I bet some manager came up with a perfectly reasonable explanation why it couldn’t be done in this release ))
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aristofun commented on My eighth year as a bootstrapped founder mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-f... · Posted by u/mtlynch
I don't think I understood the distinction between being a "pure indie solo hacker" and "indie entrepreneur"/"indie salesman".
Are you saying that one cannot make a living just hacking around?
> Are you saying that one cannot make a living just hacking around?
You probably can survive, but not come even close to the salary you'd get being hired by some well established company.
The distinction is what you put first - business (and make hacking constraint by it) or hacking.
aristofun commented on My eighth year as a bootstrapped founder mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-f... · Posted by u/mtlynch
It doesn't prove the model won't work for anyone. It just shows that for this one person, it hasn't worked out awesome. I think there are some folks who end up doing quite well as solopreneurs, but they tend not to talk about it on the internet, lest their niche become more visible, which could erode their margins.
Did you notice how you used the word “solopreneur” thus supporting my point.
aristofun commented on Ask HN: Why are electronics still so unrecyclable? · Posted by u/alexandrehtrb
I’m experimenting with a deliberately constraint-driven system.
Instead of optimizing for growth or speed, it’s designed to be hard to finish and capped at a small number of participants.
Mostly curious what that reveals about long-term commitment.
Could you be more vague and generic?
aristofun commented on Tell HN: AI is not a slippery slope, it's a waterslide · Posted by u/keepamovin
TL;DR persistent auto updated context feature is requested
aristofun commented on My eighth year as a bootstrapped founder mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-f... · Posted by u/mtlynch
This example once again shows me that being “pure” indie solo hacker is not sustainable.
You have to be first and foremost indie entrepreneur and indie salesman and only then you can afford free hacking if you have time left.
Boooring :)
For me, it's tabs-vs-spaces, but doesn't every codebase have its own peeing-against-the-wind patterns that are necessary because of some historical reason or another? What's the way to mitigate against this trend towards the center other than throwing up my hands and admitting defeat?
Absolutely not. Every codebase has some nuances but majority folows very similar rules and patterns. There is nothing to mitigate just don’t expect that something trained on A would suddenly be good at B
> I use tabs instead of spaces for indentation. It seems like the model is massively weighted on code written using spaces (duh)
LLMs by nature are not very good at peeing against the wind. Also on average they are only as good as the average codebase they been trained on. By design.