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Confirm it. Credit where credit is due. The best leaders and most secure are always elevating others

Hi scammers! You're still running your phishing scam publicly? Amazing.

If it's a usage-based product, you should absolutely refund. The ideal business vision is value-for-value. Someone should be getting as much or more value from your product than they paid for it. If they aren't using it, for whatever reason, that isn't happening.

Inflating is nicer. Integers are simpler for human brains. Also, having LARGE amounts of credits FEELS good. I do this all the time in video game design too, for the same reasons

Disagree on the robbing. Having worked in various industries at selling direct versus on platforms, I think it's a VERY GOOD deal to pay the platform fees given how much marketing they effectively do. Even after the fees, the net revenue is typically WAY better than direct.

If you're just "typing into a search bar" then you're right. That's not prompt engineering. 😉 It's only engineering if you know EXACTLY what you'll get out before you hit the button. Consistent, reproducible results is the hallmark of engineering.

Abstract things are hard to understand. To be fair, most people also don't "get" the tax code, macroeconomics, the fractional-reserve banking system... etc.

Yeah! The pseudo-science grift is real. Wearing a white lab coat, or having some "peer-reviewed" papers doesn't make one a scientist. It doesn't mean there is anything credible. Technologists with working technology are some of the most reliable people doing actual science.

Same. I wasn't close to anti-vax. Just wanted to see what the effects would be. Was concerned about how things were rushed, marketed, misrepresented. Sometimes one doesn't want to be the guinea pig in any experiment...

The US Tax Code rewards Americans for "always working" and punishes people who aren't. Incentives shape behavior.

Losing 100k in business means you’re no longer playing at the kiddie tables. In business, you win some and you lose some. There is plenty of money to be made. So, how to get over it? - Be thankful you’re playing for real… many people never do - Abundance mentality

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If docs are needed use an AI Agent to write them for you

What's the solution to this? I see smart engineers ARGUING for a monolith in the interests of speed. How does one counter-balance that?

If you're just "typing into a search bar" then you're right. That's not prompt engineering. 😉 It's only engineering if you know EXACTLY what you'll get out before you hit the button. Consistent, reproducible results is the hallmark of engineering.

Good thought here. You're right. LLMs are reversion to the mean. This means there are three use cases: 1. Where the mean is better than what you had 2. Where the mean is good enough (pareto principle) 3. Where you need something better (creator needed)

Fantastic values! This is a beautiful vision for the way life ought to be

If it's a usage-based product, you should absolutely refund. The ideal business vision is value-for-value. Someone should be getting as much or more value from your product than they paid for it. If they aren't using it, for whatever reason, that isn't happening.

Inflating is nicer. Integers are simpler for human brains. Also, having LARGE amounts of credits FEELS good. I do this all the time in video game design too, for the same reasons

Agreed. How do we fix this? Many developers are "frameworkers" and don't want to have to think about theory, principles, abstraction, etc...

It's getting so expensive, it almost makes people WANT their houses to get flattened... 🤣

Sadly this paradigm doesn't extend to the database. People make immutable code model and then are flipping bits haphazardly in various rows and columns in their databases. Why aren't write-only immutable event stores more popular? It's the natural extension of immutable data.

Nice! It's a great product!

Also debatable. Most novel ideas “sound deranged” when presented to people with conflicting initial opinions. Democracy. The scientific method. General relativity. Newtonian physics. Heliocentrism. Etc. It’s more related to socialization than factuality.

"Sounds deranged" isn't the type of opinion that has any bearing on whether something is a historical fact or not.

Those are questions of fact, not of thinking. Either dead people can be raised, or they cannot. It's a systemic categorical fact one way or the other. Either there was an ark built by Noah, or there wasn't. It's a historical fact one way of the other. Basic epistemology.