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New comment by mikeg8 in "Someone behind the software"

mikeg8 — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:31:48 +0000

Slippery slope fallacy

New comment by mikeg8 in "Sites in ChatGPT"

mikeg8 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 03:37:30 +0000

Why not just… have Opus 5.5 build you the website? I would wager that there is minimal value add by passing things back and forth to different services vs just refining in one. But that’s just my personal opinion/experience.

New comment by mikeg8 in "Sites in ChatGPT"

mikeg8 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 03:29:02 +0000

Curious: is your dad tech savvy and do you think he realistically has any desire to manage a website on his own, even if it’s incredibly easy?

New comment by mikeg8 in "The AI Race Just Got Awkward"

mikeg8 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:53:43 +0000

The knife company offers their products to people doing the stabbing. They make money from it. Of course they share part of the guilt.

New comment by mikeg8 in "The AI Race Just Got Awkward"

mikeg8 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:05:18 +0000

Most people aren’t okay with that, but the blame lies in the people who deployed the AI tool in that situation, not the makers of said tool.

New comment by mikeg8 in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

mikeg8 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:44:27 +0000

To imply that the global pandemic and lockdowns didn’t effect social norms going forward is incredibly ignorant. A little more than “getting old”

New comment by mikeg8 in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

mikeg8 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:28:53 +0000

Not OP but that seems to be the implication. Let’s hear your argument against industrialization being net positive?

New comment by mikeg8 in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

mikeg8 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:26:44 +0000

Analysis totally excludes enterprise customer demand and or paid API usage which will only increase as apps integrate this into future knowledge work workflows.

New comment by mikeg8 in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

mikeg8 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:29:29 +0000

Lick! The! Boot!

New comment by mikeg8 in "[dead]"

mikeg8 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:00:16 +0000

Hungry little money grab

New comment by mikeg8 in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

mikeg8 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 05:19:09 +0000

That doesn’t mean that the subscription itself is losing money. The margin on the subscription could be fine, but by using that margin to R&D the next model, the org may still be intentionally unprofitable. It’s their investment/growth strategy, not an indictment of their pricing strategy.

New comment by mikeg8 in "US businesses and consumers pay 90% of tariff costs, New York Fed says"

mikeg8 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:50:28 +0000

That’s not the way they are presented at all. And making foreign goods much more expensive when we don’t currently produce enough of those products domestically to offer actual alternatives is a clear harm to consumers, not a boon to domestic manufacturing.

New comment by mikeg8 in "Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic Ad Campaign"

mikeg8 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:15:46 +0000

Defensive much, Sam?

New comment by mikeg8 in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

mikeg8 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:57:08 +0000

“Foundational” seems a bit overkill here. There is nothing foundational about it – it’s a convenience tool, albeit a very good one.

AI is disruptive technology - like other tech innovations before it, there will be casualties to incumbents. If anything, this just shows how small businesses with need to be more creative when establishing moats and sustainability in this new landscape.

New comment by mikeg8 in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

mikeg8 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:03:49 +0000

Yea! I totally trust corporations and government to always do the right thing and never abuse their powers!

New comment by mikeg8 in "Is it a bubble?"

mikeg8 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 04:34:13 +0000

I believe it’s you who is misunderstanding his positions here. He clearly lays out that he is focused on irrational optimism effecting the investment around the tech, not whether or not the tech itself is viable. His analysis was indeed well thought out from the perspective he is approaching it from.

New comment by mikeg8 in "How private equity is changing housing"

mikeg8 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:42:30 +0000

its a good bet on their part (although i hate it). we obviously can't increase supply fast enough to keep up with demand in the current regulatory climate and with an existing shortage of skilled tradesmen and ratio of tradesman retiring out vs newcomers entering construction, there doesn't seem to be a feasible way to meaningfully increase supply.

New comment by mikeg8 in "How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)"

mikeg8 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 05:18:25 +0000

No, there is an airport 10 minutes from the museum but the museum itself is closer to downtown.

New comment by mikeg8 in "The RubyGems "Security Incident""

mikeg8 — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 06:55:05 +0000

Ruby central looks so incompetent it’s not even funny. Bummer all around.

New comment by mikeg8 in "ChatGPT Pulse"

mikeg8 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 03:08:43 +0000

I’d disagree. I think there is still so much value it can offer if you really open your mind. For instance, I’ve met very few “programmers” that I’d consider even moderately competent at front-end, so the ability of a programmer to build and iterate a clean and responsive UI is just one example of a huge win for AI tools.