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Yeah. Did the author actually go to these stores? I grew up in the 80's and 90's, went often, and did not have any of these experiences. Generally didn't have any conversations beyond checking out (and arguing about rewind fees)

I understand this is just subjective with a sample size of 1.

Anyone else find the same, or was it some kind of great movies social hub?

Odd - when I'm at a cafe, I'm almost always asked if "whole milk" is ok. It work, we have fat free, 2%, and creamer...

"hired an architect 18 months ago who used AI to architect everything"

Huh? 18 months ago? I've been using it that long - it wasn't able to do that back then....

Awesome post - really insightful!

Wow. Yeah. That's unreadable - my frustration and annoyance levels got high fast, had to close the page before I went for the power button on my machine :)

(and yeah, I don't love the term "Vibe" - but it's kinda established at this point, so I'm just going with it...)

Been working to write books for a while now using LLMs. Wasn't very good until recently- the newer models with the larger context windows are pretty good at it, and Cline is amazing (and not just for coding!)

As many have said, don't treat them as side projects. They were apps or products you were working on - if they were at all "real" (e.g., had users or customers) than it was a startup you were trying to get off the ground (a lot of startups are bootstrapped that way).

I've done a lot of this in the past - I built a platform and apps for consumer-focused location aware in the early 2000's, and another app that ended up with around 12 million users.

When I interviewed at Microsoft Research, we barely talked about my "day job" (fairly straightforward C#/.NET enterprise stuff). They ended up focusing on the side stuff - because it was just me doing the design/architecture/coding/company, it was innovative, it was interesting - and I was super passionate about it.

Uhhhh.... holy crap, sorry... but what is the author smoking? I started out with PC's in the early 80's. They were HARD to use (granted, as a pre-teen, I fell in love right away - but I was already a nerd). They were not intuitive. They didn't do very much. They generally sucked for most people, unless they were using a word processor (and even those were tough for some people)

Today, everyone can use one. They are very powerful, do a lot of things, and are comparatively simple to use - I mean, my MOM can use the damn things, which she never could have done in the 80's and 90's. And with very little support for me!

I'm sorry - but - HUH?

> re-enter the stream of commerce for potential future criminal use.

Because of course if CASH re-enters the steam of commerce is somehow different?

Great over all story. Not sure what the McDonalds part has to do with it - a huge number of kids start there. I did - and in the next 40 years I've been Chief Architect of a startup, found my own startup (with a install base over 12 million), and am currently a Principal Architect at Microsoft (and was a lead in Microsoft Research a few years ago)

All good - and I look back at my McDonald days (somewhat) fondly, and it was good experience at doing fairly unpleasant work - but my nights hack and phone freaking and coding had 100x more to do with my success then that first job :)

shrug before I used my phone for music, I used my iPod. Before that, my Walkman.

Personal music at the gym is not new or anything specific to phones

On another side of this - I've seen places where employees were essentially locked in - unable to leave, because they couldn't sell any stock, and exercising cost too much, or, more likely, would be a taxable event (and again, they couldn't cover taxes by selling so it's a huge cash hit to buy the paper)

I get at one level a company might like this - it's a "good" way to keep people from leaving. In reality, this means you have people that really want to leave and can't - which does not make for a happy, good employee.

Let them sell at least a portion of the stock back to the company. Or sell some during a funding round, at least enough to cover their taxes so they can take their stock and go.