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Agreed. That's why this is different and so powerful. People will solve their own problems that they are experts in. The downside is that they don't know what they don't know. Real…

Presumably, it would be useful and interesting to them? I'm not really talking about producing apps for an app store. In that case, I think you are right. More for individual or or…

Sorry if I wasn't clear. I'm talking about the practioner side rather than the consumer side where the capabilities and costs are high.

Or Any source software eats the world.

The sword has two edges for sure. And if you're not a programmer, only one edge matters. But if you are...

With the advent of AI, the marginal cost of software is trending towards zero. Software is no longer a scarce resource. Not a new idea at all, but the implications hit me hard as I…

That's so sad to hear. I only met him once about acquiring my High Scalability blog. That didn't happen, but it was obvious he was one of those wise people who was both kind and ve…

I have the same pair of glasses. My first paid programming work was dBASE II and later FoxPro. I don't look back on MySQL + Perl with the same affection. You could really get stuff…

The thing is, it's real. Or it was for the golden era of cheap tokens. When tokens get expensive, we'll see how that changes things. With AI, you can think in terms of features rat…

I've always sucked at marketing. For HN, I decided to be honest because that's the kind of people who read HN. And it really does do a lot. That's not hype. It's full-featured as I…

According to app store optimization theory, that means you were never a potential customer anyway. If that's true or not, who knows? None of my other apps have ever had a hard payw…

You got the gist of it. Then it just kind of took off. The TLDR: Where it started: me standing in front of a long aisle of dog food bags at Costco, racking my memory for which kind…

I wonder, as LLMs gain persistent state and self-modify their weights through repeated interaction, are those weights analogous to neurons that exhibit long-term potentiation? Are …

AI is the new go-to intention implementation method and will largely subsume all the others.

It was a magical machine. I remember programming a chess game in Pascal, and all the API calls were like a hundred characters long.

While having to respond to TikTok is understandable, what's their point of differentiation? It's hard to tell the difference between the two now. Maybe that's a good thing for inst…

I use a normal credit card that I use everyday and they canceled my account for no reason that I can see at all. No reason. No appeal. And they keep sending me email to create ads!…

The deeper problem is modeling goal setting. We know people will hurt themselves and to punish others and economics is stuck at thinking people only wish to maximize value. People …

Zone 2 training repairs mitochondrial disfunction and burns fat. An explainer here: https://maxapps.info/zone2training.html

This implication a 66 year old with decades of successful driving experience is likely to crash doesn't track. https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/overview/age-of-dr... : dri…

electron field?