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Because it'll get declined after a few attempts once it's past the limit, then your account would likely get marked for fraud. Try it and report back, but repeated method of paymen…

This. Without a massive cultural shake-up and turnover of upper management, why would expect them to behave any differently when they've been rewarded so heavily for this behavior …

Maybe they’ll use AI to help build it in record time, then the AI the first one powers will be used to shorten the timeline even further on nth projects /s

Who else right now is making competing models that are roughly as capable? Now factor in hardware availability / future delivery contracts and capital requirements for building dat…

>The more AI causes productivity increases, the less and less number of workers will be needed. This will heat up the job market even more and bring salaries down. >Net effect of t…

And yet the job everyone loves to hate, the humble "burger flipper", continues to resist automation yet command minimum wage labor rates. This future of either being a CEO of a com…

>The bottleneck has moved from producing a thing that works to knowing that the thing was the right thing to build I would argue that that's been the case for quite some time befor…

Another term for it is "accountability laundering" https://fortune.com/2026/03/05/mobile-world-congress-account... It's the norm at Big Tech these days. Directors and VPs take all …

...or something that runs CGI commands. Bash scripts are like the glue of the internet, and many of them are poorly-written. Tons of stuff still runs on PHP or relies on little Pyt…

Depends on what you have access to / what's misconfigured.

They scraped everything on Stackoverflow, likely IRC logs from Freenode, and every book written in the modern era courtesy of Sci-Hub / Library Genesis / Anna's Archive / Z Library…

jQuery is still useful too. May you never work in heathcare / government / defense where you need to support legacy browsers far past their expiration date.

You have to be very good at pretending to land director and above roles, though.

Possibly nothing, possibly you'd get blacklisted and they'd share that with other companies in ways in which you'd never know or have any recourse https://fortune.com/2025/03/27/me…

As if you would ever be afforded an audience in the first place.

And thanks to a secret interpretation of Section 702 by FISA courts, so can the FBI https://www.cato.org/blog/fisa-reauthorization-fear-mongerin... https://www.fbi.gov/video-reposi…

You already do and your consent is part of your employment. Check your employee handbook, search for things like "data privacy" and understand how https://www.copyright.gov/circs/c…

Most companies just don't have a reason to look through the computer they're letting you use to do your job. Don't give them a reason. Maximizing shareholder value by observing you…

>I will give a company the right to try to reproduce my output. But my very likeness and modus operandi? No. You don't need to "give" them anything -- they already have everything …

But at the moment it’s so exciting to see if we’re headed more for a Waterworld-esque dystopia or something more similar to Neuromancer / The Matrix. I guess it’ll depend on the ra…

It’s probably already too late to put these horses back in the barn, but having an “allow AI commits / PRs” would have probably been a good idea for GitHub to make available to pro…

It was interesting the other day tracing the lineage of Aaron Swartz -> Library Genesis / Sci-Hub -> LLM vendors relying on that work to train their models and sell it back to us a…

Obviously the solution is better AI PR reviewers with more context for FOSS projects /s And I’m 100% sure there are dozens of startups working on that exact problem right this seco…

The Board has decided that we can no longer afford artisanal, hand-crafted software, and that machine-made will suffice for nearly all use cases. Enshittification Enterprise Editio…

Everyone wants to be the CEO of their own megacorp managing thousands of AI engineers I guess. Just like microservices, there’s probably a ton of overhead doing things this way vs …