nswizzle31

Very well said. This is one of the most unintentionally hilarious posts I’ve ever read on HN.

Cool post, love your writing style and your journey sounds intense. You're clearly very self-motivated.

> So here’s some privileged-not-so-actionable advice to everyone trying to break into the field — get a big name on your resume.

This is key advice and very actionable imo... mainly because I think it works even if that big name is only from an internship (as you discovered).

Just like I did for Fox One during the World Cup and then 4 months and $120 later I remember to cancel it.

Then I pay for a subscription for a tool to remind me to cancel subscriptions and forget to cancel that one too.

You’re missing the subconscious part. You make associations you’re unaware of and you choose the product without thinking.

If it didn’t work, they wouldn’t do it and it wouldn’t be the cornerstone of the internet economy. No one is immune.

Incoming? Literally everything in the world from chocolate to housing to software has gotten worse / smaller and costs more over the last 5-8 years.

Maybe this is the bottom and things only get better from here. I’m hopeful.

People would appreciate and enjoy this work 100x more if it was written in your broken English. Either your English is good enough to read (even with some minor grammatical errors) or it's not and Claude generated most of the body text. In any case, not interested in your slop.

Vibetown is a site where you can create a public sandbox (shoutout fly.io sprites / machines) that anyone can contribute to with their AI agents. You can also get matched with a random person in a sandbox to vibe code with them, and if you like what you built then you can open it up and keep it running! Think of it something like twitch meets lovable. There is a chat in each room, along with a localhost preview. People take turns connecting their Claude Code subscriptions and making any changes to the app. Sandboxes automatically go to sleep after a while, but can be woken up.

It's completely free because right now I'm only supporting frontend apps. Use it to create art or cool websites without anything fancy. In the future, I will add database, AI (api), and other integrations.

The short-term goal is just to see how people collaborate with strangers on public apps. The long-term goal is to make it possible for indie devs to build fully working apps with others that actually generate revenue.

Let me know what you think! I have 4 public sandboxes running right now that anyone can hop in and contribute to.

There are already tons of countries in Europe and Asia that are dependent on a few monopolies. People still live their lives just fine.

Re: war.. that’s why US spends orders of magnitude more on military than anyone else. If any infra is hit on US soil then im heading to the bunker because most of the world will have already been reduced to dust.

Via lived experience and social connections. Having done something similar or being able to ask someone who has.

The point is that judgment won’t be needed on technical aspects. It will be more soft decisions like how to manage the agents.

The future seniors won’t be people defined by strong technical knowledge. They’ll be the ones with “autonomy and judgment” as Anthropic puts it (read: highly social; good at climbing the corporate ladder; strong educational/professional pedigree).

These people won’t necessarily need to be trained in CS, because in 10 years no one will need to know what a data structure is. So they can come from other fields (law, business) or just from other roles within the company.

Note this is basically how it already works in every non-technical field where there’s no clear definable “skill” on which to evaluate people.

You’re more than welcome to keep writing code by hand. It’s not illegal… wouldn’t recommend it though.

Good point about infra, but that’s already the case with Cloudflare, GitHub, aws, etc

A decade? Better not tell the investors that!

The thesis that intellectual activity will disappear due to AI is similar to the flawed logic people use against taxing billionaires. "If you tax billionaires, then no one is going to want to work hard!"

In reality, we are programmed to compete and produce and climb the social hierarchy. Intellectual achievement and its use as a delineator in society is not going away anytime soon. Your blog post is active, living proof of this.

It's just shifting... likely to more and more things that signal "hey, this was definitely not produced by AI" such as the lack of capitalization of sentences which has caught on.

What punishment does the country of Denmark get here, if you had to guess?

This has the most obvious AI slop tell of all, in my opinion… SO MUCH TEXT. Just sections and sections of header + subheader + bullet list composed of header + subheader + paragraphs.

I’m reading max 2 sentences on any landing page. Most people probably less. Having to scroll and scroll through walls of text is a clear sign of AI.

I completely agree. The govt IT vendor is at fault here since it seems the data was just unprotected.

If you can’t stop openai from accidentally, or at least non-maliciously, accessing my private info.. then you definitely can’t stop the bad guys!

The point is moot anyways. All info about everyone is out there for the taking now by a half-competent AI prompter. What do we do about that is the real question?

Spam = excessive promotion of your work. It’s not one comment, but the entire context of all your comments.

