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or basically anybody who has an opinion about vibecoding but isn't actually a programmer The number of times I've heard "SaaS is dead" irl and flustered responses when I asked "wha…

Because a non-crap product wouldn't be worth $26B. What you perceive as crappiness is the sauce that keeps you coming back.

Nuclear war is hardly an existential risk. An all-out global nuclear war (all nuclear nations landing 10% of their warheads in populated areas) would be a disruption comparable to …

Exactly, this is all a symptom of underinvestment in grid capacity, and datacenter companies having to cobble together whatever electricity source they could get their hands on at …

"Winner-takes-all" in the software context is never meant literally. It's more like, an oligarchy of a few winners will emerge out of hundreds of contenders. It's not like restaura…

Most vertical software is just horizontal software glued together

Since software is still a winner-takes-all market, the mass-production property of software doesn't really matter. In such markets, what you produce is either worth nothing or wort…

Yes

How is this different from hosting infra or just SaaS in general? TFA contends that there is some fundamental shift in the economics of software, but it doesn't look to be very dif…

>Users began expecting something fundamentally different from software: not just tools that store and retrieve, but products that reason, generate, and respond. Not really. >Every …

And what about the terrorism that exists today?

Many cancers are "cured" in the sense that they're detectable and treatable. My grandmother lived 35 years longer than she would have by detecting breast cancer early and getting a…

This will remove a non-insignificant chunk of Tor network capacity. Many of those OCI free-tier instances were set and forget Tor relay nodes, especially since they're de facto unm…

Nukes don't "destroy the planet", they're just really powerful bombs. Nuclear munitions have been detonated 2058 times already. https://www.atomicarchive.com/almanac/test-sites/tes…

And the best part is, I don't spend more than $20 a month on LLMs. Going manual and constantly branching keeps the contexts super lean.

Also, the correct way to LLM is to constantly trial-and-error in new/branched contexts. Remember the LLM is not a human employee. You don't have to say "yes and" to whatever crap t…

>At Ashby, your compensation is market-rate indexed to your level of performance. FYI, "market rate" refers to the highest compensation that someone would be willing to offer a per…

>We've seen plenty of examples of apps successfully vibe coded by non technical people, including apps making real revenue. Have we? Or is this just something that people say now, …

Actually, you are right. We are working with different definitions of quality of life. The QoL improvement from LLM is somewhere in the ballpark of going from dumb phones to smart …

>In fact the only way I know about their existence is through watching news reports of what happened in Canada in 1985. Since you know about it, the label doesn't apply to you, reg…

>Does one need to know a variety of dishes from each of the 193 UN-recognized states' cuisines to not be uncultured? No, but you should know the top 5 dishes of the 10-15 most popu…

1. Jamaican cuisine is fairly popular globally. 2. Patties are popular within Jamaican cuisine. It's not something very niche. I think my comment was perfectly fair. It's like not …