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The distinction is even easier to make these days -- brogrammers aren't actually programmers.

There is an emerging coterie of people whose entire approach to software startups is to vibecode an MVP, raise enough seed to hire a real programmer (or get one interested enough to become their "cofounder") and move on to the next MVP. To them, doing one company at a time in the era of LLMs is a sucker's game.

Don't you see that the same bureaucracy that adds friction to entrepreneurship also serves the purpose of protecting the incumbents?

It is odious to start a company in the EU. There are many accounts of this on HN itself.

Reserve currency status entirely depends on whether the issuing authority has the ability to drop a munition (literally or figuratively) on the head of anyone who dares to counterfeit the currency.

China's military and soft influence are improving but until they get that good, USD will remain the reserve.

Because, imagine the scenario where the US simply counterfeits the renminbi. What is China's recourse? Spicy statements by Wang Yi in toothless international forums?

Every single point you've made is either straight up untrue or comes with caveats. I hate to quote Trump but, in light of Brandolini's law: "Wrong."

I just use Grok for anything "controversial" like that. I actually love that different LLMs have their niches. In a typical week I might use all of Claude, Gemini, and Grok, for different kinds of asks.

TFA answered it though. It's because neighboring tribes were always hostile, and they never developed food that survived long expeditions.

It makes sense because the downside is very high (the stranger wants to kill you) but the upside is not (the stranger has something cool to show you or trade with you). It's not like you'd go to prison for murder either.

For what it's worth, cops in America in certain scenarios act the same way, faced with similar upside/downside risks.

"Write a blog article about <topic prompt>. Keep rewriting it until it passes Pangram as 100% human-written. <pangram_tool.md>"

>And then you can get rid of... maybe 8 of them.

Negative. I might need them all some day.

I thought the webpage was a good read.

I define market rate to be the best rate that somebody will pay for your talent (minus Faustian outliers).

"Above-market rate" is an oxymoron. If someone is offering to pay you above the prevailing best rate then obviously you're going to sell to that buyer and it becomes the new market rate.

I think it still depends. More test can also result in more estrogen. There is selection bias in athletes who dope because they're the ones who happen to respond positively to it.

There must be a graveyard of athletes who tried doping and it made them worse lol.

Darwin took 21 years to publish his findings on evolution. In fact he couldn't finish the actual book that he had set out to write and published a summarized abstract instead, which is what we know as On the Origin of Species.

I ran some rough numbers a while ago and I found single-region GCP Spanner to be the most cost-effective relational DB option (out of the ones I looked it) if you don't mind that it can't scale to zero (min $65/mo), if synchronous replication for durability is a must and you need serializability. It's more cost effective than any Aurora offering including DSQL (which isn't serializable afaik but even then).

Nothing coming out of IBM is worth any attention.

The real test of this is whether a manager can fire their single most productive employee because he/she is ruining the social harmony of the team.

I've seen managers in my career bend over backward to protect people who were outright abusive to their coworkers but were individually very productive. Those managers didn't go very far. Your team is not a car collection.

>Org pays market rate and has good benefits.

This is so important. One of the things that kills company culture before the company even takes off is getting a sense from the founders that they're just trying to fool desperate/clueless people into working for them for less than what they're worth.

The startups that actually succeed have the philosophy "find the best people and pay them a lot". All the successful unicorns and decacorns over the last 15 years have a reputation of paying people well. There is literally not one startup I can think of that succeeded but has a reputation of underpaying.

And if you're unable to pay employees well then you're simply not well-capitalized enough and should drop the project.

Also, Trump just had to say "I'm not Biden".

He was just very entertaining. I don't think there's anything deeper than that.

I'm pretty sure mosquito populations in India have been evolving in response to those electrified tennis rackets. Mosquitos now are much faster, smaller, and have more evasive flying patterns.

I have a feeling this is exactly what happened in Frankfurt. It very glaringly points to some failure in the healthcare system.

Healthy working adults with access to healthcare don't just die of malaria. Two deaths means it's not some unique susceptibility in one individual either.

The more interesting investigation would be how the system let two people die of malaria, not how malaria got there.

>to what extent these machines can have an experience comparable to mine

I think it would be reasonable to conclude none at all. I'm not even fully convinced all humans have a conscious experience similar to mine, even though they literally have the same biology as me.

It is incredibly improbable that an autocomplete computer program is experiencing consciousness.

The problem is when you stuff your codebase with so much unreviewed vibecoded slop that engineers lose their grasp on how it all works.

I gave up on optimizing and just use the Robinhood Gold 3% cashback card everywhere (except Amazon/WF, where I use their 5% Chase card). I can probably get more than 3% cashback in some categories on other cards, or more ROI by switch to points, high-tier cards like Chase Sapphire, and churning, but I just don't care.

The gain of a few thousand per annum is not worth the mental distraction.

>Startups succeed or fail based on how much customers like the product.

It's always been that simple yet founders these days tend to believe success is predicated on all the things but the product. "Build it and they will come" is mostly true. No amount of sales, marketing and growth hacking can save a product that simply isn't very good.

This article is refreshing because it's not saying "the way to train startup founders is by teaching them business" like a lot of universities believe. You need to be willing and able to build.

>My actual job also included non-coding work: Does this attempted solution even work at all? Is this solving the right problem? Even if it's a valid solution to the right problem, is it the best solution given the time constraints?

This is not non-coding work. This is coding.

Exactly. You can't assume it's a new normal until Trump is out of office.

>something I had purposefully written to be as fast as possible

and then you threw it all away by adding transition animation

>SSR but in the browser

We've come full circle.

My completely conjectural theory is that natural language is just a shitty medium for communicating knowledge and the idioms and motifs that the LLM uses are an emergent "code" or structured syntax that work better for communicating ideas.

If you think about it, "load-bearing" is a pretty commonly used concept in pedagogical writing. You could say "most important", but it's not quite the same in meaning. English just doesn't have a better word to describe a concept that occurs this frequently. The LLM's catchphrases reveal blindspots in the English language itself.