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I don't disagree with anything said here, but it sure would be nice if Meta (and any other companies building social media applications) focused more on what's right for children, …

If nothing else, the timing is suspect given the attention and press open weight models are getting over the last few weeks. The releases of Kimi and other models is getting open w…

Yeah came here to say the same thing on the lack of absolute units. Speaking as an older vinyl collector myself, with kids who have also gotten into it...it would surprise me if th…

Agreed and it's unlikely to slow down that descent into slop coding until there are some visible issues with it. The market (i.e. companies) are going all in on AI coding because e…

> There's a world of difference between managing a dozen or so individual contributors vs managing senior managers / directors. I agree, but in my opinion, your point about needing…

Could this be a good thing - yes Will it be is a different thing though. And if it’s not, who exactly is accountable? With funds and portfolio managers that run them, there’s a cle…

Sure, still need to enable access the same info but feels like bucketing the clients into bucket1 = clients that were working just fine before (users and whatever automation they h…

Per a report that came out the other day, the GitHub move to Azure has been slowed down (i.e. I don't think it's done). But maybe you have newer/better info than me

Yeah, that and Microsoft has been slow to move the infrastructure to something that scales better to handle that load. The more surpassing part is that Microsoft hasn't figured out…

> Every use of AI for these robs the employee culture of a genuine trust building moment. Spot on. The erosion of communication and relationships between people in the workplace (o…

This is awesome to hear about. The community aspects (both being part of the community and building community) can't be understated. Thanks for sharing!

> This sounds like an attempt to rationalize the fact that your business isn't that effective, otherwise adding more people would result in making more money. Yes, or that business…

This, and the fact that AI is taking people's jobs away without (as far as we can tell) significantly creating new jobs for those people to move to. The job impact is really pissin…

+1 to all of this. The challenge can be staying focused and thinking when the AI assistant is (1) moving very fast and (2) often times doing multiple things at the same time. I kno…

From reading the text of the article, and the direct quotes, I'm also unclear on why they booed him. My guess is because of what he's done, or at least perceived to have done, in t…

New knowledge doesn't necessarily push out old knowledge, and we probably don't have infinite capacity for knowledge. That being said, at least in my experience, the time when new …

Relatable! Or at least making me feel dumb (at times). Things that help me feel smarter are * actually writing more on my own - created a personal blog just to get myself to write …

The problem with the current political situation/administration in the US is that there's so much existing conflict of interest going on that anytime the government investigates co…

Unless I'm missing something, the linked article from MIT is about more than graduate students. That article talks about how changes introduced in 2025 are causing taxation on budg…

Yeah, conceptually this isn't all that different from new VM SKUs coming out in clouds. The costs and rate of change for AI hardware may be higher, and perhaps enough higher to mes…

Yeah that's a good callout for sure, the spending here is nuts so agree that it's not "just another business that has to price itself right to be competitive". I guess if the time …

As long as Apple and Google put reasonable AI capabilities on device, then software engineers will use those capabilities when it makes sense (the article gives lots of good exampl…

The article is good in that it highlights the need for AI agents/assistants to help with different parts of software development, not just the up front "build me a new widget" part…

> My point is that maybe it was intentional, but just bad UX culture. This may be valid, but even if it is someone (or a group of people) at Amazon are violating one of their core …

To put the 14% into some context, per Google, Coinbase headcount has had the following headcount each year + 2021 | 3,730 employees + 2022 | 4,706 employees + 2023 | 3,416 employee…