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andyish

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    Comment #48856953

    Assist me - yes Make the decision - no Autonomously handle my finance - hell no Sometimes feels like its just generating really specific and personalised articles/blogPosts for me …

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    Comment #48684749

    That's the story of almost every product ever. If you're selling a product, the promotional material has to be on point and amazing just to hook people in.

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    Comment #48683983

    It doesn't matter what you're doing, there's always a trade off to taking a shortcut and rarely does the price not need paying. We're seeing lots of code being ~written~ generated,…

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    Comment #46822513

    I've 'vibe coded' some internal tooling apps and it feels like i've joined a new company and been given a legacy codebase to work on, despite it being a week old. I just assume all…

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    Comment #46765133

    We’ve managed to put quite a dent in the feature backlog we had for our admin tooling. We knew what features we wanted, they didn’t require marketing or comms but did require time …

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    Comment #46680187

    I'm so torn with verification on social media. But i'm surprised companies whose main source of revenue is ads and original content aren't putting something akin to 'verified human…

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    Comment #45874934

    It's not just their flagship products. It extends to nearly _everything_ they release. I have a relatively small workforce and office management platform. When MS Places was announ…

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    Comment #45591780

    Use it to get a primer in a new area If i'm debugging i'll feed it what i know and see what it gives me. If nothing else gives me some ideas to get started. Generate test data I've…

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    Comment #45165697

    Total over saturation of that end of the market, and given it seems CompSci and SoftEng degrees are still in vogue it seems the trend will continue. Coupled with companies cutting …

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    Comment #44746348

    the office culture / remote workers don't collaborate always makes me laugh. It reminds me of a time when I worked in an office and a PR spent over a week waiting to be reviewed be…

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    Comment #43993050

    There are so many directions it could go in. I imagine we'll be revisiting trends from the past - LLM generated apps will be everywhere and behind the curtain, they'll be a lot lik…

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    Comment #43170631

    Very broadly speaking, I think it's going to have the same impact as search engines had where productivity increases but understanding decreases. I very much doubt we're going to s…

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    Comment #43127355

    If you could filter out everything except the automated 'new job' and 'new skill' posts and mix in some company press releases it would be so much better.

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    Comment #43127348

    Slight delay, but yeah. what sky2224 said. For some time Twitter seems to have been the defacto real time announcement tool for companies. Now Twitter has been made private seems r…

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    Comment #43126176

    You've worked at and founded startups and so you must have done sales and marketing. This is no different, you're just pitching yourself. Understand who your audience is and what t…

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    Comment #43116471

    Something along the lines of LinkedIn and the company announcement part of twitter. I, and im sure many others, can do without the stream of BS that comes out of LinkedIn. But as f…

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    Ask HN: Show me a SaaS tool generated by AI

    Having read another post this morning and spoke about it with a colleague. Can anyone share a SaaS tool that's been generated by AI? It's got to functionally do something and not j…

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    Comment #43113648

    You've laid out the dream for a lot of developers around the world. Agency life is probably 80% sales and 20% delivery. The agency pattern you've mentioned is common because it con…

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    Comment #43113375

    All systems should have an upper limit harder to them, it's not that hard to implement and it's just an ultimate safeguard. In the backend, limit image size to say 50mb, the number…

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    Comment #43113315

    I think this is the way forward, their answer wouldn't turn an offer into a rejection but it would strengthen their offer. I must admit I also ask this question but have never been…

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    Comment #43113263

    This aligns with my own experience, though it seems to be one extreme or the other. Either the interviewer is fascinated and wants to know how it was done (rather than anything to …

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    Ask HN: When interviewing candidates do you ask them about their side projects?

    I was speaking with a friend a few weeks ago and they said that they've been warned off asking candidates about their side projects. I can understand not asking it for more senior …

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    Comment #43087898

    - if you're in a relationship and you haven't already, speak to your partner about kids. I've met too many people who left it too late. - plan for your retirement, even if it's a l…

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    Comment #43087808

    You're more likely to release a small idea than a big idea which means a small idea is more likely to make money than a big idea. Small ideas will need less maintenance and constan…

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    Comment #42964847

    If their target demo are families it's not a stretch to how two households would share the subscription and so the cost then with the price increase and their recently implement si…