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by apercu 7mo ago
Oh? You have some sort of insider knowledge here?
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by apercu 7mo ago
I'm also in process of migrating away from OpenAI - I don't like the management, the product has quirks I can't stand, and now the latest PR disaster.
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by apercu 7mo ago
The sibling is a tax accountant? Also, everyone gets a mortgage interest deduction in the US on their primary residence, so it shouldn't be that surprising.
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by apercu 7mo ago
It’s quite possible you are correct, but since gen-ai is good at generating stuff, it is taking on busy work, which might bring the ROI back to ~zero. In my business I suspect that gen ai has provided a modest productivity boost (single dig
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by apercu 8mo ago
So Russia is not our enemy? Huh.
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by apercu 8mo ago
Fair, but there is tons of HIGH END manufacturing we could do that we just don't, even though there is every incentive to do so.
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by apercu 8mo ago
I agree with you on all of these except: low tax I grew up in DFW. My house in WI is assessed at a significantly higher value than my siblings house in Ft Worth. My 2025 property tax bill ~$5k, my 2025 state income tax - not gonna publish i
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by apercu 8mo ago
Weirdly the first thing I thought was "Why Texas"?
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by apercu 8mo ago
Jebus. “It’s hard to manufacture in the US.” Yes. That’s what rebuilding capability looks like. China built dense supply chains over decades. Of course iteration was faster. Hard isn’t a reason not to do it. It’s what happens when you’ve op
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by apercu 8mo ago
So Texas also doesn’t have income tax but my siblings house (assessed at a lower value than mine) is assessed property tax almost triple wha mine is, dwarfing my state income tax plus property tax. Not sure about Florida - YMMV.
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by apercu 8mo ago
Bad cop and much much much worse cop. And somehow the latter got elected.
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by apercu 8mo ago
Yea, I just get anxious when I am responsible for something I don't really "know". I haven't been a full-time professional software developer for a while, but I was one for years and when someone noticed a problem with o
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by apercu 8mo ago
Objectively the evidence has been out in the open for many years so obviously you are choosing to believe in “alternative facts”.
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by apercu 8mo ago
To eliminate this tax I break anything gen-ai does in to the smallest chunks possible.
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by apercu 8mo ago
You’re not wrong. But in America there is only one party that is thoroughly owned by Russia and that’s the party in charge of the executive branch right now.
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by apercu 8mo ago
I want that immunity. Gen-AI evangelism is the new virtue signalling.
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by apercu 8mo ago
The KPI problem is systemic and bigger than just Gen-AI, it’s in everything these days. Actual governance starts by being explicit about business value. If you can’t state what a thing is supposed to deliver (and how it will be measured) yo
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by apercu 8mo ago
I was going to basically say the same thing. Few people can "sing" without spending time developing their ear.
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by apercu 8mo ago
I find it interesting that this thread is full of pragmatic posts that seem to honestly reflect the real limits of current Gen-Ai. Versus other threads (here on HN, and especially on places like LinkedIn) where it's "I set up a pi
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by apercu 8mo ago
I actually enjoy writing specifications. So much so that I made it a large part of my consulting work for a huge part of my career. SO it makes sense that working with Gen-AI that way is enjoyable for me. The more detailed I am in breaking
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by apercu 8mo ago
The issue is they often choose the wrong 1%.
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by apercu 8mo ago
My phone, laptop, TV, fridge, etc., all demonstrably worse than they were 5 years ago.
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by apercu 8mo ago
> "The biggest issue I see is Microsoft's entire mentality around AI adoption that focuses more on "getting the numbers up" then actually delivering a product people want to use." That succinctly describes 90% of
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by apercu 8mo ago
I agree with you but you can’t jail a gen-ai model, I guess, is where the difference lies?
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by apercu 8mo ago
Can you help me understand where you are coming from? Is it that you think the benchmark is flawed or overly harsh? Or that you interpret the tone as blaming AI for failing a task that is inherently tricky or poorly specified? My takeaway w
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by apercu 8mo ago
I did similar for about 25 years. I had one injury from overtraining (I basically ran 20 miles every Sunday morning for 6 months, in addition to two shorter runs each week) that ended up plantar fasciitis and I had to take 4-5 month off. I
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by apercu 8mo ago
I’ve noticed the inverse as in the more I understand something, the less “simple” it looks. Apparent simplicity usually comes from weak definitions and overconfident summaries, not from the underlying system being easy. Complexity is often
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by apercu 8mo ago
100% agree. There are far more half-baked, incomplete "products" and projects out there now that it is easier to generate code. Generously, that doesn't necessarily equate to productivity. I've agree with the fact that t
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by apercu 8mo ago
I agree, and we might be seeing this but there is so much noise, so many other factors, and we're in the midst of capital re-asserting control after a temporary loss of leverage which might also be part of a productivity boost (people
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by apercu 8mo ago
Some of these are obviously related to the closing of some of the retail businesses. And some might simply be middle management bloat that happens often at tech companies. But imagine you're one of the people who remain (e.g., not impa

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