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by Esophagus4 4mo ago
Who is “we?” This is taking a weird tone where it sounds like you’re asking me to change society for you, and blaming me for not doing it fast enough when I haven’t heard you mention a thing you’ve done either. Like I said man, I voted for
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by Esophagus4 4mo ago
I mentioned in my other comments that I did support welfare programs as safety nets. Progress will result in better standards of living for many, and then we take care of the people left behind. I’m in software - in all likelihood, I will b
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by Esophagus4 4mo ago
Similar idea: https://adnauseam.io/
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by Esophagus4 4mo ago
> Bullshit Jobs I’ve only read the article, not the full book, but I’m not sure I buy the premise. Maybe we can’t see what the new post-AI society looks like yet, but I tend to believe society progresses as it evolves. It doesn’t mean it
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by Esophagus4 4mo ago
I generally do believe that workers get redeployed elsewhere after technological disruption. (Eg agricultural revolution in the US) I do believe in good safety nets as well and I think that shows in my voting record, so I’m not sure what el
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by Esophagus4 4mo ago
Technology has always displaced workers. And then the society adjusts. Plenty of people will lose their jobs to AI, but most workers will be redeployed elsewhere. The agricultural revolution displaced farm workers with machines. There was u
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by Esophagus4 4mo ago
Are you vibe coding a project by building an entire corporation around it??
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by Esophagus4 4mo ago
> That is the worst questions to ask to the experienced people. God what a know-it-all. This is just a vent without substance by someone that I can safely assume hates his job and his manager.
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by Esophagus4 4mo ago
It is totally acceptable to use a list of questions to give you ideas for what to talk about. You might learn something you didn’t know if you didn’t ask. For example, most managers aren’t having “career” convos with their people regularly.
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by Esophagus4 4mo ago
As a manager, it’s your responsibility to give your people feedback on a regular basis to help them grow, and follow up. You need a regular place to talk about these things. Performance conversations are not once a year, they’re regular and
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by Esophagus4 4mo ago
> If you need 1:1 to talk about technical questions, something is horribly wrong. And I would expect pwrformance feedback to have its own set of meetings. With this approach, I hope you are not a manager.
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by Esophagus4 4mo ago
> if they don't and want to work, great. Interesting thought, I had never considered cancelling if they don’t have anything. Thanks for that. My thought was always, “I want to give everyone that time no matter what, and if they don’
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by Esophagus4 4mo ago
> The best companies I worked for had no 1:1's The problem with this is we will ask, “if you want to talk about career progression, or go over a technical question, or talk about performance feedback, how do you get that from your m
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by Esophagus4 4mo ago
That’s an anti pattern of management - the 1-1 shouldn’t be a status update. There are times you want to brief your boss on things that are important to them, but if you’re just going over your tickets, that’s a waste of time (unless you’re
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by Esophagus4 4mo ago
Indeed. I sometimes lament that I wish I could ride in a group again, but it’s such a hurdle to get over mentally for me. It is a lot of fun having camaraderie with similarly skilled riders hammering it out in the big ring for two hours, bu
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by Esophagus4 4mo ago
I lost a good friend, a cycling partner, when she was hit by a car. I think she was a Cat 3 or 4 racer. Talented rider. I haven’t ridden on the road since. Just no joy in riding anymore if it just takes one careless individual on a cell pho
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by Esophagus4 5mo ago
Especially because many employers use security tools that log your activity, including keystrokes. Which means your keystrokes (passwords, cc numbers, anything you type on your work laptop) may now be sitting in clear text in logs somewhere
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by Esophagus4 5mo ago
Fair. But I could also see a world where that, too, is fed to models for hyper-local results. Could be a way off, but I could see it.
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by Esophagus4 5mo ago
Yes. If the only purpose of asking a lawyer is transferring risk (aka cover your ass) while getting the same advice as an LLM, that’s slowing down delivery for purely bureaucratic reasons. I’ve seen that mentality at big companies where eve
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by Esophagus4 5mo ago
But isn’t this study saying that the legal advice could actually be better with AI? A bit of extrapolation from the study, but not a crazy stretch.
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by Esophagus4 5mo ago
Yeah this could be interesting. A lot of the spotlight has been on “law firm stuff” like demand letters and writing contracts… But imagine if a dev team didn’t have to go engineer -> product manager -> legal team to get a question ans
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by Esophagus4 5mo ago
Whoa! My parents had one from back in the day. I think one of their companies gave them out. I still remember the way the buttons made a nice tactile thunk as you pushed them.
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by Esophagus4 5mo ago
Does that happen?? I’ve always been curious how those things go down
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by Esophagus4 5mo ago
It’s hard to imagine there’s much upside left for retail to capture at this point. How much bigger can they get when they’re already 1/5 the size of the world’s largest company? It seems like the chance of retail making a killing on th
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by Esophagus4 5mo ago
Really like the idea of using an agent skill for this. For side projects, I’ve used Claude’s /frontend-design because I don’t want to bother doing my own UI work, but if there’s a tool that can make it clean and pretty, I’ll have to g
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by Esophagus4 5mo ago
Ok, I’ll bite - why sales VPs?
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by Esophagus4 5mo ago
There is a beautiful irony in being condescending about AI simply imitating training data… by repeating a meme you saw on Twitter: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=772349875124360 (which I guess I will call your
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by Esophagus4 5mo ago
This was not due to malice but instead, incompetence. They didn’t have enough cash to clear their trades. I have ranted on here before about the SV startup mindset of “I don’t need to know anything about the industry I’m ‘disrupting’ nor do
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by Esophagus4 5mo ago
> dollar is backed by armed forces, which is paid by us dollars That actually seems like a very big difference. (If you were being sarcastic, I apologize for not reading it right)
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by Esophagus4 5mo ago
> on a PiP because your token burn is low Does this happen? I’ve never been at a company that measures employee performance by token burn targets. I suspect most companies don’t do that, but I could be wrong obviously.

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