Oh god, the whole world become a boring mess of sameness, won't it. What a world we have created as the tech industry. Absolutely dumb as rocks we are.
Readit NewsDead Comment
Deleted Comment
Dead Comment
ilrwbwrkhv commented on AI suggestions make writing more generic, Western news.cornell.edu/stories/... · Posted by u/gnabgib
ilrwbwrkhv commented on The Gang Has a Mid-Life Crisis chris-martin.org/2025/the... · Posted by u/dralley
This is actually a great characterization and one of the reasons why for example YC has not had a success in the last 10 years.
This has caused tech to look more and more like a ponzi scheme with greater and greater promises and yet the actual output is very feeble.
Even large companies like Apple have got caught in all this. Imagine what they promised and what they haven't been able to deliver.
We need a grand reset but that needs to come from the young ones.
Stop doing leetcode. Go back to original engineering. Stop using JavaScript. Build software like Winamp.
The leap frogging at this point is getting insane (in a good way, I guess?). The amount of time each state of the art feature gets before it's supplanted is a few weeks at this point.
LLMs were always a fun novelty for me until OpenAI DeepResearch which started to actually come up with useful results on more complex programming questions (where I needed to write all the code by hand but had to pull together lots of different libraries and APIs), but it was limited to 10/month for the cheaper plan. Then Google Deep Research upgraded to 2.5 Pro and with paid usage limits of 20/day, which allowed me to just throw everything at it to the point where I'm still working through reports that are a week or more old. Oh and it searched up to 400 sources at a time, significantly more than OpenAI which made it quite useful in historical research like identifying first edition copies of books.
Now Claude is releasing the same research feature with integrations (excited to check out the Cloudflare MCP auth solution and hoping Val.town gets something similar), and a run time of up to 45 minutes. The pace of change was overwhelming half a year ago, now it's just getting ridiculous.
None of those reports are any good though. Maybe for shallow research, but I haven't found them deep. Can you share what kind of research you have been trying there where it has done a great job of actual deep research.
ilrwbwrkhv commented on Ask HN: 3rd Week at FAANG and feeling imposter syndrome · Posted by u/HowDoesSound
If you are at Faang and feeling imposter syndrome, maybe you just need to get better at things. I actually rejected multiple offers from Faang back in the day because they were so mediocre.
Reducing features just makes the web less competitive versus native apps, handing control of personal computing back to the MS and Apple duopoly.
And that's why they should be broken up too and their app stores should be completely open so that any apps can be installed.
I want an America where competition thrives again.
Yeah, unfortunately, they have to jump on the AI bandwagon because they are forced to by other editors, providing free AI, but they simply do not have the skills to integrate the AI properly. It's a shame, and unfortunately removing negative reviews will not help as people will simply migrate to a different product. You can have three 5 star reviews, but that doesn't help if nobody else is using it.
Agree ever since Roman Elizarov left that company has gone downhill big time. Crashing all the time, stuff that should be rock solid because it so common. Like the other day syntax errors stopped being highlighted. I never update because every time something will be broken guaranteed.
Yeah Jetbrains is going down a very similar path to Borland.