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Comment #49202224
ChatGPT was the first place to really do it to this extent
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Comment #49186712
> The primary goal of a start up is to grow as quickly as possible which is rarely benefits the public. Why is that so? Fast growth, when achieved honestly, is a result of solving …
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Comment #49148400
That was very fun, thanks for the link
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Comment #49122094
The truth is that using AI well is a skill much like anything else. There's no one single way to use it much like there's no one single way to write a program that serves hackernew…
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Comment #48876394
uhhhh
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Comment #48875556
> The article doesn't touch much on why modern decor emerged as it did The theory I subscribe to is a few fold: 1) People like to buy "generic" homes that are easier to renovate/pe…
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Comment #48779039
Both spectrums are hard. Solving last mile is really really hard, but if you do that's a huge moat (aka Amazon). If you avoid last mile, you best deliver value in some other way, w…
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Comment #48589440
I don't think coding is solved in the way they claim, but certainly solved in some way for many people. I don't write code by hand anymore, everything is through claude/codex/pi. S…
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Comment #48575419
> there are plenty of places where machine learning algorithms make sense, but customer service is not one of them. I don't care about human vs AI, I just want my issue resolved. W…
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Comment #48559435
I have my qualms with Anthropic/Claude but they've also had to scale unfathomably fast and that is just hard to do regardless.
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Comment #48540116
> he is emphasizing that they used their own words against them. everyone knows the security threat is a pretext. the message is that he is smart and they are stupid and he won, wh…
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Comment #48530556
One trick is to ask them that question first to gauge their perspective on it first
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Comment #48526731
> This is obviously political and the entire narrative is fabrication. I agree with this > David Sacks is publicly gloating about it: https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/20658530076195…
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Comment #48485659
That's where competition and creative destruction comes to play.
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Comment #48425319
That's not the argument. No one is asking users to be grateful for OSS. They just want users to not be dicks to the maintainer. Would you continue volunteering if the beneficiaries…
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Comment #48425306
You can criticize all you want, but he can also just stop maintaining it if he gets too annoyed by the criticism. Maybe that's a better outcome for you, idk.
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Comment #48390734
Yes but you can't get away from a 5 year timeline, and then you have to project how many other fabs will be opening
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Comment #48383699
A fab for high end memory costs $20B and 5 years to build. It will happen, but yeah it takes time and money
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Comment #48372272
> Coding is a pretty small slice of the markets in play. I don't think that's true, mostly in that a lot of usecases are solved via coding models + a harness. > Google's models are…
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Comment #48363390
> A human being who states X (implying they know it to be true) will behave in a way that is consistent with X being true. That is literally not true and why we talk about "stated …
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Comment #48363287
Those are 2 different things so yeah I naturally would have a different reaction.
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Comment #48363111
This makes no sense. Google is beholden to its own shareholders, not the markets at large. In any case, it's well known that devs in Google have liked anthropic/openai models for c…
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Comment #48351975
Whatever LLMs are or are not, they've completely changed what I do for work. 9 months ago I was coding, today I prompt. Every line of code I commit is generated by LLMs. If you wan…
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Comment #48341829
In what way? I didn't attack his character like he did to the blog author.
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Comment #48336475
As a recent interviewee, I much more prefer work samples. Less stressful, more in my control and less bound to whether I got lucky and clicked with the problem in a live interview.…