ErikAugust

I don’t get how anyone thinks that spending 100s of hours over and over again on projects that make $0 is a good idea. “Definition of insanity” and all that. You are in denial that you are unemployed, you might as well do something more interesting or enjoyable.

The White House calling somebody "hostile and political". Hmph.

How did you know he used tools like this one? You sit him down and interrogate him? Or did they own up to it? What was the result? Did you cut them loose?

The industry seems so divided on AI right now.

We have interviews where we aren't allowing the use of it (yet interviewees are using stealth AIs to cheat). At the same time, I am also hearing of organizations mandating the use of it, ie: "20% of the code committed needs to be generated". There's probably a set of orgs that exist that do not allow the use of AI in coding interviews, yet practically mandate the use of AI in day-to-day work!

We are at an inflection point I think, but my guess is AI is going to win out soon enough.

"Supabase with a Vercel app"

I guess mega geniuses make mistakes too...

Has there ever been a successful SaaS startup that was built with “no code” methods/tools?

Ha, awesome name and username.

"If I was Eddie Vedder Would you like me any better? That's it, I quit, I don't Give a shit"

Local H, "Eddie Vedder", 1996

Could you explain what you mean by upward mobility here? If you mean by working more hours, that’s not a novel way to make more money.

Sure, make arguably less than minimum wage but do it whenever you want.

Yeah, surprise surprise, $13/hour is getting close to the average minimum wage ($11.18/hour). Except without any benefits, and all the expenses that would normally be covered by your employer.

Yes, this came to my mind. That all this AI work will someday culminate in a generated Lynch Return of the Jedi.

Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

Not many people are going to totally ignore their opportunity costs to join as a "founder-ish" engineer at a startup.

I have taken a role like this before, but when I did so, I was making a lateral move from a compensation standpoint. This is without factoring in any expected value of equity (because there was none).

"Here’s a particularly bleak statistic: a 2021 report showed that almost half of all entrepreneurs earn less than $30,000 a year. That’s less than the average kindergarten teacher—except kindergarten teachers don’t have to explain to their spouses why they spent $10,000 on a logo redesign."

I would love for the author to cite their sources on this but I do find it vibes with my experience.

In the tech world, it's not uncommon for founders to attract enough investment to at least pay themselves something before they have any revenue. But in lot of lines of business you can work very hard shouldering massive responsibilities, and take home almost nothing.