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by rhubarbtree 5mo ago
Was in the case I was referring to, and in similar cases I am familiar with.
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by rhubarbtree 5mo ago
Not sure I agree. People seem to lose sight of what the default is, and how fortunate they are. There are many systemic problems in society, but it’s rarely your direct employer’s fault.
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by rhubarbtree 5mo ago
Certainly true in this case.
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by rhubarbtree 5mo ago
Well, the workplace I referred to was very kind and supportive of staff. Even people who left later sent messages saying it was the best treatment they’d ever had. So not the reason in this case. And I personally know another company that s
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by rhubarbtree 5mo ago
I suspect there is an unspoken factor here, which is that business leaders are not impressed by the WFH silent quitting attitude of junior staff, they’re happy to replace them with AI, and they don’t have sympathy because “yet another thing
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by rhubarbtree 5mo ago
Certainly a massive AI booster. What Are the conflicts of interest?
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by rhubarbtree 5mo ago
Here's a trippy idea I have about consciousness, which arose from thinking about recent AI advances and also watching kids develop. I think children's main "cost function" is the ability to predict the future. This might
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by rhubarbtree 5mo ago
Because uncontrolled inflation will destroy your economy
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by rhubarbtree 5mo ago
I’m not American, sir. But I disagree with your analysis. I think you’re looking back over too short a timescale.
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by rhubarbtree 5mo ago
If Anthropic does a down round, the US economy will crash. Not hyperbole. The US economy right now is based entirely on the AI bubble. This is an indisputable fact if you examine GDP stats and equities. That bubble is driven by (rational) o
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by rhubarbtree 5mo ago
It’s interesting to see short term business interests again undermining American sovereignty. Just as business exported strategically critical manufacturing to China, now it is helping funding China’s race to take over the US in AI and beyo
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by rhubarbtree 5mo ago
China is trying to undermine the US economy through open source models. If they can down round or bankrupt the model companies, they take down the US. Currently the US is extremely vulnerable and dependent on China. AI is an important excep
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by rhubarbtree 5mo ago
If you’re spending 98% of your time on the above, you’re still fired.
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by rhubarbtree 5mo ago
Surely OSS is a solved problem. AI generates everything automatically. You don’t need to look at the code, so there is nothing for humans to do but prompt. If you can do 1000x surely most projects are now essentially “complete” and bug free
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by rhubarbtree 5mo ago
If you’re a developer and you’re writing code 2% of your time pre-Claude, that’s 9 minutes a day, you will and should be fired.
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by rhubarbtree 5mo ago
It’s not a stochastic parrot.
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by rhubarbtree 6mo ago
Does this conversation exist in 2026? If we can all code everything quickly and SaaS has no value then just build your own in a weekend and put GitHub out of business? There is a fundamental contradiction here.
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by rhubarbtree 6mo ago
Just a note for Dads doing more than their parents - it’s quality more than quantity. Be fully present with your kids more than trying to kill yourself fitting more hours in. That’s what matters. Bad parenting tends to be more of the type t
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by rhubarbtree 6mo ago
Millennials seem to have their shit together more than any generation since the silent generation, at least in the UK.
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by rhubarbtree 6mo ago
It’s plausible he is as imagined. But selling to Google makes that irrelevant. His job is to serve their bottom line and they’ve done a lot of work on ads etc. He won’t maintain control.
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by rhubarbtree 6mo ago
Haven’t Apple introduced a lot of privacy controls for their users? Seems like some apps do care.
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by rhubarbtree 6mo ago
What about infrastructure costs for lyft and uber? Perhaps it isn’t expensive once you consider the peak load and externalities. How many new roads would you have to build to do that?
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by rhubarbtree 6mo ago
Not the whole thing. Just a day looking at it. Did they do that?
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by rhubarbtree 6mo ago
Needs to be top level. Attention economy yada.
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by rhubarbtree 6mo ago
Could you try to revive it by hand? I’m curious as to how long it would have taken.
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by rhubarbtree 6mo ago
This is plausible. Assuming it’s true, we would see the adoption of vibe coding at a faster rate amongst inexperienced developers. I think that’s true. A counterpoint is Google saying the vast majority of their code is written by AI. The de
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by rhubarbtree 6mo ago
I dunno, think it’s doing quite well. Just the people voted for someone who wants to end democracy. Now we see if the system is robust enough to prevent that, but it’s difficult when half the country votes for Trump.
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by rhubarbtree 6mo ago
Actually, it is.
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by rhubarbtree 6mo ago
Bubble or revolution - not a dichotomy. Bubbles like the AI bubble are a game theoretic outcome of a revolution. Many players invest heavily to avoid losing, but as a whole the market over invests. This leads to a bubble.
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by rhubarbtree 6mo ago
> China cannot make the life of an official in Europe miserable for investigating their atrocities towards the Uighurs Sure. China and America are the same. Go try the social media experiment.

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