dopamine reward feedback loop. Video scrolling is an insidious form of it because the feedback time is so short that you end up hooked on it for hours, feeling bad afterwards; seriously potent stuff.
There's the politics of the corporations and then there's the business of the science behind LLM's, this article feels like the former.
Maybe someone active in the research can comment? I feel like all of these comments are just conjecture/anecdotal and don't really get to the meat of this question of "progress" and the future of LLM's
All my solo projects suffered from all the things you mentioned. Once I found a cofounder for my current project, these problems went away because
1. There’s social altruism activated because you two are constantly doing things not just for yourself, but for the other person.
2. View point diversity. You get way more feedback with another talking head at the same table, helps unblock you more than you think. And this can ignite new insight and therefore new notification energy!
Is there a way to hack this as a solo founder? I think so!
I had a former co founder who I would always bounce ideas off of and even tho he wasn’t directly working on my projects, he would check in with me and kind of act like a rubber duck I could talk to. This could be your friends, partner, or strangers!
Also, time is your best friend, for good or for worse. I think back on projects I started and quit after a year, I would like to think those projects would be successful if I just put more time into it.
My most productive workflow, is take a stab at what I want first and use gpt/claude to generate boiler plate code. I use the base components from tailwind components and ask Claude/GPT to tailor them to my needs.
Been working great! I proofread almost everything of course but moving really fast and not having to muck around with which tailwind class is really nice.
Why don’t you open source it and let devs know they can contribute starting today? Devs who don’t use HN can find it on GitHub by searching and you can begin posting call to arms if by posting your vision and goals.
Not sure if it was clear in my OP, but there are only 2 technical founders and I am one of them. We also already have a pathway to paying customers; that was also clear in my OP.
Also, what exactly do you mean by pain and grit? we're already doing that. we're growing and have growing pains hence the point of this post.
Genuine curiosity. What compels a company to write such an extensive handbook about remote work? The company I joined right after covid started was relatively small eng organization ~20 and we're up to 60-70 eng org but the company size is around ~300. There were lots of leadership meetings and communication but that's all we really needed to run a successful remote first company.
I've worked on very complex systems - The disney streaming platform (before it was disney), live video streaming systems, banking transaction systems, your run of the mill crud software with kafka clusters piping mind numbing amounts of data, netflix and a few other large engineering heavy companies.
No engineering company worth their weight is going to build a world class technology business purely with generative AI in its current state. The risk in doing so currently is total and utter failure. I have a very hard time believing we're any where near that capability. Maybe your mom and pop startup could hire a prompt engineer to build a website and simple tool but we have yet to see those exercises surfaced to the mainstream; it's purely speculative.
I say, rest easy programmers. Your careers will be enriched more than axed with generative AI as a support tool for many years to come.
Also, if anyone who works in this field has a strong opposing belief, then consider OpenAI engineers are programming themselves out of a job which obviously is not the case.