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by emaro15 hours ago |
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upvoteby blocked_againnn8 hours ago|
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There is nothing particularly special about building something first.
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upvoteby emaro7 hours ago|
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True, but imo there's also nothing particulrarly special about telling your agent to (re)build something that already existed (in various flavours) before.

I packed the thought into "consider if your vision is really distinct enough": make it better, make it weird, or make it recreationally (i.e. by hand). Make it opinionated, in Minecraft, whatever, but give it at least some new substance.

It's also fine to do Hacker Tube or Hacker Times (it's really not about this specific instance) for the 100th time, but if nothing else distinguishes it from the others than "I wanted to have one too", maybe it's not the curiosity-inspiring thing to share on HN we should strive for.

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upvoteby blocked_againnn6 hours ago|
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None of these are listed in the guidelines on HN.
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upvoteby simsla6 hours ago|
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Nor was it implied. I agree with the poster, especially in the case of point-and-release agentic coding. Not saying it's to be banned if there's no additional substance, but worth asking yourself what you've contributed apart from token spend.
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upvoteby blocked_againnn6 hours ago|
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Subjective opinions. People can do whatever they want.
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upvoteby emaro4 hours ago|
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Yep, thank you simsla.

My specific examples aren't listed, but the guidelines on what to submit support my point I think:

> If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

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upvoteby pessimizer4 hours ago|
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You seem to be confused. Every opinion on here is subjective, and no one was suggesting that the poster should be arrested.
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upvoteby blocked_againnn3 hours ago|
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I was merely pointing at how some people seems to have some impression that the idea should be original and not a duplicate as if it's some sort of objective truth that they have found out.

In reality it's just some false belief they have.

There is no guarantee that the first implementation of the idea will be the first to capture the attention of the public.

Also it's perfectly fine to have someone post a duplicate implementation of an idea and get no reception as well.

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upvoteby herrherrmann12 hours ago|
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Maybe that can happen through custom instructions. But I guess, by default the agent will happily do extra work and spend lots of tokens on “redundant” projects.
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upvoteby nomel11 hours ago|
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We're going to enter an era of fragmentation and silos like never imagined before. It'll be terribly wonderful, with everyone getting exactly what they want.
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upvoteby willguest9 hours ago|
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You're probably right, but i think this is a human-led issue, not one brought on by tech, though it does exacerbate it.

As someone committed to transdisciplinary work, I think the tech also really supports this - i can do lit reviews on topics and cross-reference much more easily, which gives me more time for reading and thinking (both of which are also falling out of fashion, but that's another story)

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