whstl

10 ms·

211.
by whstl 3mo ago
The craziest to me was someone saying “we are using AI in daily processes, now we need to automate”. But of course to some asshole non-technical people it meant asking for their vibe coded bullshit to be merged into production without revie
212.
by whstl 3mo ago
> The worker-owned businesses that are more effective will do a better job of concentrating wealth though, as they don't have to pay investors back dividends or participate in stock buybacks. That’s only close to possible if we st
213.
by whstl 4mo ago
This is incorrect. Concentration of wealth is definitely stopping them. Most people can’t just stop working and start working for no cash. I might be missing some obvious sarcasm, though!
214.
by whstl 4mo ago
I dunno, going back to the article, at some point customers are getting exactly what they're asking for: "their kitchens are custom-built, so they need ovens with specific dimensions. Oh, and a rotating base like the one they alr
215.
by whstl 4mo ago
Bingo. Bullshit work grows to accommodate productivity gains. Is it easier to implement a design now? Then let’s redesign every quarter. Is it easier to refactor the whole codebase? Then let’s rewrite in whatever new hotness. This is not di
216.
by whstl 4mo ago
Yep, this is why experiences and ratings of models vary so wildly. I recently migrated a very large web app to Tailwind and Opus kept screwing up over and over, refactoring and changing the design, the more complex the component became. I e
217.
by whstl 4mo ago
It's either a problem to have this released or not. Google doesn't seem to care this is in an official repo. > its also speculation to suggest that's the only reason he was fired That's the reason given by Google. T
218.
by whstl 4mo ago
> one is not like the others > probably got properly approved > also possible That's not a rebuttal of anything, that's just a series of wild assumptions.
219.
by whstl 4mo ago
Google doesn’t even care to tell its side. HR/Legal very often will give bullshit reasons for termination, since their main job is to shield the company from lawsuits anyway.
220.
by whstl 4mo ago
The manager, Addy Osmani, also reportedly left Google, which is interesting. Also more interesting is the fact the repository is still alive and kicking. I can see Google firing the dev but HR/Legal giving a bogus reason, as is regular
221.
by whstl 4mo ago
Yeah, people are just going wild with assumptions. Every story has three sides, or something like that? ...except when HR/Legal is involved, then it has quite a few more. Lots of secret narratives that are relayed differently to differ
222.
by whstl 4mo ago
It was clearly greenlighted by management. The person who made the announcement was Addy Osmani, who was manager of the fired developer at the time. This is in a Google-owned organization, with several other similar repositories, a lot of t
223.
by whstl 4mo ago
This is clearly something done in official capacity, during working hours, with the knowledge and support of his manager, who announced the CLI. It says "This is not an officially supported Google product" because it's a DevR
224.
by whstl 4mo ago
The tool was publicly announced by the person's manager. It clearly wasn't moonlighting or done without management's support/knowledge.
225.
by whstl 4mo ago
Plus there are 57 projects in that workspace from the same team, most using the same API, in quite a few the fired dev is participating. On top of that, the CLI project wasn't even deleted. If there were/are real problems there, G
226.
by whstl 4mo ago
If that's a real problem and fireable offence, then there's people at Google that should be fired ASAP for failing to delete this repository.
227.
by whstl 4mo ago
People are making a crazy amount of assumptions in those threads only to defend Google and dunk on someone who was just fired. The repo belongs to Google, the organization belongs to Google, the job of the fired dev was to produce code just
228.
by whstl 4mo ago
It was not released under his name. It is in Google's own googleworkspace Github Organization, alongside 57 other similar projects that consume from the same API. The organization hosts repos shown here: https://developers.g
229.
by whstl 4mo ago
The repo is still online and is official [1], so Google doesn't really seem to care about its existence. [1] https://developers.google.com/workspace/drive/api/samples
230.
by whstl 4mo ago
This project is in an organization that has 57 other public repos with code by several other Google employees, is linked to by Google own documentation, and the only public member of the organization is (hopefully still) a Google employee.
231.
by whstl 4mo ago
Google has quite a few of those. It's hard to figure out if they're really official. https://github.com/googleapis/googleapis/discussions/865 / https://github.com/google-researc
232.
by whstl 4mo ago
Big companies just wake up the worst instincts in everyone involved. I've seen people getting thrown under the bus even for voluntarily quitting due to burnout. Like legitimately doing illegal stuff such as withholding documentation or
233.
by whstl 4mo ago
There are plenty of such projects with similar disclaimers under Google's own /google/ organization. To give a few examples: https://github.com/google/python-fire / https://github.com&#x2
234.
by whstl 4mo ago
I guess all of them? Some people "got" LLMs back in 2022, others needed it to evolve a bit. It's not unlike computers. I started using them back in the 90s and absolutely nobody I knew was interested, while today everyone car
235.
by whstl 4mo ago
This makes a lot of sense and explains why some people are so captivated by modern models, while others see progress as merely incremental.
236.
by whstl 4mo ago
Cursor also seems to be doing something with the Claude models that makes it way slower and less efficient as times goes by. Or it could be just Claude CLI doing something very well.
237.
by whstl 4mo ago
Rolling something yourself was a waste of time when SaaS was cheap and competitive. Not they’re all getting incredibly expensive, even the last few startups I worked at were paying hundreds of thousands of euros for services that were total
238.
by whstl 4mo ago
I have a couple small apps that have a (non-LLM) model, and originally the models and code were in PyTorch, built by Python devs. The original plan was to ship Python. However I found out I can migrate them to CoreML, and now it's a mo
239.
by whstl 4mo ago
Indeed. I remember Usenet in the 90s being 50% interesting conversations mostly about niche topics and 50% randomly devolving into flame wars in larger communities. Even "Eternal September" as a concept was something from around 1
240.
by whstl 4mo ago
I wasn't arguing with it.

More ›