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Post by rpdillon »

paulryanrogers wrote: post #321
tunesmith wrote: post #165

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Data point: I run a site where users submit a record. There was a request months ago to allow users to edit the record after submitting. I put it off because while it's an established pattern it touches a lot of things and I found it annoying busy work and thus low priority. So then gpt5-codex came out and allowed me to use it in codex cli with my existing member account. I asked it to support edit for that feature a…

Is the hour really comparable to months spent not working on it?

He's referring to the reality that AI helps you pick up and finish tasks that you otherwise would have put off. I see this all day every day with my side projects as well as security and customer escalations that come into my team. It's not that Giant Project X was done six times as fast. It's more like we were able to do six small but consequential bug fixes and security updates while we continued to push on the large feature.

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Post by tracerbulletx »

dakiol wrote: post #107
SirensOfTitan wrote: post #27

My pulse today is just a mediocre rehash of prior conversations I’ve had on the platform. I tried to ask GPT-5 pro the other day to just pick an ambitious project it wanted to work on, and I’d carry out whatever physical world tasks it needed me to, and all it did was just come up with project plans which were rehashes of my prior projects framed as its own. I’m rapidly losing interest in all of these tools. It feels…

> I’m rapidly losing interest in all of these tools Same. It reminds me the 1984 event in which the computer itself famously “spoke” to the audience using its text-to-speech feature. Pretty amazing at that time, but nevertheless quite useless since then

Its not useless, you're just taking it for granted. The whole national emergency system works off text to speech.

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Post by fylo »

sumeno wrote: post #269
domatic1 wrote: post #209

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>> Blockchain is probably the most useless technology ever invented so useless there is almost $3 Trillion of value on blockchains.

No there isn't. These ridiculous numbers are made up by taking the last price a coin sold for and multiplying it by all coins. If I create a shitcoin with 1 trillion coins and then sell one to a friend for $1 I've suddenly created a coin with $1 trillion in "value"

I'm not sure the 3 trillion includes shit coin valuations. Typically volume and liquidity are factored in for any serious analysis. Your assessment of valuation is probably just as true for traditional currencies and stocks. I guess the main difference is regulation.

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Post by djeastm »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #309
lxgr wrote: post #241

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Another way of viewing it would be that LLMs allow software developers to focus their development skills where it actually matters (correctness, architecture etc.), rather than wasting hours catering to the framework or library of the day’s configuration idiosyncrasies. That stuff kills my motivation to solve actual problems like nothing else. Being able to send off an agent to e.g. fix some build script bug so that…

The path forward here is to have better frameworks and libraries, not to rely on a random token generator.

>better frameworks and libraries

I feel like the past few decades of framework churn has shown that we're really never going to agree on what this means

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Post by wilg »

Contrary to all the other posters, apparently, I think it's probably a good idea for OpenAI to iterate on various different ways to interact with AI to see what people like. Obviously in theory having an AI that knows a lot about what you're up to give you a morning briefing is potentially useful, it's in like every sci-fi movie: a voice starts talking to you in the morning about what's going on that day.

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Post by Agraillo »

I just thought that almost all existing LLMs are already able to do this with the following setup: using an alias "@you may speak now," it should create a prompt like this: "Given the following questions {randomly sampled or all questions the user asked before are inserted here}, start a dialog as a friend/coach who knows something about these interests and may encourage them toward something new or enlightening."

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Post by cadamsdotcom »

sequoia wrote: post #157

Here's a free product enhancement for OpenAI if they're not already doing this: A todo app that reminds you of stuff. say "here's the stuff I need to do, dishes, clean cat litter fold laundry and put it away, move stuff to dryer then fold that when it's done etc." then it asks about how long these things take or gives you estimates. Then (here's the feature) it checks in with you at intervals: "hey it's been 30 minut…

Humbly I suggest vibecoding this just for yourself. Not building a product - just a simple tool to meet your own needs.

That’s AI: permissionless tool building. It means never needing someone to like your idea enough or build it how they think you’ll use it. You just build it yourself and iterate it.

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Post by ainch »

reactordev wrote: post #314

Cracks are emerging. Having to remind users of your relevancy with daily meditations is the first sign that you need your engagement numbers up desperately.

Their recent paper suggests the active user base is continuing to grow consistently with consistent/growing usage based on how long they've been using the app.

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/a253471f-8260-40c6-a2cc-aa93fe9f1...

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Post by tbossanova »

ycombigators wrote: post #318
miyoji wrote: post #133

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You obviously have never worked a company that spends time arguing about the "definition of done". It's one of the most subjective topics I know about.

Sounds like a company is not adequately defining what the deliverables are. Task: Walk to the shops & buy some milk. Deliverables: 1. Video of walking to the shops (including capturing the newspaper for that day at the local shop) 2. Reciept from local store for milk. 3. Physical bottle of Milk.

Cool, I went to the store and bought a 50ml bottle of probiotic coconut milk. Task done?
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