Comment by simonw
6 days ago
Saying "this tool is genuinely useful to me and it's baffling how many people refuse to acknowledge that could possible be true" is not a sign that someone is being paid to "shill for AI".
(If it is then damn, I've been leaving a ton of money on the table.)
Some days it seems like the most vulgar Marxist would be more rigorous about doing a who-benefits analysis before using that to dismiss an argument than the median HN commenter. Fly.io benefits from AI hype because... more slop code gets written and then run on their servers? tptacek would burn his HN cred for that? Really?
> Fly.io benefits from AI hype because... more slop code gets written and then run on their servers?
I don't know if that's what fly.io is going for here, but their competitors are explicitly leaning into that angle so it's not that implausible. Vercel is even vertically integrating the slop-to-prod pipeline with v0.
As far as I can see this only makes sense if they actually believe that AI will accelerate production code that people will want to pay to keep running. Maybe they're wrong about that, but it's got to be sincere, or the strategy would be incoherent.
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