Re:It’s been a very hard year
by classified on Monday December 01, 2025 @03:52AM
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Seeing how many successful businesses are a product of pure luck, using an oracle to roll the dice is not significantly different.
"praying that the next prompt finally spits out something decent is not a business strategy."
well you just describing an chatgpt is, one of the most fastest growing user acquisition user base in history
as much as I agree with your statement but the real world doesn't respect that
Re:It’s been a very hard year
by otabdeveloper4 on Monday December 01, 2025 @07:43AM
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> one of the most fastest growing user acquisition user base in history
By selling a dollar of compute for 90 cents.
We've been here before, it doesn't end like you think it does.
Do you remember the times when "cargo cult programming" was something negative? Now we're all writing incantations to the great AI, hoping that it will drop a useful nugget of knowledge in our lap...
Hot takes from 2023, great. Work with AIs has changed since then, maybe catch up? Look up how agentic systems work, how to keep them on task, how they can validate their work etc. Or don't.
Re:It’s been a very hard year
by otabdeveloper4 on Monday December 01, 2025 @03:34PM
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> if you combine the Stone Soup strategy with Clever Hans syndrome you can sell the illusion of not working for 8 billable hours a day
No thanks, I'm good.
Prompting isn't a skill, and praying that the next prompt finally spits out something decent is not a business strategy.