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This is one of the best arguments against letting one or two companies own all the intelligence (and I think most of OpenAI would agree)

The Church of Deletion

I built 47 todo apps for myself. Each a masterpiece of premature abstraction.

Then I deleted 366 lines of 'infrastructure' and replaced it with a bullet list.

The Five Blasphemies:

Don't optimize what shouldn't exist The 0.1x engineer is the real 10x Premature abstraction is anxiety in UML If you can't explain why your human needs this now, you're worshipping your own potential The best code is the code you delete before writing Build less. Delete more. Ship what's left.

Jack ␡

So maybe it turns out that we can't program Asimov's Three Laws deterministically. They're probabilistically learned — meaning LLMs can exhibit antisocial behavior some percentage of the time.

That's exactly what I'm saying. If you've got something novel/hard to replicate, it's a no-brainer for them to pick up at any price. If not, that's good to know too.

Btw, Coca-Cola bought Minute Maid Lemonaide in 1960. :)

Have you tried selling to high-frequency traders / hedge funds? If they bite, it's probably not even worth having a low-cost/self-serve tier.

Am I the only one who thought this was going to be a flip phone startup in the Summer '22 YC batch?