ryanSrich

I have no idea why, but I can only stand to use reddit in "old" mode. Even on mobile. It's completely 100% unusable in any other format. I've tried to use their app and standard mobile website, but I can't make heads or tails of the hierarchy of content.

I can't accelerate towards next week, but I can predict when next week will happen, with extreme accuracy. Is this the same for reaching the singularity? Does the person falling (for the sake of this example let's assume they maintain consciousness) experience the passing of time as they fall further "into" the black hole? If so, how long would one experiencing the falling until they reach the singularity?

The housing market is unique in that interest rates did absolutely nothing to housing prices. But it was entirely expected. When you couple low supply with people who have 2-3% interest rates, you create an absolutely massive shortage on the supply side. Why would a current home owner EVER sell their house right now? Not only are the prices outrageous, but you’ll be paying 7% interest. Even if you have to sell, you’re better off renting and picketing the difference. It’s madness.

That’s actually more than several engineers I know who work in the bay. What a wild wild city SF is (and not in a good way).

It would be interesting to see these rates and their political affiliation. My guess is that it would be pretty mixed. Seems the “libs sterilizing themselves” is a clear conservative cope.

You seem to think there’s a legitimate difference that isn’t entirely contrived.

I’m not even that old, but I despise the entire UX industry for what they did to quality, fun UI work. They stole every ounce of soul from interfaces in the name of “research”. I’m glad the reckoning is happening. I’ve not met a single UX researcher that could actually design anything. They’re glorified business analysts and they clearly can’t even do that right because at least business analysts can create requirements from real customer problems. UX research exists purely to only serve itself.

I think this is going a bit too far. Not a single other VC is going to look at you negatively for raising from a16z.

Looking at these comments, I can't think of another VC that has burned as much goodwill among technical people as a16z has. Don't get me wrong, it's well deserved, but it's just surprising how universal it seems to be (at least in this thread).

Is there any practical use for one of these at the moment? As a hobby dev, what could I do with one?

> You sell your existing house, which has benefited from inflation

Your new interest rate is going to absolutely demolish any inflation benefit your current house has. I don't think people really understand how bad higher interest rates are when there's a housing shortage.

- A $500k house at 3% is $2,100/month.

- A $500k house at 7.5% is $3,500/month

- That's a difference of nearly $17,000/year

The house that was $500k at 3% in 2021 is still $500k at 7.5% in 2023. Housing prices haven't budged. We'd need to see a 20-40% reduction in prices across the board to stabilize affordability, but that won't happen because there's too much demand.

You’re basically correct (although 95% of income is drastically overstated, it can be far less than that), but I don’t understand why you can’t wrap your head around that? If you’re never taking on any credit debt then of course you will have a non existent credit score. If I’m a lender, how would I possibly know you’re capable of paying back a loan without some audit trail of your past ability to do so? It seems an incredibly simple concept to understand.

Asking who to pay higher interest? Everyone? Until one bank says “you can pay less if you tell us about your past loan history”. Which 99% of people who pay their loans back are going to take.

Without getting into any real details about US credit scores, how would you determine risk on say giving someone a car loan? You’d want to know that the person has 5 previous repossessions right? A credit score tells you that. Without some type of score (in the abstract sense), you’d have no way of determining risk.

From what I’m seeing, it’s almost guaranteed you take a pay cut, and at minimum you’re going to be looking for 3-6 months, more likely 12. Unless you’re a truly genius 160 IQ engineer. Most are not. Most will be much better off staying put at their cushy big tech job despite not getting a raise. We’re on the cusp of entering what is to be the worst financial recession since the 1920s.

This is pretty terrible advice when the job market, even for extremely well qualified and experienced engineers, is less than ideal. If you’re a highly paid engineer I’d suggest holding on to that job for at least another 24 months.

Was there a form/email/person you contacted to do that? I can't find any such information online.

I use GPT-4 with ChatGPT daily for coding. Here’s what I’ve found works for making the most out the limited prompts OpenAI gives you.

