thankfully elon has hundreds of billions of dollars and presumably will spend most of that sending shit to mars, either before he dies or as part of a trust. most of what we need to send there isn't expensive - electronics and steel and composite materials. the limiting factor isn't going to be the cost of stuff we send there, it's only going to be how many starships we can get flying and how often they fly
Monopolistic behavior helped these companies mint thousands of millionaires, including regular employees enjoying stock options. Some of those people are bound to be in this thread.
ive worked as a software person for 15+ years, largely in an agency setting, and literally the first "complex" project that came to mind for me was a company that makes custom doors. just doors. they used an excel spreadhsheet that was 200+ megabytes and 40+ sheets of extensive calculations and was used for both estimating prices and also the extensive component sourcing and a billion other parameters and in their 100+ employee company there was maybe one, two people who fully understood this shithole of a spreadsheet. as an agency, half a million dollars was understanding this stupid spreadsheet and documenting what this looked like as real sofwtare, and $150k was actually the development. AI would have zero chance of doing this work any time soon
ive loved the past two weeks of working on a project where cursor is doing 98% of the coding, i have a sweet project at 20x the normal speed i could do it
Thanks. I've tried Cursor, but probably more useful on smaller codebases I found and for simple code changes. Can you share the github repo that you use it on, or give me an indication of the codebase size that you use it on?
It's a React project with less than a hundred files made by me/claude. Not really sure of lines of code. It's not overly complex but somewhat novel - it's recreating a game interface and engine and not really a traditional web app. Don't really want to associate my github with my HN username because I used to be a bit more adversarial when posting anonymously on the internet and I'm not super proud of that and don't necessarily want it tied to my real name :)
Ok I'm using cursor again. It is helping me with about 10% of the autocomplete on a very simple one file NodeJS project, but anything more complex it definitely messes it up.
I feel like I can spot musk-bashing astroturfing a mile away because they repeat the exact same criticisms that made big headlines but aren't actually true, but there's maybe like a tiny nugget of nuance to the topic, and it's repeated forever and ever like it's fact and Elon is literally hitler and tesla doesnt actually exist and space isn't real too and elon is just lying to you.
but also he's a xenophobic, transphobic asshole who supports politicians eroding really basic rights and liberties for people, so fuck em
it takes me literally half an hour to thoughtfully find and apply to a single job, which has less than a 1% chance of me getting a job. In reality the percentage is probably closer to 0.2%. I'm a software developer with a decade of experience. It's a really shitty job market out there and I don't blame the automation of a task that seems hopeless anyway.
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