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For me its 2 things. Firstly, I mean the posts are always a fun read but it feels like just that, not much deeper insight. Secondly, its very self promotion-y. This account is almost exclusively posting / interacting with Andon content, which afaik is against HN guidelines. These two in combination makes the content feel more like marketing than contribution to discussions. I feel like some other companies manage to share interesting work and market. But maybe its just my taste :^)
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> keep hacking, Andon!

Man, I remember when the word hacking meant something.

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> Man, I remember when the word hacking meant something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44154622

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This is their third publicity stunt in the past couple of months. It follows the exact same pattern of attention seeking at the expense of the commons. At this point they seem like a bunch of low empathy jerks. They are gleefully describing their progress in developing yet new frontiers in AI slop. I’m sure they are all very pleased to think that they will be profiting from a future where ai slop is everywhere. I could go on but it’s tedious.
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I think they get a lot of hate because they are doing something that a lot of people here don't like -- trying to run entire businesses without humans.

And using a lot of resources to do it too.

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I think that's part of it, but not necessarily the whole story. I haven't criticized them in the thread yet... so here goes.

Previously, I posted critically not because they were running businesses without humans, but because their post just described going through the motions without actually discussing if it really was effective or not. Sure the AI got through the day, checked off tasks on the list, but did it actually do that effectively or efficiently in any important way? Who knows... wasn't discussed.

I think where I come down now is that repeats of this same gimmick feel like just that: they're just playing a gimmick for attention. I can't tell that they're really demonstrating any special or significant capability... but man, just the story of trying to run a business without humans will get you that sweet, sweet attention.

Unfortunately, looking at least the first post, I stopped reading their "we let AI run X" posts. I think the only thing I really came away with is how thoughtless and mundane are most aspects of running a small business actually is; something I knew, but it really drove the point home. I didn't learn anything unexpected about AI tools or their products that seemed compelling or unexpected.

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Out of all the jobs that "need to be replaced by AI" the guy serving my local community and spinning records was not one of them.
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It’s amazing how many people have completely misunderstood the article
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> This is our latest project at Andon Labs, where we’re exploring what happens when AI runs real businesses autonomously.

What did I misunderstand? What they did or why they did it? It seems to me that I understood it perfectly or they've explained it terribly.

> Now, though, we wanted to see if they could run a company in the media sector.

It's amazing how many people think doing one job is "running a company." I've worked in radio. What happens in the studio is 5% of it. The staff in that room certainly gets less than 5% of the revenue.

The most popular formats are news and talk. For a reason. It's almost as if the people at this lab lack a fundamental understanding of how the world around them works. I would solve that immediate problem before I go about imagining ways "AI" can replace anything in any capacity.

Finally, I apologize, I'm just not willing to suspend basic disbelief because "AI" is unaccountably involved.

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Maybe read the article? They explain that it’s (trying) to do much more business-work outside of the studio.
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Seriously - did anyone here actually even read it?
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For better or worse, most people, including HN, don't like "AI taking jobs."

Anything that sounds like that triggers a reaction.

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The comments on this article in aggregate are some of the worst I’ve seen in a long time. It’s like it got cross posted to Reddit and all the losers from some occupy wall street discussion came without reading the acticle to whine about AI taking jobs.
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