> This solution screams "built by a tech bro with no idea about economics and marketing" which is the VC playbook into modernizing (and failing) businesses they don't understand.

I think you need to be better at self reflection. A tech bro who read a blog post and immediately accused the author of being "a tech bro with no idea about economics and marketing", and assumed that they didn't understand the business they built a software for.

As for AI for luxury services, you didn't look hard enough. See for example discussion of what Langham Hotel Group is doing with AI. Granted, nothing earth shattering:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMn0MO5HFk8

If you haven't heard of Langham, they own the 5-star Langham London and many other luxury hotels:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langham_Hotel,_London

Everything someone does is to give them something in return. Do you think HN would exist if not for the benefits of YC? Doesn't mean the blog post isn't interesting or helpful. Perhaps you dismiss the post because of your bias?

Any difference that asking two humans?

Yeah, enormously. People will hedge depending on how sure they are about something. They might also have credentials in whatever you ask them, if you get legal advice from a lawyer, that can be judged to be more reliable than from a lay person.

Relationships with real people are pretty cool actually. If you talk to people that you have a longer relationship with, you might also be able to judge their areas of expertise and how prone to bullshitting they are.

It was sunk there because it attended an on-off event in India before that. Iran's ships don't get on regular trips far from home.

They don't but it shows they could.

I mean, a personal yacht can sail around the world, that's not really demonstrating whether the vessel is useful in combat operations anywhere in the world.

Not true. There is also cost, money or opportunity. Correctness or performance isn't binary -- 4 or 5 nines, 6 or 7 decimal precision, just to name a few. That drives a lot discussion.

There may be other considerations as well -- licensing terms, resources, etc.

What are naming rights? China call the sea in the south, well…, South China sea. The same one is called East Sea in Vietnam. Both is official name.

> here’s no democracy in being mostly beholden to a few companies which own the largest and most powerful models, who can cut you off at any time, jack up the prices to inaccessibility, or unilaterally change the terms of the deal.

That would not happen, simply because those companies' interest will never be aligned entirely. There are at least three SOA models at the moment plus many open weight models. Anthropic vs. Pentagon is exactly what would play out.

And what is a precedence? Don't say Google, because search is well and alive.

> You know what’s truly “democratic” and without “gatekeeping”? Exactly what we had before, an internet run by collaboration filled with free resources for anyone keen enough to learn.

We have way more free resources at the moment. Name anything you'd like to learn, someone will be able to point you to a relevant resource. There are also better ways of surfacing that resource.

> This parroted argument

Most of arguments here on HN have been discussed ad nauseam, for or against AI. It's only parroted (or biased) if it's against your own beliefs.

AI helps you to focus on the aspects that you are interested in. Perhaps you care about database nifty stuff, but you may need the front end to make an end to end solution. You can delegate that part to AI

Not disagreeing, but apart from coding the most boring part of the entire job is the one that's the hardest to correctly delegate to AI: testing and ensuring the whole thing is sound.

Which is why it's changing the calculus on junior devs: if you're not mature enough to do self-review and self-QA, you're just dead weight for the team/company.

What if you care about all the parts?

You don’t, there’s always a choice about what to include and what to exclude in your system.

Unless you are hand selecting every atom that goes into a thing (maybe you make nuclear weapons?), you always make choices about what you focus on and what is irrelevant to your project.

Of course you can. It wasn’t fictional when Superheavy flew back and was caught, was it? It costed real money, not fictional. What kind of mental gymnastics are you doing?

Standing up to the US government has real and serious sequence. Peter Hegseth threatened to make Anthropic supply chain risk, meaning not only is Anthropic likely dropped as Pentagon’s supplier, but also risk losing companies doing business with the military as customers, such as Boeing or Lockheed Martin. Whatever tactic you think he is doing, that’s potentially massive revenue lost, at the time they need any business they can get.

Amazon does business with the DOD/W. That’s a pretty dangerous game of brinkmanship Anthropic is playing.