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> Highly skilled people of next generation will do fine.

I would bet for the opposite. In a huge rush to optimization and job elimination, early career people suffer the most. However it also makes it impossible to switch careers, start from scratch, and etc.

Honestly… if we implemented $0.01 charge on every message, post and etc. the world would become an amazing place.

Moonshot’s (Kimi’s owner) investors are Alibaba/Tencent et al. Chinese market is stupidly competitive, and there’s a general attitude of “household name will take it all”. However getting there requires having a WeChat-esque user base, through one way or another. If it’s paid, there’ll be friction and it won’t work. Plus, it undermines a lot of other companies, which is a win for a lot of people.

Very off-topic, but war on drugs failed in NA, but is successful in East Asia. It really depends on government and how they handle it. I’m not American, but my understanding of war on drugs was also that it wasn’t just about drugs, might be wrong.

We do our review through Claude github actions. Works well.

You don't really have to.

I mean, it’s “Not A Good Thing” for the US. Chinese people are proud of their accomplishments in the past couple of decades, and deservedly so. Now they can do the whole realpolitiks as well.

Sure, I don’t agree with lots of their stuff, but I’d rather a guy who doesn’t flip flop his mind every 4 years.

That only works in a moral framework where everyone is subscribed to the same ideology.

Working in a large scale org gets you accustomed to general problems in decision making that aren’t that obvious. Like I totally understood what she means and in my head nodded with “yeah that tracks”.

Oh definitely. I mean, my neighbourhood has a bar that doesn’t even allow people who don’t live in the area as well. I guess, the gay bars not allowing foreigners is for a different reason, but soft discrimination is very ubiquitous. On the bright side, there are hundreds of thousands of other establishments that will happily take your money.

Imo, the article is exaggerating quite a bit, and written from a perspective of a tourist, which is fair. Nowadays these bars aren’t hidden or try to be out of sight. Like there’s a whole google maps category just for these type of establishments.

But in general, you’d expect what was outlined in the post. From my friends and etc., food might range from pretty bad to average. Might get charged service fee if you’re not hyperlocal to the bar. Also atmosphere, once again, depends. City, neighbourhood, sleeziness level and etc.

About the gay stuff… Honestly it’s more of a “i don’t care just don’t show it off” attitude, rather than “no gays allowed”. But the “don’t show it off” part applies to straight people as well. Nobody is gonna do or say anything, but an auntie might shake their heads as they pass by.

Tattoos are a bit different. If you’re white, nobody will care unless they’re very visible (face/neck). You’ll be barred from some establishments (e.g. onsens/gyms), but if it’s coverable with the covers then it’s fine. Mostly historical reasons, and people’s aversion from accidentally hanging out with the “troublesome crowd” as one would say.

The "download service documents here" (something like サービス資料ダウンロード) call to action part is true. But everything else sounds like a marketing fluff for the company in the article. Like yes, the process is longer, but it's mostly due to risk-aversiveness of most of the companies.

Not really? It’s incredibly easy to run an A/B test targeting hundreds of thousands of users to test hypothesis and refine your eventual feature. All these eventually add up. And honestly, the upper management is pretty smart too.

Even if they’re the most evil corpo ever, the buyer is still the government. If a democratically elected government buys this products, I would assume, in large scale of things, the general population wants the most evil corpo.

I live in probably the most walkable city in the world, but there are millions of lonely people here as well. From any of my observations, I can’t pinpoint to one single problem.

It might be a composite effect of different things contributing to the easiness of being alone. Cultural skill that overtime gets eroded, and as less time people spend among others, it becomes even harder to go back.

End of the day for me, as usual trying to walk around as much as I can with my partner, with the hopes to stumble upon stuff. Just found a great pasta spot, followed by a watering hole. Grateful to live in this city! Hope you guys are having a good one as well.

> There's always more shady jobs than ethically satisfying ones. There's increasingly more jobs in prediction markets and other sorts of gambling, adtech (Meta, Google). Moral compromise pays.

I would say, this is not about the final product, but a way of creating a product. Akin to writing your code on TextPad vs. using VSCode. Imo, having a moral stance on AI-generated art is valid, but AI-generated code isn't, just because I don't consider "code" "art".

I've been doing it for about 20 or so years at this point, throughout literally every stage of my life. Personally, I'd judge a person who is using AI to copy someone's art, but if someone is using AI to generate code gets a pass from me. That being said, a person who considers code as "art" (I have friends like that, so I definitely get the argument!), would not agree with me.

> Most people with an informed opinion don't like the ways this tech is applied

Yeah, I'm not sure if this tracks? I don't think LLMs are good/proficient as a tool for very specialized or ultra-hard tasks, however for any boilerplate-coding-task-and-all-CRUD-stuff, it would speed up any senior engineer in task completion.

Pretty cool stuff! Side note, it’s always fun to see Japan-related content getting to the front page around this time, as the people in NA are asleep. Would be curious to see HN userbase %s by continents.

I like to wander around the cities quite a lot (still intermediate compared to others, but putting about ~10km/day for the past few years), and over the holidays, we were chatting with my friends about "places we've covered around the world together", it prompted the idea to have a co-op world tracker, with sides of city exploration. Built this iOS app - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ato-discover-compete/id6757285.... Works with Apple Workouts + Photos location data. Just a headsup, the data is stored in my servers, so it's not a local app, since my goal was to get a combined data with my friends' data.

