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I'm having a lot of difficulty reading this and I'm not sure if it's because of the style or the terminology.

I don't mean to be patronizing but did the formatting go wrong here?

Not all programming languages are equal. Some are easier to review, some are faster, different ecosystems, different target architectures, many reasons.

That's like someone saying "What is the purpose of x64 in the new age of C?" back in 1999.

Why do you think diataxis and the google guidance is outdated now?

Why not? “Customer experience” is arguable, but most design documents I’ve seen involve the others.

Now who's being a Veruca Salt? Everyone in this thread is clearly literally talking about the message.

I'll admit, this is a heated topic, and heated topics rarely go well over text.

I apologize for misreading and pettily being condescending "in return".

I agree with the way you phrased it here.

I didn’t assume, I asked. But you’re being particularly condescending, so I guess that’s where we’re at.

“Directly incorporates” is pretty vague and still seems like it’s financial, but good for you. I hope it’s something that assists artists and doesn’t replace them. Personally it’s hard for me to find meaning in something like that, given the thread’s context of “I don’t even look at the code”. What craft was done? In what way is the movie better now? It’s cheaper?

I won’t endorse glee about anyone losing their job, even if it means people with a lot of freedom can throw things at the wall and see what sticks. Same story as always, it’s just faster now.

I'd like to consider myself somewhere towards the middle of the spectrum on AI outlook, but posts like yours in this thread depress me. It's difficult for me not to see it as spreading FOMO so that you can gain financially.

When's the last time you worked as an IC? Is there any reason to take your opinions on "my job" seriously when downward pressure on salaries is only beneficial to you and whatever AI companies you're attempting to start?

"The world will be better off as a whole". Why do you think this? How are you contributing to making the world better with AI? Is there any reason that's not related to making money?

In the spirit of this forum and at the risk of being very cringe, I’d guess that’s like being the founder of a company versus being one of the early employees :)

What should? Presumably if it were easy and solved their most visible problem then they would have done it already?

That's what the person you replied to is talking about, and they're right. Putting aside the final byte size (where protobuf also wins), protobuf is faster at both encoding and decoding than json. There are numerous benchmarks you can find that show this.

The advantages of json are not related to performance.

I get what you’re saying, but I wouldn’t say easy is the opposite of challenging. As a quick example, I would surely find a day job of manual labor harder and significantly less enjoyable than a day job of software engineering challenges.

(And please note that I do not mean to imply that there are no challenges in manual labor or that software engineering is more important.)

That makes sense to me. Thanks for explaining.

And I'm sorry to you and the parent poster for being needlessly snarky, I wasn't in a great mood when I wrote my original comment. I'll avoid bothered-posting in the future ;).

Just because you can mad-lib something that makes sense at the surface doesn’t make it insightful.

How are plungers comparable to LLMs?

Maybe I'm incorrectly parsing your comment, but what does a "founder centric pov" for documentation look like?

People seem to think you’re attacking the article. I read the article but know nothing about aquaponics otherwise, and I was wondering why we don’t see it used more. So I appreciate you sharing your knowledge on the subject.

"Sufficiently developed" seems like a cheap proof. There are still many non-technological problems above and below it.

For example, how do you ensure everyone on the road has a self-driving car? We've sufficiently developed electric cars, but they're not nearly the majority.

Are you making a joke? Not being snarky, I actually can't tell if it's a real suggestion or satirical.

The distance between DeepSeek and Claude is far, far less than the distance between Google Search and any of those.

The frustrating part is that these posts will never post any details about the business, despite the fact that it would immediately invalidate most criticism.

It seems to be a similar phenomenon to productivity "gurus" who write and evangelize polyphasic sleep and "grindset" and so on - when you ask what they're using these superpowers to actually accomplish, they're very quiet. Or it's "coming soon." Or "I'm not going to waste time explaining to someone who obviously doesn't ~believe~." It quickly becomes religious.

I don’t even know the names of any open source search engines, but the open source models perform decently on various benchmarks and in personal experience.

Was it ever even a claim that open source search engines were trying to outperform google, let alone kill it?

I get what you’re saying, but I think it’s fair to view it as equivalent to drinking a protein shake after a workout. You used the resources in a productive and healthy way, now you need to replenish them.

From what I can tell, the sad truth is that people think “he’s a billionaire / trillionaire, I want to be involved with that.”

It’s a variant of the people who pick “Jay-Z” in the meme question “would you rather have half a million dollars or lunch with Jay-Z?”

Personally my least favorite is the overuse of "quietly" (e.g. "No tricks. No marketing gimmicks. Just one company quietly outperforming the others"), and the one that makes the least sense to me is "that's the wedge."

I'm curious how these become so ingrained. Then the uncomfortable part is humans start repeating it more (a colleague said "belt-and-suspenders" during brainstorming the other day).

I think it's a little different because:

1. This person is asking us to use/try their product. Very different from a boss/subordinate relationship.

2. This is Hacker News, which has a certain tone and intention. I might text in lowercase and slang with my friends, but I try to write a little more thoughtfully here. This is just one person offering advice on presenting yourself when presenting a product. Not to mention that they politely hedged - "not a big deal", "I would recommend", "it comes across". The OP is free to disregard.

It’s not my area of expertise, but a friend in the field told me the fun fact originally.

Looking into it, it seems like smell has the most potential for genetic variance: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3990440/

That said, I can’t find any direct research comparing perceived senses. So they (and now I) might have oversimplified.

Thanks for the link, looks interesting!

I don’t really understand what you mean. How can you have a community without identity? Isn’t that just a category? i.e. “a person who uses rust” vs “a member of the rust community”. There’s nothing wrong with either one, but the latter tends to define the culture.

Pairs nicely with the fact that smell is the sense most likely to be experienced differently between two people :)

I think this is really insightful. Every "good and invisible" tool I thought of fit neatly into one of those two categories. Examples:

Powerful and specialized: automatic transmission, display/monitors

Simple and limited: syntax highlighting, deterministic autocomplete

The closest ones imo that bridge the gap: ssh, google search

Makes sense! My mistake for assuming it was the former definition, lesson learned.

Hopefully soon our industry will align on some standard terms. I feel like "AI-assisted", "agentic coding", "vibe coding", etc each have a few different meanings already.