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“Netflix isn’t a real company, they are nothing more than shills for camera-workers who film all of the content upstream.”
Such a lame take. I’d be more interested if someone actually took a minute to think about the competitive landscape more seriously than this.
Imagine you're studying, for example math, and you have to learn calculus, and you're living in a dormitory with a colleague, who's great at integration calculus, and every time you get another integration function puzzle to solve, this guy (or gal) pops up and says "it's 2*e^2/x+C dx", "it's e^2+C dx", "it's sin(x)/cos(x)+C dx" after 5 milliseconds, even before you fully comprehend the function... I have a question…
Do you also oppose calculators for the same reason?
Everyone is fighting for their view of the world right now and for those of us who do not have any investment in the success of one of the models, it feels like pure speculation at this point. I don't think there's a human on this planet who can even predict the state of the industry in 3 years. In my entire time in the industry, I have always felt like I had a good line of sight three years away. Even when the iphon…
The most important thing to do is play and build small things with all of them as they take turns being in the lead or running the fastest sideways in this horse race.
What's new to someone might be old to most etc. What's critical to the individual is knowing what's new to them vs what they know is out there.
I am not sure after 2 years of this if there will be a single clearcut winner, as much as they will all contribute best practices to something more emergent.
Webapps when they first began also didn't have much structure, frameworks, etc, and it evolved from just building a lot, and trying to build better.
Everyone is fighting for their view of the world right now and for those of us who do not have any investment in the success of one of the models, it feels like pure speculation at this point. I don't think there's a human on this planet who can even predict the state of the industry in 3 years. In my entire time in the industry, I have always felt like I had a good line of sight three years away. Even when the iphon…
It’s exciting, isn’t it? I’ve been programming for a quarter century now and this is the first time in 20 years that the future of tech is exciting again and the world is software’s oyster. Can’t wait for AI 2.0 and ads :(
Everyone is fighting for their view of the world right now and for those of us who do not have any investment in the success of one of the models, it feels like pure speculation at this point. I don't think there's a human on this planet who can even predict the state of the industry in 3 years. In my entire time in the industry, I have always felt like I had a good line of sight three years away. Even when the iphon…
It’s exciting, isn’t it? I’ve been programming for a quarter century now and this is the first time in 20 years that the future of tech is exciting again and the world is software’s oyster. Can’t wait for AI 2.0 and ads :(
Ha this is so true. All the major LLMs have a surprisingly ad free experience right now. Likely because they’re all aggressively competing for customers. But as soon as one of them realises the money that can be made from ads and how that will pay for daily operation costs after the investors give up investing, then the game is up
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The iPhone opened up a whole new world of opportunities which were very clear from the start. No one, except Steve Ballmer, would describe it as a potential fad or question how good it can actually get before Apple goes bankrupt from all the investment into this new tech. I like this new stuff we get now, but the iPhone felt like a clear win with no downsides of a potential societal collapse.
Mobile phone addiction is our generation's smoking. We just don't realize it yet.
Pretty sure it's known. But, just like smoking, it's tolerated. Can't make the line go down.
[0] https://aleyan.com/blog/2025-llm-assistant-census/ [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44863713
Everyone is fighting for their view of the world right now and for those of us who do not have any investment in the success of one of the models, it feels like pure speculation at this point. I don't think there's a human on this planet who can even predict the state of the industry in 3 years. In my entire time in the industry, I have always felt like I had a good line of sight three years away. Even when the iphon…
You saw this thing and knew the future had changed.
It's very easy to forget Android just shamelessly ripped it off wholesale. The early version of Android looked nothing like the complete iPhone clone they ended up with.
And I have an android phone right now. But it only exists because of the revolutionary iPhone.
Credit where credit's due.
And right now AI feels like just before the iPhone. Like then we had touch screens, and we had new battery tech and we had mini-apps on the internet. And we had iPods showing small form factor MP3 players. But they didn't work together coherently.
And then the iPhone came along.
Like we're waiting for the iPhone of AI, to bring the tech together to an actually usable state.
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It’s exciting, isn’t it? I’ve been programming for a quarter century now and this is the first time in 20 years that the future of tech is exciting again and the world is software’s oyster. Can’t wait for AI 2.0 and ads :(
> and ads Ha this is so true. All the major LLMs have a surprisingly ad free experience right now. Likely because they’re all aggressively competing for customers. But as soon as one of them realises the money that can be made from ads and how that will pay for daily operation costs after the investors give up investing, then the game is up