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senordevnyctoday at 7:15 AM1 replyview on HN

It’s ironic that Andy calls himself “ruthlessly pragmatic”, but his business is failing because of a principled stand in turning down a high volume of inbound requests. After reading a few of his views on AI, it seems pretty clear to me that his objections are not based in a pragmatic view that AI is ineffective (though he claims this), but rather an ideological view that they should not be used.

Ironically, while ChatGPT isn’t a great writer, I was even more annoyed by the tone of this article and the incredible overuse of italics for emphasis.


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Magmalgebratoday at 7:48 AM

Yeah. For all the excesses of the current AI craze there's a lot of real meat to it that will obviously survive the hype cycle.

User education, for example, can be done in ways that don't even feel like gen AI in ways that can drastically improve activation e.g. recommendation to use feature X based on activity Y, tailored to their use case.

If you won't even lean into things like this you're just leaving yourself behind.