points by orphereus 5 days ago | 0 comments
Does everything have to go to shit when money is involved?
[–] pizzafeelsright 5 days ago
[–] orphereus 4 days ago
With that mindset, why do you even need a postman clone? Just have your $LLM test out the software using raw curl commands.
[–] paulddraper 4 days ago
> price of deer nuts
Which, in case others didn't know, are under a buck.
[–] systemnate 4 days ago
I might actually give this a try.
[–] gnabgib 4 days ago
You're.. replying to a comment about the price of deer nuts?
[–] pizzafeelsright 4 days ago
The subject was related to the OP. The reference to the cost of the alternative was a currency conversion from tokens to dad joke.
[–] rs999gti 4 days ago
Depends. Is it an investment grant or loan? The former is money to grow with no expectations on growth. The latter has an investor giving money in expectation of a return.
Most of the YC companies are loan backed with investors pushing milestones for the next investment chunk or round.
[–] autoexec 4 days ago
Pretty much. It's just a question of how fast it happens. The more capable something is of making money without compromising the product or exploiting users the longer it will take, but once people who are sick with pathological greed get involved they'll eventually start to demand enshittifying the product and selling out the userbase to squeeze more and more money into their pockets.
[–] orphereus 4 days ago
Well, somehow the society has gone for the better over the course of history, even with pathologically greedy and evil people constantly in positions of power, so that counts as something.
Edit: mankind has gone for the better
[–] autoexec 4 days ago
For the better in spite of the pathologically greedy and evil, but not because of them. A lot of blood has been shed keeping them in check throughout the ages and only recently have they been allowed to feed off of the masses without any real fear. They just hold us back by draining us, stamping out competitors who drive innovation, and funneling everything into their own pockets.
[–] braj0 3 days ago
Really? As someone who was born in 93 society has only gone through a massive degradation as I have gotten older.
I don't really think mankind or society has gotten better AT ALL in my lifetime. It turned into a short-term, rent-seeking, low-trust, shit society...
But I am open to hearing the experiences of others my age. Why do you feel so positive?
[–] lenerdenator 5 days ago
Until we stop relying on SV as the standard-bearer for tech culture? Absolutely.
At this point I do not see why the entirety of their software could not be a one shot prompt for the price of deer nuts.