{"id":46653681,"user":"emp17344","time":1768606783,"time_ago":"a month ago","type":"comment","content":"

Basically, fraud. Low-level fraud, but still fraud.","comments":[{"id":46654893,"user":"csomar","time":1768619477,"time_ago":"a month ago","type":"comment","content":"

Low-level fraud? It’s used to raise billions that could have been used for other purposes.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":0,"url":"item?id=46654893"},{"id":46655792,"user":"nerdponx","time":1768630719,"time_ago":"a month ago","type":"comment","content":"

Fraud is just marketing in the 2020s now.","comments":[{"id":46655885,"user":"skciva","time":1768632358,"time_ago":"a month ago","type":"comment","content":"

I'm not a fan of this either but I fail to see how its much different than the happy path tech demos of old.","comments":[{"id":46657535,"user":"drawfloat","time":1768652968,"time_ago":"a month ago","type":"comment","content":"

The happy path was functional.","comments":[{"id":46657839,"user":"horsawlarway","time":1768655960,"time_ago":"a month ago","type":"comment","content":"

Mmm, as someone forced to write a lot of last minute demos for a startup right out of school that ended up raising ~100MM, there's a fair bit of wiggle room in "Functional".

Not that I would excuse Cursor if they're fudging this either - My opinion is that a large part of the growing skepticism and general disillusionment that permeates among engineers in the industry (ex - the jokes about exiting tech to be a farmer or carpenter, or things like https://imgur.com/6wbgy2L) comes from seeing first hand that being misleading, abusive, or outright lying are often rewarded quite well, and it's not a particularly new phenomenon.","comments":[{"id":46658547,"user":"drawfloat","time":1768661826,"time_ago":"a month ago","type":"comment","content":"

But this isn’t wiggle room, it flat out doesn’t compile or run.","comments":[{"id":46692526,"user":"horsawlarway","time":1768921570,"time_ago":"a month ago","type":"comment","content":"

Yes. Very naive to assume the demos do.

The worst of them are literal mockups of a feature in the same vein as figma... a screenshot with a hotzone that when clicked shows another screenshot that implies a thing was done, when no such thing was done.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":5,"url":"item?id=46692526"}],"comments_count":1,"level":4,"url":"item?id=46658547"}],"comments_count":2,"level":3,"url":"item?id=46657839"}],"comments_count":3,"level":2,"url":"item?id=46657535"}],"comments_count":4,"level":1,"url":"item?id=46655885"}],"comments_count":5,"level":0,"url":"item?id=46655792"}],"comments_count":7,"url":"item?id=46653681"}

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