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returnInfinity··on What young workers are doing to AI-proof themselves
Lets take the example of Uber. If Uber ships 10x the code and features, I will still not 2x my rides.

Even if Uber makes the cost of travel to 0, I will still not 2x my rides.

returnInfinity··on What young workers are doing to AI-proof themselves
And look at what that led to. Democracy is not a panacea.
returnInfinity··on Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI
I don't get the atlassian backlash on HN

JIRA is just fine, gets the job done. Its not slow like the on-prem. Jira cloud version is fine.

returnInfinity··on Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package
Sergey said that Google was able to rapidly respond to ChatGPT because Sundar had already invested a lot into AI.

They have the people, the models and the chips. And Sundar helped achieve that.

That's what he said on some podcast.

returnInfinity··on Strike on girls' school that killed 150 in Iran 'likely' carried out by US
This thing makes me really sad.
returnInfinity··on Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep
Whenever I get less sleep, tinnitus gets really bad.
returnInfinity··on Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic
And why should a business do that? Limited chip production capacity be spent on most profitable ventures.
returnInfinity··on Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal
Most regular people, they don't care and will continue to use ChatGPT

ChatGPT has 900 million users now, across continents and they don't care about this DoW deal.

returnInfinity··on Ed Zitron loses his mind annotating an AI doomer macro memo
Offtopic - The success of coding agents must be Ed Zitron's nightmare.

He has been a perpetual bear

returnInfinity··on Anthropic Claude Max $200/mo: They claim 99% uptime, I calculated 84% Loss: $780
This could be anthropic's marketing team.
returnInfinity··on After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand [video]
This isn't the usecase that's being criticized. Here you are responsible for the fix. You will validate and ship it and if something goes wrong, you will answer for it. The AI won't answer for it.
returnInfinity··on After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand [video]
The key word from the video is "responsibility".

Who is going to be responsible for the code? AI is definitely not responsible.

returnInfinity··on How Debt Bankrupted the British Empire, and Why America Is Walking the Same Path
look at gold price
returnInfinity··on A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT's drug advice. He died from an overdose
Sam and Dario "The society can tolerate a few deaths to AI"
returnInfinity··on Tech Writers Are About to Become Obsolete
If the role is eliminated, then the responsibility of the verifying and managing the docs will fall on somebody else.

AI does not take responsibility

returnInfinity··on Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation
This is a step to take control and move in a direction that will profit them greatly.

May or may not benefit the community.

returnInfinity··on Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation
They are probably trying to build influence. Why is a startup that is burning cash donating money?
returnInfinity··on Waymo passenger flees after car drives on Phoenix light rail tracks
"The society will tolerate some amount of deaths to AI vehicles"
returnInfinity··on The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup
Its not unlimited, the compute allocation was one of the reason for the coup at OpenAI
returnInfinity··on Ask HN: What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great?
KEF Q Series Speakers, Q11 Meta, Q6 Meta
returnInfinity··on AI agents are starting to eat SaaS
This is the right take

Also maintaining a software is pain

Also for perpetually small companies, its now easy to build simple scripts to be achieve some productivity gains.

returnInfinity··on Is it a bubble?
My thoughts as well, good at somethings and terrible for somethings and you will lose time.

Somethings are best written by yourself.

And this is with the mighty claude opus 4.5

returnInfinity··on The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful
Yes sick of AI generated "illustrations".
returnInfinity··on OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals
This is fueled by the parabolic token usage. If token usage continues to grow parabolic, then these are the most genius deals made.

If token usage declines because of high prices, look at what happened to SBF.

returnInfinity··on OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss
Code is secondary. Pmf is primary.

Code is a commodity. Very easy to make. Now even llms are commodities. There are other intangible assets more valuable. Like the chatgpt brand here.

returnInfinity··on OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss
ChatGpt has won. I talk to all teens living nearby and they all use chatgpt and not Google.

The teens, they don't know what is OpenAI, they don't know what is Gemini. They sure know what is ChatGPT.

returnInfinity··on OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss
It's a lot more complicated, but yes advertising works.

There is a saying in India, whats seen is what is sold.

Not the hidden best product.

returnInfinity··on TikTok Sold for $14B
Without the algorithm, TikTok is not TikTok.

When Tiktok was banned in India, everyone tried to recreate it, include Instagram. Everyone failed to get anywhere close to TikTok for you page.

Once the new algorithm is live, expect massive backlash.

returnInfinity··on Software CEO to Catholic panel: AI is more mass stupidity than mass unemployment
Using AI effectively is a skill. As more people acquire it, it gets more useful.
returnInfinity··on PewDiePie has a GitHub now
AI also enables everyone to make simple apps for fun. They may get serious and build great things as well.
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