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New comment by camdenreslink in "Sites in ChatGPT"

camdenreslink — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:33:17 +0000

In my area many of those use cases are handled by Facebook pages already. For the general public this might still seem too technical.

New comment by camdenreslink in "The death of web development education"

camdenreslink — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:08:36 +0000

I tried creating a similar concept at https://www.codembark.com but felt it would be too hard to monetize with the headwinds of AI. I ended up just getting rid of all of the paywalls and just offering it for free.

New comment by camdenreslink in "LinkedIn Larpmaxxing"

camdenreslink — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:29:55 +0000

It definitely fell off before ChatGPT by at least a few years.

New comment by camdenreslink in "Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs"

camdenreslink — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:26:08 +0000

We know inference costs scale with usage. Unless they found a way to make it much more efficient (which is possible). I think it's a fair presumption.

New comment by camdenreslink in "Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs"

camdenreslink — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:52:27 +0000

Presumably the expenses would also be higher in 2026 as well, because inference costs scale with usage and I think training their new large models would be in there as well.

New comment by camdenreslink in "Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs"

camdenreslink — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:15:43 +0000

Some of these numbers are crazy. The scale of them is hard to comprehend.

- $42 billion net loss in 2025

- $518 billion in infrastructure obligations coming up (EDIT)

- 1/4 of revenue coming from 2 customers

New comment by camdenreslink in "The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent"

camdenreslink — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:45:34 +0000

Why was the title of the HN post changed from the actual title of the blog post? I thought it was clear in its meaning.

New comment by camdenreslink in "We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians"

camdenreslink — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 18:44:23 +0000

If you only fund “commercially viable” mathematics, then you are going to miss out on the majority of the most commercially important mathematics.

At least historically, we haven’t really been able to tell what will be transformative in terms of real world applications ahead of time.

New comment by camdenreslink in "Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead'"

camdenreslink — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:22:37 +0000

You used a calculator every time you needed to multiply or divide simple numbers while reducing matrices to echelon form in introductory linear algebra? Or when doing simple arithmetic necessary to find integrals and derivatives in calculus? I bet you in fact did have those tables memorized, even if it wasn't a conscious effort.

New comment by camdenreslink in "The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy"

camdenreslink — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:28:00 +0000

At much much lower rates than accidental overdose rates assuredly.

New comment by camdenreslink in "AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You"

camdenreslink — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:26:10 +0000

There is more to development than domain knowledge. There are decades of wisdom about development best practices on how to keep a large codebase maintainable, performant, testable, etc. that LLMs frequently don't follow. And now humans aren't practicing those skills either or passing down lessons learned to the next generation of programmers.

Maybe it will be no big deal, and nobody will read code anymore, but it is understandable why somebody might be concerned about it.

New comment by camdenreslink in "The senior engineer death spiral"

camdenreslink — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:52:27 +0000

Not possible with jobs with on-call responsibilities (most senior software engineering jobs in my experience).

New comment by camdenreslink in "Astra for Law"

camdenreslink — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:50:44 +0000

You could do this for code reviews. Have Claude include one subtle bug into each PR. If the reviewer does not spot it, then the PR is not mergable.

New comment by camdenreslink in "Astra for Law"

camdenreslink — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:43:37 +0000

I don't think the details of the company's benefits plan is considered your private information. But I am concerned about errors in this parsing leading to incorrect results (and that compounding everywhere throughout society when this sort of workflow becomes ubiquitous).

New comment by camdenreslink in "Feeling Sad about AI"

camdenreslink — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:51:41 +0000

One lesson that could be applicable, is that your passion doesn't necessarily have to be your "job". You can perform music on the weekends, or be an active participant in your local indie dev gamer community while having a totally boring corporate job. I've seen a lot of people burned by trying to make their passion their actual career.

New comment by camdenreslink in "Feeling Sad about AI"

camdenreslink — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:43:05 +0000

I think your ability to market will matter the most (which is also pretty much the same as ever).

New comment by camdenreslink in "Shopify acquires Tailwind"

camdenreslink — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:09:47 +0000

I think their business model was sustainable, but depended on SEO. AI made it so people would either use the LLM generated tailwind syntax, or the "AI Overview" at the top of the Google search results and never land on the official tailwind documentation site. Less visits on the official docs meant less people would see the paid offerings, which means less people would buy.

It's possible they could have explored other marketing channels (youtube?), but it seems like the death of SEO for this sort of content lead to the main issues.

New comment by camdenreslink in "Doomscrolling ourselves to death"

camdenreslink — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 02:51:53 +0000

Probably “Alcoholics Anonymous”

New comment by camdenreslink in "OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra"

camdenreslink — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:35:01 +0000

You can imagine with more operations being available to be done more cheaply and quickly the LLM doesn't need to "one shot" a solution. It could try many solutions, test them, throw some away, wiggle some of the parameters like a genetic algorithm, see how that changes the result, and converge on an optimal solution (based on whatever the cost function is). Basically producing a good result could become like an optimization problem. That would be way too expensive and slow right now.

New comment by camdenreslink in "How much of HN is AI?"

camdenreslink — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 02:51:13 +0000

I think the scrapers have gotten pretty good and can imitate real traffic. And it isn’t just scraping for model training. A large amount would be LLM tool calls searching the web (and HN) for info about some prompt.