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alexchantavy

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About alexchantavy

I work on a tool called https://cartography.dev and am building a company around it called https://subimage.io

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    > my parents thought it was much more serious than it was How'd it end up? I'm wondering why it ended up actually less serious

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    Comment #48936509

    > PlayStation users are moving to PC en masse PC is even more digital-only than Playstation. No one buys physical games on PC. The only difference is that Valve has been a very goo…

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    Comment #48840960

    Voice really matters in writing. If everyone uses Opus to write without editing, then it all sounds the same regardless of who it came from.

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    Comment #48498771

    I miss that 2010s startup look

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    Comment #48467671

    High, extra, or max?

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    Comment #47864562

    The problem they're trying to solve is to find out what functions of their software are most useful for people and what to invest in, and to make directions on product direction. Y…

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    Comment #47787993

    Great article, thanks for sharing. How much does it run you a month roughly?

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    Comment #47759480

    > You could look at your denigrators and decide: "fuck you" That escalated quickly and I enjoyed this comment a lot

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    Comment #47733975

    I wonder what college freshman-level writing classes are teaching about writing voice and AI. The tell-tale patterns are pretty frustrating to read.

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    Comment #47695764

    The solution to every software problem is another layer of indirection :-)

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    Comment #47678734

    I sure hope so. The way companies are pressured to hit growth numbers, I really hope messaging in general doesn’t all get sloppified along with code lol. I think AI writing makes h…

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    Comment #47456074

    My favorite part is how pg says how kids made him less ambitious, but then: “On the other hand, what kind of wimpy ambition do you have if it won't survive having kids? Do you have…

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    Comment #47450762

    Relevancy is a big point here. HN readers work in tech or are super interested in tech, YC companies do very technical things so hiring posts or launches tend to blend right in for…

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    Comment #47442709

    I think this overstates the “betrayal” angle. A lot of great open source comes out of startups because startups are really good at shipping fast and getting distribution (open sour…

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    Comment #47431294

    Seems like in this new AI world that the word sandbox is used to describe a system that asks "are you sure". I'm used to a different usage of that word: from malware analysis, a sa…

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    Comment #47421264

    Haha FB Cloud sounds so wild to imagine

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    Comment #47342257

    Vrei sa pleci dar numa numa iei numa numa iei numa numa numa iei bring back the old internet

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    Comment #47312425

    I think there are some primitives for agents that need to be built out for better security and being able to reason about them. Agents run on infra, they have network connectivity,…

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    Comment #47272214

    The PvP was so deep too. You would go 4v4 or 8v8 and coordinate a “3, 2, 1 spike” on a target so that all your damage would arrive at the same time regardless of spell windup times…

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    Comment #47271816

    Data point of 1: Having hired juniors as a startup founder, I need more generalists than AI/ML specialists. AI application work right now is basically standard software engineering…