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Nah, LLMs and agentic coding is a reality. It's here, it will stay here, and will only grow.

It's amazing to read through all the comments. I think of you all as more intelligent than "normal people" (Non HN readers, lol), but the amount of unabashed, unfettered bias in the replies is fascinating. The number of replies without a disclaimer like "this is just my own experience, but here's what I think..." is just amazing.

That's my main takeaway from this discussion. All the other points became secondary.

FYI, this article does not claim to be an analysis of product market fit.

I think the point is: If you had no abilities, and only f*cked stuff up without outside help, but you had solid product market fit, that's the only thing that matters because everything else you can acquire (including funds to compensate for your shortcomings).

At first it does sound wrong, but as I think back to all successful people I've known, including the ones that I could not for the life of me figure out how they got more success than I (eg, grade school dropouts, alcoholics, etc), I _can_ see how they leveraged an insight about PMF to achieve many things that I've always wanted and never achieved for myself. Very enlightening, but still kinda sad, actually, lol.

Is this a joke reply? All I could find on Ty Webb is a bunch of Caddyshack references (I can't stand golf, so was clueless). Can you provide a link to the talk you're talking about?

If you're saying it died before it went to 25% of the world's population as a userbase, then you are using a definition of "death" that no one else is using.

shrug that's why one would consult with a contingency-based employment attorney.

Employment law attorneys work on contingency, so no expense to you. You start on the wrongful termination suit, get evidence, and then go after the other company based on what you discover from your previous employer.

Among the best mental health decisions of my life is to get rid of Twitter from my everyday life. I still have an account (the only reason to delete it would be as a sign of protect, but I don't care, and Twitter doesn't care that I don't care). I do not visit the site on my own. There's just so much negativity, cruelty, and stupid thoughts. How can anyone post anything insightful, nuanced, and worth reading with such a character limit?

I realized that interesting tweets (or rather, Twitter threads) have a way of finding me through other means. That's the only time I visit Twitter.

I'm ok on missing out on ideas that do not find me through other means. The vomit to caviar ratio on Twitter is way too high.

But it's not a political party, and that's the entirety of the problem.

>If people think they are buying a drug from a manufacturer they are wrong.

No one is saying that (at least on this thread).

All I'm saying laypeople assume the mfg is the bad guy when it comes to high drug prices. Time and time again on the news we are told that X drug costs $$$$$ in the US and the exact same drug costs orders of magnitude less in some other country. Everyone points the finger at the drug mfgs.

What I'm saying is that it's good that the secret is getting out that the mfgs are not necessarily the bad guys, and there's all these other companies involved in the drug price crisis.

I meant the manufacturer controls the price at which they sell. Ie, if drug X costs $15 to make, and the manufacturer chooses to sell it to retailers/distributors at $2000, they are free to do that.

I'm not sure what your point is: It seems you are cherrypicking and then generalizing. For example Duloxetine (generic for Cymbalta) is $4 at CostPlus and $15 at the Walmart link. That in and of itself really does not prove anything either. I may be wrong, though, it's just one additional data point.

Maybe you can do the analysis you mention and publish it? The worst that will happen is that all us laypeople will be better informed.

I think though that CostPlus, if nothing else, has opened the eyes of a great many people who just assumed medicine was like any other product where the manufacturer controls the price and if someone is making obscene profit, it's an outlier like the Shkreli douchebag. Now a lot more people know that it's possible to pay a lot less. Even on TikTok I'm seeing people paying much less for their prescriptions when they bypass the insurance company and pay full retail price, which is counterintuitive as hell, and I personally would have never guessed.

So all in all, I think it's hugely positive that the secrets are getting out, and CostPlus is invariably a large part of that.