thats the game though. Elon is selling a "slice of the future" and everyone starts having FOMO... the result is a P/E ratio of 300 or whatever crazy number. We will all agree that the company isn't worth that, but theres a bunch of people happy to buy meme stocks that will make a ton of money without the slightest idea of how to value stocks. Botton line an asset is worth what people are willing to pay for it.

Maybe I'm wrong here, but if they are charging money for those tokens... aren't these bugs a breach of contract?

This is actually really amazing. Cloudflare is just skating to where the puck is going to be on this one.

The article's point is sound, but its missing a key component. People who build simpler systems are capable of getting more done - the build takes less, the maintenance takes less, etc. So when the engineer choosing simplicity is looking to get promoted they might have 3 or 4 bullet points to their name instead of 1.

Of course, over-simplification is the wrong decision some times, the same as abstraction and complexity is the wrong decision some times...

Your shortcut for promotion is generally building value for the company, but people need to remember that promotions support the business and they aren't free to the company.

Unfortunately, no, simpler systems often take longer to create. It's always easiest to just add some janky widget hanging off the side, than to rejigger the whole system to be simpler. It's like the Pascal quote: "I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter."

They take less to review and maintain etc, but the credit for those positives aren't assigned to the original engineer. Which is the point of the article.

So silly question, in theory this is like brewing beer... what if a kid wants to make an operating system?

Interesting story for sure (to be clear I'm not talking about the writing by Reuters), but would you buy or skip the OpenAi IPO?

To me it feels like one of those throw some play money into it and see what happens sort of situations. Expect it will return negative due to the raw financials and outlook, but small chance the brand carries enough weight with the public that it spikes.

I'd love to hear other thoughts though

If the IPO was at 20B maybe I could throw a 1000$.

But at such numbers it's nonsense.

I don't see any moat. LLMs are commodities.

Enterprise is on Gemini/NotebookLM and Copilot as it's a natural extension of the Google and Office suite they use.

Devs are in Anthropic camp, but they will jump as soon as they can save 90% of the money for 99% of the output.

I've written these words multiple times here on HN, and have a draft blog by virtually the same title. I can't agree more with the sentiment, though I think theres some nuance the author is missing out on. Regardless, thank you for sharing.

Sounds like an IPO in 6-18 months.

there was a thing on hacker news a couple of months ago by a group that measures that... the TLDR is that hot liquids or hot materials against plastic during production does increase micro plastics in food, which makes sense. Obv, we still don't have a full understanding of the health implications.

also, I think the company here is being generous to themselves... mocha pots, and pretty much all pour overs are all plastic-free... they really aren't the first to do plastic-free