In my old app, I was solely tracking the streets, but it became somewhat impossible to have pretty coverage after I moved cities. And it's more fun to see global coverage anyways. Over the past couple of years, I've been getting emails for similar features that would expose city/country wide stats as well. Going to share with the users of the old app once I port its features on this one.

Still actively polishing it over the weekends, but it's very fun to see all the places I've been to on a hex-based map, combine it with my friends' data, and so on. It's been a very fun project so far.

From purely business and career perspective, being anti-AI will be a self-own unless you work for niche companies that have the anti-AI stance. Yes, they exist. But if a company is building, supporting, or consulting any product, where timing matters and there’s competition (which is super majority), it’ll be in their best interest to nudge their employees to speed up via AI.

I do think at least being proficient right now with the LLMs will help you with whatever comes next, just because you’ll build the intuition around it. Being anti-AI might negatively affect one’s employability, and especially the younger ones who don’t have seniority or connections over the decades.

He has a point about why they would they offer a country services, when the country fines them more than their entire revenue in the said jurisdiction.

It feels like everyone is ignoring the major part of the other side’s argument. Sure, sharing the health data can be used against you in the future, but it can be used to help you right now as well. Anyone with any sort of pain in the past will try any available method to get rid of it. And that’s fair when those methods, even with 50% success rate, are useful.

It's interesting to see this sentiment, given there are literal dozens of people I know in person who have no affiliations with Anthropic, living in Tokyo, and rave about Claude Code. It is good. Not perfect, but it does a lot of good stuff that we couldn't do before because of time restrictions.

Both YouTube and Twitch have increased the amount of ads they serve over the last 5 years, not decreased. So, I’m not even sure if the “competition” between those two makes ads better for anyone. Imo, the objective of competition in adspace is “who can target better to increase click rate”, not “who can make the experience better for the user”.

The thing about beginners (and I'm sure we can all relate to them from our past) is they won't really know which path is good or bad. In roguelike, when you make a mistake, you kinda know why you made a mistake and how you got there. For beginners, even if you have version control, you never developed that "sense of what feels right". Or "there HAS TO BE a simpler way of doing it, i just have to ask" sense. I have no idea how to describe it, but I think you might get what I mean?

> but when did tech ever reduce pricing while maintaining quality on a provided service in the long run

That's an old world that we experienced in 2000s, and maybe in early 2010s, where we cared about the quality on a provided service in the long run. For anything web-app-general-stuff related, that's long gone, as everyone (reads: mostly everyone) has very short attention span, and what is needed is "if the thing i desire can be done right now". In long run? Who cares. I keep seeing this in every day life, at work, discussions with my previous clients and etc.

Once again, I wish it wasn't true, but nothing is pointing that it's not true.

Everyone keeps being angry at me when I mention that the way things are going, future development will just be based on "did something wrong while writing code? all good, throw everything out and rewrite, keep pulling the level of the slot machine and eventually it'll work". It's a fair tactic, and it might work if we make the coding agents cheap enough.

I'll add a personal anecdote - 2 years ago, I wrote a SwiftUI app by myself (bare you, I'm mostly an infrastructure/backend guy with some expertise in front end, where I get the general stuff, but never really made anything big out of it other than stuff on LAMPP back in 2000s) and it took me a few weeks to get it to do what I want to do, with bare minimum of features. As I was playtesting my app, I kept writing a wishlist of features for myself, and later when I put it on AppStore, people around the world would email me asking for some other features. But life, work and etc. would get into way, and I would have no time to actually do them, as some of the features would take me days/weeks.

Fast forward to 2 weeks ago, at this point I'm very familiar with Claude Code, how to steer multiple agents at a time, quick review its outputs, stitch things together in my head, and ask for right things. I've completed almost all of the features, rewrote the app, and it's already been submitted to AppStore. The code isn't perfect, but it's also not that bad. Honestly, it's probably better from what I would've written myself. It's an app that can be memory intensive in some parts, and it's been doing well from my testings. On top of it, since I've been steering 2-3 agents actively myself, I have the entire codebase in my mind. I also have overwhelming amount of more notes what I would do better and etc.

My point is, if you have enough expertise and experience, you'll be able to "stitch things together" cleaner than others with no expertise. This also means, user acquisition, marketing and data will be more valuable than the product itself, since it'll be easier to develop competing products. Finding users for your product will be the hard part. Which kinda sucks, if I'll be honest, but it is what it is.

Nice read, but the "Unlike most of my friends, who visited Japan in 2025." is funny to me. I go to a bakery/cafe next to me every day, before work at around 8am over here. And all regulars are there by themselves, and sometimes with their family members. Half of the clientele in almost all non-trendy cafes are solo sitters as well.

When I discovered the whole "doing things alone" stuff a decade ago, it felt like a pressure was lifted off me. It's been good. It brings me extra joy when I take people to places that I frequent as well, it just feels like I'm introducing them to my own little spots. Hope you enjoy more of it!

Yeah, unfortunately quality of tooling varies heavily. Like a range of producing garbage, to working code. Claude Code got significantly good in the last couple of months, and it’s been noticeable. I’ve been trying to plug LLMs into my workflow throughout the year, to make sure I don’t fall behind the industry. And this last month was it when it “clicked”. It works in large and small projects as long as you kinda know how to localize the tasks.

Well, you could also generate the tests by CC, check them to make sure they’re legitimate, then let it implement it?

The main key in steering Claude this month (YMMV), is basically giving tasks that are localized, can be tested out and not too general. Then you kinda connect the dots in your head. Not always, but you can kinda get gist of what works and what doesn’t.