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bartimus
·قبل 26 يومًا·discuss
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·قبل شهرين·discuss
The best analogy that made sense to me is that we used to have pistols and now we all got handed machine guns.

You can fire far more, far faster, but it becomes much harder to operate accurately without collateral damage.
bartimus
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
If you can classify Minecraft as a toy, it has zero clean-up time
bartimus
·قبل 8 أشهر·discuss
I'm surprised how little attention this is getting on HN.
bartimus
·السنة الماضية·discuss
Then perhaps it's about bringing in the human talent that wrote those prompts.
bartimus
·السنة الماضية·discuss
They didn't even buy an IDE since windsurf is more like a VS code plugin.

So what was it exactly that was worth the 3B that they couldn't replicate themselves? Their prompts? Their training sets? Their users or user data?
bartimus
·قبل 5 سنوات·discuss
That may be so. The other point is that all those media mergers are perhaps the inevitable consequence of a battled and dying industry due to disruptive technology (YouTube / Widevine).
bartimus
·قبل 7 سنوات·discuss
Increased profits from unknown sources VS decreased profits from known sources. The gained marketing intelligence may come at the cost of the bottom line.
bartimus
·قبل 7 سنوات·discuss
I'm still on the fence somewhat.

Searching for "best car engine oil" has certain brands displayed straight on the featured snippet. Who cares about the click if Google found your customer for you and got your message through for free?