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gotrythis

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I help tech founders from all over the world create software startups as quickly, inexpensively, and as risk-free as possible. I've been building, studying, and coaching software startups since 1993, invented a number of universally used Internet technologies and growth hacks, have had my own million dollar startup that's provided passive income for over a decade, and am the startup advisor in a huge development firm.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnreel/

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How is Affinity now free? (Founder) [video]

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1 points·by gotrythis·8개월 전·0 comments

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gotrythis
·그저께·discuss
Last night, I was using voice for the first time in a few weeks, and it interrupted me and said, a bit aggressively...

"I'm going to stop you right there. Let's keep the conversation focused on the topic we were covering or a new relevant topic".

I tried to probe it for why it did that, what rules it was following, and it eventually told me...

"My role is to keep us focused..." and, "The behaviour you saw was my attempt to moderate tone".

I've heard of LLMs doing weird things like this, but it was the first time it happened to me. I hope they fix that. It was creepy.

For context, it heard my partner say, "I guess it's the same thing as you mom, because she's..." and then it cut us off.
gotrythis
·5개월 전·discuss
I put a day of careful thought into writing a cover letter for a job a few weeks ago. Knowing there is there was the potential of AI screening, I checked if it would get flagged.

Every detection program I tried said the letter that I personally wrote by hand was 100% AI generated!

So, I looked for humanizer programs and ran my cover letter through a couple. Without the results in front of me at the moment, I can only revert to my judgemental conclusion instead of solid observations...

You need to write like an idiot to pass AI detection algorithms. The rewritten cover letter was awful, unprofessional, and embarrassing.
gotrythis
·8개월 전·discuss
Cognition bought Windsurf:

https://windsurf.com/blog/windsurfs-next-chapter
gotrythis
·8개월 전·discuss
Freemium definition: A type of business model that offers basic features of a product or service to users at no cost and charges a premium for supplemental or advanced features.

Yes, you can add on additional AI if you want it. But, the product is not at all limited in features. It is a complete product, 100% of what we were paying for before, now for free, plus new features, also free.

I would define it more like a lost-leader than freemium.

Thank you, Canva.
gotrythis
·8개월 전·discuss
I am a daily user of Affinity Publisher and regular user of Affinity Photo. I bought version 1 when it came out, upgraded to version 2, and upgraded this morning to the new, free version.

This is NOT FREEMIUM as I understand the model, as it is not limited in any way. This is everything they were charging for and more, now free, with free upgrades.

I'm personally thrilled to get so much value for free.