaving some error log.

I gave up as soon as I saw the slow moving loading bar.

You need to really prioritize getting the player to something interesting on screen as quickly as possible and then loading things in the background.

A few seconds is all you get in this world, if you don’t sieze it, you’re internet roadkill.

After discovering SendCutSend, I put away these childish 3D printer fantasies and just have my parts made from pure metal and delivered quick and easy. Enough with plastics and resins, use REAL materials.

I’ve seen remote agents communicate through tracert.

They never wanted you.

the pendulum will eventually swing back and most of these fucks will be thrown in prison.

Your competitive advantage should be used in the service of others and the benefit of society, not self enrichment and status games.

He enjoyed the intellectual superiority over others more than the mastery of the skill.

What about within 5 years?

Humans are just organic simulation environments for these drug trials.

it can be simulated to a very high fidelity.

AI is not about productivity. It's about weaponizing the ability to ship fast go-to market features in the blink of an eye when it becomes necessary. If trends change fast and you can't adapt quickly with AI: you're dead. So you need to have AI ready to go, just in case.

Nonsense. This is like when people used to say "AI will never be able to write code as good as a human!" Biology will become a solved problem.

That’s a problem for a business owner, not an employee who has an effective cap on how far ahead they are allowed to actually work.

Same. Once I actually tweaked my agent to do all the same work I used to do by hand, I now do so little work that I often try to think of ways to performatively imply that I’m working hard out of fear that maybe someone will catch on and I’ll just get fired out and replaced with my agent once and for all.

A neat trick I’ve found is that I can just invent random work for myself in the form of building custom tools and skills for various workflows and write it off as research.

If you believe in karmic justice, someone who lacked sufficient morals should just lose an argument even if they are now trying to use morals to put forward a sound argument.

You cannot use a moral high ground unless you’ve earned that high ground through your past behavior.

Moral high grounds don't mean much these days. They are weaponized as a way to get an advantage in an argument.

I’m shaking, so much has happened in the past few years, I think it’s inevitable we will find the efficient algorithm for P=NP. Not sure if I’m ready to live in that world yet.

Fuck em. Life does not revolve around economic competition. Just spend your days laying out somewhere eating grapes.

What people aren’t realizing is that at some point, it just becomes cheaper and easier to be fully benevolent than to keep cooking up nefarious schemes to make people’s lives miserable.

I know it seems laughable, but we’re in an era right now of extreme competition where you cannot afford to just be nice to people.

But eventually there comes a point where companies have enough power that they don’t need to keep people in line by force: just give people their bread and circus, watch your little AI videos and talk to your AI friends and enjoy your standard housing and provisions. Do some work if you want, no one cares if you do or don’t, it’s largely performative. This basically kills all motivation for resistance or lashing out. Why go out and risk your life fighting for vague reasons when you can be perfectly comfy at home instead and have all your needs met?

If you can control the masses without their complaints, you can solidify power for a long time.

In the corporate world it seems Claude has become like a generic name for doing anything AI related and there is no hope in getting people to switch away. The demand is there. People love name dropping Claude into everything and even assuming it’s what everyone uses to do anything even when there’s so many alternatives.

No, camera first helps teach them how to observe their surroundings and look for good potential photos in what they see. It’s also interesting to see photos from a child’s perspective on what they find interesting. When they get a feel for that they can move on to drawing and painting stuff from their own mind.

I thought the same thing about iPhones, then I got an iPhone Air and can’t imagine going back to those fat bloated bricks people lug around daily. Worse, they put a thick case on it making it even more portly, because the aluminum bodies dent so easily. iPhone Air is what Steve Jobs would have wanted: a super thin strong Titanium phone that doesn’t need any case to feel complete.

Don't give kids a computer, give them a camera. A real one.

People get obsessed with wanting companies to profit ASAP.

That's not how you grab market share. Early on, any profit you aren't reinvesting into the business is basically hurting your growth rate.

I thought this was about the actual US Power Grid, which is hilariously vulnerable. Right now you could ask your agent to crawl Shodan and trivially shut down a small power plant in Puerto Rico if you wanted.

People think OpenAI and Anthropic are just these wildly unprofitable companies with no future or business.

They know what they’re doing. The naysayers are like the people that said this little internet thing wasn’t going anywhere.

By any means necessary.