Articles by atleastoptimal
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Ask HN: What Makes AI a Bubble?

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Show HN: The Universe in One Chart (saminloes.com)

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Ask HN: Any experienced devs who use AI extensively in their work?

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Ask HN: Has your opinion on AI changed over the past year?

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[flagged] Ask HN: What would convince you to take AI seriously?

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The Los Alamos Primer [pdf] (wikimedia.org)

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Ask HN: Which skill do you believe will take the longest to be replaced by AI?

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Ask HN: What would you do if AGI were coming in 2-4 years?

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Atomic Gardening (wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: Has any side project of yours made a significant amount of money? (>$5k)

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Ask HN: What is your best devil's advocate argument against AI progress?

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Ask HN: What gives Elon Musk's companies their edge?

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Ask HN: Have you altered your life plans due to coming AI developments?

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Ask HN: What reasonable person would work as a founding engineer?

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Ask HN: What's the best resource for every brain-boosting food/supplement?

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Ask HN: What is your plan if AI ends coding as a profession in 2-3 years?

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Ask HN: How to Avoid Microplastics/PFAS

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Ask HN: Is America best at the world in anything anymore?

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Ask HN: Is anyone afraid of near-term AI autocracy?

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Ask HN: What distinguishes 10x engineers from 1-1.5x engineers?

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Ask HN: How did you get yourself out of a rut?

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Ask HN: Do you believe AGI is (practically) possible?

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Ask HN: Should the US pass sweeping restrictions on AI development?

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Ask HN: Best Browser-Based Games

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Ask HN: Are many user interfaces deliberately bad?

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Epic 2014 (2004) [video] (youtube.com)

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Ask HN: What is a quote that permanently changed the way you think?

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Ask HN: Do you believe there will be an AI winter?

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Ask HN: What's a strong tech opinion you have that few agree with you on?

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Ask HN: What would the state of AI be if OpenAI never existed?

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Ask HN: What are your favorite browser-based games?

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Ask HN: Has using ChatGPT/LLM's improved or worsened your coding skills?

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Ask HN: How do you know you're good enough to apply somewhere?

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Ask HN: Share an important life lesson that took you a long time to figure out

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Ask HN: Is anyone making any serious career/life plans anticipating AGI?

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Ask HN: What is the smartest person you know working on?

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Ask HN: How do you deal with envy/inadequacy?

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[flagged] Ask HN: Do you honestly expect coding to exist as a profession in 5 years?

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Ask HN: Has any piece of information you've learned made your life worse?

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Ask HN: Do you think some devs are in denial regarding coming AI changes?

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Do Something Foolish to Completion (existentialchatbot.substack.com)

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Ask HN: Should I even try getting a SE job anymore?

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Ask HN: What is a blog post that changed your life for the better?

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Ask HN: Does it feel like AI progress is slowing down, or being hidden?

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Ask HN: Will it be better to be a specialist or generalist in the age of AI?

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Ask HN: Why haven't you founded an AI startup yet?

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GPT-4 performs significantly worse on coding problems not in its training data (twitter.com/chhillee)

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Ask HN: What are your AI hot takes?