grassmudhorse

what is stopping hackernews from following closely behind?

Mainly agree, but defining "open format" seems problematic, and isn't always practical if you have some feature that the competition doesn't have

> You'd think ... people would be just a wee bit less credulous.

Like the Crypto scams - irrelevant.

As long as the publicity is bringing in users, investors WILL throw in more money.

feels like a very clever marketing ploy

any publicity…

and just following some major feature releases

premium service has been v slow since the news began. suggesting a massive influx of users

well played(?) Sam

feedback: - I want to repeat just the word, lots of times, without waiting, so a "rapid repeat" button would be nice. - Context is good, but the player keeps going, well beyond the initial useful section. My attention span struggles with this. - I want it for Chinese!!! I would pay for this.

Great app, thanks!

someone at msft has way too much time on their hands

why

You're looking at the wrong metrics. The risk of using a solo-dev product is them losing interest and stopping support (or as someone else pointed out, not being able to deliver the required level of support).

Both types of products also have a chance of being bought for cheap when they are failing, and at least kept alive on life support.

Are you allowed to look at it?

Yes.

Are you allowed to remember it?

Yes.

Are you allowed to use similar patterns / naming conventions / algorithms when your are trying to solve your own unique problems?

…I hope so, or you won’t be much value to your employer.

That’s all an AI does. Same thing as you, it’s just more efficient (in some ways).

I take it you write all of your code in notepad with no linting, formatting, or any of the other cheater plugins that incompetent devs use?

At worst, it helps me type fast by finishing my lines of code for me, as pressing `tab` is faster than typing boilerplate.

At best, it is scary in it's ability to pre-emptively suggest context-specific implementations of functions before I have even considered what I might need to do. It probably helps that I am very particular about how I name variables, which seems to help copilot infer my needs.

But at least a couple of times a day, I am blown away by it.

> this is, after all, a zero sum game.

No it isn't. Lost me here.