99% of dev work has already been done before. That's why most modern dev is "Search Google" -&gt; StackOverflow or random blog post -&gt; copy & paste + tweak code

LLMs and AI code completion tools (eg. GitHub Copilot) drastically simplify this even further. In a few years, you'll simply write a prompt and the code will be written for you, infrastructure set up for you, and APIs glued together for you.

The takeaway is that basic app development will be completely commoditized within a few years, and ultimately all dev work will be. Once something has been done once and is understood by AI, then that work is now commoditized.

Developers are the "translator" between someone who wants to build something and the machine. Just like AI will automate human language translators, AI will do the same for machine translators. Of course there will still be humans verifying the AI's output and handling edge cases, but there will be significantly less demand for humans.

For developers to remain employable, they'll need to offer more than commoditized dev services. This means working at the bleeding edge of what hasn't already been done before (eg. building the AI), and/or coupling dev with other skills (eg. product, marketing, management).

Ultimately though it's an arms race where every worker is competing against their irrelevance due to automation, and it's only going to get more and more competitive as AI improves exponentially.

The tech job market sucks now, but I personally don't think it's going to get better. If/when we get back to low interest rates and another market bubble we might see another boom cycle, but long-term things are only going to get more competitive, and the longevity and time relevance of your knowledge will only decrease as tech advances exponentially.

Of course this needn't be a bad thing if our economic system was designed to accommodate automation such as via a Universal Basic Income (UBI) that ensured that job automation doesn't equate to billions of people becoming destitute, but unfortunately such obvious simple policies are beyond the cognitive capacity of politicians, and everyone else is too focused on the arms race of trying to remain economically relevant in the face of AI automation to pay attention to the bigger picture. Or even if most people see the writing on the wall and have identified the solution, actually implementing the solution is a prisoner's dilemma that requires mass collaboration and individually doesn't help you due to the time/energy opportunity cost (your skills are getting outdated as you read this) and it going against the elite's interests as poorer masses = more elite power (eg. imagine how many less OnlyFans girls there'd be if college tuition wasn't so expensive and we had a UBI).

Basically UBI would be the easiest solution to countering the massive job losses that will result from automation, while redesigning our system to have automation work FOR us rather than AGAINST us (since automation then shifts from "oh no I might lose my job" to "cool I don't need to do this menial work anymore thanks to technology"). But supporting UBI means you're lazy and want to be a useless parasite who just collects a paycheck and plays videogames right?

Speaking of which, I need to get back to work before I lose my economic relevance.

<https://twitter.com/jeremybernier/status/1686573852770664449>

We're Competing With Each Other Against Our Own Economic Irrelevance

Hi I'm Jeremy. I'm building this site because I'm not satisfied with other online community type websites and their lack of innovation (see the /about page). The goal is to make a superior, more open, and more decentralized online community.

The site is still in early stages in active development (see the dev masterthread here: https://zsync.xyz/p/zsync-dev-update-masterthread)

Join us if this sounds interesting! Feel free to send me any feedback or reach out directly!

Show HN: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36958731>

Magic Loops – Combine LLMs and code to create simple automations

Beautiful voice, beautiful song. I've never heard the Thai language sound this beautiful before.

JUNENOM - กาลครั้งนึง

Links:

[Curve Founder’s $168M Stash Is Under Stress, Creating a Risk for DeFi as a Whole](https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2023/07/31/a-curve-founders-168m-stash-is-under-stress-creating-a-risk-for-defi-as-a-whole/)

Delphi Digital Twitter thread: <https://twitter.com/Delphi_Digital/status/1686187959303708672>

Curve Finance Exploit Puts More Than $100M of Crypto at Risk

Samsung reports 95% drop in profit, but expects global demand to recover in second half of the year

No-GIL mode coming for Python

Chidori – Declarative framework for AI agents (Rust, Python, and Node.js)

"Hi HN, we’re Nate and Ty, co-founders of Continue, an open-source autopilot for software development built to be deeply customizable and continuously learn from development data. It consists of an extended language server and (to start) a VS Code extension.

Our GitHub is <https://github.com/continuedev/continue>. You can watch a demo of Continue and download the extension at <https://continue.dev>

— — —

A growing number of developers are replacing Google + Stack Overflow with Large Language Models (LLMs) as their primary approach to get help, similar to how developers previously replaced reference manuals with Google + Stack Overflow.

However, existing LLM developer tools are cumbersome black boxes. Developers are stuck copy/pasting from ChatGPT and guessing what context Copilot uses to make a suggestion. As we use these products, we expose how we build software and give implicit feedback that is used to improve their LLMs, yet we don’t benefit from this data nor get to keep it.

The solution is to give developers what they need: *transparency, hackability,* and *control*. Every one of us should be able to reason about what’s going on, tinker, and have control over our own development data. This is why we created Continue.

— — —

At its most basic, Continue removes the need for copy/pasting from ChatGPT—instead, you collect context by highlighting and then ask questions in the sidebar or have an edit streamed directly to your editor.

