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suprfnk

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    Comment #49195095

    > Even though it's 5 different phases, it's just "3 layers" of programming. I'd sharpen this to: it's 3 layers of software engineering (2, 3, 4), and 1 layer of programming (3).

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    Comment #48751148

    Seems like a good avenue for money laundering if you can't tell where it comes from.

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    Comment #48686359

    It's really not that hard. There's a lot to learn, but it's doable. Start here: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/intro... Or if you're impatient like me you c…

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    Comment #48606871

    > you aren't really expected to talk or listen in this scenario Absolutely bizarre. The cashier is not some sort of robot.

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    Comment #48540579

    Interesting; do you think it’s a net positive for them?

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    Comment #48482370

    Feels like they’re just surfing the name recognition wave at this point.

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    Comment #48460127

    A lot, but these I still use a lot A grocery app tailor made for me and my wife, offline first, seamless instant sync, barcode scanning, GPS/location hints A macOS native high perf…

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    Comment #48313667

    Why should we say stop?

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    Comment #48313474

    Agreed, these are my vibes too. It feels much better to do planning and strategy and architecture etc. with Opus 4.7 than GPT-5.5. GPT just feels like a robot that gets instruction…

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    Comment #48270542

    Oh, so that was actually a Token Per Second report! Wild!

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    Comment #48259115

    I don't think they think. I still use them a lot despite that, because they are very powerful parameterised code generators.

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    Comment #48157403

    > to start with a blank canvas and create something that others will value AI is much faster at taking an idea and creating a working proof of concept than any human I've seen. Not…

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    Comment #48052867

    But then, if an agent picks the best response, how would you know that that is reliable?

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    Comment #47917930

    I also have a small private app that technically could have been a PWA. It’s not a PWA because the UX is just always inferior. Even though we’ve come really far in browser UIs, the…

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    Comment #47845740

    And if not losing, the battery dies in 2-3 years, so you'll have to buy new anyway.

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    Comment #46764631

    No I can confirm this. I am at least an average C# dev, with 16 years of experience. I have built a very nicely responsive real-time syncing iOS app in what amounts to a weekend of…

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    Comment #44544165

    C# pays fine

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    Comment #42686667

    “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfo…

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    Comment #42015541

    A tiny bit of this is already here: our robot vacuum & mop vacuums and mops the living room, kitchen, and dining room every night at 01:00. Coming downstairs in the morning to a co…

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    Comment #40142945

    I agree with the sentiment, but: how do you navigate? Especially to unknown places?

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    Comment #40074264

    @wwilson How do you define the X/Y "distance" of a non-Mario application? I.e. any (distributed or not) system that doesn't have a relatively trivial "higher x/y is better" fitness…

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    Comment #37728953

    Being by far the most convenient way to travel from home to pretty much any random location. Speaking from the Netherlands with a relatively good public transit system.

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    Comment #36663250

    This is a pretty short-sighted take. VR just doesn't offer much of anything currently. Some games work well, but most games are pretty clunky. Office work isn't substantially impro…

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    Ask HN: How did you find your first B2B customer(s) and/or product idea(s)?

    Based on the recent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36431268 I agree with the thread that B2B solutions can be a good area to start a company, but how do you break in? As an …