"I met a guy who takes on $10,000 debt a day thanks to an unlimited line of credit." What could go wrong?
If it was _truly_ unlimited, that might not be an unreasonable thing to do. Of course, nothing ever is.
"I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI"
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Re: "I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI"
#72Sigh. (Take away pg's weed for today.) That's 100-200 defects/day and unknown vulnerabilities. Building one's own coffin by voluminous tech debt to be repaid later with interest. It's wiser to reuse what already exists and reduce kLoC for maximum delivered utility. And it's also an absolutely dubious claim to assert because there's absolutely no evidence... it's purely a vague, testimonial vibe. (Sorry, pg.)
Re: "I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI"
#73He says that this is not 10,000 lines of bug-filled crap… but, unless you are explicitly verifying and testing the code, how would you know? And, what kind of solution needs 10,000 lines of code added to it daily ? Then again, these could be separate solutions. but, still… this 10,000-lines-of-code-a-day thing seems strange.
Exactly. And I wonder why Paul Graham is jumping on such a statement. Of everything I've read by him so far, this has the least substance.
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Re: "I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI"
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
The design is fundamentally flawed, with queries in close to hundred .js files. Perhaps you marker and sell a few, but it looks insecure and would be hard to refactor.
Are you sure of queries in `.js` files? Or do you mean `.rs` files? grep -r -i --include="*.jsx" --include="*.tsx" "SELECT\|INSERT\|UPDATE\|DELETE" ./adminapp grep -r -i --include="*.jsx" --include="*.tsx" "SELECT\|INSERT\|UPDATE\|DELETE" ./menuapp
Apologies, they are in JSON files. GitHub truncated the last two characters on my mobile.
https://github.com/brainless/letsorder/blob/main/backend/.sq...
Re: "I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI"
#75"I met a founder today who said he ..." I meet people all the time who say the most incredible things. Sometimes, rarely, these things turn out to be true.
Especially in Silicon Valley where there is an increased density of counterproductive/self-defeating crazy people and smooth, Cheshire-cat-like liars who charm almost everyone like cult leaders.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
I suppose VC love it. They want to lower the bar to building products, and make them cheaper. They want a steady line of investable companies with cheap hiring down the line. More generally, it's weird. 10 years ago, the technical aspects would legitimately be seen as a major, perhaps main obstacle to building a product. It's questionable whether that is really gone (can you really, really build a software product no…
> 10 years ago, the technical aspects would legitimately be seen as a major, perhaps main obstacle to building a product. Yeah I think that this was really more the advancement of frameworks, tooling and SaaS software. I see it all the time with non-technical people at work who demo something they built with LLMs and its always Next.js, Supabase and Tailwaind that are actually doing the heavy lifting, with the LLM in…
> Most engineers also knew how to scaffold a SaaS with Rails, Django or Next.js, Stripe etc. without writing much code.
Most web engineers do, certainly. But I work in data, so I didn't. And for me, LLM based tools have made it much, much easier to build relatively simple frontends for my data stuff that make my life a lot easier.
I'm partial to the notion that LLMs don't really raise the ceiling, rather they raise the floor by making web n00bs like me more effective at shipping stuff that can be used by others.
To be fair though, I'm much handier at Django now than I used to be, and am slowly learning JS/browser stuff as a result of these projects.
Re: "I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI"
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Counterculture? Do you think you have to be counterculture not to know who Paul Graham is? What the fuck lol. Ask anyone outside of your little bubble and they won't have a fucking clue. Edit: The above was needlessly confrontational. I don't know you and it was uncalled for. I just fucking despise Silicon Valley.
I honestly never heard of this person before now. I presume some startupper.
Is that the guy with the purple Porsche? Who or what were we talking about again?
Re: "I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI"
#78I met a company that has a huge technical debt.
Unpaid technical debt who will eventually want others to pay it.
Re: "I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI"
#79PG has become a parody of himself.
Maybe it's an inside baseball joke taken out of context that I don't understand.
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#80Will artificial intelligence steal my ideas?
Only if you get the BCI implants or talk in your sleep.