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by JCM9 1y ago
We’ve plateaued on progress. Early advancements were amazing. Recently GenAI has been a whole lot of meh. There’s been some, minimal, progress recently from getting the same performance from smaller models that are more efficient on compute
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by JCM9 1y ago
Are most junior devs honestly any better? In my experience no.
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by JCM9 1y ago
You’re not wrong, but there’s a glut of junior developer talent at the moment that there’s no shortage of folks to take on those most senior roles. This this is a “tomorrow” problem that (for better or worse) will get ignored for now
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by JCM9 1y ago
Probably a bit ambitious, but I do see a future not too far off where junior and mid-tier developer roles basically disappear.
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by JCM9 1y ago
Web design has gotten too complicated. I really enjoy a simple site that focuses on content and readability vs fancy frameworks. There are sites still online from the 90s that looks better than much of the stuff produced today. Plus keeping
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by JCM9 1y ago
If the performance gains stop then everything becomes a commodity and then a race to the bottom on pricing. It’s not a pretty picture.
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by JCM9 1y ago
Because most of the other entrants are going bust. Saw Revel is the latest to bite the dust and exit ridesharing.
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by JCM9 1y ago
What city? Most cities I’ve seen the majority of entrants have either gone bust or on a path to.
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by JCM9 1y ago
The unit economics of these models and APIs are really ugly. Those saying they are not losing money on inference likely are only doing so when making up funky non-GAAP accounting thinking. It’s the old “we’re making money when you ignore al
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by JCM9 1y ago
This is all a familiar pattern. In the early days of ride share it was an amazing advancement and very cheap, because it was highly subsidized. The quality was decent, and certainly better than taxi and car services in most cities. Tons of
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by JCM9 1y ago
This isn’t exactly projecting an image of solid leadership and thinking from Perplexity. #32 on the list of “signs your company is in a bubble and better buckle up” is companies that lack solid business fundamentals themselves start offerin
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by JCM9 1y ago
Not surprising. The OpenAI partnership is fading. The GenAI as a product space overall is looking a bit frothy and house of cards-ish. GitHub is a strong product that is ripe for GenAI features that make it more interesting. Like it or not
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by JCM9 1y ago
The “strategy” consulting offered by the big firms is mostly BS. It’s typically a few senior folks that have minimal real world experience in the thing they claim to be an expert at leading a bunch of junior folks that have minimal to no ex
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by JCM9 1y ago
GenAI Bubble.
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by JCM9 1y ago
Sleep is super important. I’ve seen too many workaholic types that barely sleep. So many of these folks end up with serious issues later in life.
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by JCM9 1y ago
Reality is that a string of letters and numbers in plain text is all that’s required to grant someone full root access to your AWS (and many other cloud) provider’s existence even if all your stuff is disconnected from the internet. Lots of
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by JCM9 1y ago
Amazon generates a ton of cash and the strategy of rolling that back into the business has, broadly, worked well. The challenge now as the company gets on in years is that there’s some bits making cash and a whole lot that’s not. That OK so
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by JCM9 1y ago
Now that Amazon is trying to convince folks they haven’t fallen behind on AI they’ve quietly stopped talking about how they’re slashing greenhouse gas emissions. Funny how that works.
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by JCM9 1y ago
The “talent wars” and VCs with a really nasty case of FOMO clouding investment fundamentals is throwing more dry kindling in the pile. For anyone that’s been around a while we’ve seen this movie before
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by JCM9 1y ago
For those around for the .com bust it does feel very similar. In both cases the tech is amazing and isn’t going away, but the business models of many/most companies “innovating” with the tech is simply unsustainable. A lot of “AI” curr
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by JCM9 1y ago
On Shark Tank if you walk in and say “I have no revenue, no viable business model, and an idea that’s easily copied in a space that’s rapidly marching towards commoditization. I’m asking for $5 billion for 25% of my company.” You’d be laugh
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by JCM9 1y ago
Amazon is just one of many investors in Anthropic.
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by JCM9 1y ago
This headline is getting old and the story isn’t sticking with folks. They will do layoffs but because core business units are struggling and AWS has turned into a mess of disconnected services that are falling behind peers and they’re tryi
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by JCM9 1y ago
The problem with this picture though is you’re spending 10 grand a month on a product someone else is losing 10 grand a month selling you. It’s beginning to look like a house of cards. The finances of many of these companies are on shaky gr
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by JCM9 1y ago
The “we don’t need as many workers because AI” line from CEOs isn’t sticking. It might work for a quarter or two but sooner or later these companies must answer hard questions on why they’re not getting measurable returns from massive inves
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by JCM9 1y ago
Reason 732 why I would never use the network gear provided by an ISP.
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by JCM9 1y ago
Modern AI tools are amazing, but they’re amazing like spell check was amazing when it came out. Does it help with menial tasks? Yes, but it creates a new baseline that everyone has and just moves the bar. Theres scant evidence that we’re al
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by JCM9 1y ago
NYC area real estate certainly isn’t cheap, but compared to the insanity on the west coast there’s a lot to like. NYC has really bounced back after COVID and is a real hub of activity again. Folks want to be a part of that. Also the second
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by JCM9 2y ago
The map still amusingly mostly pretends that New Jersey and transit running into New Jersey doesn’t exist. For example, the PATH is very faintly represented but yet the JFK AirTrain (which isn’t part of the subway and the airport isn’t run
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by JCM9 2y ago
People cared about the OpenAI drama when it looked like they might have some real edge and the future of AI depended on them. Now it’s clear the tech is cool but rapidly converging into a commodity with nobody having any edge that translate

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