I don’t think a significant percent of real Bluesky users actually care.

Having a follow button on the screenshot brings nothing and a logo is helpful when sharing (“hey it’s not twitter, I know it looks like it but it’s bluesky”) and looks subtle.

It’s just it’s a forum so people say things for discussions sake and get outraged by anything that a platform they don’t like is doing.

> a significant percent of Bluesky users

42 of their 56 active users might not care about a watermark but god dammit do they respect it

And so should you

> When the pissed off stakeholders called a meeting to ask what was going on he didn’t show up and sent his junior engineer to answer questions and take the blame.

He doesn’t have 25 years of management experience for nothing, that’s a crafty vet move!

What, didn’t you want hundreds of companies track you while you try to get the audio work on a drum simulator?

I am sorry about that, I thought I removed the consent banner along with the ads completely this morning, then I came back here and realized Google AdSense still had the consent banner published, I forgot to disable it, it doesn't show up to me as I am not EU I guess. Should be gone now, please let me know if something else still shows up.

Similar for me but I actually like podcasts in the car for this reason. Listening to podcasts sometimes triggers me thinking about issues I care about. When I realize that I’m no longer following the podcast, I just turn it off and let my thoughts go wild.

This is how I write my novels. It works incredibly.

My whole life would have been different if I didn’t get a new physics teacher when I was 16?

Before him, I found math and physics unintuitive, but he explained it in a way that (to me) made the whole high school physics trivial.

I studied physics at the university where I learned programming, and switched to software engineering.

> The attendant would put air in the tires, check oil, top up fluids

So today it would be mainly just busywork, I’m doing those like twice a year, but need to put gas in my car once a week (roughly).

I think you should check your tires more often.

And even ignoring the token costs, that is just not true.

Sure, for some cases, the cost is going down. I and others on my team "one-shotted" impressive features in an hour of agent work that would have taken humans probably a month if done completely manually.

I've also seen agents going in circles for an hour on a fix that would have taken even a junior 3 minutes to get right (after it was struggling for 10 minutes, I wanted to see if it can ever get it right as an experiment).

And when taking a look at the whole organization, orgs still just aren't really shipping that much more quality features to their users as the impressive one-shot demos would make you think.

> orgs still just aren't really shipping that much more quality features

Writing code was never the bottleneck at large enterprises.

Nor was product quality the goal. Principal agent problems abound. The large org's behavior follows the thousandfold incentive gradients of the individual employees in their own career, CV building, promotion paths, budget allocation, etc.

I think it's the scientist version of "I vibecoded ten apps this weekend (at one point I'll have real users too)".

Because it's math, it's all mysterious and genuinely impressive, but in the end, if no human cares about it (apart from attention grabbing "it's so over" tweets and articles), does it really matter?

Nah, people are vibe coding lots of apps that no one cares about, but this is more like going through Stack Overflow and answering the most upvoted issues that don't have answers. These are published problems that have prior interest, for decades usually, and a few snarky internet comments don't undo that.

Yes, although a counterpoint to that is that if these weren't long-standing published problems that have stumped humans, would anyone care? What is important here, the problem/proof, or the fact that they are famous problems that have stumped humans (and therefore make good bragging material).

I'm not sure that a problem being famous, or hard for a human, is the same as it being important.

Take Fermat's last theorem as an example - was a proof of it ever considered to be, then or now, consequential, or was it the Paris Hilton of problems - famous for being famous? A problem whose legend grew because it it so simple to state, with the challenge that there might be a simple proof, and that turned out to be so difficult to solve that it therefore became prestigious to do so?

To continue the analogy, it’s like writing answers that are so convoluted that no one can understand them.

> this is more like going through Stack Overflow and answering the most upvoted issues that don't have answers.

Except OpenAI isn't showing any upvotes.

Was anything else needed to be added to the product?

I was fine with meetup.com in its original form: it had the community of people wanting to go to events, it let you share your events to these people. People showed up to events.

And the price you pay is for you to access their users. If you think it's just an RSVP page, vibe code one in 5 minutes and try and see how many people will show up to your events.

It's a modern product development failure to think that you must be adding new features all the time. "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

Did you deliberately not address the prices skyrocketing comment? Not that the price is what it is, but that the price changed?

But some worker in Italy bolts on a zipper in the end so it’s actually Italian, believe it or not.

That worker is also Chinese, but in Milano.