Posted by cratermoon 10/28/2024
I was introduced to his work through an HN post last year. I was hooked by that first piece, and I've often gone back to his archive whenever I've had the time to read something long-form for leisure.
Nope, just you bucko.
Unfortunately HN has a hate for AI, but any writer should expect to demonstrate right of the bat that you have something worthwhile to share. Most stuff posted online is not worth reading. The article failed to demonstrate that, and it had the style of "I need to pad this to reach some kind of minimum word count".
I think reading the article was worth it, but thanks to the the style I was about to quit several times. Your solution of runnning it through an LLM would certainly have been a better outcome than this.
> In 2006, Charles Edwards was convicted of 83 counts of wire fraud and sentenced to thirteen years in prison.
Then another company:
> By 2009, more than a dozen people had been convicted of fraud in relation to Prometheus.
Both pyramid schemes and Ponzis are illegal. MLMs are illegal in many places. In the US they were successfully able to lobby their way into carving out a legal niche in the 80s. They are also the reason supplement safety is so loosely regulated in the US.
So you can work on things because you want to not because you have to. At least that's my plan. Not quite there yet.
So you retire, and by law you're no longer allowed to do the thing you love. It's not a good deal.
Most people reading this right now are in the US, and the vast majority of US employees at at-will, which means no contract at all. Even for those with contracts, it's a pretty big leap to get to "IP theft" with anything anyone could reasonably work on in retirement.
I suspect with analysis this is not the case for the majority of folks.
Hardware is a funny example though, because I feel it's easier than ever to get some interesting hardware stuff going.