The books were likely in the training data, I don't know that it's that impressive.

I heard the other day that every time someone claps another vibe coded project embeds the api keys in the webpage.

I wonder if this will continue to be the case.

Also, it is my experience that exec and boards favour safe and well known B2B partners over in house. It's a more publicly defensible approach that gives them an out if things go wrong and shareholders get upset.

All they need to do now is slap AI on it and they'll have bags of cash delivered to their door.

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I recently started a new role and have to use Windows for work.

I am seriously thinking of looking for another role because it is such a HOG.

I'm in the same boat, have to use Windows at work. In addition to whatver MS is doing, every workstation is encumbered with various EDR and antivirus software.

Throw in some docker workloads and it's a party.

It not pattern matching, it’s literally two things happening at the same time… in a business… that strictly budgets everything…

It’s not a pattern it’s a plan.

You forgot to mention the case where the US economy craters because of political missteps leading to Google and Apple being distracted leaving it open for Chinese or other models to surge ahead.

To be fair Softbank really likes to invest in lemons, so you know, let them do what brings them joy.

Love this for them.

"90% of VCs quit investing right before hitting the jackpot"

- Softbank's motto

I think people aren't being charitable enough. OpenAI could easily be the next WeWork.

The world already relies on them for drones and batteries, often cars.

Yes, of course, that is what I’m saying you need to change.

You change that by developing a competitive industry. You can use China to help with that, and don't blame them, subsidizing everything is impossible, that's not the reason for their success. Instead, try to explain your own failure - like high barriers of entry, meager competition, etc.

These pieces are usually just advertising with more words. They want to frame Replit and their hero founder as being rebels who don't follow the rules or fear goliath.

This is fantasy fiction for VCs, founders, AI bros, and anyone else who isn't actually looking for information.

I don't know what it is but I don't think that it's an ad. Otherwise I guess they wouldn't have that snarky pro-israel undertone towards him.

This is similar to a political campaign not telling you to vote on X, but still talking greatly about X. It's completely legal

Here's the ethics policy for the SF Standard: https://sfstandard.com/ethics-standards/

It’s a puff piece with no substance that tries to frame the interviewee positively with no real apparent reason.

OK, and? It doesn’t say anything about paid (or otherwise) promotions.

I imagine they forgot to explicitly list that because avoiding undisclosed paid promotions is so baked into the ethics of journalism that saying it out loud didn't cross their minds.

A: it looks like this article is no more than an ad

B: Oh noes, it can't be, they have specific policy against that!

A: That policy actually does not have anything about this.

B: Ah, that's because they are so ethical that they didn't even think to mention this in their policy!

Sure, this sounds extremely convincing.

(and of course, nobody ever ignored or tiptoed around a written policy, ever)

I think an important piece of media literacy is being able to tell if a publication is likely to follow journalistic ethics or not. SF Standard pass that test for me.

What is the value of this piece? Who benefits from people reading it?

It's clearly access journalism - the Replit press team set this up, and the SF Standard took the opportunity.

For Replit it's a good way to raise the profile of their founder, important for this phase of the company.

The SF Standard get an interesting profile out if this because Masad is an unconventional shape of founder. The Palestinian angle is a great hook to build a story around, especially right now. The Standard's editorial brand involves presenting tech stories from their own unique angle which makes this a good fit for them.

This is their best performing story on HN in a long time, so it clearly resonated with an audience that they presumably want to reach: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=sfstandard.com

See my earlier point that this article is meant to read like fiction for a demographic that are not actually involved in using any of this tech on the daily.

Injecting Gaza, assault rifles and vague implication of conspiracy (with Jews lurking on the background because you must respect the founding pillars of the genre) into an article that is supposedly about tech startup founder - is exactly what I expect from top ethical journalistic standards. Not.

I mean I get it. Who doesn't have an AI code generation tool now? It's like having a website in the first dotcom boom era (yes, Gandalf, I was there). No pop, no buzz, not hot and juicy enough. But add a little of intifada there, a fight against some murky forces of darkness (that throw hundreds of millions of vc money at the intrepid hero) - and maybe you got something. That's how journalism is done.

> He smirked. "Yes, I am."