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This is an exceptionally high-quality comment. You on bsky or threads or somewhere I can follow you?

Location: Redwood City, CA USA Remote: Yes, or within a reasonable commute distance in the Bay Area Willing to relocate: No Technologies: I'm a game developer with web and mobile d…

I don't understand the value proposition here for consumers. For OpenAI, the value prop is obvious, but that's the problem with modern Silicon Valley product thinking: Company-firs…

Douglas Adams would be proud!

At least in the goopy days it was VERY clear what was and was not a button.

You shouldn't. It was revealed later that Morgan Spurlock, the star of the movie, was also secretly drinking himself to death while he was making the documentary. Not to shame an a…

Yes, it's possible to win with less money than your opponent, but why would anyone want to take that risk? The problem with money in politics is not that money guarantees a win, bu…

Here's what I think is happening: Market research says "Parents want control." In the journey from CEO mandate "build a product that gives parents control" to developer implementat…

File under "technically true but not particularly useful"

Yes, thank you, exactly. It’s a culture and systems issue. Thank you for clarifying a post I wrote in the early morning while waiting for my baby to fall back to sleep!

I’m not sure that’s something we get to vote on.

You’ve explained this in plain and simple language far more directly than the linked study. Score yet another point for the theory that academic papers are deliberately written to …

This is so insanely terrible that I’m going to put my phone down now and go do something else.

In California, at least, those numbers wouldn't be acceptable. My daughter's at an in-home daycare with IIRC five or six other kids. There are two adults there full-time, sometimes…

> designed by a fiefdom full of territorial managers What's harder than herding cats? Herding cats with MBAs and OKRs.

They have. I don’t remember the specifics but I believe there was some kind of hosting provider that had basically everything in production deleted and had to shut down.

Just because the media has failed doesn’t mean we should accept that kind of failure everywhere.

At some point we have to be willing to call out, at a societal level, that LLMs have been fundamentally oversold. The response to "It made defamatory facts up" of "You're using it …

I would go for a chunky iPhone.

I nominate Jeremy Irons

We should stop considering it a given that capitalistic forces will do this and start considering how we build systems that optimize for the maximum amount of human good rather tha…

Exactly. “AI will take over the world because it’s dangerously smart” is the exact opposite of skepticism! There are different arguments as to why AI is bad, and they’re not all co…

You must not be a coffee drinker!