But Continue also provides powerful tools for managing context. For example, type ‘@issue’ to quickly reference a GitHub issue as you are prompting the LLM, ‘@[README.md](http://README.md)’ to reference such a file, or ‘@google’ to include the results of a Google search.

And there’s a ton of room for further customization. Today, you can write your own

\- slash commands (e.g. ‘/commit’ to write a summary and commit message for staged changes, ‘/docs’ to grab the contents of a file and update documentation pages that depend on it, ‘/ticket’ to generate a full-featured ticket with relevant files and high-level instructions from a short description)

\- context sources (e.g. GitHub issues, Jira, local files, StackOverflow, documentation pages)

\- templated system message (e.g. “Always give maximally concise answers. Adhere to the following style guide whenever writing code: {{ /Users/nate/repo/[styleguide.md](http://styleguide.md) }}”)

\- tools (e.g. add a file, run unit tests, build and watch for errors)

\- policies (e.g. define a goal-oriented agent that works in a write code, run code, read errors, fix code, repeat loop)

Continue works with any LLM, including local models using ggml or open-source models hosted on your own cloud infrastructure, allowing you to remain 100% private. While OpenAI and Anthropic perform best today, we are excited to support the progress of open-source as it catches up (<https://continue.dev/docs/customization#change-the-default-l>[...](https://continue.dev/docs/customization#change-the-default-llm)).

When you use Continue, you automatically collect data on how you build software. By default, this development data is saved to `.continue/dev_data` on your local machine. When combined with the code that you ultimately commit, it can be used to improve the LLM that you or your team use (if you allow).

You can read more about how development data is generated as a byproduct of LLM-aided development and why we believe that you should start collecting it now: <https://medium.com/@continuedev/its-time-to-collect-data-on->[...](https://medium.com/@continuedev/its-time-to-collect-data-on-how-you-build-software-197d12a020d5)

Continue has an Apache 2.0 license. We plan to make money by offering organizations a paid development data engine—a continuous feedback loop that ensures the LLMs always have fresh information and code in their preferred style.

— — —

We’d love for you to try out Continue and give us feedback! Let us know what you think in the comments : )"

Show HN: Continue – Open-source coding autopilot

BlackRock to Offer Crypto for Institutional Investors Through Coinbase Prime

AI will take more jobs from women than men by 2030, report says

Node.js vs Fastify vs Express.js vs Deno vs Bun vs Go

*"Amazon employees who refuse to relocate near their teams' "hub" offices will either have to find a new job internally or leave the company through a "voluntary resignation."*

*Amazon started enforcing its so-called "return-to-hub" policy in recent weeks, according to an internal email and Slack messages obtained by Insider. Hubs are the central locations assigned to each individual team — employees will have to work out of those hubs instead of any office nearest to their current city.*

*One manager declared hubs in Seattle, New York, Houston, and Austin, Texas, for their team, according to one Slack message. It said those who refuse to relocate to one of those hubs will either have to transfer to a new team or they will be considered a "voluntary resignation."*

*The move is part of Amazon's effort to encourage more in-person work. Under the initial return-to-office policy, Amazon assigned offices for most individual employees, but not the whole team. Some employees [told Insider](https://archive.md/o/nk6Si/https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-stirs-employees-anxiety-with-rushed-return-to-office-plan-2023-4) that made office work pointless because many still had to use video calls to connect with their teammates spread across the country. Andy Jassy, the CEO of Amazon, said in his [RTO announcement earlier this year](https://archive.md/o/nk6Si/https://affiliate.insider.com/?h=f8f89d4fb2ed0164c11488e18bdc4221f4aa89d2c94c837e25379ae9907f0a1f&postID=64bacbf775976ff3ff4aab7e&site=bi&u=https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/andy-jassy-update-on-amazon-return-to-office&amazonTrackingID=null&platform=browser&sc=false&disabled=false) that "collaborating and inventing is easier and more effective when we're in person.""*

Leaked messages show Amazon will force a 'voluntary resignation' on employees failing to relocate near their team 'hubs'

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I want to make this site useful. Curious to hear what everyone thinks about it and how it could be improved.

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Stuck in my head from first listen, nothing more to say

Nothing New - Fly By Midnight

I heard this at a cafe in Tokyo and it was stuck in my head for the next 2 months. It's so ridiculous, yet so catchy. Only 8k views.

I love this pop music style. Very unique.

Crystal Statues - don't wanna talk

As someone still holding GameStop stock I'm pretty surprised I only started hearing about this movie in the last few days when the trailer has been out for months already. Looks good though, hope it does the story justice.

DUMB MONEY - Official Trailer (HD) - YouTube

I'm a guy who like does stuff or whatever

Marvel Studios' The Marvels | Official Trailer - YouTube

Scientists develop novel brain-computer interface that plugs into your ear canal

Neuronal Boost: Lactate’s Key Role in Brain Development Uncovered

Over the past one and a half years, Stack Overflow has lost around 50% of its traffic. This decline is similarly reflected in site usage, with approximately a 50% decrease in the number of questions and answers, as well as the number of votes these posts receive.

HN: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36855516>