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jbs789 commented on All managers make mistakes; good managers acknowledge and repair   terriblesoftware.org/2025... · Posted by u/matheusml
jbs789 · 2 days ago
All people make mistakes…
jbs789 commented on Left to Right Programming   graic.net/p/left-to-right... · Posted by u/graic
danielPort9 · 6 days ago
Don’t know why python gets so much love. It’s a painful language as soon as more than one person is involved. What the author describes is just the tip of the iceberg
jbs789 · 6 days ago
One perspective: I built a business on python. It’s an accessible and powerful tool.
jbs789 commented on A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)   prog21.dadgum.com/29.html... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
csb6 · 12 days ago
Sounds like a petulant child. Wholly unnecessary to get his point across.
jbs789 · 12 days ago
To me it sounds like the symptom (emotion) of someone who deeply cares.

These things need to be well-placed to be effective. Sounds like it was.

jbs789 commented on Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context   anthropic.com/news/1m-con... · Posted by u/adocomplete
PaulDavisThe1st · 12 days ago
> I disagree, I may not have the whole codebase in my head in one moment but I have had all of it in my head at some point, and it is still there, that is not true of an LLM.

All 3 points (you have had all of it your head at some point, it is still there, that is not true of an LLM) are mere conjectures, and not provable at this time, certainly not in the general case. You may be able to show this of some codebases for some developers and for some LLMs, but not all.

jbs789 · 12 days ago
I'm not sure the idea that a developer maintains a high level understanding is all that controversial...
jbs789 commented on GPT-5   openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd
highfrequency · 17 days ago
It is frequently suggested that once one of the AI companies reaches an AGI threshold, they will take off ahead of the rest. It's interesting to note that at least so far, the trend has been the opposite: as time goes on and the models get better, the performance of the different company's gets clustered closer together. Right now GPT-5, Claude Opus, Grok 4, Gemini 2.5 Pro all seem quite good across the board (ie they can all basically solve moderately challenging math and coding problems).

As a user, it feels like the race has never been as close as it is now. Perhaps dumb to extrapolate, but it makes me lean more skeptical about the hard take-off / winner-take-all mental model that has been pushed.

Would be curious to hear the take of a researcher at one of these firms - do you expect the AI offerings across competitors to become more competitive and clustered over the next few years, or less so?

jbs789 · 17 days ago
Very well said.
jbs789 commented on If You're So Smart, Why Are You So Poor?   terminaldrift.substack.co... · Posted by u/paulpauper
jbs789 · 22 days ago
In my experience it’s also a question of focus and basic goal setting. What you care about, balanced against everything else in your world.
jbs789 commented on Figma will IPO on July 31   figma.com/blog/ipo-pricin... · Posted by u/nevir
ygritte · 25 days ago
Is this the start signal for impending enshittification? Now that the actual customers of Figma are the shareholders?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44737346

jbs789 · 25 days ago
There have always been shareholders. Now you can be one too, if you would like.
jbs789 commented on GLP-1s are breaking life insurance   glp1digest.com/p/how-glp-... · Posted by u/alexslobodnik
jbs789 · a month ago
The reason insurers ask about weight loss is that it could be a sign of a (severe) undiagnosed medical condition - e.g. they should be contacting a doctor(!)
jbs789 commented on Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business   projectionlab.com/blog/we... · Posted by u/jonkuipers
themdonuts · 2 months ago
The business is a car rental platform for niche destinations https://bonjourpaco.com/

At the time I was working with maybe 30 providers and it would be doable to rebuild the server and reconfigure all providers, cars, insurance, etc. Content would probably take longer, but also doable. But at the time I took it as a sign to shift to something else.

Glad I didn't and that the project came back from the ashes, literally.

jbs789 · a month ago
Love the business. Appreciating every market is different… the Greek islands might be interesting to you.
jbs789 commented on Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future   steveblank.com/2025/07/08... · Posted by u/ArmageddonIt
jbs789 · 2 months ago
Stepping back from the specifics these are stories of human nature.

We tag “complacency” as bad, but I think it’s just a byproduct of our reliance on heuristics and patterns which is evolutionarily useful overall.

On the other hand we worry (sometimes excessively) about how the future might unfold and really much of that is unknown.

Much more practical (and rewarding) to keep improving oneself or organisation to meet the needs of the world today withe an eye on how the world is evolving, rather than try to be some oracle or predict too far out (in which case you need to both get the prediction and the execution right!).

As an aside, it seems a recent fashion to love these big bets these days (AI, remember Metaverse), and to make big high conviction statements about the future, but that’s more to do with their individual specific circumstances and motivations.

u/jbs789

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