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I've been vibe coding for over a decade. All you need is a decent pair of headphones and a pot of coffee. It's not free, but it's pretty cheap.

In case someone didn’t see that yet, vibe coding has a recent and more specific meaning.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding

> a programming paradigm dependent on artificial intelligence (AI), where a person describes a problem in a few sentences as a prompt to a large language model (LLM) tuned for coding.

> A key part of the definition of vibe coding is that the user accepts code without full understanding.


And the "for free" in the title excludes the electricity costs

That's just called coding

*with good vibes

I can’t imagine tweeting something random at 4am and the next month a whole industry was formed around my tweet’s choice of words.

It's kind of been a rude awaking realizing that so many "founders" just choose their business direction based on the latest blog post they read.


In my first engineering job, we had one lead that always seemed to repeat things the engineers said. As a team, we started to make up some words and use them only when he was around just to see if he'd start using them. We succeeded.

Hah! This is fantastic.

Why is this bad? Is the idea bad?

Do you enjoy working for a manager whose opinions change every time they read something? Do they sound like an effective manager? Have you ever had a boss that needed to think the ideas were theirs before they'd sign off, even normal, everyday process stuff? It heavily implies they don't know anything at all about what they're doing or talking about.

No, but there's also something about being stubborn

Ask Nokia, BlackBerry and Kodak.


Can’t wait for the obligatory hn post about the documentary twitter thread on how their tweet blew up /s

Here's one I got today trying to scare me.

Hi Team,

We are following up regarding the critical vulnerabilities we had previously reported — we are still awaiting your acknowledgment and decision on appropriate compensation.

Clear communication is vital in responsible vulnerability disclosure programs, and it’s important for both sides to remain engaged to ensure vulnerabilities are properly handled and rewarded fairly.We have also discovered additional high-risk issues that could impact your user security and overall platform integrity.

However, we are waiting for closure on the earlier reports before moving forward with new disclosures.Please let us know the status update at your earliest convenience so we can proceed accordingly.Thank you for your attention to this matter.



The first red flag is a startup that is contingent on a two sided marketplace... damn that's a tough place to be!

The only times I've ever heard of this working are when you have a huge war-chest to subsidize both sides of the marketplace to come out and play on your app. If you can offer better prices than normal to both sides (with the gap made up from your raises) it can work. Otherwise? I'm not sure it can.

Yeah it turns out those are hard to go to market with, who would have thought

Only way it can work is if you can bootstrap something hyperlocal to start with (think Uber in San Fran)


Last summer I met two cofounders to take the leap as a potential founder. I wanted an equal equity split among the founders. They wanted to split the equity like 40/40/20. That 20 would have been me, the only technical founder building the entire product.

I walked away.


Is this that impressive considering these models have probably been trained on numerous books/texts analyzing thousands of games (including morphy's)?

A good RSS reader/feed is nice to curb over consumption. I use it for youtube channels and blogs. As long as I can consume the content via my reader, I don't need to visit youtube and fall down any rabbit holes.

I attempted this a while ago. I loaded all my YouTube subscriptions into an RSS reader, and then it quickly became too much for me to deal with. The big problem was that I do 99.5% of my YouTube viewing on a TV, while my RSS readers is on the phone and desktop. I learned that whatever solutions come up with needs to fit into my life. I’m not going to become a desk chair YouTube watcher.

YouTube effectively already has this built-in with their subscriptions. Not being able to turn off the recommended page, or default to loaded the subscriptions when opening the app on the TV are the real issues.


I understand it's not for everyone, but it works for me. I don't watch youtube anywhere else other than my laptop. I can't imagine trying to use a TV app.. but that's a whole other can of worms :)

rust: "hold my leggings"

Since when? I far more often run into CMake taking ages than Cargo.

First and foremost, draw a salary. It doesn't have to be much at all, but take something so you're not watching your savings dwindle.

Once you paid yourself take a 1-2 week break and really think about what you want to do. If you want to keep pushing, figure out how to do it sustainably.


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