meysamazad

do you believe some people are just naturally lucky and everything they touch turns to gold?

or are you a firm believer that with enough resilience and perseverance you'll finally make it?

how much would you say luck or natural privileges make their way into someone's success?

do you think you could build a successful business above and beyond 6-7 figures just by working hard and not giving up?

I’ve used AI to scaffold a greenfield app and to turn rough notes into polished blog posts. Both times, people called it out as inauthentic.

But most software is derivative. Most writing rehashes existing ideas. We’ve always stood on shoulders.

So what’s the actual line? Does originality require the idea to be yours, the execution to be yours, or both? Is AI-assisted work fundamentally different from using Stack Overflow, templates, or a ghostwriter?

Genuinely curious where HN lands on this.