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there are many who wouldn't bat an eye at $1k / month that guarantees most powerful AI (even if it's just 0.01% better than competition), and no limits on anything.

y'all are greatly underestimating the value of that feeling of (best + limitlessness). high performers make decisions very differently than the average HN user.

I'd disagree with "half" here because I can't imagine it being anywhere close to 50/50. I expect a power law distribution: most won't be able to write well. The ones who do will have a massive advantage, in the same way that those who can concentrate in our age of distractions have a significant advantage over those who can't.

I'm going to be playing with this.

It's the crazy ones that push humanity forward. We lose far more than we can imagine by not enabling even just one of them. This is one of the most important problems for us to fix.

Or: bad actors speed up the rate at which the system improves to not rely on the goodness of individuals in order to operate.

Ofc this is difficult to show with clear evidence. It's my intuition based on observing myself and conversations with other builders.

The only knowledge that matters at the end of the day is experiential: the kind that is learned by doing.

The kid who ships a product to a dozen users, learns and iterates with determination and focus, will have learned far more than the intellectual reading and waiting for the right opportunity to strike.

Of course there is value in intellectual knowledge, but most are far from the optimal balance - too skewed towards the intellectual vs. engaging with, and learning from, reality.

To many, a product like this was almost obvious, esp after Github Copilot gave us a glimpse of what an AI powered coding experience could feel like. And there have been many attempts to do this right. But this team got the hundreds, if not thousands, of product / engineering micro decisions right, and seem to move quite fast.

Well deserved. Congrats, and all the best!

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Colleges have worked in the past because the outcomes were more or less guaranteed (i.e. if you got good grades and graduated, you would very likely land a job), but even that is no longer valid (outside of regulated domains like medicine, law, etc.).

I predict we will see many, many more pay-to-learn companies, institutions fall in the coming years. ("fall" could also mean become irrelevant, and catering only to those that don't understand how the world has changed and still incorrectly think that such programs will prepare them well).

BloomTech, in order to survive, had no choice but to try and play the games they did, and mislead. It's a byproduct of not having a business that is viable.

Neat project though!

Yet, such pain is where the innovation comes from :). Wishing you all the best! And plan to try this out once it covers more product categories.