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maybe do not call it Autopilot if it is well not auto piloting dangerous situations?

Hallucinations as a service.

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Thankfully humans do tend to hallucinate haha

"Logo play" is such a YCombinator word for Lie.

It says "Our users are everywhere" and shows some logos for the companies these users are from.

If the users are from those companies, this is not lying.

If they added logos for companies their users are not from, it would be lying.

Adding a logo to your webpage has started to follow different patterns for the stage of the company.

Early stage companies show things like "people at X, Y, Z use our product!" (showing logos without permission), whilst later stage ones tend to show logos after asking for permission, and with more formal case studies.

They may not have asked for permission to show these logos, but that's not the same thing as lying.


There's a lot of heavy lifting in the idea that someone who tried it / used it of their own volition that happens to work for, say Google, is the same as indicating that your product is "used by Google".

It's a lie of accuracy, but still a lie.


The customer used a Gmail address!

I feel like everyone already understands that argument and it won't convince anyone that it's any less of a lie.

> If the users are from those companies, this is not lying.

Do you really believe all of those companies allow employees to install pre-release software on their computers which records company meetings and interacts with a long list of 3rd party APIs? I doubt it.

They could have had people who are employed by these companies use it on their personal computers for some purpose, but the implication they’re trying to make is that those companies have chosen this software. That’s a lie.


> and interacts with a long list of 3rd party APIs? I doubt it.

It does not interact with 3rd party API.(except opt-out-able analytics) It uses local-ai models. No data leave user's device. It helps users in large org to try it.

> but the implication they’re trying to make is that those companies have chosen this software.

We used "Our *Users* are Everywhere" to avoid that implication. It is not typical B2B software, but open-source desktop app that individuals can use.


That is YCombinator & Garry Tan for you. Disrupting the screwing over employees (and founders if they can but its just much harder) as a sport.

If you are so happy to let people think that AI does not yield productivity gains, why comment here?

How exactly did you outperform? Show, don't talk.


I rolled out a migration to 60+ backends by using Claude code to manage it in the background. Simultaneously, I worked on other features while keeping my usual meeting load. I have more commits and releases per week than I have had in my whole career, which is objectively more productive.

> I rolled out a migration to 60+ backends

How is anyone supposed to understand what this means?

Given the ambiguity in your description and lack of actual code it’s hard to take you seriously.


Sometimes when I read such meaningless things my first reaction is to feel like I'm too ignorant to understand what the person says.

But then when I really think about it usually they're just bullshitting out being purposefully vague, using terms that don't mean anything precise in order to avoid actual criticism.


I question your assertion that more commits and releases per week is more productivity. There could be unexpected effects from your commits that create more work for you or for others and that could be hard to quantify.

Doing bad things faster might feel more productive to you, but it doesn’t mean that you are delivering more value. You might be, but the metrics you have shared to not prove that.


If you are producing much lower quality then no, it is not objectively more productive

If you find yourself working at the same place as me, feel free to judge my work, but until then, enjoy speculating.

How many assaults against female drivers are there? I've never heard of this happening personally.

Me neither. I hear about assaults against female passengers but I don't believe I've read or heard about one against female drivers. I've asked a few women I've gotten in Ubers with and they say they've had some dicey situations but no out right assaults.

But I don't think you were asking genuinely and just wanted to be snarky without contributing to the conversation :)


His is the best response in this thread. The point is that whether you've personally heard of something or not is not a great indicator of anything.

To answer the original question, wherever there is any power imbalance, there will be abuse. Priests, teachers, parents vs children; boss vs employee; "vulnerable" females vs "aggressive" males. A man complains about assault by a woman, everyone laughs. A woman complains about assault by a man, he gets thrown in jail.


You can cut all of them in half by using agentic coding because afterwards 50% of your timer will be spend fixing prod issues from the "agentic code"

Just do not use AI for anything except LLMs anymore. Same way that crypto scam has taken the word crypto.

crypto must now be named cryptography and AI must now be named ML to avoid giving the scammers and hypers good press.


> AI must now be named ML

You just made a lot of 20th century AI researchers cry.


Ocaml users too. And Haskell.


Yep. I dislike it just as much as ceding crypto, but at the end of the day language changes, and clarity matters.

I think image and video generation that aren't based on LLMs can also use the term AI without causing confusion.


I called my todo list a 1 billion dollar product! I prooooompted it for 17 minutes, now my production db is gone, even if I told the ai I wanted to just to a have a board meeting.


Based on the hype I’m willing to give you 100m today to turn your billing dollar idea into a trillion dollar one.


People who take Heroin think it is good in the situation they are taking it.


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