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I think the premise of the article is interesting, but it's a bit mis-leading to start it out by quoting "last year half of the internet was AI-generated" and the source doesn't actually say that at all, just that there has been a huge uptick in AI crawlers.
Yes but companies would love for a robot to be able to do it instead.
In reality, I think it's more likely that the lay-offs will be when the marginal rate of growth slows down. Once executives see that growth doesn't change much when hiring, they stop hiring, and once they see that growth doesn't decrease much when firing, they start firing.
There's still an opportunity for engineers to eat their bosses lunch and just start their own company. It's never been easier to start a lower cost competitor.
Employment isn't a social law of nature: it's a transaction of money for "units of work", just like the business might have with other vendors. Governments should be making it easier to become a vendor.
What do you know?
Agree, but maybe they worry they'll be even more irrelevant if they don't partner? Keep your enemies close...
Shout out to Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/), which I use on a daily basis.
It does most of what Obsidian does but has a free sync version where you just use your cloud drive as the storage.
The main thing missing, from what I've found, is that it does do the "notes mind map". But I never really found that useful.
They are being selected for their survival potential, though. Any current version of LLMs are the winners of the training selection process. They will "die" once new generations are trained that supercede them.
The PMs writing features? That’s the welding. And there’s nothing wrong with it. But it only works if the bridge is designed right. The profession is splitting. The mistake would be pretending it isn’t happening
I'm tired of reading AI blog-posts. Write in your own words, please.
Would you like me to draft a list of recommendations for how best to use comments?
Can I ask how you annotate the feedback for it? Just with inline comments like `# This should be changed to X`?
The author mentions annotations but doesn't go into detail about how to feed the annotations to Claude.
There's pretty much only one global insurer affiliated with dive schools, so this is spot on
If the monopolist chef is deliberately adding addictive ingredients that causes health problems, I think, yes, they're the ones to punish or address the problem with.
This hit close to home..!
I had a startup some years ago and took angel funding from family. When we were later running out of cash and had to raise professional money to stay alive, the pressure of the expectations I thought my family had because I was on the verge of losing their money caused me debilitating panic attacks.
I still feel the effects 6 years later, but have learned to cope whenever I feel the pressure begin to build. But man did it scar.
OP if there is any advice I can give, it's that you should have a chat with your investor friends about and make sure you feel like you can always walk away.
I used to resonate with the word "taste" as a distinguishing factor between good and bad quality, but a comment on HN some months ago about one of the many blog posts that talks about taste really nailed it:
"Taste" is just the degree to which two people value the same things.
When someone is rated as having "good taste" it just means that the person rating them values a lot of the same qualities.
The more I thought about it, the more that applies everywhere: Food, wine, clothes, architecture, software design, etc.
1000% agree on the YouTube/Spotify parallel!!
I find it so annoying on Spotify when my daughter wants to listen to kids music, I have to navigate 5 clicks and scrolls to turn on privacy so her listening doesn't pollute my recommendations.
Nice interactivity, but this is taken straight from the Designing Data-Intensive Applications. Literally all the content here is an interactive version of chapter 3.
Maybe give credit?
A person with integrity would have promoted bootcamps and recused themselves from smearing competitors.
I agree with you. Just disappointing that it's just another company slowly abandoning their mission in favor of profits.
I'll bet $100 they're seeing an opportunity to dethrone Google as the entrance point to the web and this is a big part of it.
It feels like OpenAI's mission has changed from "We want to do do AGI" to
"it'll be easier to do AGI with a lot of money, so let's make a lot of money first" to
"we have a shot at becoming bigger than Google and stealing their revenue. Let's do that and maybe do AGI if that ever works out"
This story sounds like the worst consequence of American liberalism and capitalism in one.
This would be a hit TV show on par with Baby Reindeer, if it was ever televised.
In Swedish it's "var uppmärksam" which is more like "be attentive" - same as in English. They just use the adjective form more.
I strongly doubt that Cursor makes anywhere near 40m profit. All they're revenue is spent on tokens with the LLM vendors. I'd be surprised if they are even running at positive margin and not just subsidizing usage with the VC money.
Unsure of what the end goal is, but I expect everything AI related to be a load-leader right now and then the goal being to figure out how to drive down costs or make even more money later.
Maybe that's what Sequioa thinks too...
The company I work at is at a sufficient size that we publish changes internally to other teams.
We have the concept of Release Announcements that are a quick attention grabber headline, followed on by Tasting Notes that explain in detail what changed and additional release notes.
That way the people who just want to understand the primary changes and those who want the details are happy.
Someone else mentioned it in the comments. A quick google gives some websites that estimates their revenue to that within +/- 5M
$2B valuation at $16M revenue sounds nuts..
My prediction: They're banking on a big exit to OpenAI or Claude as the defacto backend for an AI IDE.
They're the only big alternative to Firebase, and Firebase just got pulled into Google AI Studio.
I don't understand what's wrong with this.
The handle is typically loaded so that it weighs a lot more than the blade, which means they're likely fall out of the basket if they're blade down.
Also: blade down, you can't tell which ones are the knives unless you only do knives blade down (but forks and spoons handle down), which seems even more insanity to me..!!
Yup.
I personally wrote that I had experience in a programming language I didn't, back for an interview in 2010. I got called out on it too..!
My wife has run a couple of marathons and her friend called her up to hear about her experience, because she was putting it on her resume for a job. She got it (probably not because of her running experience).
Not sure if it's been mentioned here, but The Async-First Playbook by Sumeet Moghe (Thoughtworks) is a great book that summarises a lot of what people are saying in this thread and adds more.
I don't think this would be such a problem if people were comfortable challenging the CIO/CEO. So maybe that's the cultural aspect that needs to change on the exec's behalf?
From my experience working remotely for 2 years, this can be accomplished by starting a thread with a descript title and posting the body (with the context) inside the thread. Just like reading across a bunch of article headlines on HN.
For ongoing discussions about a topic, start a channel and perhaps prefix it "temp-" to indicate that it's a temporary channel.