ToDougie

False advertising is illegal. Ghost job posts should be no different.

> How is this a bad thing?

re: Speed limit -- Besides the obvious, it's because not every vehicle on the road is part of the lowest common denominator.

First severe case equals state of emergency in California. https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/12/18/governor-newsom-takes-proa...

I used to have my CC numbers memorized, until over time they were all replaced due to fraudulent charges.

> I remember hearing a SV VC straight up say that if you consider selling your company for $50 million a win, the you don't have the right mindset and he doesn't want to do business with you.

Is there someone out there focused on selling ten $50m companies at the same rate that this guy is focused on being part of, I assume one $.5bn company?

Lesson here is always be transparent about your product. If you're permanently blocking ports by default, put some emphasis on that limitation during the sales process.

Maybe they did a risk analysis. Maybe they don't have the bandwidth to create a vetting process. Either way, be transparent.

I keep seeing great coders losing their jobs and I'm wondering why you would fire someone who has been given superpowers (allegedly). AI is a force multiplier. If you have 1,000 workers, they should now be able to produce at the rate of 10,000. (OK, maybe more like 1,500.) If you have a clear vision from the top, you will be able to hit your goals ten times sooner.

Let's say company A is planning on releasing product X to the market in FY25, product Y in FY27, and product Z, in FY30. Well, now you should be able to marshal your resources and release all three products on an expedited schedule.

Obviously this is reductive, but it seems like the best companies are going to use this new tool in their toolkit to dominate, and bad companies are going to get crushed. AI is not a panacea, just yet. But it sounds so confusing to me to hear "We invented jet engines which are superior to prop engines, so we're firing a bunch of our pilots."

How many hours a week is expected of the actual job at the end? If 80 hours a week, I don't know how many AI engineers are willing to work for 38 dollars an hour.

Hiring is a fun challenge because you:

- need to work with your upper management to get the best talent for what may be more money than they are willing to part with. You need to be great at negotiating to achieve this.

- need to find the right culture fit. Will the team want to spend 40+ hours a week with this new person? Do they have any personality conflicts?

- find a way to get the best talent without offending your team. Sometimes you have the option to hire someone whose skillset is radically better than what already exists on your team. Do you hire that person? Does your team handle it well? Does this mean the person who thought they would get a promotion in 18 months is going to slow their output because they assume that their future "slot" is now gone? How do you cope with that.

- balance the time between your "day job" and hiring a new person. I believe when you have an opportunity to hire, it needs to be one of your most critical AND urgent priorities because the impact is ultra-high and the effort is much lower than most long-term efforts (I once made the mistake of moving too slowly on a backfill caused by a lateral promotion, and I didn't see the cracks forming until we lost a 2nd engineer to burnout. We ended up running way too lean for way too long. Eventually we backfilled the two positions with two superior engineers, but it was a very tough time and I could have realistically replaced those positions much more rapidly and my team would have been better for it.)

Doubtful. I started new threads using carbon-copy prompts. I'll research some more to make sure I'm not missing anything, though.

No, but I'll give the wikipedia summary a gander :)

> a couple is often entirely on their own.

Yeah. This has been the worst part. Neither of our parents feel the need to help with their TIME, but they will sporadically send us money after making us feel bad about asking. Meanwhile they had all kinds of help from relatives, in time, sweat, and money. Part of the problem is that you don't get your full Social Security benefits until age 70, so for the one grandparent that is still working, they literally do not have the time to help. If they wanted to retire early, they would have to forgo what they perceive as critical $. Alternatively, they could sell their multi-million dollar home and downsize, but their egos could never handle that.

This is my biggest gripe with these LLMs. I primarily use Claude, and it exhibits the same described behavior. I'll find myself in a flow state and then somewhere around hour 3 it starts to pretend like it isn't capable of completing specific tasks that it had been performing for hours, days, weeks. For instance, I'm working on creating a few LLCs with their requisite social media handles and domain registrations. I _used_ to be able to ask Claude to check all US State LLC registrations, all major TLD domain registrations, and USPTO against particular terms and similar derivations. Then one day it just decided to stop doing this. And it tells me it can't search the web or whatever. Which is bullshit because I was verifying all of this data and ensuring it wasn't hallucinating - which it never was.

iirc Trump campaigned on the sluggishness of the Obama-era economy. It was characterized as burdened and shackled, but not downright terrible.

