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There are cost externalities that generally unaccounted for- maintaining an underclass paid subsistence wages or using disposable products that as a society you eventually have to …

There is a tipping point between procedurally generating everything in SVG to maybe giving them tool access to something like 3dsmax (or having them build and then use a tool to do…

DSLs for AI doesn't really make sense- they were trained on existing graphics libraries and are pretty good at them. Maybe a long term play would be putting this out and creating a…

Built in replicated database and filesystem is pretty rad. Fly leaves this as an exercise for the user. You should license the backend to enterprises that want a cheaper/lighter we…

I do wonder why not just use cheaper models like Luna or Grok instead of dealing with routing. DeepSWE has Grok at 54% for $2.42 or 67% for $3.03 for Luna. Tokenless Pro is 6.67 fo…

I don't think it changes much for good managers. It should always be able setting people and processes up so the team can land durable measurable impact. The managers that thought …

A few things: 0) big companies already are very comfortable using contracts to trust other people with their data. Maybe if they're inflexible on the 30-day requirement for fable s…

Seems like rationalization - PE firms establish regional monopolies and jack up rates. They do it with every type of service. Just accept that we're all serfs under the billionaire…

Google pays their oncall a % of their full-time base salary depending on the oncall tier (5 min response time vs 30 minutes). This should probably be required - there is a differen…

What are the odds this is going to become another avenue for grift - magically any companies the trump family invests in are going to get access. Any companies that aren't sufficie…

The reality is that there is no escaping management. A high level IC is pretty much just an unofficial manager. You are responsible for a large technical area - it's your job to me…

Randomly I was thinking about how to "prove" you are a distinct engineer who works at a company without revealing your identity. I feel like labor organizers should offer employee …

I don't see how more advanced models won't get gated to specific known KYC'd entities. Classification-style guardrails will never be sufficient. Distillation attacks too are really…

I had a similar experience after a recent job search and started working on a 'kube-lite' that just uses object storage for coordination and normal cloud primitives like auto-scale…

Remember when the admin tried to kill anthropic with a ridiculous national defense supply chain order that the courts blocked - I'm not sure why anyone would believe them credible …

The market is supposed to do that. Once an opportunity is identified there is a rush to compete and margin disappears, so the people still get the new, better thing, but for much c…

The admin just tried to kill anthropic with a ridiculous national defense supply chain order that the courts blocked - I'm not sure why anyone would believe them credible now.

I wonder if this is specific to the animus toward anthropic or if this is the new industry wide level cap. Seems like a pretty big problem for the AI market in general, a lot this …

Sadly, I'm getting a lot of forced downgrades to Opus for questions that are far removed from any security topic.

I can't really see wide adoption of local LLMs unless prices really start to climb. It makes sense to use cheaper hosted smaller models like Sonnet or even Kimi but these won't run…

Just do one project. Ask them for an interesting or challenging problem they had, go over it at a high level from a business and technical perspective, and then dig in as deep as y…

I use the $100/mo sub but my 30 day API cost is about $1700/mo. It really depends how you use it, if you're using prompts to generate detailed designs, breaking those into lists of…

I like take home projects the candidates then need to present and answer questions about. LLMs just mean you can be more ambitious here (though you should pay for their tokens). Th…

It would be hard to give up on tech as I genuinely enjoy building, watching systems come alive, figuring out the puzzles through when they break. I do like the term Neo-Amish thoug…

These are essentially sociopath screens where they expect you to memorize some STAR stories and regurgitate them on demand. And I don't mean screen out.