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That’s not fundamentally wrong, but you are missing the degree of change. Shit has gotten so bad, so fast, relative to what it was before.

If you’re talking about someone with enough RSUs to collateralize a home loan, you’re almost certainly talking about someone in the top 1% of wealth in the US

So, uh… it’s not different, no

The general category of "project management software" is obviously a very crowded one. But it's a space where I'm always genuinely excited to see an even-slightly-new take; I think anybody who's worked in a modern workplace would agree that this is very much not a solved problem, and the returns on even small improvements are so huge.

Best of luck to Huly, this seems pretty cool. I've never gone all-in on a fully-integrated stack like this (issue tracking + docs + chat + calls), but it seems like in an ideal world, that's what you would want? Huge integration with O365 seems like the one thing people do actually like about MS Teams, for example.

Also, I'm a sucker for cool laser animations, so I'm saving the home + pricing pages to an inspiration folder for sure.

Because html/js/css is the venue for a massive fraction of human-computer interactions, and there a lot of different things we want to accomplish between humans and computers.

It’s always funny to me when people act like “websites” are some trivial, silly little area of software, when in fact for a lot of people, it’s their primary use of a computer.

Antitrust law says more than that. In particular, it’s illegal for a monopoly to take anticompetitive action to maintain their monopoly — e.g,

> what Google is doing is making sure that nobody else gets a monopoly

Depending on what “making sure” is, that could very well be illegal.

> AI and Tooling Support: It’s worth noting that AI tools are intimately familiar with Next.js and not so much with htmx

This is stated as a very matter-of-fact downside, but this is a pretty crazy portent for the future of dev tools / libraries / frameworks / languages.

Predictions:

- LLMs will further amplify the existing winner-take-all, first-mover nature of dev tools

- LLMs will encourage usage of open-source tools because they will be so much more useful with more/better training data

VCs offer cash on different terms than the public does. This just means Cerebras believes it can get capital more cheaply (or on otherwise better terms) than it can from VCs.

That might mean VCs are turning them down, yeah, but that’s just one of many possible factors into “where do we raise money”

This was a great post, thanks.

I’m sure people have asked this before, but would HN ever add a little more rich-text? Even just bullet points and indents might be nice.

US government agencies still have some of the lowest RTO rates in the country (compared to other employers) precisely because of federal employee unions.

The NYT published a very well-reported case (two cases, actually) of Google doing this more than two years ago. This is not a hypothetical -- this is already happening.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil...

> It’s not that hard

How many years do you have to spend in software before you stop uttering those four cursed words?

Trivial unless someone wants to modify CF internal headers as part of their solution…

https://xkcd.com/1172/

You’re not wrong, but I do feel like the distributed nature of a lot of systems today is a big reason for that.

And Antithesis is (theoretically) one solution to that, which is very neat!

(I know modern games are also often operating in a distributed environment, but to generalize very broadly, there’s a lot more happening “in one place”)

This is really cool. My optimistic take on GenAI, at least with regard to software engineering, is that it seems like we're gonna have a lot of the boring / tedious parts of our jobs get a lot easier!

I mean, there is absolutely opportunity cost for people in high-impact careers

This shows up in economic data all the time, and disproportionately impacts women

Of course young women in high-intensity fields are hesitant to hamstring their careers just as they’re getting started

One of my favorites is gsw=“git switch -“. It switches back to whatever branch you were last on.

Part of Apple's product pitch is "you can give this phone to No-Tech Uncle Steve, and it'll be fine"

Some of this interruption is to scare off users who will absolutely fuck up their phones with bitcoin mining apps, given the opportunity

You can argue whether this paternalistic approach to technology is appropriate for the entire userbase, but there are definitely a number of cases that Apple is doing a genuinely good thing for their users here.

I think programming-with-chatbot is still such a new skill that a concrete, well-written example is a very useful document!

“Why single out a rifle”? C’mon, man. The shooting being discussed in this thread would have been orders of magnitude less devastating with just a handgun, and you know it. Don’t make it a weird 2A thing.

The objective is not “make sure nobody in Vegas has a gun” the objective is “prevent a mass casualty event like the previous one”

Obviously the “tool” makes a difference, otherwise the tool wouldn’t have been used.

It’s weird to think of it as such, but perspective drawing really is a technology that most artists did not have access to for most of history.

I’m super not an art historian, but I think the Renaissance era is when you really start seeing 3D perspective in 2D art.

Chatbots are, so far, obviously a $1B+/yr business.

I think it’s not obvious yet that they go much further beyond that?

It’s a lot of money, sure, but it’s not world-transforming stuff.

I've been using Cody from Sourcegraph, and it'll write some really great code; business logic, not just tests/simple UI. It does a great job using patterns/models from elsewhere in your codebase.

Part of how it does that is through ingesting your codebase into its context window, and so I imagine that bigger/better context will only improve it. That's a bit of an assumption though.

Really good (and underdiscussed) point that Figma designs are not just for consumption by developers.

I know this is a cliche phrase, but when you're trying to align stakeholders (PM, manager, VP, dev lead) on a product, it is genuinely very useful to have really nice, hi-fi mockups to make sure everyone is talking about exactly the same stuff.

It's also definitely a scale thing. If you have 500 developers, it's probably worth putting in some extra sweat just to make sure they're all using the exact same button, etc

If you have 10 devs... yeah, hard to justify a super-perfectly-polished design system for every single bit of your frontend, IMO.

Uploading large codebases is particularly useful.

Meta is, fundamentally, a user-generated-content distribution company.

Meta wants to make sure they commoditize their complements: they don’t want a world where OpenAI captures all the value of content generation, they want the cost of producing the best content to be as close to free as possible.

“Race walking” is distinguished from “running” based on technique. In this case, “walking” is defined very strictly as “never having both feet off the ground.”

Yes, obviously it’s just a silly way to run, if “run” is “move fast on foot”.

It’s just that “race walking” is fewer words than “a silly way to run where you have to keep one foot on the ground always.”

Those same contracts are currently trading at $13.65, so close to doubled since yesterday.

If they sold right now, ~$7000 on ~$3500 invested; not bad.

I’ve never seen the full quote, and I really love that last sentence.

Reminds me of Ratatouille: “Anyone can cook.”

We make software so that someone else can do something new with it that we ourselves never imagined.

So important to remember that someone could be… anyone!

if we’re talking individual subscriptions that’s ~1M paying subscribers. honestly that number would not totally shock me?

plus they’ve got some kinda enterprise/team offering; assuming they charge extra there, I could easily see $100M ARR

but that’s pure conjecture, and generous at that; I don’t think we have any hard numbers