i'm def one of them

Vibe coding tools are helping non-tech users build prototype faster, and there's nothing wrong about that. The only thing that goes wrong are the "marketing" folks with a poisoned mindset. I've seen a lovable's tiktok clip said something like "She doesn't know she gonna sell her app for 20k" lol.

I would make a wild guess that this is a policital invesment. It's hard to believe Mistral is the right choice to throw in 1.7B€ for economic reason.

> It’s hard to believe that Mistral isn’t the right choice to invest €1.7B in for economic reasons.

Why? Cursor, essentially a VSCode fork, is valued at $10B. Perplexity AI, which, as far as I'm informed, doesn't have its own foundational models, boasts a market capitalisation of $20B, according to recent news. Yet Mistral sits at just a $14B.

Meanwhile, Mistral was at the forefront of the LLM take-off, developing foundational (very lean, performant and innovative at the time) models from scratch and releasing them openly. They set up an API service, integrated with businesses, building custom models and fine-tunes, and secured partnership agreements. They launched user-facing interface and mobile app which are on par with leading companies, kept pace with "reasoning" and "research" advancements; and, in short, built a solid, commercially viable portfolio. So why on earth should Mistral AI be valued lower? Let alone have its mere €1.7B investment questioned.

Edit: Apologies, I misread your quote and missed the "isn't" part.

Since 2024, it's hard to make an investment that has no political nature.

Man, RSS still brings me so much nostalgia. Anyone still feel the pain when Google discontinued its RSS reader?

Feedly works more or less the same. I have no issues with it.

> Anyone still feel the pain when Google discontinued its RSS reader?

Yes, but mostly because of a lost opportunity.

I was working on my own web based reader when Google made a significant upgrade to their reader. It was similar to what I had made, so I thought it would be foolish to compete with Google and stopped working on it.

I wonder where RSS would be now if Google had not discouraged potential competitors.

It’s less about AI vs boilerplate and more about having good tests. if the code works and you can move fast, who cares who typed it.

Code working is a very high bar. And the only way close for most projects is formal verification.

ChatGPT is a wrapper of GPT

And Google is a wrapper of PageRank

And HN is a wrapper of bikeshedding.

And a bikeshed is a wrapper of a bike

And a bike is a wrapper of wheels

And a bike is a wrapper of wheels

It used to be a thin wrapper, but todays chatGPT is closer to an agent

Mocks usually don’t line up with how things run in prod. Most teams just make small branch or dev environments, or test in staging. Once you hit odd bugs, serverless stops feeling simple and just turns into a headache.

Yeah, I’ve never worked at one of those shops but it’s always sounded like a nightmare. I get very anxious when I don’t have a local representative environment where I can get detailed logs, attach a debugger, run strace, whatever.