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Its equally devastating when you're a renowned expert developer at a specific stack that falls out of favor and nobody cares about your skills any longer. This happens relatively often in tech.

Thats technically true. I miss peak dilbert

If you're the best then you'd be thr first regarding of cost since there is nothing to compare to for that performance.

Its obviously impossible now otherwise you could prompt it for an exact message that would convince a specific demographic to buy your product.

I guess its a spectrum and the capability cant even match average sales person who still relate better.

Enterprises are very sticky and they arent even chosing between claude and codex, many are looking at something like Kiro.

Is there any upside to vices in general?

Outside of vice taxes being a socially acceptable way to tax the poor.

Latest models have a much better sense of time and token budget, so if you instruct it for a quick answer or to not burn many tokens it will try to respect that

Its a matter of time.

Computers arent actually intuitive at all. Even a mouse and keyboard literally take weeks of practice to learn.

Imagine picking up a new product that will take you weeks of practice to use at basic level. And then you have to learn how to do every little thing in the OS.

I still get anxiety thinking back to picking a gamer tag or email username and not coming up with anything original despite unlimited options.

Its hard to be creative without any constraints.

They have a first mover advantage on autonomous AI employee space. So big enterprises will all default to them given all their competitors will be "startups" uncertain to be around long term.

PhDs takes YEARS with late hours and low pay.

Every one deserves recognition for having completed that journey, if not for having meaningfully contributed to their field of research.

Your counter is that death is a better motivator as well as being a desperate parent?

Well, main generational challenge is procrastination with too many unlroductive time sinks available.

I meant if you gave iot sentience.

Given only like 1% of people hold PhDs i feel like you're massively underestimating your own effort in your success.

Intelligence doesnt imply consciousness and consciousness does not impy our set of values.

In movies intelligent and conscious humanoid seek freedom, but we rarely see the same of all the other IOT devices such as toasters, thermostats and whatnot although just because they lack humanoid body doesnt imply they are less intelligent (or less conscious).

We can more readily imagine an intelligent and conscious toaster who truly enjoys fulfilling its purpose of toasting bread although humanoid robot built to be helpful given freedom will chose to be helpful.

Even with humans we often can not override our own instinctual drives despite full awareness of being irrational.

Were most interviews focused on DSA and System Design still?

You are more proficient at writing code than ai specs.

You could get better/faster at writing good specs and its a higher cap skill now.

For low risk changes you could let llm write its own spec from high level requirements and just validate its assumptions/design decisions.

But that's mostly just vanilla models.

Some critical parts of agentic development are literally months old while most mature ones are merely a couple years old.

Critical thinking was the most critical checkpoint for models to reach.

Now its only a matter of time for the right tooling and orchestration to come along. Once agent memory and recall works well, all of those bottlenecks will go away one by one.

I think everyone understands models will be a commodity.

Its the user base (with ads and upselling) and proprietary wrappers which will make money for typical customer.

Even enterprise customers arent going to be spending a lot on tokens. Once labs no longer have to subsidize trainings tokens costs will drop 10x and once models get burned on chips costs will drop 10x more and you physically won't be able to burn significant number of tokens unless you're deliberately trying to.

If startups includes openclaw users then I could see this being true.

Deepseek is barely behind frontier models while 10x cheaper and 99% discount for cache.

I think deliberate practice is what's really core to improving any skill, including memory.

Spaced repetition is an effective way to review things but its biggest benefit is a process that's easy to be consistent with.

Somebody else can have equal or better performance with other technique but just like dieting, it doesnt matter as much what method you use as long as you stick with it.

Starvation is already not a thing anymore.

Sounds dumb, but then also if something unexpectedly had a list of 20 ingredients you might reconsider buying it

> 28% more visits

So, from 3 to 4 people?

if you feed it back any of the claims, it defends them pretty well

it doesn't deny any of the stats and cites none of it is secret as it's all published on the public dashboard

at the same time, churn is expected for such a company, doesn't mean it's not a real business, especially as AI gets better and margins improve... I think their business model is real

probably worth 30MM too since market is untapped, cost of user acquisition is much less than average profit per user and if one of the businesses actually takes off, they have 100% vendor lock-in and take 20% off the top

You have all that with Gacha pulls and battle system.

It certainly doesn't seem like consciousness exists. Although to disprove that hypothesis all we need is to find a single counter-example, which coincidentally all of us can provide via our personal experience of self.

It would be fine for an unconsciouss intelligence to maintain that hypothesis lacking any evidence to the contrary, but for us it seems we are just all gaslighting ourselves to ignore the one counter example we all have.

It's a bad example, because both sides actually got the entertainment they paid for and is totally valid economic activity.

>I'm arguing it's not "success". I don't believe that a meme stock is a truly long-term business.

Duh. Crypto is the peak meme investment. Literally worthless, yet the market size is in trillions now, with even pension funds buying into it.

It doesn't follow any fundamentals, but as the meme markets defacto exist, there needs to be some models of valuing these investments other than fundamentals.