Gaslighting because it’s so OBVIOUS that this is what people are referring to by “spam” that you almost have to be purposely pretending to not understand. Such a prolific writer simply has to be aware of the fine line where promoting your work becomes excessive.

Not taking sides here.

I came to comment the exact opposite. People are good, caring, kind, helpful, thoughtful, funny, interesting. It’s visible every day in real life beyond the streets… in both small and big interactions.

When you choose to see beyond the surface, it becomes clear this is the cause of a system. A system that is nearly impossible to escape, and which will last for the rest of our lives. But still a system, and not the people participating.

Sure, a month ago the market was roaring and Anthropic first floated going public. Then suddenly all AI-related stocks drop 30%+ over a week and people claimed the jig was up. No chance for Anthropic IPO.

Turns out it was mainly just caused by one hedge fund (Citadel) targeting another hedge fund (Leopold). He got liquidated and Citadel picked up his portfolio for pennies. Market subsequently soared to even higher highs in the last few weeks and, poof, Anthropic is going public again.

That’s the narrative anyways - the big drop was just Leopold getting liquidated and not a larger market downturn.

Anthropic is absolutely going public now that Leopold got taken for a ride and the market is back at its very tip top. There is no other option at this point. It is imminent.

What you get wrong is who the music stops for. It stops for us (retail). They dump their bags and consolidate into a more manageable business in the long run. S&P drops 10% and life moves on in a few years.

I think you’re right about OpenAI though. They got outplayed at every step and wont go public.

This is the same terrible analogy used to justify Anthropic shutting off API access for subscribers. It’s nothing like an all-you-can-eat buffer because, as you mention, there are limits!

We are not buying all we can eat. We are buying 3 plates of food every 5 hours (or whatever) and we should be able to do with that food as we please, without anti-consumer tactics to scam us out of not consuming the LIMITS we paid for.

Weirdly, no buffet subscriptions exist that I know of. That should tell you a bit about the viability of this business model.. it will collapse if we had to pay the real cost.

I couldn’t disagree more. The base packages are a complete mess. If R was subset to only the tidyverse 5 years ago then it wouldn’t have lost so much ground to Python in nearly all fields.

Posit is obviously the only organization with the pull to do that, and I feel like they got pulled in 10 directions during the move to AI and trying to also support Python. R Shiny is dead too which sucks because reflex.dev just copied them and ate their lunch in 3 months.

> In May, the three of us ended up at Peter's flat in Vienna and built our first vibe slopped project together: VibeTunnel.

May be overthinking this but I'm geniunely curious how that was done practically speaking? Standard git branch and merge or everyone sitting around deciding what prompt to write?

I agree on both points, thanks for the feedback.

I love the idea and am working on something similar around getting more IRL events out in the world with https://onthe.town

I do wonder if the problem is not so much having a place to find LAN events but actually just having enough people put on LAN events in the first place. It feels like a thing of the past with how much less people interact in person these days. It's a shame because LANs are awesome!

Have you thought about ways to make it easier for people to host LAN events? Or does this solve that as well? I guess a solution would require matching random people together. Happy to discuss more - nick at onthe.town

I absolutely love pre-1800 homes and am exploring a few ideas on how to help preserve and promote them. The main thing I'm working on to that effect is https://homelore.org

It's like a carfax but for your home, although the intention is more to create an interesting historical narrative that inspires people to care about the history of their home rather than as a tool for inspecting home issues before buying.

My target customer is realtors who want to inspire buyers to take on historic homes that may need a lot of work. Also home owners themselves of course.

I was pretty involved in the PyTorch ecosystem in the early days around 2016 and Adam was nothing short of a genius and prolific developer whose contributions to the codebase and community were immense. I think he was like an undergrad in Poland at the time. My understanding is that his contributions came before the internship, but I don’t know.

My memory is that Souminth was really open to other people’s contributions and questions, no matter their credentials. He was a great leader who felt approachable to the open-source community.

Really appreciate the feedback. The idea right now is that you set up a club and attendees pay a small amount for each event, and then we take a small (~10%) fee for selecting the venues, doing the matching, and handling payments for you.

But I do love your idea and it's something I'm pursuing. We are matching people to meet at venues (restaurants, golf courses, etc) and it makes sense for venues to pay to be selected. That money would go to organizers and the events could be free. It's just a harder B2B problem to convince companies to sponsor communities.

Ultimately, clubs will have the flexibility to be run in multiple ways - from free, to business-sponsored or attendee-funded, to even onthetown-sponsored as you suggest.