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		throw46365 on June 10, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A ChatGPT mistake cost us $10k The lesson I learned from the dot-com era is that people who are dependent on the hype to make profit will crane their necks to believe the hype. Salespeople, executives, engineers, it doesn’t matter. Every day on HN reminds me a little more of 1998.

talldayo on June 10, 2024 [–]

Yep. Hacker News is one of the only social medias that I've seen where you have to reject reality in order to be accepted and upvoted by the majority. After a while it becomes more funny than sad, really.

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