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Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

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The "knowledge base" at the bottom is 100% slop. Why? Why inflict this on people?

Yeah, you're right — that part is pretty rough. I wanted to help people actually understand compound interest (it's kind of life-changing once it clicks), but I got lazy and let AI do it without proper editing. Defeats the whole point. I'll figure out a better way. Thanks for calling it out.

I think the words are "you're absolutely right".

Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, you're right — that part is pretty rough. I wanted to help people actually understand compound interest (it's kind of life-changing once it clicks), but I got lazy and let AI do it without proper editing. Defeats the whole point. I'll figure out a better way. Thanks for calling it out.

I think the words are "you're absolutely right".

You're absolutely right too.

Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

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post #9
post #8

The "knowledge base" at the bottom is 100% slop. Why? Why inflict this on people?

Just another AI generated website with 5000 calculators thrown together that looks like every other single one. From a brand new account with a post that looks like it was also written from ChatGPT. Somehow getting enough votes to show up on my homepage. Things are definitely changing around HN compared to when it first started.

Fair call — it did kind of explode from one calculator to 60+ I’m a real person (long-time lurker, finally posting), but I get why it looks sus. Things are changing fast, and I’m just happy to be part of the messy early wave. Thanks for the honesty.

Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

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post #9
post #8

The "knowledge base" at the bottom is 100% slop. Why? Why inflict this on people?

Just another AI generated website with 5000 calculators thrown together that looks like every other single one. From a brand new account with a post that looks like it was also written from ChatGPT. Somehow getting enough votes to show up on my homepage. Things are definitely changing around HN compared to when it first started.

Twitter/X incentivizes you to get engagements because with a blue checkmark you get paid for it, so people shill aggressively, post idiotic comments on purpose trying to ragebait you. It's like LinkedIn in for entrepreneurs. Reddit or it's power hungry moderators (shadow)bans people often. The amount of popular websites that people can shill their trash is dwindling, so it gets worse here as a result I assume too.

Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

#17

Nice project! One small suggestion, adding a search or category filter would help simplify navigation given the number of calculators available.

Thanks! Honestly I've been feeling that too — finding stuff is getting annoying even for me. Search is coming soon. Good call.

Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

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post #13

Congrats! I never stopped coding, but AI makes it way more productive and fun for sure. $100 seems like a lot. I guess if you think about it compared to dev salaries, it's nothing. But for $10 per month copilot you can get some pretty great results too.

$100 did feel steep at first. I tried other models but Opus 4 with extended thinking just hits different — it actually gets what I'm trying to do and the code often works first try. Hard to go back after that.

Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

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Same here. I’m an AI professor, but every time I wanted to try out an idea in my very limited time, I’d spend it all setting things up rather than focusing on the research. It has enabled me to do my own research again rather than relying solely on PhD students. I’ve been able to unblock my students and pursue my own projects, whereas before there were not enough hours in the day.

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