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New comment by greatpostman in "AI agent benchmarks are broken"

greatpostman — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:39:00 +0000

Benchmarks aren’t broken, the models can learn anything. If we give them true real world data (physics engine), they will learn the real world. We are going to see artificial general intelligence in our lifetime

New comment by greatpostman in "Grok 4 Launch [video]"

greatpostman — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:09:26 +0000

300 a month is cheap for what is basically a junior engineer

New comment by greatpostman in "We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s, only nobody knew"

greatpostman — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 04:27:26 +0000

Why was this downvoted

New comment by greatpostman in "Crypto investor charged with kidnapping and torturing"

greatpostman — Sun, 25 May 2025 04:18:42 +0000

Theres alot of really rich crypto people in nyc that are up to no good.

New comment by greatpostman in "A Research Preview of Codex"

greatpostman — Sat, 17 May 2025 06:20:41 +0000

Way higher chance

New comment by greatpostman in "N8n – Flexible AI workflow automation for technical teams"

greatpostman — Sat, 03 May 2025 14:52:50 +0000

I’m suspicious about n8n being able to abstract properly to allow for dynamic agentic workflows. Anyone have actual experience?

New comment by greatpostman in "The side hustle from hell"

greatpostman — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 18:25:30 +0000

Yup. You get Bucketed and there is no growth

New comment by greatpostman in "Business co-founders in tech startups are less valuable than they think"

greatpostman — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:32:47 +0000

Once the business hits a certain level of revenue, the mvp is finished etc, whoever is the face of the company, I.e. CEO has way more power. CTO if they have shipped a complete product that’s getting paying customers can be replaced with an engineering manager. But not before

Getting the product to some level of completion is a monumental lift

New comment by greatpostman in "AI Coding assistants provide little value because a programmer's job is to think"

greatpostman — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:13:34 +0000

Honestly, o3 has completely blown my mind in terms of ability to come up with useful abstractions beyond what I would normally build. Most people claiming LLMs are limited just arent using the tools enough, and cant see the trajectory of increasing ability

New comment by greatpostman in "Business co-founders in tech startups are less valuable than they think"

greatpostman — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 20:56:05 +0000

Living in NYC, I have been around a TON of venture backed startups with the classic non technical CEO, technical CTO. Some HUGE percentage of startups see the CTO fired once the tech stack and revenue are stabilized.

The incentive from the CEOs perspective to remove a contender as well as claw back the equity is huge. Early stage the CTO is the most critical, but after real traction they can be replaced far easier than most want to admit.

My advice for technical founders is to always place themselves first, from a legal and organizational perspective. For a technical founder with social skills, a non technical founder brings very little value relative to their vesting in the early stage.

New comment by greatpostman in "An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us"

greatpostman — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 14:00:10 +0000

Calling everything a bubble is low iq. People that cannot understand society, or accept change, run with the bubble narrative at every turn

New comment by greatpostman in "Would You Rather Have Married Young?"

greatpostman — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 01:04:48 +0000

I’m pretty sure as you get older your emotions are more blunted, and you don’t form the same level of bond as you would with someone when you’re 22

New comment by greatpostman in "In S3 simplicity is table stakes"

greatpostman — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:59:55 +0000

I can guarantee you, nothing is simple about S3. I bet engineers spend months on a single configuration change to the underlying subsystems.

New comment by greatpostman in "OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules"

greatpostman — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 00:19:38 +0000

Engineers at ai labs just come from prestigious schools and don’t have technical depth. They are smart, but they simply aren’t qualified to do deep technical innovation

New comment by greatpostman in "Introducing deep research"

greatpostman — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:52:05 +0000

Have pro, can’t see it yet

New comment by greatpostman in "Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff"

greatpostman — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 23:21:33 +0000

There won’t be massive ai layoffs. Companies will just stop hiring

New comment by greatpostman in "Ask HN: Is ChatGPT down?"

greatpostman — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 23:21:59 +0000

Same, tried to fall back to sonnet 3.5, ended up just logging off

New comment by greatpostman in "New Grad to Staff at Meta in 3 years"

greatpostman — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 03:07:09 +0000

Most FAANG teams are grid locked with gatekeeping engineers.

New comment by greatpostman in "U.S. women are outpacing men in college completion in every major group"

greatpostman — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 02:58:19 +0000

The value of a college degree is in the toilet

New comment by greatpostman in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality than sleep duration (2023)"

greatpostman — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 23:19:52 +0000

This is probably correlated with so many other cofounding factors, like employment/stress/substance abuse