I take comfort in the fact that reality has a surprising amount of detail and even hundreds of billions of dollars of capital (be it the institution, LLMs, and/or people) cannot solve this fully.

You can have bajilions of dollars. Those are not doing anything if you don’t have right people with right skills and mindset.

My bet is they hire smart kids that think they know it all. But being smart and thinking you can figure out stuff as you go doesn’t work the same as having people who actually know what they are doing.

It’s frighteningly common for startups to hire 501 of the best of the best, exactly one of those will be a systems/network engineer, the other 500 will be software engineers.

yes, unfortunately, i see this situation a lot around me too...

Nah they wouldn’t be able to afford my salary ;)

Though they have solved the "how do we - and not the 5,000 other AI companies - stay on the front page of the news everyday" problem.

It’s very much solvable, they just don’t care.

Despair is a choice some people have made, and they want to drag others into it to justify their inaction. Take your best shot. Maybe it takes off, maybe it doesn't.

Either way, it's a hell of a lot better than being a replyguy.

>it's a hell of a lot better than being a replyguy.

It's best to live by your own words

He's not. That's how things will be from now on. Because there's plenty of hacks who think prompting will make them millions if they could just find that one idea, yet aren't willing to do the work to find, vet, build, and iterate.

Glad they found a home, but the press release doesn’t make it sound like a victory (or I’m pessimistic!).

Sad to see ui.sh go away, however. Is there something else like it out there? Especially the brand kit skill.

The industry has always found it strangely taboo to actually talk about the wide variance in developer skill.

Is it? I hear about 10xers all the time