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Surprisingly pragmatic and info packed article.. Kudos to databricks, I also find it interesting that such different companies (Stripe, Ramp, Databricks) are all building the exact…

yep, that's what i qualify as "not an advantage". It's totally fine if thats what your company is like, but the labs have an unfair advantage.

This was often true when writing code manually to be fair. You could get to "something that works" rather fast but it took a long time to 1) evaluate other options (maybe before, m…

We ran some tests at mocha (we have a coding agent with our own harness to build web apps, with a lot of tools and medium length tasks (3min to 10min). Our notes: Sonnet 4.6 feels …

I think Karpathy[1] summarized why he thinks this is the case quite well (as described he was himself hyping it up a bit much, but there are some foundational reasons why it's a ve…

We're building an AI powered app builder. We use elixir, phoenix and of course OBAN. It feels like such a super power. What you're describing is particularly important in the era o…

Little to no evidence was presented. This is vibe argumenting.

The effort described in the article is maybe a couple hours of work. I understand the "enjoy doing anyway" part and it resonates, but not using AI is simply less productive.

i knew simon would be top comment. it's not an empirical law

I'm building an app builder (getmocha.com) and one of my favorite use cases I have seen is "small private social network": some people are building custom, tailored social networks…

Congrats on the launch, spreadsheets are getting lots of AI upgrades these days, exciting! If i were to try this out with some somewhat sensitive company data, what is the security…

Elixir and Phoenix are very underrated. It combines the "opinionated" aspects of ruby and rails and the power of erlang. The BEAM is like no other runtime and is incredibly fun to …

I literally cannot read this article because of a paywall. The title is deeply ironic.

yes same category

disclaimer: building a competitor ( https://getmocha.com ) Lovable and bolt took a massive shortcut: they outsourced the backend to a third party (supabase). This makes their ceili…

Isn't creativity always impressive if done well? Code is a medium, painting is a medium, piano is a medium, and prompting is a medium. This sounds a little bitter.

This was super interesting. Unsurprisingly, I see he didn't have much to say about faceit and esea. I think CSGO anti-cheats are a league above the rest (I'm not sure why, maybe be…

I promise you they're negative on unit economics. In addition to what you're saying: - hosting costs - live sandboxes costs They're betting on LLM costs going way down and VC funde…

This analysis is very much on point. I'm building a product in this space ( https://getmocha.com ), and can share a few more insider insights: - The churn from companies like lovab…

Even if what you said was true, it will be false within months or years. What then? This is the whole premise of the article. Just extrapolate and imagine that it can think and wri…