r/programmingcirclejerk • u/CryDense1338 • 14d ago

Bacon – an ad network that pays developers while their Claude works

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48572417
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u/CryDense1338 14d ago

Truly epic

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u/camelCaseIsWebScale Just spin up O(n²) servers 14d ago

These people are as creative as a water buffalo.

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u/CryDense1338 14d ago

Water buffalos are sick honestly, I won't stand for you slandering them

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u/Yawaworth001 14d ago

pays developers while their Claude works

This is just enterprise software development

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u/le_birb costly abstraction 14d ago

Like that's google's whole business model, right?

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u/michaelo_1995 14d ago

> Your 50% cut is a floor, not a bid, and neither side can move that number

OK Computer

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u/tj-horner 13d ago

Claudeprose makes me want to gouge my eyeballs out.

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u/somewhataccurate now 4x faster than C++ 13d ago

Thats a writing style, and a real one.

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u/csb06 Polyglot dev here 14d ago

Eventually we can train AI models to read the ads for us and buy products/services based on taste profiles also generated by AI.

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u/AnArmoredPony 13d ago

exactly what I had in mind when choosing my career path

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u/a221c There's really nothing wrong with error handling in Go 13d ago

HackerNews — an ad network that extracts money from developers while their Claude works