I will respectfully take the other side of this bet on polymarket if it ever shows up.

You'd hear this all the time back when. "Oh you could build Twitter in a weekend". Yes. Also, very no. This mentality is now on agent steroids. But the lesson is the same.

...and the more I know you don't know. [On the disappearance of wizards as you age]

Both definitely contribute. But at the same time the people who stay wizards (and the people you realize are wizards but didn't previously) only appear to be more magical than ever.

Some magic tricks are unimpressive when you know how they are done. But that's not true for all of them. Some of them only become more and more impressive, only truly being able to be appreciated by other masters. The best magic tricks don't just impress an audience, they impress an audience of magicians.

I think as I gain more experience, what previously looked like magic now always turns out to look a whole lot more like hard work, and frustration with the existing solutions.

This is the "Wait Calculation" and it's fiendish because there exists only some small, finite window in which it is indeed better to start before the tech is "better" in order to "win" (i.e. get "there" first, wherever "there" is in your scenario).

Here's a nice article about it: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-lazy-tyranny-of-the-wai...

Tax AI.

> eventually shaping the future standards of the web and making it de facto impossible to self-host anything

Eventually?

> He doesnt touch on the shame of it you feel

This is the part people who have never experienced it most overlook. The profound, lived-in shame that comes with being poor, and the damage that does over time.

Don’t forget that it will be there forever no matter how many millions you make.

This. It is hard to not have that chip on your shoulder.

Only up to their quality limit though. This is a slightly different concept to a quantity limit (which also exists), but the general (imperfect) idea is that for your "quality level" (i.e. your ability ceiling), the only real knob you can dial is quantity. In practice, quantity seems to be a defining factor for pushing your ability ceiling higher.

When I checked, these were the top comments. Can't do anything these days ;)

- Menu is accessible but done badly, like navigating blind. - Badly implemented cookie banner (let me opt out or don't use this) - Why build an inferior multi-document interfaces (which are an anti-pattern) - Waste of money - don't devs have better things to do - Neat but runs like a dog. Give me SSG pages, otherwise make it good - Nice website but no-one will use it the way they describe - It's lovely <- followed up by: "I hate you" - Websites like this have ultimately all been massive failures - Awesome, but I have no idea what they do or what their product is - Love it - blah blah blah

There's a reason the largest advertising company in the world hasn't sanctioned this move.