alexgotoi

I don’t think HN crowd is against AI, this crowd is just more pragmatic than others. They challenge things - in a constructive way most of the times - but this does not mean an anti movement.

I run an AI newsletter on top of HN, I have seen the sentiment from the grass level: I think there is an inflation of Show HN vibecoded products that annoy a lot of people here, but other than that, I think it just pragmatism what comes up.

In 1780, once horse power was way more expensive than a real horse. At least, that’s what my intuition data suggests.

You we’re already a “warm” candidate.

Because in the last year you responded to Linkedin messages from Recruiters, this boosted your visibility in other recruiters’ searches.

That’s something I think every working person should do: if they get outreach from recruiters, respond to all messages. Maybe even jump on a call/interview.

I was about to write the same thing…

This is the worst flex ever, its like going in a vacation and posting about how expensive the flight ticket was.

This newsletter issue marks the 6 months milestone of this newsletter - hard to believe I kept being consintent with sending it.

There were several cheaper than programmers options to automate things, Robot Processing Automation being probably the most known, but it never get the expected traction.

Why (imo)? Senior leaders still like to say: I run a 500 headcount finance EMEA organization for Siemens, I am the Chief People Officer of Meta anf I lead an org of 1000 smart HR pros. Most of their status is still tight to the org headcount.