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However, companies have been using AI as an excuse for layoffs since well before January 2026, which corroborates the study's conclusion. (Source: https://layoffs.fyi/ai-layoffs/ )…

Code being expensive would be one reason to plan, but hardly the only one. Some other reasons: cost of failure (don't leak customer PII), maintenance, unclear requirements, unclear…

Most of the comments so far are responding to the first few paragraphs of this article. On reading further, I thought this was actually an unusually balanced take on how to use LLM…

I don't have an MBA or anything but is it common practice to describe "revenue - capex" as "profit"?

The post says they wrote a custom harness that orchestrates work between multiple separate model invocations. That is different from running Claude Code (which is a specific existi…

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I wouldn't agree that LLMs are a higher level of abstraction, but I've found they do help me think at a higher level of abstraction, by temporarily outsourcing cognitive load. With…

Does it? Claude the chatbot is available for free, and it can write code, but Claude Code is a separate product that as far as I know is only available on paid plans. Source: https…

Bit of a buried lede: > For a limited time we're including Codex with ChatGPT Free Is this the first free frontier coding agent? (I know there have been OSS coding agents for years…

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This seems lazy. It's ad hominem but not even, since you don't know what inept bureaucracy I am defending. Is there any argument that you couldn't level this accusation at?

One could interpret the title that way, but not consistently with the rest of the article, which includes assertions like "in the realm of societies, governments and economies, sys…

The title of the article is an intentional conflation of "systems thinking" with "magical thinking", which is not a compliment.

What an interesting and strange article. The author barely offers a definition of "systems thinking", only names one person to represent it, and then claims to refute the whole dis…

You're right, you're not his caregiver, or obliged to be. Sorry if it sounded like I was suggesting that. I doubt the staff would expect or pressure you to take responsibility for …

I'm sorry this is happening to you and to your friend. I have some similar experience and want to share some advice I wish I had heard earlier. It sounds to me like you did the rig…

The same artist has some excellent tutorials on how to implement a lot of those effects: https://bleuje.com/tutorials/

I wanted to see whether this sound could also be used to amuse my cat, and I can conclusively report that she is not amused.

This makes some good points about misuses of these AWS services, but the title is misleading. The article is actually more like "tempting but inadvisable use cases for AWS services…

I may have lost people with lower confidence in their abilities and a greater fear of failure. That HBR article I linked in the other thread actually addresses that. Their survey i…

And kudos for doing that - but what about candidates who don't read Hacker News (or happened not to see this exact thread)? HN isn't exactly the most welcoming environment for wome…

In case you're not aware, there is evidence [1] that this sort of "required but not really" job posting deters a lot of people, and especially women, from applying even if they wou…

That's the "monitor from the customer's point of view" approach the OP alludes to. If you use tools like Honeycomb [1] that can easily and routinely answer questions like "show me …

The glowing tower contains molten salt, used to store the focused solar energy. [1] I never knew that was a thing until I too drove past it. It was one of the more memorable sights…