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I am yet to see that ‘companies with great ideas which simply cannot afford those very expensive developers’. For the most, issue is not programmer costs. Mostly it’s inability to formulate the MVP which makes sense.

‘uber for my industry’ is not a sensible business strategy

Honestly, if you know guys whose bottleneck is pure software dev — please let me know, I have a good, experienced team in Eastern Europe, we can do wonders in product development. But coming up with sensible business ideas and executing on them in the real world is crazy hard and extremely rare.


Can you believe that the barrier to entry on a $20 Claude subscription is lower than emailing a guy to hire a team for a project you haven’t even thought of yet? Regular people who are using AI to assist with their daily work will find the chatbot offering to build software tools to automate the work for them.

Nowadays a lot of web servers are written in js, for better or worse

Is this news now? AP of all places

It started well, and then he is suddenly sick because fellow member of the drama group made a poster using AI without consulting him (her?)

Anyways, people looking for drama will find one


Language is the house of the being

I believe you are using the wrong language

> some institutional sucker will buy

They are committing fraud in the high trust society. Literally sucking blood from our kids and grandkids who would have to rebuild, if that’s even possible


Reminded me of the trucks which truck the airliners in the airports

Searched for it, they are called Towbarless (TBL) Tugs, they go under the nose of plane and lift the front wheels

I don’t particularly like cars, but those ones always had my attention in the terminal :)


Yeah, for those it makes sense to have the driver's cabin so low to the ground. Also for heavy-duty auto cranes (https://www.gelbe-seiten-svd.de/Anzeigen/bga_grafiken/80i353...). But for trailer trucks, the downsides (mostly the severely limited visibility for the driver) far outweigh the advantages.

Reminds me more remotely of scoops used in coal mining, in very low-ceilinged seams:

https://www.komatsu.com/en-us/products/equipment/room-and-pi...


And many others. I felt it too

And it’s a good contrast with ‘just fcking use Go’ article he linked.

Go article is much more human. I love that and would choose a human centered language and human centered culture over LLM-centered everything every time

I guess I am just old


And tables with comparisons! Nobody makes a table by hand if it’s not packed with value. Tables in this article are not

This kids don't know what x86 is



I wish there were a media with articles like this


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