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upupupandaway

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    Comment #48390985

    The AI stumbled easily at what would have been the most impressive achievement (book the Airbnb) and yet the author was "terrified" by it?

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    Comment #48141839

    I had an offer for $1.2m / year for an M2 position in a MCOL location in the US. So this is the answer. Money.

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    Comment #48115757

    > A huge portion of the posts are also propaganda. Finding a new job is tied to listening to propaganda. I am 100% convinced that a significant number of job posts on LinkedIn are …

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    Comment #48101681

    My wife is a nurse and keeps in touch with her school professors. They said that the number of people flooding into healthcare careers is more than most colleges can handle, and is…

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    Comment #48101666

    This is, to me, the "correct" answer. I am starting to see the role evolve to "software producer", which, like music producers, direct an entire problem space using tools (Claude /…

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    Comment #48100370

    As a pt-BR speaker from across the pond: https://soberania.ai/ Similar waste.

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    Comment #48068129

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29387264

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    Comment #48023035

    Brian once came to Hacker News to comment on a thread I posted (about being made an offer then ghosted by Stripe for a leadership position), so if he has the time for that I'd love…

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    Comment #48023006

    > Non-technical teams are now shipping production code With the amount of tech leaders blabbering about this, I came to the conclusion that the profession of the future is going to…

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    Comment #47980401

    they interviewed me for a generic role and placed me on Reality Labs, and I had a hunch it would go down swiftly (org was decimated 9 months later) so I didn't go.

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    Comment #47968399

    Any data on performance?

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    Comment #47966043

    Not a security guy here. How did the dependency get compromised, exactly? Did they submit a PR into the main repo at github and it was approved by the maintainers? Or just host com…

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    Comment #47897072

    I don't understand this comment at all. Are you being sarcastic? Digging at the developers? At Meta?

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    Comment #47897035

    I was offered $1.15m a year to work there back in 2022. That's why.

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    Comment #47897026

    Also extremely astute to stay the hell away from buying Twitter.

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    Comment #47897017

    OP is not saying Mark is a good person, but a ballsy CEO. And he is.

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    Comment #47855217

    Is there a good open source stack to replace Claude or Codex that can be run locally on some advanced hardware?

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    Comment #47849801

    Why is this necessarily a good thing?

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    Comment #47807635

    25 years into my career here. Motivation is awesome to get you that rush to start building something. Discipline, however, is far more important and will get you more success than …

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    Comment #47524658

    Ticket -> PR -> Deployment -> Incident

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    Comment #47182026

    I was in Shanghai recently and while casually testing one of their AI chat bots I typed "What do you think of the situation in Taiwan?". It started discussing like a Western bot wo…

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    Comment #47143086

    The demand for EVs is crashing across the board. Porsche for example is now in dire straits because they had promised to make the 718 only as EV and with demand going down, they'll…

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    Comment #46976803

    I know you're speaking half in jest but the C-suite of my area actually used a tweet by an OpenAI executive as the agenda for an AI brainstorm meeting.

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    Comment #46976601

    I work for a large tech company, and our CTO has just released a memo with a new rubric for SDEs that includes "AI Fluency". We also have a dashboard with AI Adoption per developer…