There are people all over the place building stuff that would've either never been built, or would've required a paid dev++.

I built a whole webshop with an internal CRM/admin panel to manage ~150 products. I built a middleware connecting our webshop to our legacy ERP system, smth that would be normally done by another software company.

I built a program with a UI that makes it super easy for us to generate ZPL code and print labels using 4 different label printers automatically with a simple interface, managed by an RPi.

I have built custom personal portfolio websites for friends with Gemini 3 in hours for free, smth that again would've cost money for dev or some crappy WP/Squarespace templates.

As the other user said, the progress/changes are not distributed evenly, and are impossible to quantify.

But to me whose main job is not programming (but who knows how to code) but running a nom-software business, the productivity gains are very obvious, as is the fact that because of LLMs I have robbed developers of potential work.

But I guess this is inevitable, so we'll just have to devise better solutions than the simple locks which in their working principles have not changed in the past 100+ years.

Great market opportunity around the corner I suppose.

I'm in the ideation/design phase of a nylon-based linear actuator project and would love to gather some feedback from people (semi)-related to any adjacent fields that could give some additional feedback on the theoretical/practical side of the product.

I guess it would fit "Ask HN" best, right?

First things first, different groups of humans have different protein requirements (pregnant women, elderly, athletes, sedentary non-active adults etc) so generalizations in nutrition science are always dangerous.

Secondly, the studies you cited have been experimental on yeast and mice, but observational and correlational with humans - nothing conclusive about how a practical reduction in methionine and leucine in the real world for real humans would work, and how it would affect them long term. Those are two completely different scenarios, with the former being highly controlled studies of non-human species.

Thirdly, even if methionine reduction did positively affect lifespan/healthspan, the reality is that most people are simply not equipped to take on such a dietary change, leading to more harm done than good.

The reality is that, yes, many animal foods contain much more methionine than plant based. However, you also have to consider that if regular people tried to switch to plant-based (aside from lacking general education about plant-based diets), in order for them to consume sufficient amounts of protein from plants, they'd end up consuming a lot more calories (not only fibre but other simpler carbs) due to the higher calorie-to-protein ratio. This, especially if they don't live very active lives, would contribute to weight gain, all the while them thinking they're being healthier by being plant-based.

I understand that these are promising studies that have been around for a while, and I was a vegetarian for 5 years before switching back to omnivore due to becoming more disillusioned by the vegetarian diet, especially as I was trying to build muscle while on veggie+fasting, and failing.

But context matters, real world conditions matter.

Correlational/observational studies don't mean shit because they cannot possibly account for the diverse lifestyle practices of the participants living in the real world, try as they might.

Hence why I'm advocating for people to simply consume more protein, because, even though there might be benefits to restricting certain AAs, a lot of other implications to this dietary change might be overlooked, causing more harm to the health long term.

Let me know if I'm missing something crucial.