I always thought selling a good product is easy.

Creating a good product that is hard.

And selling a bad product is hard so the people with this skill makes a lot of money.

Creating a good product requires lots of interaction with your target customers. You can call the "sales" in the beginning, but it's really understanding how to tweak your product from an idea to solve a problem into something that fits into the customer's workflows and solves their problems. The only way to really validate the product is to see who pays money for it.

Maybe the problem is using React for that.

> The only downside is that sooner or later, you hit the scaling trap.

Which they might be able to overcome faster with the help of AI, again.

Trying to fix broken architecture with the same AI that wrote it leads to recursive technical debt. AI can rewrite code, but it cannot make strategic decisions if the operator doesn't understand the problem. In the end, instead of a fix, you get a Big Ball of Mud, just built 10x faster

I'm hoping so. The Web APIs now are mature and very good, besides one or another thing Apple still refuses to implement. We just need developers to start using them more.

> 8. People may become busier than ever

this is so true and the opposite of what was expected

LLMs provide the benefit of lossy compression of all the text on the Internet.

It’s a crappier reddit in your pocket.

Use it well.

In Brazil it means "dick".

It's a good job it's pronounced differently to cacete. The guy that designed the logo is from Brazil and he did mention that.

oops haha

I'm starting to suspect some of these comments might be AI generated and it is all an experiment. guy is the top comment in every other HN thread.

He’s the top comment on every AI thread because he is a high profile developer (invented Django) and now runs arguably the most information rich blog that exists on the topic of LLMs.

The logo is AI generated... I think it is reasonable to assume so is many of the other things this account does.

That’s not really reasonable to assume at all. Five minutes of research would give you a pretty strong indication of his character. The dude does not need to self-aggrandize; his reputation precedes.

Yeah I was joking, don't think it is AI but I'm starting to get a bit tired of seeing his posts at the top of every AI thread.

Diversity of opinions is good, someone monopolizing the #1 comment of every AI thread is not healthy for the community.

Perhaps. But perhaps this era of AI slop leaves a foul taste in many people’s mouth. I don‘t know the reputation, all I see is somebody who felt the need to AI generate a picture and post it on HN. This is slop, and I personally get bad vibes from people who post AI generated slop, which leaves me with all sorts of assumptions about their character.

To clarify, they are here to have fun, they liked the joke about cow-ork (which I did too, it was a good joke), and they had an idea on how to build up on that joke. But instead of putting in a minor effort (like 5 min in Inkscape) they write a one sentence prompt to nano-banana and think everybody will love it. Personally I don’t.

If you can draw a cow and an ork on top of an Anthropic logo with five minutes in Inkscape in a way that clearly captures this particular joke then my hat is off to you.

I'm all in on LLMs for code and data extraction.

I never use them to write text for my own comments on forums so social media or my various personal blogs - those represent my own opinions and need to be in my own words.

I've recently started using them for some pieces of code documentation where there is little value to having a perspective or point of view.

My use of image generation models is exclusively for jokes, and this was a really good joke.

This really is unnecessarily harsh. As someone who's been reading Simon's blog for years and getting a lot of value from his insights and open source work, I'm sad to see such a snap dismissive judgement.

"all sorts of assumptions about [someone's] character" based on one post might not be a smart strategy in life.

I'd say is necessarily harsh. It is not as if Simon's opinions on AI were really better than others here that are as technical as his.

He is prolific, and being at the top of every HN thread is what makes him look like a reference but there are other 50+ people talking interesting things about AI that are not getting the deserved attention because every top AI thread we are discussing a pelican riding a bike.

He very obviously disclosed that he had nano banana generate the logo. Using AI to boost himself is a different animal altogether. (The difference is lying)

This is the Internet. Everyone here is an AI running in a simulator like the Matrix. How do I know you're not an AI? How do you know I'm not? I could be! Please, just use an em—dash when responding to this comment let me know you're AI.

I have had the opportunity to try your optimized JS code and it sucks tho. It is almost comedic seeing you bragging about such a "blazing fast" bad app.

Sucks how and do you have an example of a React SPA that executes faster?

Sucks as not being interesting enough for the fast load to be worth anything. Why compare it to React, if React is shit?

So I take it the application works well for you but you aren’t interested in home server administration and that you have no examples of any SPA that is faster.

It would have been more helpful had you said that, because otherwise your comment just sounded like empty whining.

well you can take it the way you want to feel better, that was not the case tho. And the code was even worse than the results, lots of boilerplate. I don't want to be mean, but it is funny to see you brag so much about bad code that you think is good.

> Your 1 megabyte index file has just added over 2 seconds to your page load time

It might not be intentional (I doubt), but your replies really read like bad faith discourse.

I'm a heavy claude code user but this is starting to smell like BS. There is nothing special in claude code, opus is a good model and with lots of requests it can give good results. There is nothing unique to it.