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davepeck commented on What makes Claude Code so damn good   minusx.ai/blog/decoding-c... · Posted by u/samuelstros
bopbopbop7 · 2 days ago
He won’t, everyone that says they made a profitable startup with some AI code generator 3000 never seems to link their startup. Interesting.
davepeck · 16 hours ago
There are many reasons that "I used AI to do it all and now I've got $REAL ARR" strikes me as unlikely. To name just two:

1. I code with LLMs (Copilot, Claude Code). Like anyone who has done so, I know a lot about where these tools are useful and where they're hopeless. They can't do it all, claims to the contrary aside.

2. I've built a couple businesses (and failed tragicomically at building a couple more). Like anyone who has done so, I know the hard parts of startups are rarely the tech itself: sales, marketing, building a team with values, actually listening to customers and responding to their needs, making forward progress in a sea of uncertainty, getting anyone to care at all... sheesh, those are hard! Last I checked, AI doesn't singlehandedly solve any of that.

Which is not to say LLMs are useless; on the contrary, used well and aimed at the right tasks, my experience is that they can be real accelerants. They've undoubtedly changed the way I approach my own new projects. But "LLMs did it all and I've got a profitable startup"... I mean, if that's true, link to it because we should all be celebrating the achievement.

davepeck commented on What makes Claude Code so damn good   minusx.ai/blog/decoding-c... · Posted by u/samuelstros
jaggederest · 2 days ago
My github has examples of work I've done recently that are open source.

I'm deliberately trying not to do too much manual coding right now so I can figure out these (infuriating/wonderful) tools.

davepeck · a day ago
Thanks, I’ll take a look. Everyone uses these tools differently, so I find AI-generated repos (and AI live-coding streams) to be useful learning material.

FWIW: “Infuriating/wonderful” is exactly how I feel about LLM copilots, too! Like you, I also use them extensively. But nothing I’ve built (yet?) has crossed the threshold into salable web services and every time someone makes the claim that they’ve primarily used AI to launch a new business with paid customers, links are curiously absent from the discussion… too bad, since they’d be great learning material too!

davepeck commented on Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs   marianogappa.github.io/so... · Posted by u/maloga
zerr · 2 days ago
My litmus test for generative AI: generate a complete spritesheet for a 2D pixel art action game, e.g. only for the battle tank or main hero movements. No success so far.
davepeck · a day ago
Ive never once successfully gotten a usable sprite sheet out of ChatGPT. The concept seems foreign to it and no matter how hard I try to steer it it’ll find a way to do something hopeless (inconsistent frame sizes; incoherent animations; no sense of consistent pixel sizes or what distinguishes (say) 8-bit from 16-bit era sprites; it’ll draw graph paper in the background for some reason; etc etc.). If anyone has a set of magic prompts for this, I’d love to learn about it. But my suspicion is that it’s just fundamentally the wrong tool for the job — you probably need a purpose-built model.
davepeck commented on What makes Claude Code so damn good   minusx.ai/blog/decoding-c... · Posted by u/samuelstros
1zael · 2 days ago
I've literally built the entire MVP of my startup on Claude Code and now have paying customers. I've got an existential worry that I'm going to have a SEV incident that will trigger a house of falling cards, but until then I'm constantly leveraging Claude for fixing security vulnerabilities, implementing test-driven-development, and planning out the software architecture in accordance with my long-term product roadmap. I hope this story becomes more and more common as time passes.
davepeck · 2 days ago
> I've literally built the entire MVP of my startup on Claude Code and now have paying customers.

Would you mind linking to your startup? I’m genuinely curious to see it.

(I won’t reply back with opinions about it. I just want to know what people are actually building with these tools!)

davepeck commented on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation   theverge.com/news/757461/... · Posted by u/Handy-Man
davepeck · 15 days ago
Am I the only one who found Dohmke’s communication style to be… buzzword forward? For a company whose roots were in pragmatic engineering, I always felt that there was a too-heavy component of hype, particularly around AI, in pretty much every recent public announcement. Yet, despite all the rhetoric and GitHub’s superior position in the industry, they failed to capture the current AI editor market.

Structurally, it seems to make sense for GitHub to be part of Microsoft proper.

Perhaps this is a change for the better.

(PS: despite their “failure” to win hearts and minds, I do recommend giving Copilot in VSCode another look these days. Its agentic mode is very good and rapidly improving; I find it comparable to Claude Code at this point, particularly when paired with a strong model. Related to structure: I never quite understood the line between what parts of this GitHub made, and what parts of this the vscode and related Microsoft teams made.)

davepeck commented on Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?    · Posted by u/superasn
davepeck · 17 days ago
Baseten serves models as a service, at scale. There’s quite a lot of interesting engineering both for inference and infrastructure perf. This is a pretty good deep dive into the tricks they employ: https://www.baseten.co/resources/guide/the-baseten-inference...
davepeck commented on GPT-5   openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd
mlnj · 19 days ago
Cannot believe how it could stand up to that high expectation.

But then again, all of this is a hype machine cranked up till the next one needs cranking.

davepeck · 19 days ago
Yeah.

It does feel like we're marching toward a day when "software on tap" is a practical or even mundane fact of life.

But, despite the utility of today's frontier models, it also feels to me like we're very far from that day. Put another way: my first computer was a C64; I don't expect I'll be alive to see the day.

Then again, maybe GPT-5 will make me a believer. My attitude toward AI marketing is that it's 100% hype until proven otherwise -- for instance, proven to be only 87% hype. :-)

davepeck commented on GPT-5   openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd
davepeck · 19 days ago
Sam Altman, in the summer update video:

> "[GPT-5] can write an entire computer program from scratch, to help you with whatever you'd like. And we think this idea of software on demand is going to be one of the defining characteristics of the GPT-5 era."

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