Does the "iv" in your name stand for "implied volatility" by chance? : - )
Ha, you got me!
Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back
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Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back
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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.
What are you implying?. He would have had to hire a good developer at least for a full month salary to build something like this. And if you are thinking enterprise, it would take 2-3 developers, 2 analysts, 2 testers, 1 lead and 1 manager 2-3 months to push something like this. (Otherwise why would lead banks spent billions and billions for IT development every year? What tangible difference you see in their website…
> (Otherwise why would lead banks spent billions and billions for IT development every year? What tangible difference you see in their website/services?)
Well, I don't think all those people are spending their time making simple calculators.
Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back
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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.
people are hurt because something which defined them as a person can now be done by a machine; don't let them dissuade you
I would add to this: skills mean nothing if you don’t use them.
OP made a site with a bunch of calculators. Their critics didn’t make that!
Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
people are hurt because something which defined them as a person can now be done by a machine; don't let them dissuade you
People are hurt when people turn person-to-person communication into person-to-machine communication. It's dismissive of their use of genuine wall-clock time trying to engage with you.
Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back
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Please don't be hostile to newcomers. That's a way to destroy this place. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How do we know if newcomers are real? I thing bigDinosaur is reacting to the fact that OP’s entire post and replies appear LLM generated.
Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back
#36It’s more like AI provides the development team, and you are the key user and product manager that comes with all the requirements and domain knowledge, the lead architect reviewing the architecture, and the lead UXer reviewing the UX.
Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back
#37The "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.
So true. I sometimes wonder how many ai bots there really are. I often see the telltale signs but often miss.
Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> Thanks for the honesty.
It's impossible to tell if this is AI or not. Another version of Poe's law. The only thing to do is assume everything is AI, just like you must assume all posts have ulterior (generalluy profit-driven) motives, all posters have a conflict of interest, etc.
Maybe the only thing to do is stop trying to understand posters' motivations, stop reading things charitably, stop responding, just look for things that are interesting (and be sure to check sources).
Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back
#39Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
people are hurt because something which defined them as a person can now be done by a machine; don't let them dissuade you
I would add to this: skills mean nothing if you don’t use them. OP made a site with a bunch of calculators. Their critics didn’t make that!
We're busy building real software, not toys. I routinely write all kinds of calculators in my game development, in addition to having 100x more complex code to contend with. This task is as trivial as it gets in coding, considering computers were literally made to calculate and calculation functions are part of standard libraries. OP definitely didn't use Claude to implement math functions from scratch, they just did the basic copy-and-paste work of tying it to a web interface on a godawful JS framework stack which is already designed for children to make frontends with at the cost of extreme bloat and terrible performance. Meanwhile I actually did have to write my own math library, since I use fixed-point math in my game engine for cross-CPU determinism rather than getting to follow the easy path of floating-point math.
It's cool that ChatGPT can stitch these toys together for people who aren't programmers, but 99% of software engineers aren't working on toys in the first place, so we're hardly threatened by this. I guess people who aren't software engineers don't realise that merely making a trivially basic website is not what software engineering is.