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Contacts, start by attending any an all gatherings. Go to churh, parties, meetups any meeting that will let you meet possible partners and colaboradores. Make sure you get to know as many people as possible. Being in SF and sitting by the window will get you nothing.

Maybe, but the resulting ruling regime will eventually be similar. There will be a lot of talk about getting a democratic government in place and maybe there will be one for a bit but ultimately a dictator like government will rule. It turns out that democracy is hard and people have to be willing to constantly fight to keep it. One man rule seems to be the default government that most people get.

Of course, she is. The whole government is made of people that supported Maduro and his policies. People that opposed him were ousted a long time ago. It's the way he stayed in power.

It's going to be hard to change the county's trajectory since it's top heavy with socialists AND the country's people were not the ones that caused the change in government. Think about Afghanistan and how decades of US occupation did little to change the country since the people there were not willing to embrace what the US had to offer.

Keep in mind that ultimately Livermore died broke. Trading stocks is a promise of wealth that's just a mirage. Smart long term investments is your best way to a wealthy future.

I was in my 2nd year on college when I remember Gerstner was named to run IBM. At the time, IBM was the big tech monster that was stagnet and needed a fresh way to move forward. He came in and radically changed how it worked. I remember services became a big part of its core business. He really made a big difference on how the company functioned.

What I admire is that one man changed IBM from the 50s and 60s stoggy IBM to a more modern functional company that was able to move forward. I supect that without him IBM would have died long time ago.

I think new tech students in general are given false hope with these coding courses. My experience has been that tech is not a one time shot learning experience that automatically leads to a a great high paying career. The course is just a start of a never ending learning journey. 10 months will not do it. It's just a start.

It's happening with college CS degrees too. I suspect it will happen with a great percentage of the people that are jumping into the AI career path too.

The real failure is over hyping how easy it is to get into a high paying tech career. The reality is that you have to work hard to get that first job and continue to work hard to make it a career.

I never had them as a kid. I was curious a few years ago and bought some. It turns out I really like them. I'm a fan I suggest everyone at least try them.

Not most of the super programmers I have met, they have always seem like they are bit off to me.

This is the time were investors need to be careful. Companies go public for a few reasons. 1) to use the shares to buy other companies 2) companies that are so profitable that they don't need the money but they want to cash out some of the shares 3) they can't get any more money from private markets.

Given that a few days ago SpaceX was trying to get more money at a 1 trillion valuation and could not get it then I would say the 3rd reason.

So if the smart money is having doubts at these valuations and they have to go public the I feel we are beginning to see the start of a peek. I give it one year. When we start seeing a large increase in IPO's then every one should start running for the exits.

Books are a hard sell. Think about it. You need to get someone to spend their time, lots of time, reading a book they have very little knowledge about. You have to convince them that its worth their time. You do that though promotion and trust. It takes time and hard work. Most authors, by a long shot, don't make money from a book , specifically their first. It takes lots of promotion and time to get started as an author.

The author of The Martian gave away the book for years before it caught on and made money for him and that book is outstanding.

Writing is a career not a one time book. Even then, it's a hard career to make a living at. Many people use books to express their ideas as a way to improve their true career. Think politicians that are running for office. Or people that want to improve their resume.

You need to continue to promote your book and hope it catches on. Think of it as a hobby until you can turn it into a career.

Also, if you tell me it's written by AI, I automatically think it's not something I want to read. I can get any LLM to write stuff to read. I don't need to buy a book. Use AI to help you but use your own style and words to write something people want to read. People are writing books written by AI by the thousands. You need to standout in that crowded market place. Good luck.

I don't gave proof but I would say that most successful startups are copies of other startups. A unique idea is so much harder to execute in both money and effort so coping an ongoing business and making it better is the way to go.

A successful business is mainly about managing resources and people. The idea is secondary.

I would bet on a successful team over an idea any time.

