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stavroslast Sunday at 2:25 PM4 repliesview on HN

Whenever I've answered this question, the reply was always "this is shit", so I don't bother now. Bad faith questions just shouldn't be answered.


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dofmlast Sunday at 2:34 PM

If you characterise questions as bad faith so you don’t have to answer, sure.

Since this is my thread, and since I am an exasperated freelancer who has made most of his post-dot-com career from writing exactly the kind of quite small, simple, unambitious, often internal things for smaller customers that nobody would confuse with anything cool, who is trying to understand how AI is going to make his life any better when it’s so opaque, fast moving, poorly documented and full of unverifiable claims battling unverifiable claims, let me assure you that the following question is not being asked in bad faith:

What did you ship?

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itishappylast Sunday at 2:34 PM

Why assume bad faith? I've witnessed a barrage of "proof of concepts" at my dayjob by folks who have zero intention of ever hooking up their dashboard to our actual messy data. Shipping is still a major barrier. Is your experience meaningfully different?

Forgeties79last Sunday at 2:29 PM

This just feels like a bad faith comment designed to spike the conversation entirely.

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dominotwlast Sunday at 2:34 PM

shipped = paying real users ( or a non profit with users)

doesnt matter what subjective opinions are.

shipped is not pushing something on github.

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