What a horrible world we live in where the author of great writing like this has to sit and be accused of "being AI slop" simply because they use grammar and rhetoric well.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660337

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This work here is obviously more complex than that, but suggests something similar is going on with early layers transforming to some sort of generalized basis functions defining a universal language representation.

Bringing in shock theater optimized staff is a particularly poor fit for a scenario that will impact a disproportionately voting and bipartisan pool of citizens.

There's a reason advertising in airports is generally targeted at corporate leaders and decision makers.

See also Mythic Quest's discussion of TTP.[0] User Generated Content is only your friend if you have the resources to moderate it.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_xqyIMwbew

Shouldn't the next step be actual validation (which looks nothing like asking people what they think about the reports)?

Without validation, it's just a nice-sounding horoscope.

Codev looks like it has a lot of good similarities to spec-kit, and like it's something I need to pay close attention to. That said, I'll encourage you to do another pass on your command names, intros, and cheat-sheet.

I suspect most developers using codev will mostly use a very small fraction of the codev commands most of the time, similar to the way spec-kit is mostly /specify, /plan, /tasks, and /implement, with a bit of /clarify and /analyze once you really get comfortable with it. If I'm right, having some docs where you emphasize the simplicity of your core flow would be very helpful.

For calibration, five minutes into reading your home page and medium post and some of your repo docs, I'm ready to believe this is true, but I have no idea what that core flow is or looks like. Five minutes is actually a pretty long time, and I suspect most visitors will end up bouncing if they don't get clarity on what the experience is ultimately going to be like for them in five minutes (or, more likely, much less than five minutes).

Hint: Money is a nice thing to have but it is very definitely not a moat.

If a company is making above market returns and the only thing stopping a potential competitor from competing with them (aka the company's so-called "moat") is that "it takes money", that company does NOT have a moat.

It's very easy for a potential competitor to calculate that, after x-months or y-years, they will have made enough profits to pay for the cost of building the competing product. As long as that amount of time is finite, there is excess profit for a competitor to take, and the company will find it's so called "moat" wasn't a moat at all.

This isn't a new thing. It's been a fact for centuries or millenia. It's one of the many things that makes success in business hard.

Porter's Five Forces is one distillation of the foundational principles on which moats can be built (and yes, this is a non-trivial subject, so success in this area generally does take more effort than just reading or skimming the Wikipedia page, but if you had to distill it down to one sentence, it's probably "try to build something that has network effects").

I created the account from my phone, and don't have access to the dev tools I'd want to paste the key into. I can deal with it, but I don't know if I'll be able to regenerate the key if I lose it, I'd rather not store it on my phone, and I don't trust my accuracy in manually typing it in on my laptop while looking at my phone, so all the options feel not great. Again, not an actual roadblock, but still something I'd encourage fixing.

Edit added: Good thing I copied the key to my phone before writing this message. Jumping over to this page seems to have forced a refresh/logout on the ensure page in the other tab, so my token would (I think? maybe?) be lost at this point if I'd done it in the other order.