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by ethagnawl 4mo ago
Then surely they're being used to bust the people hiring them, too ... Right?
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The AI Industry as You Know It Died Today(thealgorithmicbridge.com)
32 points by ethagnawl 4mo ago|11 comments
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by ethagnawl 4mo ago
> What is to stop them from stalling on giving acess for the latest model to the company they don't like? Congress, if any of those creatures were vertebrates. For the next few months, though? Nothing will. Those in the in-crowd wil
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by ethagnawl 4mo ago
This is pretty much where I've landed. Even aside from issues with W10 specifically, I'm so tired of having to download GBs of updates and then figure out which launch params to use to trick $GAME into launching when I find a few
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by ethagnawl 4mo ago
I'm sure I'm just being a crotchety old graybeard but I ride my bikes to get away from this crap. I do use Strava to track my rides on my watch but I don't even look at it until the ride is over.
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by ethagnawl 4mo ago
No, I don't think you're unique at all. I think this all tracks and applies to more and more of the general population. These mainstream services no longer provide what people signed up for: life updates, pictures of kids and dogs
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by ethagnawl 4mo ago
They did this to Afroman, too. Though, in his case, they didn't lead with the panel and the result is the infamous video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0bNy7XO-SCI0 It makes you wonder how much of an effect this incide
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by ethagnawl 4mo ago
Same. This does not align with my experiences working with early stage startups at all.
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by ethagnawl 4mo ago
The label is now on ... pretty much everything -- to the point where it's completely meaningless. So, maybe everyone can just stop lazily slapping it on things? You can already see what's coming, too. At some point in the near fut
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by ethagnawl 4mo ago
> Back in the early 2000s when I was Junior Engineer ... I tried something like this over July 4th weekend last time I was full-time anywhere (startup; 2010) and it very quickly devolved into an i-quit-you-cant-quit-i-fired-you situation
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by ethagnawl 4mo ago
Thanks! I've really enjoyed my first sixteen years here!
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by ethagnawl 4mo ago
> Some people over on HN and Reddit are already talking about how this represents the high water mark for what the government will ‘allow’ people to access. You can have all the demand in the world, and it won’t matter a lick if the gove
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by ethagnawl 4mo ago
> Back in pre-LLM days, receiving an unexpected pull request (PR) from a fellow coder was a source of excitement and pride. As a maintainer of a few FLOSS projects, this tracks. The Pavlovian PR notification response has gone from, &quot
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by ethagnawl 4mo ago
My son is in this transition phase right now. There are some of these "dumb" series which offer books ranging from mostly-image-some-text, some-images-some-text to text. The prose offerings are a great on/off ramp, since he k
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by ethagnawl 4mo ago
The American conservatives who can afford to be are effectively exempted. When they're not flying around on private jets, the ownership and metadata created by their cars, phones, etc. are obfuscated by layers of shell corporations. Th
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by ethagnawl 4mo ago
> There's plenty of noise about banks holding large amounts of bad private credit debt. This and auto loans. I have NO IDEA how people are affording $770 per month car payments _on top of_ $4.50+ per gallon gasoline.
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by ethagnawl 4mo ago
Yeah, I can't say I really get the appeal of gradual typing. It's commented/documented code at best and outright lies at worst. Sure, you can build tooling around it and improve your DX a bit but isn't it always a house
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by ethagnawl 4mo ago
> There might be a need for it but as a consultant your daily rate should be way above what a small vibe coder is willing to pay. Yes, I agree and that's part of the tension. I called attention to projects which are actually generat
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by ethagnawl 4mo ago
> It's horrible to be a software dev right now, you've to deal with AI and lunatics. Yes, yes, 1000x yes. As a bit of an aside, I have been toying with the idea of adding some sort of second pass/security auditing/sca
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by ethagnawl 4mo ago
> what does it matter, since you're not going to be touching that code anyway? This line of reasoning is baffling to me. What do these companies plan to do when they discover a show stopping bug and Claude (fill in the blank) is dow
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by ethagnawl 4mo ago
> the free internet It's so much worse than this, though. These companies have raped and pillaged every last store of human knowledge: art, transcripts of conversations, newspaper articles, etc., etc. Contrast that with what Aaron S
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by ethagnawl 4mo ago
We're all going to end up as Elon's serfs, aren't we?
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by ethagnawl 4mo ago
That is a great question re: accounting and I can readily see both sides of it playing out. On one hand, they know not to trust the output and on the other, they're way too high on their own supply.
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by ethagnawl 4mo ago
> they look at your Bedrock and LLM API calls as well as Claude Code history. This is fucking insane. How does this correlate with productivity in any way ? The results are all that matters, who cares how you got there?
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by ethagnawl 4mo ago
I couldn't find a direct email or submission form, so I went with a Bluesky message. Hopefully these drops in the bucket amount to something.
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by ethagnawl 4mo ago
I will do this. Thanks for the nudge.
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by ethagnawl 4mo ago
I've actually been meaning to move back to Firefox, so this is encouraging. I didn't realize you could do that sort of thing with uBlock, though? I thought it was just for blocking ads, etc.
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by ethagnawl 4mo ago
The UX anti-pattern of theirs which really grinds my gears is the "Continue reading in the app -- it's better." modal which appears when reading articles on the web. There does not seem to be a way to permanently opt out of i
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by ethagnawl 5mo ago
> not so much to get better working conditions but ... why not both?
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by ethagnawl 5mo ago
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