[spaceman_2020]

Not as much as I would have if I was writing everything from scratch. But then again, my goal isn’t to be a coder or get a job as a coder - I’m primarily a marketer and got into coding simply because I had a stack of ideas I wanted to experiment with

Most of the things I’ve built are fun things

See: GoUnfaked.com and PlaybookFM.com as examples

PlaybookFM.com is interesting because everything from the code to the podcasts to the logo are AI generated

[kenjackson]

I’ve had the same experience, except helping complement build components or scripts.

Everyone on HN tells me how LLMs are horrible, yet I’ve saved literally hundreds of hours with them so far. I guess we’re just lucky.

[spaceman_2020]

Look at the replies on my comment

This place is far gone. Some of the most close minded, uncurious people in tech

I don’t think this place deserves to be called “Hacker” News anymore

[jpc0]

We have different definitions of hacker.

I played around with LLMs... Found they aren't very useful. Slapping a project together to ship isn't what hacking is about.

Hacking is about deeply understanding what is actually happening under the hood by playing around, taking it apart, rebuilding it.

When the craze started everyone here were out looking for ways to escape the safeties of the LLMs, or discussing how they are being built etc.

This comment thread is about using the technology to slap a thing together so you can sell it. There's no exploration of the topic at hand, there's no attempt to understand.

I'm trying to think of a decent analogy but can't think of one but this smacks of a certain type of friend who finds a technology you have been hacking on and makes it so unbearable that you actually just lose interest...

[kenjackson]

So almost every person on here is not a hacker since I’ve met very few people here who are knowledgeable about EE, computer architecture, compiler technology, or heck even how browsers work. Of course there are some, but HN is mostly about slapping together technology to sell your startup.

[jpc0]

Don't correlate hackernews and YCombinator.

I am perfectly aware of the owner here but there is usually at least one or two posts a day here that has what I call a "hacker culture".

[an_guy]

How much time did you spend on getting it working especially for playbookfm?

[spaceman_2020]

Less than a week, tops. The hard part was the content - curating the resources for creating the podcasts