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The author of this caught my attention, because they were part of the group who put together Forum 2000 backs in the late 90s. (And Forum 1900 when the Y2k bug hit it.) It was an e…

> It is quite clear that AI is massively affecting everything around us. Is it? It is affecting our work, sure. But almost nothing outside of that has changed. In my "real" life, w…

Yes, we have patches of milkweed in the un-mowed areas - it was one of the primary reasons were started letting those areas go wild in the first place.

> you often want to leave a nice pattern Even when it comes to mowing, different people have different goals. I live out in the country, and tall grass means bugs and ticks, so my …

I absolutely don't learn content from AI. LLMs still are at the point where they sound plausible to non-experts, but are just wrong about things you know well. So if you feel you a…

'Great' is subjective. If you care about the same things as he does, a lot of his work is great. If you care about totally different things, none of his work is great. Whatever you…

You build slowly, and make sure that every business transaction is profitable. This is the exact opposite of VC-funded where they build fast and don't care if they are burning thei…

> I invite one & all to try my invention free. Repeatedly. Daily. Ad nauseum. With no other engagement on HN. Yeah, we got the invite, Cary. You can stop posting it every day now.

This is an interesting premise, but doesn't there need to be some level of app owner involvement for a deployment to work? Handling secrets, configuring the environment, etc. If yo…

"guy who will benefit if everyone adopts AI is promoting AI" Don't confuse this for anything more than what it is - a corporate leader delivering his marketing message.

But that is exactly the point. Air conditioning doesn't keep heat out - it burns energy to change the air once the heat has gotten in. There are ways to keep it out in the first pl…

By what measurement? They all surely beat air conditioning in terms of energy usage.

The sewing machine analogy is a good one. The problem I'm seeing is leadership who sees the t-shirt company succeed with sewing machines, so goes out, buys 100 sewing machines, the…

Again, you are self-promoting, not engaging with the community. And now you are abusing the title to try to tell a story. That isn't how HN works. Read: https://news.ycombinator.co…

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.co…

Agreed on the problems, but how will an LLM fix any of that? Even if it does somehow give you the right answer, it cannot perform procedures or prescribe medicine. You still need t…

The fact that things like that get into a production app at all is the bigger point. AI slop doesn't even hit a base level of "it works on my machine". When some piece of an app ju…

> because of the overwhelming demands and random priority changes that expect you work beyond scheduled hours. Bootstrapping your own thing will give you more of that, not less. It…

This is cool, and clearly a popular post, yet also... doesn't the 'Show HN' guidelines specifically exclude lists and reading material? With the massive drop in quality that AI has…

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.co…

If it were commonplace, there wouldn't be a post and discussion about it. Cheap? Arguable - while it didn't cost thousands, it wasn't free. Cheap is in the eye of the beholder. Eff…

There is no single answer to that. The best channel depends entirely on what audience your product is for. FWIW, my most successful products had zero social media marketing. Barely…

From the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html > Can I ask people to upvote my submission? > No. Users should vote for a story because they personally find it intellectual…

It isn't winning or losing. It is just a job that either worked out or did not. And not a waste - even if you all you take away from this is experience and knowledge, that is not a…