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simonwlast Tuesday at 11:07 PM3 repliesview on HN

It could be that the people who are focused on building monetizable products with LLMs don't feel the need to share what they are doing - they're too busy quietly getting on with building and marketing their products.

Sharing how you're using these tools is quite a lot of work!


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yeaskulast Wednesday at 1:38 AM

What would be more likely,

That people making startups is too bussy working to share it on HN or that AI is useless in real projects.

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YesBoxlast Tuesday at 11:27 PM

Agreed! LLMs are a force multiplier for real products too. They're going to augment people who are willing to do the real work.

But, Im also wondering if LLMs are going to create a new generation of software dev "brain rot" (to use the colloquial term), similar to short form videos.

I should mention in the gamedev world, it's quite common share because sharing is marketing, hence my perspective.

enraged_camellast Wednesday at 8:00 AM

I admit I'm in this boat. I get immense value from LLMs, easily 5x if not more, and the codebases I work in are large, mature and complex. But providing "receipts" as the kids call it these days would be a huge undertaking, with not a lot of upside. In fact, the downsides are considerable. Aside from the time investment, I have no interest in arguing with people about whether what I work on is just CRUD (it's not) or that the problems I work on are not novel (who cares, your product either provides value for your users or it does not).