When i started using LLMs for code writing the code it wrote was messy and mostly wrong. Recently my experience with relative small apps has been very positive. The code has been very readable and compact. But I can see where the code can get very messy if you don't have a structured plan for code development. It's very easy to create a messy code base that's hard to maintain.But the reality is that human developers do the same thing regularly.

I think that keeping the code that the LLMs write relative small and highly focus will lead to a code base that's easy to maintain over the long term.

I plan to create an app that relies heavily on LLM written code. I'm hoping that if I architect it as if am working with a team of programmers I'll be able to create a code based that I can update over the long term. I'll assign it assingments that I can then merge into the master codebase. You're in the same path. That's 2 of us. I think it will work out. We'll get what we want while saving a ton of time.

Yikes, it's 2 bedrooms, 3 baths and 2,200 sqft. Still, I wish I had the bux to buy it. The view is out of this world. I bet it will sell for more.

Short term it's maybe. Longer term it's no. Long term the value of products that can be automated will trend to 0 while products that can't be automated will go the other way.

I'm one that believes that very few products can be 100% automated, ever. So there will always be a need for human work. Plus there will always be products that can't be automated. Human's will always find products that are beyond automation. Look at Japan where you can rent a family. No Bot will be able to be your wife or husband. Sure there will be edge cases but for the most part they won't be a spouse. Since all jobs can't go away, workers will always retain their power because new job types will appear and continue the never ending need for work.

I’ve worked on major website redesigns, and there’s so much more to it than just refreshing a few screens. A big redesign is kind of like making a 90min film that costs over $100 million. What you see on the surface is only a small part of the effort. Behind every large website there are teams of experts and consultants. $96 million sounds like a lot, but so is the amount of work required to build or rebuild a site at that scale. It’s easy for people who aren’t familiar with the process to guess what it "should" cost, but without understanding the complexity, those guesses are usually way off. And of course, technology and tech workers are expensive. Sometimes even the initial consulting can run close to a million+ dollars.

Every now and then, we see a post on HN where someone claims they've recreated a well-known website in a short time. But they really haven’t. What they’ve done is copy a handful of screens and maybe a couple of data flows that work for a few test users with no fault tolerance, security, or scalability. Building or updating a hardened, website is far more difficult and far more expensive than anything a small team can spin up quickly. It's expensive and time consuming. Was there some small waste? Yes, I almost guarantee it. But fraud? $96m is a lot of money but without understanding the work that's gone into it, there's no way to know if there was fraud in the cost.

I would think so. I'm sure it's one of the documents used to train the LLMs. It does not surprise me that a checker would think it was AI generated. I bet if you put any popular document, the same will happen.

True, people are putting too much trust into the checkers.

Yes, it would be great to have a second source but no one has the resources the government has to gatherthe data. They do a pretty good job and they try to be as accurate as possible. I can't see any another organization gathering the data without needing to be greatly compensated.

As far as trust, there have always been people that have and will criticize the results but they only have a small view of the prices which doesn't give a true view of inflation. So their criticism is invalid.

The problem with a decentralized version is that people will need to be compensated. People might get together to do it a few times but for it to be useful it needs to get done for as long as there's an American economy. It won't happen without some kind of compensation.

We all make mistakes. We all care about ourselves more than anyone. The idea that people are dwelling on your mistakes is crazy. They are dwelling on their lives and don't care about your mistakes unless it affects them. So, if you make a mistake or do something foolish, learn from it and move on. Don't for a minute think that others care about it. They do not. They already forgot it. Don't let it impact your mental health. Again, no one cares about it but you. Learn from it and let it go.

I don't get it. Why has this company become a thing? They aren't solving a problem or working towards fixing a problem. I would even say they are just wasting recourses and causing future problems. Why are they getting so much attention and support? Even to they point of being in the sights of a governor.

Very true but I also think that being poor is a mindset to change. I've known of people that would couch surf but they were never poor. We knew, they knew, that at anytime they could turn it around, and they did. They wanted to do things that were not the norm so they chose not to follow society's norms so they lacked money and they lived day to day. Once they changed their mind set they were able to work their way to an American middle class. It was not easy but they did it. They had little money but they were never poor.

