On: It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024)

[roland35]

I had a side project going off and on for YEARS. I thought it was a great business idea with some interesting technical challenges.

I asked Claude and ChatGPT about it, and they both shot the idea down as a viable startup. It was a liberating feeling honestly! I have since focused my efforts on other projects and have been more successful with those.

[Andrex → roland35]

On the one hand this makes a lot of sense.

On the other hand I get oogy about humans deferring their passionate feelings in favor of cold machine logic.

[mmarian → Andrex]

I do that too. Wouldn't say it's relying on the logic. It's more hearing another perspective. Sometimes I think what it's saying makes sense, sometimes I don't.