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You are strawmanning what he said. What he said is much better summarized as if a substance has other beneficial effects and there is one that is potentially just placebo, then it is ok. That is completely different than your paraphrase.

Making burner accounts for HN are ridiculous.

L(° O °L)

Isn't this literally made for AI agents to be accessed through an MCP server? Seems to me the AI agents part of the marketing is important.

I saw this recommended by the Bookpilled youtube channel, I just ordered it. \(^-^)/

Reading is not the only modality for learning.

I never read Sword of Shannara but my brother did. It is a nostalgic title for me. :)

I did this in the last couple years, I used an 'atomic habits' kinda approach. I put a book on the back of the toilet and pledged to read 1 page before looking at my phone. It worked out nicely, I've read a bunch of books over the last year or so after kicking it off in that way.

I am also not a lifelong reader, I didn't start reading until college. My girlfriend read a ton and the first Lord of the Rings movie was about to come out, I got caught up in the excitement and read all the books. Ever since then, I've read pretty steadily. Interesting though, it wasn't social media or anything that slowed my reading to a trickle, it was audiobooks. I freakin love them when the narrator is good. Anyway, that's how I got back to reading and now I haven't listened to an audiobook in a while. :)

Your response is a Strawman argument. I was simply saying that nobody thinks that Redis is literally effortless. I was pointing out that the person's comment was not helpful as they were pointing out that Redis installation does actually require effort.

A better response to my comment could have been "just let it go" or something. ₍₍(˶>ᗜ<˶)⁾⁾

For context, I am mainly talking about my personal projects, ideas I am trying out, MVPs/prototypes for potential new businesses, etc.

I have started just using Postgres to back queues. It is simpler (although I have spun up new apps with Redis so many times it is only a small improvement) but more importantly it is cheaper. I really do try a lot of stuff out, so completely removing a infrastructure piece is a nice money saver. Again, not massive but it's cheaper.

The downsides of doing this in the prototype/MVP context are minimal. At the scale of prototype and MVPs, I certainly don't see any difference in performance.

I did note in the graphic it listed Kafka but in the lower table graphic I did not see any Postgres replacement for Kafka. If I am at the scale where I really want Kafka, it is probably for performance and I just can't believe there's anyway Postgres could provide that.

So, I love the flexibility and all-in-one abilities of Postgres for prototyping and making MVPs. But at my job, nobody is proposing exclusively using Postgres for persistence.

OK, but it is relatively easy to setup. Obviously, nobody thinks it is _literally_ effortless.

Thanks for reminding me, I started watching this and forgot about it!

Also, the overuse of the term 'harness' as if it was some normal CS term we have been using to describe our systems for years was a red flag.

Not “product managers” in the old sense — not the ticket-writing, JIRA-grooming, sprint-planning archetype.

In my experience this is what a lot of product managers do but more importantly they are talking to users, talking to stakeholders, and having discussions with the the team to define the product. His description seems more of the project manager role.

If a manager isn’t contributing to the why, the what, or the trust system that holds the how, it’s hard to say what they’re doing.

I think people management is a large part of engineering management. There are definitely other aspects that are significant but I the author made no argument for AI taking over people management nor did they really mention it at all. Also if the other work is all translation and is getting compressed, I don't think the author made any argument as to why the 'non contributing manager' suddenly has to contribute?

Seems like the author's old thesis was that non-contributing managers are inefficient or something. Then, without really explaining why they are saying that AI has made his argument stronger.

Definitely not resolved, it's been awful all the way until today.

XAi is part of SpaceX.

I actually capture free hydrogen and oxygen and make my own water.

These local models can do some of the work the non-frontier models can do but for me, that's not worth much. If I am just using Sonnet 4.6, I can pretty much work all day on the $20/month plan. And Sonnet is still a way more powerful model than a one you could self host on an M2 mac.

If things change to token usage billing for everyone, maybe I'll be singing a different tune but on a subscription, I don't think it makes sense financially.

Fun? Yes. Financially sound? No.

I think there is an opportunity for a new hardware company to enter the market. I know this is just hypothetical but I believe that AI is revolutionary enough where a new approach to hardware and UI/UX will enable far more value to be derived from AI. I think the incumbents like Apple will stick to their familiar platforms and could get beaten out by a new competitor that is AI native to the core. Maybe? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I got a Birdie! You don't just have to follow the main path...(mysterious sounds)

Got dat Birdie son!

Freakin awesome. Hahahah, I love that there are 'cheats' and the fact that you can see everyone playing definitely makes it cool! You can even get hints by watching the ghost players. Great job!

I only have knowledge of one enterprise deal but there is no discount. Which I found surprising.

My experience has depended on my relationship to the product I am building. If it is for users in a community that I am a part of already, I am definitely looking. Otherwise, I have to figure out where these people are. Either way, I believe the term is "lead prospecting." It can actually be interesting even to an engineer, you can kinda fold it into your process, it helps you focus on what you are building if you use it that way.

This article is purely subjective. I'm sure there are some academics that could explain ways to objectively score usability but this article is purely subjective.

My experience with this is 180 degrees opposite. It's been really easy to create really nice UIs for all kinds of one-off apps I've made for myself with AI. In fact, it has been one of the most fun parts of this whole AI thing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I am not even a noob with game development. I dabbled with Godot a couple years ago and was making a funny weight lifter game, some sorta stat management sim. It was actually pretty fun but I didn't get past some pretty early working versions.

I thought I could really level up with Claude and I started working on a boxing game. It's been a total disaster. .·°՞(˃ ᗜ ˂)՞°·.

I really think this is it. It's crazy how flat and disingenuous it all feels.

And somehow Americans are able to give and receive criticism amongst themselves, iterate, and make progress!?

That is not how regular Americans speak. I think it's some weird American corporate speak that has metastasized in Apple keynote presentations. ꉂ(˵˃ ᗜ ˂˵)

I almost never use Siri in my car and use a "nav system" every time I am driving.