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by mjr00 5mo ago
Yes, with the caveat that the 30% work allocation counts toward likability. You can be friendly, charming, well-spoken, fun, etc., but if you fail to deliver and make work for other people, cause your coworkers frustration, and make your ma
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by mjr00 5mo ago
I've heard similar stories from AWS and other non-AWS FAANG employees. All of the token leaderboards have a "this doesn't count toward your performance review" disclaimer, but there's an implied nudge nudge, wink w
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by mjr00 5mo ago
This is Rust we're talking about. It doesn't even need to work; as long as it compiles, it's correct.
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by mjr00 5mo ago
Python has had type hinting for quite a while, and adding validation with mypy/pyright/ty as a step in CLAUDE.md (as well as having it as part of your CI pipeline) can emulate static type checking pretty well.
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by mjr00 5mo ago
> Some have expressed the opinion in this forum that the future of software lies in programs that are created and adapted at runtime, using genAI. Good luck with that. Users will flood you with complaints if a button moves 5px to the lef
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by mjr00 5mo ago
> OpenClaw is a good example of a completely new project written using coding agents that made a significant impression on the world and would not have been built without them. Nobody is denying that OpenClaw is popular, and nobody (in t
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by mjr00 5mo ago
> 41,964 commits is a lot more than "a month of greenfield work". I meant a month for the initial release, not current state. Regardless, much like lines of code, number of commits is not a good metric, not even as a proxy, f
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by mjr00 5mo ago
OpenClaw is definitely not a "5 years" project pre-AI though. That was more like a month of greenfield work compressed into a weekend -- which is still really impressive, don't get me wrong! -- but I think the point is we&#x2
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by mjr00 6mo ago
In this case, "child safety measures" includes not just "stopping child predators," but also "not letting kids use their parents' credit card to buy $500 of Robux" and "not letting underage users buy
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by mjr00 6mo ago
You'll notice in the article they mention that these AI artists got into the charts thanks to 1,000 downloads sold. 1,000 is a comically easy number to game; that's US$1,000, tops, and far less if you pay for false downloads fro
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by mjr00 6mo ago
> Lie. You will not. You need to go through the distributor (1), and it has always been this way. Er yes, which is why I mentioned LANDR and Amuse, both of which are on the page you linked. I mentioned those two specifically because I kn
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by mjr00 6mo ago
> The more appropriate question is why they published a AI artist at all. Because they allow anyone to upload to Spotify. There's nothing stopping me, you, or anyone from generating AI tracks with Suno & friends, downloading the
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by mjr00 6mo ago
> If you make a program which can solve many different classes of problems that's called AI. What about Salesforce? That solves a ton of different problems! And introduces a ton of new problems, too; which is strong evidence that Sa
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by mjr00 6mo ago
> Although I don’t think Google and Calculators are the main culprits, I do think it’s due to larger technology/internet landscape. That's extremely speculative, especially given there was a major event in 2020 which massively
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by mjr00 6mo ago
> Nit picked, I suppose. It's not a nitpick. There are some industries and jobs where employees truly are fungible. There's never going to be a security guard or Starbucks barista or janitor who does such an amazing job that th
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by mjr00 6mo ago
> Sure it does. I'm talking about the majority of tech employees who are fungible while you for some reason are talking about the few that aren't, I'm not sure why they're relevant to this debate. Because I gave examp
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by mjr00 6mo ago
> Those 8 and 9 figure employees are the exception that proves the rule ??? This doesn't make any sense. There's a hell of a lot more background actors, which you can call fungible, than there are Tom Cruises, but they're
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by mjr00 6mo ago
> The difference is that the shitty companies there's never a route to do anything, however unrelated, without running it by HR. Because they think they own you. "Shitty" companies have legal obligations to include these k
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by mjr00 6mo ago
> Tech workers are fungible while actors or athletes are not though Strongly disagree with this, and I'm in 'tech management' now so I'm not saying this out of self-preservation. Tech workers are similar to athletes i
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by mjr00 6mo ago
> High earners generally do not benefit from unions as they can make more negotiating their own labor value versus participating in collective negotiation which is more likely to drag their compensation down towards the average, even if
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by mjr00 6mo ago
> If you write logistics software, the company will say "we own all logistics software you write". You can't create a competitor. But if you work for a logistics software company and decide to go write a video editor on yo
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by mjr00 6mo ago
> If you add a new thing (constant, route, feature flag, property, DB table) and it immediately needs to be added in 4 different places (4 seems to be the standard in my current project) before you can use it, that's not DRY. The tr
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by mjr00 6mo ago
This is the very definition of unnaturally: the creators of those AI songs spent a ton of money promoting them, for whatever reason.
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by mjr00 6mo ago
I'm not saying it's impossible, but at a minimum it's extremely hard to game the recommendation algorithm (primarily talking about Spotify, maybe Deezer's is less sophisticated). The best way to "game" the re
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by mjr00 6mo ago
Yes, last I checked at least LANDR, Amuse and Tunecore all had plans where you release for free and they take a % of royalties.
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by mjr00 6mo ago
I wonder how much of this even matters. Sounds like it doesn't (aside from taking up space on Deezer's drives). > The consumption of AI-generated music on the platform is still very low, at 1-3% of total streams, and 85% of the
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by mjr00 6mo ago
There's no shame in being homogenous and obvious, though. If I'm building out an internal tool for, say, a hospital lawyer to search through malpractice lawsuits, I want my tool to be the most familiar, obvious, least-surprising
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by mjr00 6mo ago
This is fundamentally the argument against all "SaaS is dead due to AI" claims. Replicating the basic functionality for most SaaS is trivial, it's the "everything else" part that you're actually paying for.
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by mjr00 6mo ago
> I’ll go against the prevailing wisdom and bet that clean code does not matter any more. No more than the exact order of items being placed in main memory matters now. This is a really funny comment to make when the entire Western econo
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by mjr00 6mo ago
This speaks more about how easy it is to buy botted vanity metrics on Spotify than anything. The most obvious way you can tell this is inorganic is how all of the "Discovered On" are artist-specific playlists: "Eddie Dalton m

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