mikeg8

Slippery slope fallacy

Why not just… have Opus 5.5 build you the website? I would wager that there is minimal value add by passing things back and forth to different services vs just refining in one. But that’s just my personal opinion/experience.

Curious: is your dad tech savvy and do you think he realistically has any desire to manage a website on his own, even if it’s incredibly easy?

The knife company offers their products to people doing the stabbing. They make money from it. Of course they share part of the guilt.

Most people aren’t okay with that, but the blame lies in the people who deployed the AI tool in that situation, not the makers of said tool.

To imply that the global pandemic and lockdowns didn’t effect social norms going forward is incredibly ignorant. A little more than “getting old”

Not OP but that seems to be the implication. Let’s hear your argument against industrialization being net positive?

Analysis totally excludes enterprise customer demand and or paid API usage which will only increase as apps integrate this into future knowledge work workflows.

Lick! The! Boot!

Hungry little money grab

That doesn’t mean that the subscription itself is losing money. The margin on the subscription could be fine, but by using that margin to R&D the next model, the org may still be intentionally unprofitable. It’s their investment/growth strategy, not an indictment of their pricing strategy.

That’s not the way they are presented at all. And making foreign goods much more expensive when we don’t currently produce enough of those products domestically to offer actual alternatives is a clear harm to consumers, not a boon to domestic manufacturing.

Defensive much, Sam?

“Foundational” seems a bit overkill here. There is nothing foundational about it – it’s a convenience tool, albeit a very good one.

AI is disruptive technology - like other tech innovations before it, there will be casualties to incumbents. If anything, this just shows how small businesses with need to be more creative when establishing moats and sustainability in this new landscape.

Yea! I totally trust corporations and government to always do the right thing and never abuse their powers!

I believe it’s you who is misunderstanding his positions here. He clearly lays out that he is focused on irrational optimism effecting the investment around the tech, not whether or not the tech itself is viable. His analysis was indeed well thought out from the perspective he is approaching it from.

its a good bet on their part (although i hate it). we obviously can't increase supply fast enough to keep up with demand in the current regulatory climate and with an existing shortage of skilled tradesmen and ratio of tradesman retiring out vs newcomers entering construction, there doesn't seem to be a feasible way to meaningfully increase supply.

No, there is an airport 10 minutes from the museum but the museum itself is closer to downtown.

Ruby central looks so incompetent it’s not even funny. Bummer all around.

I’d disagree. I think there is still so much value it can offer if you really open your mind. For instance, I’ve met very few “programmers” that I’d consider even moderately competent at front-end, so the ability of a programmer to build and iterate a clean and responsive UI is just one example of a huge win for AI tools.

I think you are spot on here, although many may not like to acknowledge it.

This splitting of hairs between the legal entities and the work of their paid teams/employees isn’t adding strength to your argument. Companies are run by people and those people get to make decisions on the allocation of resources. If they decided to put substantial resources into OSS, the company does get to claim credit there.

> there are plenty of open source communities that exist without the direct funding of work.

Great! Maybe the Ruby community can strive for this in the future but it does not reflect the OPs point that these companies and their outsized contributions via time and money are still core to the existing community we have today.

Best comment I’ve seen on this thread so far.

Splitting hairs. At the time your friend owned it, the company and people were one and the same.

A small company can just pay the $250 a month for X number of employees to each have CC max plan. Not that complicated

An additional requests for html isn’t slow, and now I have to have a whole “build” process for something that is basically static. Not ideal

Finding product market fit is a human directional issue, and LLMs absolutely can help speed up iteration time here. I’ve built two RoR MVPs for small hobbby projects spending ~$75 in Claude code to make something in a day that would have previously taken me a month plus. Again, absolutely bizarre that people can’t see the value here, even as these tools are still working through their kinks.

Couldn’t agree more. He’s talking about a management style in such a nebulous way, when I would imagine his experience and proximity to so many founders/companies could provide a little more concrete substance. This feels like a first draft, and should have “Dig deeper” written in red across the top

> we are just super slow at assembly of large structures…

The Amish would like a word with you lol

In light frame residential construction, the structural envelope (foundation, framing, roof, and exterior doors/windows) will usually be about 50% of project cost, if not a little more