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I love the Lotus Elise and desperately wish there was a similar affordable, super light weight; no frills, sports car made today.

Here I thought I was just a niche market that’s not profitable for manufacturers to serve, but apparently I’m a victim of tyranny and didn’t even know it!

You don’t think models have leveled the playing field? I do. They haven’t eliminated the attacker’s advantage, but they’ve armed non-security-experts with tools closer to what attacking security experts have.

I mean isn’t that any startup strategy in a nutshell? Why would investors invest in something uncertain if the product already exists and the new company can’t add anything to it?

Coding harness is not a moat, but Anthropic’s productivity integrations are starting to be at my company. Surveys, checklists that Claude and people collaborate on, draft documents where you @ Claude to ask for revisions.

I’m not convinced it’s durable or that Anthropic will be the ones to change the document habits people have decades in… but it is a mistake to only see these companies in terms of models and coding/chat harnesses. There is something a lot bigger there.

I’m curious about “you can buy discipline”. For oneself?

Models are not a moat for sure.

Anthropic is working hard to create a vertically integrated stack from model to harness to productivity apps. That may or may not work, but it’s clear they see models as a value add for integration and not a product that can be a moat in themselves.

Who’s “them” and is there really one homogenous strategy?

Companies will do different things, just like they did with mobile, the internet, and computers in general.

Some strategies will work, some will fail.

It also depends on whether “avoid” means a strong preference against or a rigid doctrine to never use no matter what.

> A competent hacker or AI will quickly find vulnerabilities in your custom libraries.

So why wouldn’t a competent AI find those vulnerabilities during development? I don’t think the proposal is to have human devs hand write the custom libraries and yolo into prod.

While I dislike Apple’s move to ads, I’m at a loss how accepting money to degrade search results is a privacy issue rather than just a UX quality issue. What information is Apple sharing with advertisers?

AI will absolutely work on value creation. But they’ll need steering. And once they do steering they’ll need cultural understanding. And once…

It’s like calculus. There’s always another derivative.

And there is no “we”. There are very few humans in the world who have a moat, where they’re the only human who can do it. And yet, we do fine. I don’t at all believe that value can only be created by those who can never be replaced.

It feels like you’re trying to make an argument from innuendo, but I’m not getting it.

Enshittification is another shifting who value is delivered to, and I can make heads nor tails of what you’re trying to imply with net neutrality.

In comments it’s usually best to just directly say what you mean, there’s not enough signal or shared context for people to get innuendo.

Customers ultimately decide. If you can’t sell it, shareholders are not happy.

I do not buy the sheeple argument of “companies force people to buy things they don’t want”. Demand always wins.

Is cutting people with knives good or bad?

Does context matter, like if it’s OJ Simpson vs a surgeon?

A lot of people who think their job is typing in code are going to be very unhappy.

People who see their job as value creation are going to be just fine.

That's really cheap.

The duty to disobey illegal orders is connected to the Holocaust but existed long before and applies to many other situations.

Just because a situation is not exactly the Holocaust DOES NOT mean that it's fine for people to abdicate personal responsibility by saying they're just following orders.

You do understand that right?

Funny, I guess we proved each other right.

I meant nothing personal, but you took it personally. To me, someone saying "hey, maybe you're bringing your baggage to this and interpreting this differently than the speaker meant" is not at all a personal attack.

To you, I guess it is.

So, yeah, HN is full of conversations where people politely suggest you may be wrong. It's never bothered me.

There are switches that move trains between tracks. Now you need every switch to report, keep a history of that. Many trains also separate and combine. Trains sometimes go backwards to be switched.

It's not impossible. But handwaving GPS placement of trains at the correct location, direction, and track deserves more than a handwave as trivial.

If you’re having to look through layers and layers of jargon, misdirection, and plausible deniability to find the toxicity, is it possible there’s a roarscach element to it?

Look up commissary kitchens. A ton of food is made that way, and I don’t see it as being all that different.

And the DD-specific kitchen I know is basically just a typical restaurant kitchen minus attached dining. You can make slop in an industrial park, you can make slop in a real restaurant (I’ve certainly experienced that).

Why in the world would it be necessary to have dining tables for a kitchen to make good food?

Just following orders, eh?

He’s stolen billions of dollars and is too senile to protect it. Everyone’s angling for a piece of the grift.

Do you think Google should serve customers or politicians?

As a user I want the map names I know, not whatever BS some egomaniac politician announced yesterday.

Yeah mixed blessing at best. Increased volume, but not every 30-table restaurant is set up to do much more; kitchens are sized to expected in-person dining.

And all the stuff you mention.

The one restaurant owner I know who’s happy with DD set up an entirely separate kitchen in an industrial park. But to get to the DD revenue necessary to justify that investment, he had a couple of years of DD hell in his main restaurant.

Tool calls don’t sent the full transcript? I think you mean one more turn?

As long as price elasticity is zero.

What would software companies do if electricity stopped working?

They published the numbers. 83% of revenue is API rates, 17% is subscription (individual and small business).

Do you really think there’s not enough organic demand so they have to fake it?

I run three 20x max accounts to 100% every week. I could easily use more if I could afford it.

And obviously they wouldn’t IPO if they didn’t need to raise cash, but have you read the S1?

What would their motivation be to incur the same level of operational expense while giving users less value, making them more likely to switch to a competing product?

I’m sure there’s some galaxy brain theory for why they’d want to keep costs high and reduce value rather than just having an efficient harness and reducing quotas by this 16%, which would be identical for users and save money.

But a far more likely explanation is: a dumb bug.