Comment by applfanboysbgon
4 hours ago
Time from pointless idea to bad output, anyways. We aren't seeing good software, and now neat hobby project ideas are getting harvested pointlessly when the only purpose of those ideas was the fun and learning of doing.
Good ideas are the survivors of lots of bad ideas.
Slack is glorified IRC yet they're worth billions.
Dropbox can be trivially implemented via rsync yet they're worth billions.
There is a canonical hacker news post about Dropbox being useless and a pointless idea at one point :)
I always have a Mandela-effect moment about the Dropbox and iPod dismissive comments with Hackernews and Slashdot respectively.
God I’ old
LLMs are now like major highways, and everyone thinks theyll solve software jams by just adding one more lane; but that just induces demand, and doesnt increase efficiency because the traffic jam is about how people evaluate usage and fill the voids.
Similar to how we upgraded computers for decades and the software bloated to fill the specs
> when the only purpose of those ideas
I quite enjoyed handwriting my article to be honest.