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allanmacgregor

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About allanmacgregor

20 years turning technical bets into shipped products. CTO @ LiORA, building Bloccs. Ex-CTPO @ Humi ($140M+ CAD exit). I write http://thepragmaticcto.com

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    Comment #49241709

    This is amazing I been wanting something like for a long time. I'm also curious whats up with the no VC logo at the bottom of the page?

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    Comment #49241690

    I'm testing a bunch of Saas ideas, all micro or smaller. I got to launch the first one last week; a feedback collection widget and board so users can submit feedback anonymously. I…

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    Comment #49241657

    "The Atmosphere Is Moving Faster Than Anything Evolved to Track It" Yup AI Slop

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    Comment #48959247

    Looks pretty good, I like that they are highlighting the potential uses for elixir.

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    Comment #48956933

    Stopped reading immediatly ...." Linus Torvalds running Linux like the privileged man that he is and entirely missing the central points of the arguments made by people who don’t e…

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    Comment #48905276

    Yes, I'm exploring something similar with bloccs.io

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    Comment #48798492

    > The easy story, and the fact that kills it Claude fingerprints are becoming easier to detect

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    Comment #48671910

    Human writting will come at a premium. I don't think LLM-generated prose goes away at all; the scary part is that I'm starting to catch people adopt the same tropes and language pa…

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    Comment #48671847

    AI is just a tool, and, as always, people will use it incorrectly and lazily. Are we forgetting the good old days of Copy/Paste from Stack Overflow? LLMs just made it more convenie…

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    Comment #48671798

    How is this in the frontpage and with 77 points?!

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    Comment #48671790

    Are going to pretend this wasn't vibecoded?

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    Comment #47847322

    > Software is quietly becoming a probabilistic system, and almost no one is saying it out loud. AI generated or at least heavily edited would be my guess. Although, I'm with you at…

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    Comment #47744615

    Maybe, but no one worth listening to uses bluesky

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    Comment #47614158

    [flagged]

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    Comment #47614078

    Lobste.rs is against AI in a pretty fanatical way and most posts have little to no discussion, also good luck accessing them if you use Brave Browser

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    Comment #47613994

    > LLM-generated projects, articles, blogs are low-effort products lacking authenticity. I think this is mostly true but not completely true, LLMs are a tool and right now we are le…

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    Comment #47542284

    Funny I got the same impression.

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    Comment #47425313

    I think you might have made a mistake on the post? Is not linking you to the actual site or product

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    Comment #47321110

    You are absolutely right! Here is a shorter version of the article (hint: is still the same lenght and has all the tells) .... But seriously, is one thing on blogpost and articles …

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    Comment #47320953

    You confused AWS with Amazon distribution and warehouses, and you are doubling down ? Likely or not, much of the world's infrastructure runs on or through AWS data centers. Attacks…

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    Comment #47261659

    This has to be a joke right?

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    Comment #47216894

    https://status.claude.com/

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    Comment #47039981

    My take on the real reason behind the OpenClaw acquisition: OpenClaw isn't a chatbot; it's a 24/7 autonomous system that connects to your email, calendar, messaging platforms, and …