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edfletcher_t137

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    > 7. How does gitdot make money? > We don't. This cannot last forever. What's the plan when it runs out?

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    Comment #48421122

    Agentic development. From "chat bot" to bonafide, capable developer. "Oh, shit!"

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    Comment #48351676

    yep, this has been obvious to a lot of people for awhile. especially after Cherny posted about exactly this in a massively-popular thread... four months ago: https://x.com/bcherny/…

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    Comment #48184738

    Not just the domain: it's an agentic stack! In other words, I could use their product to create the exact type of PRs they're lamenting here.

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    Comment #47735536

    This is their referenced 2013 paper on the subject: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258423577_Data_Stor... Clearly they have been working on this for over a decade.

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    Comment #47650902

    > Of all the ways I used AI, research had by far the highest ratio of value delivered to time spent. Seconded!

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    Comment #46610912

    Came here to comment on this line: it completely changes the tone of the article. It's fairly reasonable and neutral until we get here, upon which the antagonism is jarringly clear…

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    Comment #46506030

    > But for now, I want to emphasize a broader point: I’m hoping 2026 will be the year we stop caring about what people believe AI might do, and instead start reacting to its real, p…

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    Comment #46377632

    Working with Andrew Lee on vp.net, who maliciously imploded Freenode some years ago. Birds of a feather...

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    Comment #46169436

    > YouTube I believe has more viewing hours than Netflix. Yep by a significant margin in fact https://www.nielsen.com/news-center/2025/streaming-reaches-h...

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    Comment #46169430

    > Does HBO+Netflix have a 25% share of the streaming market? I've no idea, but possibly. No, not even close. According to Nielsen from this year, Netflix has only 7.5% of total TV …

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    Comment #46060071

    Those folks who are trying these tools are going to make it through this period. If you're not yet, you won't. Period, end of story. Those hackers you're so lamenting are gonna mak…

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    Comment #45933484

    Lack of Claude is a glaring oversight given how popular it is as an agentic coding model...

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    > If there is AI slop in your codebase it is only because you put it there. Nailed it, came here to say this. If anything, this entire post should just be titled "AI PEBKAC". Don't…

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    Comment #45309083

    What The Actual Fuck

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    Comment #45078172

    "Amusement Park" has to be one of the worst headline choices here. So these people are amused by building killing machines? They are amused that their work is directly related to d…