Bad analogy, an LLM can output a block of text all at once and it wouldn't impact the user's ability to understand it. If people spoke all the words in a sentence at the same time, it would not be decipherable. Even writing doesn't yield a good analogy, a human writing physically has to write one letter at a time. An LLM does not have that limitation.
I didn't want to switch to VS Code and kinda did b/c there is less friction when I'm using the same tools as my counterparts. I like VS Code just fine. My first true love was textmate tbh. :)
I will definitely check it out. I've never done iOS development but I have been considering doing this very thing as a way to learn and to give myself the podcast player I really want. :) Good luck!
No actually, that's about the opportunity cost of war. There's a left-wing argument I frequently see that the US finds wars to increase profitability but I'm talking about the propping up of firms to keep the industrial capacity ready. It is not the most productive use of capital, but it is productive.
I don't either, and I don't want a war with either Russia or China nor do I want the slow escalation that is currently happening. But the political reality is that the US will not be decreasing defense spending any time soon. There's no voting this situation away.
You think all businesses should just spread awareness by word of mouth? Can you put a sign on your store or is that an ad? What if you don't have a store? Yes, advertising can be really awful but that doesn't meaning all advertising is "cancer." If you have a good business that creates actual value for people, advertising it can actually be seen as a good thing.
It is clear we are talking about modern digital ads. Ads in magazines aren't as bad, but manipulating public opinion to sell the ads were/are. That's what Google/FB do at an absurd large scale right now.
A while ago I was playing with chatgpt and had it create me a text based game. It took some coaxing but eventually it actually created a pretty compelling beginning to a game at least. This wasn't D&D, I had chatgpt just make the rules but the interesting part was creating a compelling story. Maybe it would have fallen apart after a little bit of game play but it was neat. I could see the fun of having completely unique and instantly created modules to run through.
100%, this is what I'm feeling as well. I don't want to come across as hating on IH but for me it provided a cool service/community in the early years and it does not provide any of that to me now.
Sorry for the late response, hopefully you see this. I know ycombinator isn't the exact same thing but it is cool how ycombinator has managed to not have this occur. I think the moderation and scoring/voting system that they have created might be what has enabled it to last so long.
I dabbled in writing scripts for TradingView a while ago. It is a little rough but also fun to be able to add your own stuff to the platform. I actually pay for Scott Carney's harmonic trading software for trading view. As much as you are posting words of warning, it kinda makes me want to take another stab at it. :)
One startup I made, that actually gained some traction, turned into a struggle for me as well. I made a site to share and find tutorials for the new Swift programming language. I released the first version the day after Swift came out and it was actually getting used all over the world even. I expanded the platform a bit and I had a number of tutorial creators regularly cross posting their stuff on my site but ultimately, I myself did not jump into learning Swift and I just didn't have the continued drive to keep working on it.
It is funny because this Swift project was probably the startup I was the least passionate about building but it really was the only one that has ever garnered any real traction. Some of my take aways from it are how important timing is and that I get very enamored with the initial building phase but as you talked about in your writeup, the amount of work _after_ launch dwarfs that initial rush.
