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Comment by wiseowise

6 hours ago

Don’t be ridiculous, that would be extremely hard. Oppressive even, because it’s unattainable to an average person. And it is, otherwise there would be millions of programmers in the world. Was it unattainable or “we have to pay these suckers money, and they have rights and lives outside of work”? Bah! Just make sure to renew your subscription, agent will do the thinking and you bring the money.

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hansmayer  6 hours ago

But Paul Graham says that the guy from Replit whom he funded told him the source code is "object code" now, so we don't need to look at it all ? It must be utter wisdom since PG managed to get wealthy by selling some website during dotcom-mania so he must have insights we are missing?

  • oblio  3 hours ago

    > PG managed to get wealthy by selling some website during dotcom-mania

    I don't remember how much he made selling the "quickly-killed startup bought by now failed internet giant".

    But I'm fairly sure how much money he made building something other people used is peanuts compared to what he made investing early in companies where others built things, instead of him.