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  • I was reluctant to post that because it’s a bit off-topic but it’s true. It’s the kind of businessman who read a few books on HTML and sold his crap to local people.

    A friend of mine has one web site with that guy (and that’s how I discovered the scam), and I told him I would take care of it for the price of the hosting ($10 + domain name and stuff every month instead of $1600), but anyone can do that if they have the guts and/or balls and/or lack of empathy to contact and scam people.





  • If you are an average web developer, here is a scam that I discovered recently:

    There is one guy who makes the shittiest web sites for local communities, cities, or nonprofits. The kind of web site that no one reads, and contains a few articles or piece of news. This asshole charges each client up to $2000 a month for “maintenance” which is mostly “add an article every 6 months.”

    It’s the kind of job that you could do with any blog subscription (like WordPress or Ghost) for $20 a month, and you could charge it $500 or less. 1 client, $500 every month for five minutes of work, forever.

    If you can convince people that your method is cheaper and better, you could be a billionaire overnight. Yes, I’m bitter.


  • Or only use your own data, which would make it useless. I thought about RAGs but Wikipedia says:

    These documents supplement information from the LLM’s pre-existing training data

    It seems that RAGs use stolen data anyway.

    And It still wouldn’t solve the issue that managers demand 10 times more work for free, it wouldn’t stop making workers crazy with the flood of reviews in programming, and execs wouldn’t stop dreaming of laying off everyone.




  • You would rather ask an extremely unreliable piece of crap that accidentally destroys software engineering as a whole rather than find it yourself or read a book?

    Note that I am NOT against every technology. Every new piece of software brought something useful in the past. LLMs is the only one that has only negative parts. LLMs only solves the laziness problem, and it does it wrong most of the time.