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Big Tech? Startup? Selling a service? Selling software tools? Something else?

Because (business) success usually involves a big recipe of good ideas, good execution, good networking/marketing/sales.

Proprietary code was once rare and valuable. But code is cheap to create, and plentiful. It might as well be flour, sugar, butter. Can anyone that ever worked at a bakery trivially create a successful rival bakery because of a few recipes and an EZBake Oven? Can a vibe-coded Adobe Creative Suite take down Adobe overnight? I'll believe it when I see it.

That's not to say that if you're an engineer, but you have a passion and confidence in your ideas and salesmanship that you shouldn't give it a try, if you're in a position to do so, or otherwise don't have better options. But thinking that software engineering is more of a factor in rapid business success than it used to be seems like an odd assumption.

Overall > 0.5 win rate each year: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/TomlMi0.htm

But after 2016, playoffs? Not so much.

I think the issue with this hypothesis is that it omits variables.

Basically... is the United States, scratch that, WILL the United States be on a trajectory, post-Trump, where there is reason to believe future leadership will consistently be trustworthy to foreign nations? And how would anyone know that, or at least have reasonable confidence in that belief?

What brought us here to elect someone like this, and is that "what" going away or being fixed? Is there some hope for undoing polarized politics in this country, so that "this election is the most important of our generation" doesn't occur every four years, and both sides believe that "the other side" will ruin the country once and for all?

Time is not enough to fix the core issues. Time can move us past this particular era, these particular instances of unpredictable leadership, but time alone will not move this country past whatever levers of control convinced this electorate that this kind of leadership was the right choice for this country -- and the rest of the planet.

Curious what you're using for comparison for "performs better." There are lots of 300-400+ HP EVs when you consider the cost of a RAV4 Prime ($41.5K-$50K USD)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49713635 GM unveils a new user interface experience for pickup trucks (gm.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49713328 GM gives its most important trucks a new UI–and includes CarPlay (arstechnica.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49713328 GM gives its most important trucks a new UI–and includes CarPlay (arstechnica.com)

https://www.thedrive.com/news/gm-finally-gave-up-the-fight-a... GM Finally Gave Up the Fight Against CarPlay and Android Auto

https://variety.com/2026/film/reviews/musk-review-elon-musk-...

Turns out, someone is about to release a similar, 4 hour long documentary about Elon Musk.

This was promptly carried home and plugged into the TV via coax, if I remember correctly. Sample programs from the manual were entered, and before long, custom programs were written.

The power brick was large and hot. My dad would not let me leave the computer on overnight. Nor did I have a disk drive.

I got good at typing out programs from memory. By the time I reached college, code (at college course level, as well as fast touch-typing) was generally easy, and I felt like my fellow students were learning what felt "natural" to me. (Unfortunately, this also instilled a bad habit of preferring the easy route, and never being a diligent, hard-working programmer. Not to mention... dropping out.)

This machine was definitely instrumental in my chosen career path! I did not own a proper PC until sometime early in college when I bought an IBM from my second roommate, and upgraded the CPU to a Pentium 200Mhz...

I suppose it helps to focus on the core of someone's strength, and the core of the content they are sharing.

You could be a great engineer and a great blogger, but have no skill in making graphics. If you made the artistic choice to add AI-generated art to an excellent engineering blog post, I would forgive it -- assuming it wasn't detracting in some important way.

Overall, the human skill of editing - particularly excluding that which is not additive - does remain key though.

I will say in this case, I don't know the pop song well enough to know if the AI-generated image is super relevant, or just random.

EDIT: I'm guessing it's "Kant"[0] in the image, listening to modern music. Ah... at first I thought it was like, George Washington.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375016 Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left (moddedbear.com) 75 days ago, 828 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285145 All of Namecheap Is Down (namecheap.com) ~1 hour earlier, 3 comments

Additional:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285750 Namecheap.com undergoing emergency maintenance due to a power outage in Phoenix (namecheap.com) 12 minutes earlier, 1 comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287319 Namecheap outage caused by cooling system failure at Phoenix data center (twitter.com/namecheap) 1 hour later, 5 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43554197 Firefox maker Mozilla prepares Gmail-like Thundermail (theregister.com) 2025-04-02 (9 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182996 Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work (cloudflare.com)

~1 hour earlier, 78+ comments

You're making an extremely bold hypothesis that your internet armchair knowledge about what investment auto manufacturers make in research, design, and marketing to remain competitive in the marketplace of car sales easily exceeds what auto manufacturers know about that same topic.

You would need some strong supporting evidence to convince people of that. One would be any 6+ year old model of vehicles that sells as well as or better than any 5 year old or newer model of vehicles, even if it only competes on price. Can you name such a model? What share of the U.S. car sales goes to that model? What is their profit margin, and how to does it compare to models that Toyota sells?

I'll guess that it's not quite like that.

First, propaganda is powerful, and people buy based on what they believe. And right now, U.S. car buyers do not universally believe that EV is better than gas/hybrid, nor do they believe the cheapest car is best, or that features are the only thing that matters.

In fact, they go to a dealership, probably for a brand they are already somewhat loyal to, or the marketing worked. And they buy whatever their monthly payment allows, even if it's a lot more car than they need.

Second, they like big "American" cars like pickup trucks and huge SUVs. Take a look at how many full-sized pickups are sold every year in the U.S. Until the foreign-made full-sized electric trucks are palatable and competitive with what U.S. buyers are currently buying, those OEMs will continuing making and selling them.