I gave you the up vote because it’s a good take, but this really has nothing to do with the article, so I can tell that you and a bunch of your 58 up voters didn’t read it

This guy (a founding engineer of fly.io) isn’t claiming his 10x status in the article on the grounds that he uses AI

Indeed, he’s claiming that he gets value from AI despite being a 10xer without it

I have to say that you just have to sayed something up

Revenue is a standard unit of measurement for any venture backed business because it gauges interest and growth better than profit does

What makes him a wanker?

1. I’m not really interested in trying to burn anyone and despite my nuanced understanding of the Luddites, I do think dismissing a Luddite take in the context of technological progress is legitimate
2. I care about ethics and governance too but I live in a capitalist society and I’m here to discuss the merits of a technology

This is a pretty good take imo

Like AI, IoT is an important and lasting technology

But too many businesses and products jumped on a misguided bandwagon to pull stupid uniformed VC money

Replace AI with Excel in your argument and repeat it again. Do you see how silly you sound?

If this dev doesn’t do it, the next one will

This dev is analytical enough to understand basic incentive modeling and game theory. Capitalism is a race to the bottom no less now than it always was.

This is a brilliant take. Whoever designed my car’s screen system can kick rocks

Agreed, and yet the AI accelerated the project

I hear you, and there’s merit to the concerns. My counter is

1. The same was true at the Advent of books, the Internet, and stack overflow
2. It’s Luddite to refuse progress and tools based on an argument about long term societal impact. The reality is that capitalism will choose the path of least resistance