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He'll probably get it. He shouldn't, but he likely will.

How would you decide whether to build a primarily GUI or chatbot experience for new products? It is frequently asserted that users prefer chatbots over traditional experiences. Is …

It's more profitable to eliminate employee costs than make new products. There's a reason layoffs make stock prices soar far more than product announcements.

No, we won't do the same, but enough people will that it doesn't matter. Such is the way it goes.

Yeah. Her kids will be fine with generational wealth. Everyone else's - not so much. This is the problem in a nutshell - people are happy to do things they know are harmful for per…

And who knows how much of that "unavoidable future" "adapt or die" rhetoric is driven by motivated actors using LLM tools to shape the conversation?

Clearly not a bubble, though!

At least I'm sure LLM tools deploying code to production won't result in this happening more frequently. "Make sure it's secure. Make no mistakes."

And you have evidence as basis for this very confident statement... where?

> That ship left port like 30 years ago dude. Laborers have no power in the 21st century. Maybe we should fix that.

> It's possible to use tools responsibly and effectively. It's also possible to encourage and mentor employees to do that. It's not in the company's interest to stop employees from…

I'm more upset about the large group of people in the startup industry, possibly even a majority, who would be totally happy about countries slipping into fascism if they made a li…

Who needs to garbage collect? Just leak memory until the system dies! That strategy seems to be good enough for claude code, anyway.

Oh hey, we've reached the "Metal" stage! https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

Legal? probably. Ethical? Absolutely not.

While I used to agree with you, based on the most recent polling, Gen X and Gen Z are both farther right than Boomers are these days. So we're fucked long term too.

> A particular interaction I had comes to mind. A user here boldly and openly proclaimed he discriminated in interviews against people that look different from him, or that are neu…

I'm not sure saying "I don't care if we do fascism as long as it makes me money" is any more morally defensible.

> Silicon Valley was full of founders who genuinely wanted to use technology to make the world a better place No, it wasn't, it was full of people who said they wanted to use techn…

Exactly. Declaring that there must be no discussion when confronted with situations in which one party is doing harm to others, is an implicit endorsement of the harms being perpet…

It's a privilege that many people working in tech have, who then create and populate forums where discussion of that privilege is considered political and therefore forbidden.

It's a "biological fact" that women are less interested in technology?

Are there public examples of "good instruction" and an iteration process? I have tried and have not been very successful at getting Claude Code to generate correct code for medium …