- When you first start, tell ChatGPT about the limitation. Example - “I’m only allowed to send you 25 prompts every 3 hours. As a result, I need you to keep track of the messages I send you. At the end of each response you give me, please tell me how many prompts I have left, ex: this ‘X/25’”

- Combine multiple questions into one prompt, and tell ChatGPT how to handle it. Example “I need help doing X, Y and Z. Please provide all of the details I need for each task, separating your answer for each with ‘—————‘“. Your prompts can be quite long, so don’t hesitate to jam a lot into a single prompt. Just be sure to tell ChatGPT how to handle it, or you’ll end up with shallow answers for each.

- Provide an excruciating amount of detail in your prompts to avoid having to waste other prompts clarifying. For example, let’s say I’m encountering an issue in an app I’m building. I will tell ChaGPT what the issue is, share the relevant parts of my code (striping out any details I don’t want to share), and tell it the expected behavior. This could be dozens of lines of code, multiple files, etc. It can all be one prompt.

It’ll be interesting. I’m not entirely sure what to make of it to be honest. We have a massive shortage of software. Even with the low cost of software development compared to manufacturing you still need operating capital. Especially for hard problems. Without high risk VC dumping billions into the private market I could see the US drastically falling behind other countries. The entire reason why the US has been so far ahead in the tech sector is because of how much high risk capital we’re willing to invest.

It also can’t be overstated just how expensive things have gotten. I’d wager a large percentage of the exercise decline is due to employees having less cash.

Yeah $10m for a lot of startups is equivalent to shutting down. Essentially asset/fire sales.

Zero Interest rate Phenomena

It's essentially a conference call app. You create a room or space or whatever and you can participate or listen in on audio. Some have called it live podcasting. But it's a conference call in the most basic sense. Twitter copied it with Spaces, which feels like a more natural fit. The reason Clubhouse is so popular, or was so popular is that a16z funded it at the peak of zero interest rates. Clubhouse is a ZIP and will likely either get acquired or go out of business as it seems many have stopped using it.

How can you grow your R&D team when you’re no longer in business because your tax bill is more money than you have? It makes zero sense.

Idk if it can turn a 1x developer into a 10x developer, but it can certainly turn a product manager with enough coding knowledge into a passable developer. I just wrote a tweet thread about this today - https://twitter.com/rrichrs/status/1646885705790914564?s=20

Around 3 hours (not straight - I would hack on it for 30 minutes to an hour at a time). I spent another 1.5 hours or so styling it, but I did that outside of ChatGPT.

Can you give an example of complex? I’ve used ChatGPT to help me build an app that authenticates a user using Oauth. That information creates a user in the backend (Rails). That user can then import issues tagged with specific information from a 3rd party task management tool (Linear). The title for these issues are then listed in the UI. From there, the user can create automatic release notes from those issues. They can provide a release version, description, tone, audience, etc.

All of that (issues list, version, tone, etc) is then formulated into a GPT prompt. The prompt is structured such that it returns written release notes. That note is then stored and the user can edit it using a rich text editor.

Once the first note is created the system can help the user write future notes by predicting release version, etc.

This isn’t that complex imo, but I’m curious to see if this is what people consider complex.

ChatGPT wrote 90% of the code for this.

> Salesforce will print money for a few more years until someone makes a less awful CRM solution and just crushes their business...so long as Salesforce can't buy that company, integrate it badly, and disillusion all the employees that made it great.

I’ve been hearing this for nearly a decade. There are VASTLY better CRMs out there. They don’t make a dent in SFCD’s business. That says a lot about the market.

Why is that not great? It makes absolutely zero sense for him to have no equity, or at least some agreement in place that equity is coming. Or some other terms that essentially amount to equity. You don’t need evidence to be skeptical of the situation.

Spot on. I’ve been using GPT (3.5 and 4) to build a handful of small apps. I find that I’m much faster with GPT, but that’s because I don’t need GPT’s code to be 100% correct every time. I just need it to be mostly correct and faster at writing code than me. Which it is. If I can ask it to write me some code, and I spend 1/8th the amount of time fixing GPT’s errors than I would writing the code from scratch myself, it’s a win.