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jasontlouroon Are We Talking Too Much About Mental Health?

No, this is not true.

Teenagers these days are convinced that all stress is anxiety, all sadness is depression, and all negative emotions besides anger are sicknesses that must be treated with therapy and/or chemicals.

jasontlouroon The Antisocial Network: How the 90s Internet Died Like Diaryland (2014)

Nostalgia on the internet, particularly with social networks / online communities, is real and I do think there will be a revival of the 'old way' of how folks communicated online.

Hacker news is a good example of this that's persisted, actually.

But I'm hopeful we get some social networks that are more like the old web in their architecture.

jasontlouroon Building AI assistants that can write code in production

The AI can only execute functions that the user would be already be able to execute, and you'd definitely want to have an approval step where the user can see what's going to be executed before it happens!

jasontlouroon Does anyone still think meet-in-real-life-apps can work?

That's exactly what this is, yes! I just wonder how many people would do this instead of, say, a dating app.

My prediction is either this becomes a dating app in all but marketing, or it fails to get initial traction. There's no in between.

jasontlouroon Does anyone still think meet-in-real-life-apps can work?

Agreed, I don't understand how these things keep getting funded.

jasontlouroon Building reliable systems out of unreliable agents

Very tactical guide, which I appreciate. This is basically our experience as well. Output can be wonky, but can also be pretty easily validated and honed.

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Paddy Cosgrave is back and better than ever, baby!

jasontlouroon AI eye-tracking to determine whether child has autism

Good point, yeah. We should probably just start saying “pattern matching” instead of AI for this type of tech

jasontlouroon Phind-70B: Closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster

API?

jasontlouroon Show HN: API to convert users' plaintext input into functions your site can run

More details about the Javascript steps required at https://rehance.ai/docs/integration

jasontlouroon Show HN: API to convert users' plaintext input into functions your site can run

1. create an account 2. define the functions your SaaS supports and the parameters necessary to run them 3. define the contextual data that may be needed to process the user's request 4. Add drop-in JS script to your site. Set the current user's contextual data, and connect the script's output to your site's functions. Tell the script to show the Rehance UI where it makes sense in your site.

The script will display the UI when you tell it to, it will process user requests, convert them into functions you support, and run the functions if the user approves.

jasontlouroon My NextJS boilerplate made $200K in revenue in 4 months

What type of ads? Twitter or elsewhere? Google?