We should be friends. I got 47. In my defense, I was tired.

I was the first to post my score and I thought I did pretty well. Pure hubris! Looking forward to brunch (/j, I'm pretty far away).

This was true when Tesla was primarily in the market of making electric cars. It is not true if their business is humanoid robots: that's squarely meme stock territory.

This article is just a slightly upscale version of the million "YouTube hooks" videos you can find on, well, you know. Down to the "create a gap" advice.

Once upon a time "one weird trick" was good advice too, before it got ran into the ground.

In this era, it takes credibility to grab my attention before I even care about your promise of benefits.

It’s not “make me care.” It’s “make me believe and care, every step of the way.”

This is awesome. I hope this technology continues to advance and decrease in price - but it's already a great value at this one.

The thing is, none of this is really better than any of the simpler systems in terms of use.

If you are required to pay attention most of the time, it defeats the purpose of self driving. Most humans can perform very complex tasks while keeping a car in lane, and adaptive cruise control is nothing new.

Also, being in my coworkers/friends Teslas that are using Autopilot, it almost seems like there is more cognitive load in using it in crowded areas, because you have to be very attentive to catch a disengagement.

As far as I can tell, there are exactly 3 use cases that have demonstrably worked with AI, in the sense that their stakeholders (not the AI companies, the users) swear it works.

1. training a RAG on support questions for chat or documentation, w/good material

2. people doing GTM work in marketing, for things like email automation

3. people using a combination of expensive tools - Claude + Cursor + something else (maybe n8n, maybe a custom coding service) - to make greenfield apps

I know of 4th - line level interference. I love how it works in IDEA, 30% of time I just slap TAB to accept generated code, if it is wrong I just continue writing as usual. Avoids most drawbacks: you don't pay for it(it is running on local CPU), the "review" is instant while still providing boost to productivity.

A $200/month Cursor plan spent on Opus 4.5 calls is not expensive compared to the silly amount of work it will do if you make proper use of plan/agent/debug cycles.

I also can't help but think but the decade over decade improvement in EV goodies is going to be steep: more sensors, more ability if not to fully self-drive then to take over this aspect of driving (like backing up), etc.

If you go on YouTube you can find a lot of vibe coders doing interviews where they drop a brief mention of their SaaS products. I think the main reason they are not well publicized is because they obviously have no moat. If I speak to a really big audience and tell them my SaaS which I vibe coded in 1 day is earning 10k/mo, then I'll have 10 competitors by tomorrow.

But if you want a "citation needed" name of someone shipping vibe coded apps and making money off it: on YouTube, Ed Yonge, or many of the guests on Starter Story.

This is pretty low on information but maybe that's how it has to be, since there probably is a tradeoff between covering the investigation & revealing investigative methods that should be kept private.

That's being extremely charitable.

This is the age of social media. This person has hit the front page of HN twice now. That's a commercially valuable skill.

At this point, having proved that can do something commercially valuable a couple times now, I think they should run with it. Start a YouTube channel. Keep racking up views. Then, eventually, do partnerships and sponsorships, in addition to collecting AdSense money.

If you like to write or perform for other people, you can monetize that now. This person is good at it. They should continue.

You think too much of HN.

I expect many tech employers also think too much of HN, which is exactly the point being made here.

People think too much of it but also, somehow, far too little at the same time.

Agree. Tough crowd overall. And tougher comment section.

Truth. There's a reason that people say to never read the comments section of HN or YouTube.

Surely many of the kinds of companies this guy is applying to think the same?

As do many employers.

I had a post here sit at #1 once for a day, I had 200k views from it. I think an ad would have been $2k? Not to bad I think

I’ve hit #1 multiple times. HN views are low-value and non-sticky, IME.

Sure I don't think you'll build a following just here if that's what you mean, but there is an audience. If you have the skill and technical knowledge to have articles hit the front page you will get a decent amount of views. Which is what i think this comment chain is talking about

> This is the age of social media. This person has hit the front page of HN twice now. That's a commercially valuable skill.

In general yes, wrt HN it's not; literally in this second post he bemoans that the first one didn't pay off for him.

As someone who’s hired many dev advocates, I definitely value the ability to turn mundane topics into posts that hit the HN front page. If they can do this about something as dull as failing interviews, imagine what they’d do with an actually interesting technical topic.

Failing interviews is a favorite topic for HN, not a "dull" one; this is not the only person who's made the front page about it, and certainly won't be the last. HN's audience contains a large group that believes "tech interviews are stupid and broken" and this is right up their alley.

I don't think it is a strong signal of an easy pivot to influencer-as-a-career.

Influence may be intentionally avoided by managers. Applicant should try the marketing team.

The job they were applying for was DevRel, literally one of the goals of many DevRel roles is getting traction on places like HN

I would actively avoid hiring someone with a major social media presence. Too risky.

This title may make Murdoch sound more didactic than she really was; her novels don't feature any traditional lovey-dovey happy endings.

I've only read one book by Iris Murdoch - The sea, the sea - a brilliant psychological drama that is indeed the opposite of lovey dovey. It's more about the delusions of love and self image, but much much more than that.

Nice review here: https://youtu.be/s3UOXnv2YsU?feature=shared