> it does kinda blow my mind how often I see people (on /r/vibecoding and elsewhere) paying for a $200/mo subscription to produce what amount to hobby projects and toy sites
People spend more than that on their (non-vibecoding) hobbies. Think of folks who do woodworking, 3D printing, sailing, car racing, etc. So $200/mo is not excessive if they get their enjoyment out of it.
So you claim that Mozilla entered into a contract with Anthropic, and said contract requires Mozilla to advertise for Anthropic on their blog. I hope Mozilla is getting a good payday out of this.
The claim was that a site could "infer when you sleep, when you work, and when you browse because you cannot sleep." Is that not true? I know that the timing of my HN comments tells a pretty clear story about my schedule having recently looked at a histogram.
Sure they are. They affect the actions of many companies that today think what they're doing is okay (or at least not illegal). Don't underestimate the value of substantially reducing a harm, even if it isn't eliminated entirely. And don't underestimate the value of making it easier to address the remainder by ensuring it's 100% illegitimate.
Regulate it today, and tomorrow, corporate legal departments will be very carefully training their employees to understand that it's illegal and they should never do it.
Currently, some countries have laws saying that you're not allowed to pay bribes, including foreign bribes. Consider how widespread that practice was when it was outlawed. Imagine if, instead of regulating it, those countries had said "oh, that's not enforceable and too many people are already doing it and it would affect existing business practices...". Instead, today, corporate legal departments will ensure that employees are trained to know they can never do that and they should report any attempts to solicit bribes.
I wonder whether the future of software is like this project, where computer capabilities come in the form of skills that you can (purchase?/rent? to) download and use.
At first, it's really fun to make your own bases. Eventually, it seems you either lose interest, or you get impatient and copy in others' blueprints. A blueprint is just a plain-ish text representation of a part of a factory, and late game (or creative mode), the robots just build it. All you do is copy and paste it, not much creativity required.
AI says many true things. That doesn’t mean I want to read someone else’s AI generated output. I want something in the article to show that the author spent more time writing than I will spend reading, and by a wide margin, or else I know they feel that my time is not valuable.
People spend more than that on their (non-vibecoding) hobbies. Think of folks who do woodworking, 3D printing, sailing, car racing, etc. So $200/mo is not excessive if they get their enjoyment out of it.
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