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https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089

“Before starting tasks, developers forecast that allowing AI will reduce completion time by 24%. After completing the study, developers estimate that allowing AI reduced completion time by 20%. Surprisingly, we find that allowing AI actually increases completion time by 19%--AI tooling slowed developers down.”


Half of the images on the iOS App Store have the Gemini watermark on them (and the Google Play Store link is busted). I would assume most people would think this was built with AI.


I think the issue here is what you’re defining as automation. I worked at a managed services provider automating any task that could be automated for over a decade, there will always be more work than can be automated. It just changes too fast for that not to be true, especially when dealing with thousands of different line of business applications and edge cases which are constantly updating.


To quote further down the page “An MVP is a temporary site, it doesn't have to be and shouldn't be perfect.”


To quote someone else in this thread [1]: "there's nothing more permanent than a temporary solution."

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32808640


I use two sets of weights and a dumbbell elevator.


Why stop at positive integers? Why not -3? A? Horse?


I invested a few thousand dollars just before they hit a dollar each. I hoped they would hit $10. It still amazes me they ever hit $100.


In the HBO show Silicon Valley there is a joke about how it is better to be pre-revenue because your valuation is tied to an idea, nothing real. Companies with revenue have P/E ratios, tying them to reality in some way. If Bitcoin is a "store of value" and also " a hedge against inflation" the price in USD could go up to infinity as the dollar goes down in value.

Obviously at this point neither of those things are true. It is basically just a poker game. The miners are the casinos taking their percentages and the players are all colluding by talking about how much fun the game is in hopes of getting more people to buy in to the game.


so basically you're rich beyond your wildest dreams now?


Not if he doesn't sell


I sold most of it at $100 and the rest of it at $1000. I made less than 2 million, knowing about it since near inception.


> so basically you're rich beyond your wildest dreams now?

Doubt it. People who've made a thousandfold gain probably think that's the best it is going to do, so they sell.

If you bought into BTC at $1, chances are you never held it all the way up to $20k.


This was done by a few people, who bleed like you and I do. Not by a country, solution is much easier.


Copying a request as cURL, PowerShell, fetch etc… right from inside the DevTools is a blessing.


Isn't it though?

Does create a bit of work when you have to figure out which parts of cURL need to be ported to Python, and which can be safely omitted. Copying a cURL request adds in a lot of headers - many of which I still don't properly know the purpose of.

I'll get there eventually. : ) In the meantime - thank god for whoever wrote "Copy as cURL request"!


"Christmas is an annual festival, commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas


This may be a disturbing thought to some, but a great many people don't give a damn about any supposed virgin birth. To them, it's about getting time off from work to visit family, various pagan-derived decorations around the home (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule), seasonal desserts, and of course consumerism/consumption (particularly the giving of gifts, which is what "like Christmas" in this instance refers to.)


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