deadbabe

Google search still happens, it’s just your agent doing it.

Should have done it in C++ with SDL3.

Given all the automation you do, it sounds like you don't really manage people either.

It really feels to me like this OpenClaw type stuff is the new "I built a static site generator!" type blogs that just post a few articles about how they built their generator.

Good news about hell: it doesn't exist. Bad news: Humans can pretty much create whatever they can imagine.

Now that Stack Overflow is mostly dead, what's the experience of asking a question there? Will you still get berated or are people chilled out?

I still don't understand what these freaks are doing running these agents 24/7 on machines. What are they doing? Managing a todo list? You mean crossing items off as you complete them? Research tasks? To do what?

Never really get good answers. There is no killer app. Just bikeshedding.

And then when it’s done you just rip out that first page?

No it isn’t. If you don’t care about stuff like security or user friendliness you can do most of what you want through simple shell scripts probably.

AI as helper is basically a better google search, which is not much different than what we did before AI (copy paste from stack overflow)

I hope they picked up dinosaurs and bred them. And maybe bring them back home! Even though our atmosphere is no longer oxygen dense enough.

No matter how fascinating, some will be underwhelmed by images of cities on exoplanets.

Sometimes you can fix this by swapping one tracks music video with another, and letting the syncopation happen naturally.

Odd, it was the opposite for me. Last year, no burnout. But then agents got good and everyone wanted more code more features faster and faster. I got burnt to a crisp. Now? I don’t give a fuck. Ok people want to push tons of code straight to prod? Go ahead, looks good to me… no need to review it if it’s with the latest frontier models right?

What would be cool would be neon signs using this font, where the front tubes show the decoy message, but then there’s hidden rear tubes that shine light on the wall in a different color showing the actual message.

Something like the DAY DREAM/PAY BILLS would be pretty artistic!

Developers are cashing in on the productivity gains. Meaning instead of using the increased productivity to do more work, they just become lazier or do fun irrelevant side projects instead, where as before there was just not much time for such things. I have definitely procrastinated on work simply because I know I can swoop in with an LLM and do it all in 15 minutes, whereas before I would have spent a few hours.

This is how LLMs can both result in greater productivity yet still not appear to yield much more benefit than the pre-LLM era.

And there is no benefit to the developer for doing the work first then just sitting idle. That’s how you get people putting more things on your plate.

Yup. Capitalism is a dark forest now. If you try to do anything really interesting, big players will take you out fast and take over the market.

Any business that relies on loudly marketing itself to wide audiences is at risk.

The only viable business path now is niche domains with limited visibility, B2B sales. No social media presence, no website, just quiet business deals being done in exchange for goods or services that is all under the radar of megacorps. In tech this is now virtually impossible as all useful services that could be provided have already been provided in some form by now.

There are no low or mid hanging fruit, everything is now very high up.

I would rather pay money.

Anywhere you could take this to have it professionally done? I like the idea but would never do it myself.

IMO we are in the era of “Final Companies” and the appeal of being a founder these days just isn’t great compared to the entrepreneurial boom of the 2010s and 2000s. The risk to reward ratio has never been worse.

The reason people want an 'App' instead of a website is purely marketing related. Apps are sexy and native, and have better distribution. Websites are old, crappy things where you can't always control exactly what the user is going to see very well, and sharing a slick URL isn't always easy.

In a few months

The question is whether we're willing to pay attention and act before the changes become too large, too rapid and too interconnected for us to manage.

Stopped asking this question a long time ago.

It’s over.

This makes sense if AI articles are bad or low quality, but what if one day, the AI generated content is actually good? As good or even better than what any human creates?

Is it purely just a "human supremacist" desire that fuels the motivation to ban or block such articles?

Exactly, this is the true problem with the world today: too much code.

The state change is the value.

it's also plausible that with an ability to generate as much code as we want with little effort, we will quickly discover how much code we actually need, and then plateau at that point.

Personally, I think we've already reached that point.

Even at YC, I have not really seen any startup doing anything interesting where their main value prop is enabled by new proprietary code that does stuff no one else can already do.

Do you want to describe what the exception is to what you said then?

What are you gonna make? Yet another CRUD app? An API subscription? A game? A mobile app?

We’ve created software for virtually every place we can put software. There’s nothing new.

It’s like bridges. We’ve seen all the ways bridges can be built by now. There’s nothing new left to discover.

assembly is compiled deterministically so you don't really need to look at it, LLMs though can write a variety of things at random based on the prompt. It is not the same.