Then there's the other side. Families that can never get out. Families that have been poor for generations. Sure there are valid reason but I also think it's a mindset that needs to change. The multi-million dollar question is: how?

I think we’ll adapt to whatever AI throws our way. Think about it when Excel came along, it took away a lot of the boring, repetitive stuff in accounting. The accountants who learned to use it didn’t lose out they actually did better. That’s just how technology works.

In IT, change has always been part of the job. You have to keep learning and adjusting. That’s nothing new. I don’t think that’s going to change anytime soon. Five years from now, the people who stay curious and flexible will still be the ones getting the best jobs. It’s always been that way, and it probably always will be.

One of the issues with the current crop of CS graduates is that they were sold on the idea that they could get a job once they graduate. But they never got the idea that IT changes fast. So part of the job is to always be learning new stuff to keep a job and get the next job. It's a hard career that way. So we'll see lots of CS graduates that could not keep up and are jobless or moved on to other fields.

True, but people continue to signup and watch their shows. I think the AI stuff will probably be even worse but the content will be so inexpensive that it will make a profit even with less viewers. Profit is what matters so it will be considered a win.

The next YouTube competitor will be a service of purely AI content where creators will be compensated for their views no matter the size of their videos. People will figure out how to make their videos pay.

Hollywood has gone through this before with streaming and it lost. When Netflix first started, Hollywood studios were willing to license their content. But as soon as they realized Netflix was threatening their future, they tried to resist by withholding their licenses. Netflix won by investing heavily in original productions and creating its own content.

Now it’s happening again with AI. A similar pattern is emerging. AI companies will start producing their own content and bypass Hollywood altogether. From what I hear, there are always screenplays available for purchase, so AI companies can simply buy what they need. These firms will learn new ways to create movies and ultimately come out ahead. Hollywood has no choice they better embrace AI now or wait until they are falling behind when they will have do it anyways.

It sucks but I think embracing AI is what all industries have to do. There is no choice.

What's an AI keyboard?

One big reason: They over promise with out checking with the engineers. Leading to rush modification and/or unmet promises. That's one big reason.

They shouldn't hate salespeople since without them they would most likely not have a job and vice versa.

Not at all, most programming jobs are more about getting things done than the satisfaction of creating some programming master piece. You are assigned a part of the cog and you a responsible to get it done ASAP. It's a blue collar job under the guise of a white collar job. So it's nice to get a machine to do the grunt work while you decide how the code is supposed to function.

My experience with Vibe coding has been more frustrating than fruitful. Currently, I've only been fully successful with small code snippets and scripts but I can see where it's heading.

It works for me.

Trying to proof the impossible with science is does not work. These type of books may use sound logic to build on their premise but the big problem is that the premise is build on sand and has no footing so the whole proof false apart.

Bottom line, you either believe or you don't but a book that purports to prove, or disprove, the existence of God can't do it. It's impossible.

The dollar index has fallen 11% this year and it doesn't seem to slow. It's great for assets, Gold being a prime example, and people with assets but bad for consumers. It's hard to see how this will not turn into inflation since we import so much and those good are only getting more expensive.

We don't have an asset bubble the prices are just adjusting to the lower dollar.

I bet the FED will have to increase interest rates next year and that's when we'll see a collapse of asset values and since markets tend to over correct, it's going to be painful for all holders. Be ready...

1st get any job you can get at this time. Then look around for companies where you can have a career. This will likely weed out most small companies. Once you decide on the job you what to get then define a plan that outlines how to get the job you want. Part of that plan might mean getting any job you qualify for even if it's not what you want right now. Once you get your foot in the door then you can work towards getting promoted or transferred to the department where you want to work. Also, join any organization where you might get contacts that will help your career. A vast majority of jobs are found by who you know not what you know.

This might mean that you will have to move to a different city but you do what you need to do to survive.

Where's Microsoft? They have the most to lose if Intel goes under.