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Even if you had it internally (which we do), there is so much surface area and it’s such a novel space that you’d want as much testing on it as possible. There aren’t many vendors, and irregular is one.

We’re hiring. :)

(And we’re fixing many of these things, but worth noting this happened at a third party vendor, not in our lab)

There aren’t many to choose from, and admittedly these all occurred around the same time.

It happened in May; it just wasn’t public until now, it seems.

Indeed.

hack the planet.

T1, in both cases.

That is not true. This hasn’t been the law for many years.

That is not true: https://www.lawpay.com/about/blog/credit-card-surcharge-rule...

It used to be true, but this changed many years ago.

Dan was a spectacular brain, and made contributions that still echo today.

He is one of two friends to have passed from DKA. Miss you, Zach. RIP.

Miss pwning with you.

If you’re talking purely financial benefit: yes, it is still good advice, as most white collar jobs still require a degree.

If you’re talking about a place to mature, around others who are at a similar phase of life, also yes.

It is where most people meet their cofounders, for example, even if they don’t found anything until much later.

You acquire karma through posting things that are interesting or curious enough that others upvote them.

Thus, you build reputation by acquiring karma.

It isn’t perfect, but the fact that folks with higher karma can “fix” the emotional flags of folks with lower karma, it helps.

Also, I’d recommend re-reading the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Sheriffs are elected (except in New York City, Rhode Island and Hawaii) and responsible for a county whereas a police chief manages law enforcement in a city or town and is appointed by its local government.

There are a lot of sheriffs.

Flags also require a minimum karma, and members with yet higher karma can also undead posts, if needed.

HN is actually surprisingly good about this, so I disagree with your assertion.

You’re on too high a dose. The highest dose made me a vegetable, with no energy, and so on. That is not the way.

Lower the dose (with your doctor, of course). For me, the “middle” dose was the sweet spot of positive effects with minimal side effects.

You are likely a “hyper-responder” to GLP-1s.

Also, tirzepatide had far fewer side effects for me, fwiw.

YMMV, of course.

What dose? Have you considered lowering it?

> Well if Paul Graham says it, it must be true.

I didn’t say that. But when he’s right, he’s right.

> Think you could beat it in a specialized version of "business strategy jeopardy?"

> It would crush you. Thinking you know more about "business strategy" is laughable. What sort of guru are you? Let's see the great business strategy you've implemented.

This is no longer a productive conversation. I never said I would make a better consultant than an LLM. I said that consultants are useless without context, as are LLMs.

They are tools, not a panacea.

Have a lovely rest of your week.

Relevant essay: https://paulgraham.com/simply.html

> Prose? Don't care, I'm not writing literature, I'm delivering a message. If AI helps that be more clear and faster, great.

Writing well is not easy. PG has written many essays about this very topic.

LLMs do not write well.

> Strategic thinking? The LLM has more context than you. Sure, you know more about your company, but AI knows more about the rest.

This is a mistake, and untrue. The LLM has more general knowledge, yes. But it’s the specific knowledge (aka “context”) that makes all the difference. It’s the same reason management consultants are, by and large, useless; they aren’t dumb, but they lack context.

So no, the LLM doesn’t have more context than you. In fact, its context window is literally limited. You have decades of experience and knowledge and patterns you’ve matched, and the LLM has none of that.

Do not fool yourself into thinking it has more context than you. It doesn’t. It has more knowledge. Those are very different.

(Incidentally, the same is true of humans; the most knowledgeable ones are not always the ones making discoveries or changing the world. Often, it is specific context that matters more, as the application of a solution to a problem requires seeing the right problem. LLMs are a solution engine, but they have no metric for what is a “right problem”)

Sure, but if you’re influenced by how AI writes, it stands to reason that you’d be influenced by a great author too, and that may help improve your writing.

Yes, but people forget that. And when LLMs make it feel like you can offload “for free,” people find themselves trying to do everything.

LLMs provide you with the illusion of “free concurrency,” and it sucks people in.

This is a great point. I hadn’t considered the analogy to “more lines of code”

Yeah, I think that’s true, but that isn’t really my question. My question is why this seems easier and more natural for people with ADHD to do than people without.

(That is also an unproven statement, obviously, but that’s what I’d want to study/test)

I honestly think it’s the latter. OP’s post is literally evidence of that. The “open twelve agents” is not only unsustainable (and leads to burnout) but fundamentally incompatible with building robust software. Sure, you can have agents fight it out, but at what mental (and actual cash) cost, and to what benefit?

I have not found myself less productive than my peers, but I have found myself less scattered across a bunch of different things. I do not think this is worse.

Also, consider reading about and/or getting tested for ADHD. You may not have it, of course, but I was diagnosed at 33 and it changed my life. Not because of medication (though I did that for about a year and a half, with success) but for a dozen other reasons, including being able to accept parts of myself rather than fight them, recognize (and reinforce) the coping mechanisms I’d built, recognize the ways in which it made me literally better than other people at certain things (some refer to ADHD being a “superpower” which it can definitely feel like at times), etc.

If you haven’t read Mark Suster’s posts about his experience with ADHD, read them - there are 3. If it resonates, consider talking to someone.

My email is in my profile; I’m happy to chat if you ever want. :)

I don’t know, there may be something to this. I shared this post with another ADHD friend of mine and he also resonated with your and my experience, not the OP’s.

Now I want to do a study!

I wonder if the extremely fast dopamine hits of LLM use trigger the same sort of dopaminergic response that ADHD does when faced with a stimulus? If so, are we simply better at dealing with those swings, since we’ve literally dealt with them our entire lives?

It isn’t writing the post. It’s doing research, providing background knowledge, evidence, etc… but the work is being done by OP.

That was my read, anyway.

I think you misunderstood; the point was that not being constantly in front of Claude or another LLM is what has freed OP up.

That is, stepping away from the laptop is what has given them back some free time and brain space.

I could not agree with this more.

Just because you can doesn’t mean you must, even if everyone else is.