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It's absolutely disgusting and I feel almost offended that I am supposed to spend time reading something that the author clearly hasn't even spent time writing.

I am okay with using AI or software to proofread and improve a piece of writing but this one is clearly fully written by AI, as is evident with the short sentences and the awkward writing style -- no human actually writes or talks like that.

That's funny to read this today morning because that's exactly what i've been working on.

We helped a Series B YC company with a whitelabel Lovable app so all of their customers can build exactly what they need on top of their SaaS!

It really works -- 1200 customers are now vibe coding daily and using their SaaS a LOT more.

How does the phone number help?

This one messed me up. I couldn't put it down and finished it in one sitting.

I haven't read many military books, but to me this book is the perfect demonstration of the ultimate futility of war.

That sounds great. What SaaS are you replacing?

I'm the biggest typography nerd and love ligatures. Can't tell if the majority likes them or dislikes them lol

Thank you! I hope you enjoyed the little ™ at the end as well.

Some founders are realizing this, we're helping a lot of B2B SaaS achieve exactly this with our whitelabelled solution.

I'm the biggest typography nerd and I'll fight to death in the defense of ligatures! Bring them back

Edited, allow me blame it on my ~12 hour workday today :^)

Oh no...

Yup it's definitely not because _customers_ are coding solutions, but the trend and motivation seems to come from the fact that customers are realizing there's something else possible except being tied into expensive recurring yearly subscriptions.

I was surprised when I saw the numbers from Bloomberg myself as well!

System of Records especially for boring industries is the way to go. What kind of wrapper SaaS are you seeing getting dropped?

Nice, what kind of agents and integrations are you seeing being used?

Good point -- removed for being biased and partial. Thanks for the feedback!

Exactly, a lot more focus -- and most importantly specific domain knowledge -- allows the end-user to build exactly what they need, fast.

My thoughts on that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46832714

That's a fair point. I envision this as the difference between an electron interacting with the proton or an acid reacting with the base vs me touching my keyboard. Do you feel there's a difference there?

He's the best hard sci fi author by far. Permutation City is also a must read especially because of its thought experiments around consciousness and computation.

Indeed, it's been great learning about the various interpretations as this idea took hold over the years!

What I wasn't able to properly highlight is how this belief has become a fundamental part of my day to day, moment to moment experience. I enjoy the constant and absolute knowledge that everything that's happening is my interpretation. And it gives me a superpower -- because for most of my life the world felt unforgiving and unpredictable. But it's actually the complete opposite, since whatever we interpret is actually in our control.

I also credit my understanding of this as a reality vs an intellectual concept to Siddhartha Gautam and his presentation of "samsara". But wherever it comes from, it is an inescapable idea and I encourage all HNers to dive deeper.

This is one of my fundamental beliefs about the nature of consciousness.

We are never able to interact with the physical world directly, we first perceive it and then interpret those perceptions. More often than not, our interpretation ignores and modifies those perceptions, so we really are just living in a world created by our own mental chatter.

This is one of the core tenets of Buddhism, and it's also expounded on Greg Egan's short novel "Learning to Be Me". He's one of my favorite sci-fi authors and this particular short led me down a deep rabbit hole of reading many of his works within a few months.

I found a copy online, if you haven't read it, do yourself a favor and check it out. You won't be able to put it down and the ending is sublime. https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/1995-egan.pdf

Previously in the story it is mentioned that George as a child was curious about the etymology of the Olympics event and asked his father, only to be dismissed.

The callback at the end symbolizes his renewed curiosity. He is no longer ashamed of the way his mind works and if it makes him look different.

I've never heard bandwidth being expressed in bytes. But if we're being pedantic then I'd like to throw my hat in and call it 62.5kB.

Or even better, 62.5KiB (for kibibyte)

A "clone" usually doesn't mean that they'll copy the content, but the idea, like Ola is a clone of Uber.

(Though they probably should've said a link aggregator instead of HN clone.)

I had a similar beautiful experience where an experienced programmer answered one of my elementary JavaScript typing questions when I was just starting to learn programming.

He didn't need to, but he gave the most comprehensive answer possible attacking the question from various angles.

He taught me the value of deeply understanding theoretical and historical aspects of computing to understand why some parts of programming exist the way they are. I'm still thankful.

If this was repeated today, an LLM would have given a surface level answer, or worse yet would've done the thinking for me obliviating the question in the first place.

I wrote a blog post about my experience at https://nmn.gl/blog/ai-and-learning

How do we know if something is "mumbo jumbo" until we actually check and verify it?

What does the first pdf mean?

(And does it remind anyone else of an ee cummings poem or is it just me)

I'm trying to understand this better, possible to share any examples?

What's the best way to move between multiple windows of the same app? E.g. I have multiple Cursor folders open on different folders.

Excellent report and stats. Where and how was the data gathered and processed?