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The US spent decades transferring manufacturing, capital, and know-how to China, while Chinese students trained, and excelled, at elite Western universities. Why are people surprised that China eventually became capable of competing with the US?

Are companies allowed to make “Show HN” posts?

How is this different than X company saying we build Y, when they literally paid people to do it for them?

> Isn't this basically admitting you had nothing to do with this project

No. They had nothing to do with the code. The project is not only the code.

> and anyone else could pay an ai to make the same thing easily?

This assumes that the difficult part is typing code, but in reality the most difficult part is to know what to build, specify it, evaluate and iterate on it.

If it were truly as easy as asking an AI once, then everyone would already be shipping successful products daily.

AI just lowers the bar to entry.

CEOs laid people off to replace them with AI, but turns out AI is more expensive and does a worse job.

If I made a blunder of that scale, would I or would I not be put on a PIP?

Musk found a perfect market hack, buy a company at 10x their revenue and sell it in the stock market at 100x

“ai-x”? Elon? You know that you are not allowed to in this forum. It’s only for adults. Go back to Twitter and play with the other kids.

I don't know how you simplify things so much... Do you want 94% tax on stocks? Why stop at stocks? How about property? Your house's net worth?

The social equality shouldn't be based on how much poorer we are in comparison to Musk, but can the poorest of us afford food, shelter, education and healthcare?

Can they afford it by having a decent work/life balance?

Our economic system creates billionaires as a side effect, but is there any other out there that is better and doesn't create billionaires?

At the end of the day, is our average citizen today better off than when they were in 1944?

If you want people to listen that are the questions you should ask and how you should market "socialism". Not "eat the rich" bullshit.

That's different than chanting "Ban Billionaires"

> Safe to say they wouldn't agree here

Maybe because they do not like to blindly follow the "leader", but instead prefer to judge for themselves?

Democrats don't want "bad" immigration as much as you do. No-one wants criminals or people who are unwilling to follow the law.

I am not an immigration expert, but blanket rules and blanket statements are seldom giving good results.

When the right says ban immigrants they sounds as stupid as when the left says ban billionaires.

One of the main reasons I fell in love with computers was determinism. I always felt weird seeing people get upset and curse at the C++ compiler. In my mind, the “computer” will always give you the same output for the same input. Therefore, you must be doing something wrong if you’re fighting the compiler. The answer to your problems is in the source code.

This is something LLMs took away from me. I can’t just look at the source code and figure out why a prompt didn’t produce the expected outcome. I have to go with my gut feeling, and with the little I know about LLMs.

On the other hand, LLMs have enabled me to code prototypes that I would have only dreamed about a few years ago.

Do you want your own fancy terminal emulator? Done. A couple of weekends’ worth of work.

How about your own Linux windowing system, running Firefox and a terminal? Done. A couple more weekends.

You always hated KiCad routing, but never had time to go through the code and change it to meet your requirements? No worries. A day’s work.

Of course, none of this is production quality, but it gets you started very fast. And I’m sure you can turn it into a solid, production-quality product in much less time than it would take without using an LLM.

Thank you. I stand corrected.

I am going to stand more on the “the key is not exploitation but empathy. What do users really want?“

I’m sorry Mr Graham, but that’s not what empathy is.

A casino understands what its “users” want. So does a drug dealer.

Empathy is caring about how your actions affect other people as well, and caring about those effects.

Let’s not encourage the dilution of the word empathy.

"trust me bro"

How can you make such bold and generic claims without some data backing it?

Based on their actions, not their words, my reading is that they just don't have the compute capacity to rollout Mythos or Fable.

At the moment codex/gpt5.5 runs cycles around claude/opus. Fable is stupidly expansive, and Mythos is just a myth.

I don't find any reason to switch back to Anthropic, and they seem to be find with it...

Disillusioned CEOs convincing themselves they have the mandate and right to define morality for everyone else. They get to decide what is right, wrong, permissible, or dangerous from the top, in the name of "safety". This is corporate nannying.

The point isn’t whether the aviation term "autopilot" has a technically defensible meaning, but that "Autopilot" predictably made normal people think "the car drives itself", just like "AI" now makes non-technical CEOs think "AGI employee replacement machine".

You are arguing the dictionary while I’m arguing the predictable, if not very well calculated and purposeful, misunderstanding.

It's our fault for stupidly naming everything AI:

A* search -> AI

Backtracking -> AI

Neural Networks -> AI

Fuzzy Logic -> AI

Genetic Algorithm -> AI

Deep Learning -> AI

Generative "AI" -> AI

Similar to Tesla naming it's driver assistant "auto-pilot" in 2015 and your average Joe thought he would be able to sleep while the car would drive him to work.

The CEO just hear AI and think of AGI. They expect Skynet.

The CEOs that think AI replaces their employees are the same that at the same time don't want to pay the AI costs.

Imagine if Google would roll this out to the search engine. We can't let you search for that because it may be used for "evil"

Can't wait for some real competition so they stop trying to restrict how and why we are using the models.

Imagine if Google would tell you "we can't let you search that as you may use it for harm".

Also 2x the usage of Claude? Your limits are already ridiculously low.

It didn't work out that well for UK the first time. So now they are trying a second time. By voting for the guy that promised he would solve it the first time. This time he really means it.

If you sum the valuations of the company from its individual parts, no one sane would value it more than half a billion. But look at TSLA a P/E still at 370.

Who is the smart and who is the idiot?

The one who invested in it $40 or the one who was saying that even at $40 it was already too expensive?

> all the vast majority of people care about

apparently, as demonstrated by this post, they care about ad-blockers too..

Huh? Brexit materialized in 2020. Labour happened in 2024. Immigration going up between 2020-2024. Going down since 2024. And that’s somehow Labour’s fault?

I don’t buy it. They are getting ready make Farage a prime minister, based on the exact same premise: xenophobia.

You have to think LLM as the genie that tries to trick you.

First make it write a contract (REQ/ARCH/IMPL documents). Skim through those for any mistakes.

Then based on those ask it to write tests. Again skim through them.

Now you have a context full of guardrails. It’s less likely to surprise you.

I moved to BP LG CAP VAL EQ CIT

Personally I move my 401k out of S&P500 to BP Large Cap Value, until the dust settles. Better safe that sorry. If the fears are unfunded and I end up losing some potential growth, the safety is worth it