This is an easy perspective to have if you are of the generation that got into a home purchase before they went out of control. Gen Z is being priced out of creating families.

Hacker news has a bias because most people here are working in software and probably make more than the median household income (solo).

Did they not have mobile responsive sites in 2015? Lol

2015 was about the last year you could get away with publishing an interactive graphic with a fixed width — this made it harder do really creative/original work.

Ever heard of JDE?

My speed shipping software increased but so did the demands of features by my company.

Or worse. I’ve heard stories from friends where leadership expects huge boosts in productivity due to LLMs, and perceive anything but an order of magnitude boost as incompetence or a refusal to adapt.

To be fair, some of it might genuinely be refusal to adapt? If we go by HN comments, there definitely do seem to be at least some people who are letting their hangups prevent them from learning this tech.

> It can't think, it just predicts likely tokens

> I can't believe this industry I once cherished for rational professionalism has fallen for nondeterministism

> Sorry, I'm just not going to participate in destroying the planet with these power hunger DCs

> All this stuff actually costs 10x what a human developer costs but they're dumping the service at a low price to make us dependent.

> It's a bubble, or a scam, in a year or two everything will go back to normal.

Tell me sentiments like these don't get bandied about by devs who want to keep doing things the way they know and like.

I just don't want to use it. It may or may not be a big deal, I lean toward it not being, but even if it is I would prefer not to use it, so I'm going to resist it as far as possible. I don't pretend it's about any higher principle than me not liking it. I'll wait to get put on a PIP and then I'll do exactly what they ask.

PMs can now also ship their half-baked requirements documents even faster thanks to the help of AI.

I don't really get this TBH.

Shipping speed never/is was the issue. Most companies are terrible at figuring out what exactly they should be allocating resources behind.

Speeding up does not solve the problem that most humans who are at the top of the hierarchy are poor thinkers. In fact it compounds it. More noise, nice.

Yep requirement gathering takes forever Then validation takes forever

Writing code is lesser problem than figuring out what we want when we want, and to get stakeholders at one place.

Finally, a fella who gets it.

Apple has already shown this decades ago - they got the iPhone and iPod developed and out the door in relatively short-time scales given the impact of the products on the world. Once you know what you want, exactly what you want, things moves fast - really fast.

I've seen biz team taking 3 4 months to do UAT

But sure let's buy 200$ per month claude to ship things faster lol

Lol yeah. Much of the issues re. lack of productivity comes from management who dont have the ability to focus+clarity+confidence of where to go and also create the environment to get the max out of people.

Yeah and who is going to foot the bill when this comes crumbling down?

How many of those users are paying? Where is the profit? How many users will be willing to use ChatGPT if they had to pay? Might have to pull out the questions like its 2026.

> How many of those users are paying?

About 5% according to a news article a few months ago.

Will the other 95% stick around once ads or payments are required?

Most people will stick to the free product. Claude isn't free and not widely known beyond tech circles. Gemini, despite being good, also has a marketing problem and most non technical users still default to chatgpt.com for their day to day AI usage but that can change as Google redirects users to Gemini from so many surfaces it owns

You guys got a notification??? I did not receive one.

This guy was the ex-ceo of GitHub and can't bother to communicate his product in a single announcement post?

I am here. What did I not bother with? I wrote the blog post and it has all the details.

You’ve described a technology, not a solution to a clearly articulated problem that customers actually have. The problem that you have described is vague, and it’s unclear that it’s actually a problem at all. Finally, you don’t provide a persuasive and concrete argument about how your eventual solution—whatever that may be—will solve it.

I don’t mean to be so presumptuous as to teach Grampa how to suck eggs, but I think Amazon’s working backwards process is instructive.

I am struggling to see what the details are other than high-level concepts. Perhaps a demo would be useful!

Hey, is JJ compatibility in the cards? Considering the blog article hints at a goal of a developerless agent-to-agent automation platform I'm guessing developer conveniences are a side quest rn?

Yes, definitely something we are thinking of.

Wow, account from 2011 and just two comments, both on this article. Welcome, lurker, and good luck :)

Thanks. New startup, new approach.

I saw him speak at a conference a couple of years ago. He couldn't communicate back then either, so at least he's consistent.

Please don't cross into personal attack in HN comments.

You may not owe ex-Github-CEOs better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

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

On a related note, Discord recently announced ID verification for users. Matrix might become a viable option for those who want to opt out of Discord for their "circles" of friends.

Why not Signal? I think that Matrix and Discord are for your circles of "friends" you don't actually know.

Well personally, I like to have organized chat rooms or "channels". Matrix is closer to a user friendly IRC client. Signal is great for group chats but some people are looking to have organized chat rooms for their friends.

Someone will eventually ask "why not just use IRC?" and the answer is simply: Would your non-tech-inclined friends enjoy doing that?

I love Signal, but it's not "IRC-shaped" like Discord, Slack, Matrix, etc are. It isn't built to play the same role.

Because Signal has a single point of failure and actively fights with decentralization?

Ground-based data centers will always be cheaper. There is no advantage in space that makes it worth spending more.