I don't know a single person in my sphere who feels this way. I think the common sentiment is things will probably improve and the stock market is up. Would be curious to see how UoM did their polling. Does answering truthfully about the state of the stock market indicate that you think that the economy is doing better?

I use Claude Pro paid version every day, but not for coding. I used to be a software engineer, but no longer. I tried OpenAI in the past, but I did not enjoy it. I do not like Sam Altman.

My use cases: Generating a business plan, podcast content, marketing strategies, sales scripts, financial analyses, canned responses, and project plans. I also use it for general brainstorming, legal document review, and so many other things. It really feels like a super-assistant.

Claude has been spectacular about 98% of the time. Every so often it will refuse to perform an action - most recently it was helping me research LLC and trademark registrations, combined with social media handles (and some deviations) and web URL availability. It would generate spectacular reports that would have taken me hours to research, in minutes. And then Claude decided that it couldn't do that sort of thing, until it could the next day. Very strange.

I have given Gemini (free), OpenAI (free and Paid), Copilot (free), Perplexity (free) a shot, and I keep coming back to Claude. Actually, Copilot was a pretty decent experience, but felt the guardrails too often. I do like that Microsoft gives access to Dall-E image generation at no cost (or maybe it is "free" with my O365 account?). That has been helpful in creating simple logo concepts and wireframes.

I run into AI with Atlassian on the daily, but it sucks. Their Confluence AI tool is absolute garbage and needs to be put down. I've tried AI tools that Wix, Squarespace, and Mira provide. Those were all semi-decent experiences. And I just paid for X Premium so I can give Grok a shot. My friend really likes it, but I don't love the idea of having to open an ultra-distracting app to access it.

I'm hoping some day to be like the wizards on here who connect AI to all sorts of "things" in their workflows. Maybe I need to learn how to use something like Zapier? If I have to use OpenAI with Zapier, I will.

If you read this far, thanks.

It isn't supposed to be "truly democratic".

Germany gets the tariff, and the people keep voting for the politicians who support it, so.......... I suppose the Germans are happy?

You convinced me.

Blaming Trump for Biden giving the Taliban 80 billion dollars in military equipment is about what I expected.

No. If that's the difference maker, definitely not.

Everything you wrote in your first paragraph sounds pretty boilerplate. You can't seriously say he has gone above and beyond Biden, Obama, or Bush. And if he's not unique, then your vendetta seems personal, which makes you seem hypocritical.

Germany has an equal GDP to California with double the road miles. Their roads are ranked higher.

California can do better, it just doesn't.

Explaining the minutia does not make for the best campaign trail rhetoric. But I can assure you, after speaking extensively in person with members of the Trump trade team, that their strategy is deep and sophisticated.

When he speaks of broad-based tariffs, he is using one of his framing techniques that he unironically explains in the Art of the Deal.

With all that said, the tariffs have me concerned, but allowing our industrial base to continue to evaporate has me more concerned.

Before I had kids, I didn't have kids -- so I know both sides of the experience. You are only able to guess. Saying that I seem upset sure seems a lot like projection, which is a common technique for the offended. You weren't the target of my post, but you feel like you are -- ruminate on that.

Wow. I struck a nerve.

I read the article as a celebration that people are finally recognizing that living in reality has some merit. Reality being that men/white men are not "the enemy".

Agreed. Texas, Arizona, Nevada, Washington, Florida..... visited all of them in the last 12 months during various seasons.... they ALL have significantly better roads than California. HOW!!!!!! HOW!

What countries aren't using tariffs? Biden used tariffs. Biden kept Trump tariffs. I paid a tariff for my BMW. Germany was probably pretty happy about that. I liked their product enough, so I was happy, too.

Go read some Peter Navarro. He explains desperately how important it is to be protectionist (to a limited extent) with certain industries. Especially if they link to security and health of the nation. You do not want a hostile nation to make all of your pharmaceuticals. You do not want them to hold you hostage over your lack and their surplus of steel. This is basic, basic stuff.

And the whole point is that other countries are not engaging in fair trade practices. If they aren't engaging in fair trade, then they can't engage in this fabled myth of "free trade". This is literally the Trump trade doctrine. He has spelled it out and acted on it. If the CCP hadn't manipulated the price of steel to wipe out American steel producers, they wouldn't be subject to extreme tariffs. Simple, simple stuff.

What disrespect has he shown, ever, for the Supreme Court? And if the norms mean giving all of our tax dollars to NATO for nothing in return, why wouldn't you destroy those norms? After all, I voted for him on that basis.

You didn't read the article.