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New comment by ryanSrich in "The MacBook Neo"

ryanSrich — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:19:00 +0000

MacOS is a bug filled nightmare, and it's still light years better than Windows. I haven't used Ubuntu extensively since early 2019, but it still wasn't comparable to OSX at the time.

Apple and specifically MacOS is significantly worse than it has ever been, but again, still far better than the alternatives.

New comment by ryanSrich in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

ryanSrich — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:27:16 +0000

The equivalent of about $20/hr today for those wondering

New comment by ryanSrich in "Why I don't think AGI is imminent"

ryanSrich — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:16:41 +0000

Yes. https://x.com/claudeai/status/2014834616889475508?s=46

New comment by ryanSrich in "Why I don't think AGI is imminent"

ryanSrich — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 04:06:18 +0000

This has always been my personal definition of AGI. But the market and industry doesn't agree. So I've backed off on that and have more or less settled on "can do most of the knowledge work that a human can do"

New comment by ryanSrich in "Why I don't think AGI is imminent"

ryanSrich — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 04:05:16 +0000

So it's even more human than we thought

New comment by ryanSrich in "Why I don't think AGI is imminent"

ryanSrich — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 04:04:48 +0000

This is entirely solvable with skills, memory, context, and further prompting. All of which can be done in a way that's reliable and repeatable.

You wouldn't expect a Jr. dev to be the best at keeping things dry either.

New comment by ryanSrich in "Why I don't think AGI is imminent"

ryanSrich — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 04:03:12 +0000

I would and have done the same with Jr. devs. It's not an argument against it being AGI.

New comment by ryanSrich in "Why I don't think AGI is imminent"

ryanSrich — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 04:02:28 +0000

Giving opus a memory or real-time access to the current year is trivial. I don't see how that's an argument against it being AGI.

New comment by ryanSrich in "Why I don't think AGI is imminent"

ryanSrich — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:59:25 +0000

I think "tested" is the hard part. The simple part seems to be there already, loops, crons, and computer use is getting pretty close.

New comment by ryanSrich in "Why I don't think AGI is imminent"

ryanSrich — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:50:44 +0000

AGI is here. 90%+ of white collar work _can_ be done by an LLM. We are simply missing a tested orchestration layer. Speaking broadly about knowledge work here, there is almost nothing that a human is better at than Opus 4.6. Especially if you're a typical office worker whose job is done primarily on a computer, if that's all AGI is, then yeah, it's here.

New comment by ryanSrich in "Heroku is not dead"

ryanSrich — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 03:12:49 +0000

The market has clearly passed it by. I was a huge Heroku fan. It even inspired my first startup in 2014 (basically a healthcare tech version of Heroku). At the time, I thought it was the future, and found messing around in AWS, etc., too time-consuming and unnecessary. That was when Rails was all the rage.

New comment by ryanSrich in "Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments"

ryanSrich — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 03:26:33 +0000

That's the idea yeah. There are other people actively working on this. You can follow vx-underground on twitter. They're tracking it.

New comment by ryanSrich in "Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments"

ryanSrich — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 03:24:42 +0000

Seems like a job for an LLM

New comment by ryanSrich in "The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice"

ryanSrich — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 11:19:34 +0000

Are they paying through? Reddit was also popular for a long time and didn't make much money.

My point was more that it seems this wave of AI is more profitable if you're in B2B vs. B2C.

New comment by ryanSrich in "The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice"

ryanSrich — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 02:44:53 +0000

Elon is one of the most unlikable people on the planet, so I wouldn't consider him much of a bar.

New comment by ryanSrich in "The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice"

ryanSrich — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 02:06:00 +0000

I think there are two things that happened

1. OpenAI bet largely on consumer. Consumers have mostly rejected AI. And in a lot of cases even hate it (can't go on TikTok or Reddit without people calling something slop, or hating on AI generated content). Anthropic on the other hand went all in on B2B and coding. That seems to be the much better market to be in.

2. Sam Altman is profoundly unlikable.

New comment by ryanSrich in "Vibecoding #2"

ryanSrich — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:41:29 +0000

When fortune 500, 100 and 50 organizations are buying AI coding tools at scale (I know from personal exp), then I would say you're late. So yes. Late stage adoption for this wave.

The Types of Vibe Coders

ryanSrich — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:29:26 +0000

Article URL: https://r.rich/blog/vibe-coders

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46679346

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by ryanSrich in "Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss"

ryanSrich — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 01:45:20 +0000

> Feels like the more important question is how are you going to do all these things when Slack cuts you off

I pay Slack $50k/year. They have no reason to shut me off.

> or there is some new Slack policy that prevents it

Prevents what exactly? The new API pricing they introduced doesn't apply to internal apps. I suppose they could apply it to internal apps. We'd have to figure out a path around it

> or they increase their pricing by 1000%

1000% increase in pricing seems incredibly unlikely. That would not only disrupt thousands of companies but would likely kill Slack entirely

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> Haven’t you basically built your entire business on this singular proprietary platform they you have almost no control over?

Not really. We service clients through Slack. Could we switch? Sure. Would it be a pain? Yeah. Would it be costly? Yeah.

But there's also no reason to switch. And if a new platform comes out (like the one this thread is about), I would expect them to have the features to compete with Slack if they are posiitioning themselves as a Slack competitor

New comment by ryanSrich in "Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss"

ryanSrich — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 01:10:14 +0000

I run a company that services 1,000+ clients on Slack, another 300+ on Teams, and a < 100 on Email/Gchat

I wouldn't wish Teams on my worst enemy, so in that regard, I love Slack

The thing I struggle with the most is how I'd move all of our core functionality from Slack. A lot of the people/teams that build these "Slack killers" I don't think have ever run Slack at scale

How are you going to replace the 30+ in-house apps I've built that automate 50+ workflows?

How are you going to replace the 100+ workflows I use with 1,000+ clients when they have to submit a ticket, or questionnaire, or a security event?

How are you going to replace the 100+ partner channels I have where we send out automated messages about specials and discounts we're running?

What about the 500+ other apps I run that integrate with our systems? Are they going to support your new platform?

Do you have retention settings? DLP? How granular can I go on permissions? What about picking up events via the API so I can train people in real time on what not to do in public channels?

I have no affinity or personal ties to Slack. But if you're going to position yourself as a Slack competitor you have to actually do what Slack does