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Comment by simonw | Hacker News Reader

It could be that the people who are focused on building monetizable products with LLMs don't feel the need to share what they are doing - they're too busy quietly getting on with building and marketing their products.

Sharing how you're using these tools is quite a lot of work!

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I admit I'm in this boat. I get immense value from LLMs, easily 5x if not more, and the codebases I work in are large, mature and complex. But providing "receipts" as the kids call it these days would be a huge undertaking, with not a lot of upside. In fact, the downsides are considerable. Aside from the time investment, I have no interest in arguing with people about whether what I work on is just CRUD (it's not) or that the problems I work on are not novel (who cares, your product either provides value for your users or it does not).

Agreed! LLMs are a force multiplier for real products too. They're going to augment people who are willing to do the real work.

But, Im also wondering if LLMs are going to create a new generation of software dev "brain rot" (to use the colloquial term), similar to short form videos.

I should mention in the gamedev world, it's quite common share because sharing is marketing, hence my perspective.

I feel weird when I read comments that have words like "force mulitplier". This sounds like an LLM comment. But you probably are a real person. So are you just becoming more like an LLM because you interact with it so much, or did you always talk like this and LLMs are just replicating that behavior?

What would be more likely,

That people making startups is too bussy working to share it on HN or that AI is useless in real projects.

If you haven't noticed, people come here to kill time. If you're killing time then you're not being productive, therefor the people who are heads down trying to launch their startup before they run out of runway are not going to be here until they're ready to market their product.

The former.

Totally.

I see people sharing stuff here every day.

What makes LLM makers different that they dont have time to share it like everybody else does?

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