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Specifically regarding mental related items are treated as lesser than physical issues. I have Kaiser who has actively been punished by the US Department of Labor [1](2026) [2](2021) for delays in behavioral health care and pushing for out of network therapist. They tried to push these therapist on me twice, both through RULA and it was really a terrible experience. The therapist literally ended my meeting 10 minutes into our discussion when I told him I hadn't finished reading the book he recommended. I am now with an in-house kaiser therapist that is working well. I worry about the psychiatric side of the house as well, they set me up to only meet with my psychiatrist once every three months. That doesn't feel frequent enough to get my medication tuned right.
I don't see this getting better in the future with the current leadership in the US advocating for a "return control to the patients" by reducing SSRI prescriptions. [3]
My only advice for people out there is to take their mental health seriously, if you are having suicidal thoughts talk to your doctor. It may end up being a difficult journey but its better than being alone.
1. https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/ebsa/ebsa20260210
2. https://calmatters.org/health/2023/10/kaiser-permanente-cali...
3. https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/announcing-new-initiative...
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Some Improvements that could help: the location search could be an actual map with pins which would be easier to use some kind of tags for the different appareal items would help clarify which one, currently i have to click and search each vendor for things im looking for. Specifically autistic friendly / sensory clothing items.
Do you review all the files that are generated to ensure there's no hallucinations? Do you just review the last file of concise findings instead?
Is the intent here that the hallucinations will be countered by running through multiple agents that you end up with only the truth? Have you seen anything in the last version that was egregiously wrong?
I was worried about the cost but if you are using local hosted models, then I suppose you don't need to deal with that as much. Locally hosted models still have issues running commands locally and reaching out to the internet right? So this is all just them running with the context of the file, without reference tot he rest of the project?
Thanks for any responses to this.
Jira Chrome Extension to add some notes and links to dashboard pages that I wanted for ease of use.
Small application which takes a CSV and turns it into a Registered Server List for SSMS in order to keep my list of servers updated for queries across all our databases.
Honestly one of the good use cases for AI. Small low complexity scripts and tools for assistance is a great use case. I'm amazed at the folks that are doing huge monolith rewrites with Agents and such, but I've never had good results for that. Small time saving scripts gets me a much more direct return on investment.
It would be neat if there was some tracking of these kinds of political catch phrases sources and timelines, maybe that exists already.
is this a review of "wokeness" in models and rejecting them if they don't align with the party views - this should not be allowed.
A politically neutral committee that decides what the review entails is what would happen in a true democracy and not a puppet oligarchy like we have today.
I'm sure this was obvious to anyone who would sit down and think about it for more than the 30min it took to vibe code the leaderboard.
I just really dislike this follow whatever FAANG is doing pattern that the C-Suite have adopted with such urgency. Maybe this is just my age showing but I remember folks used to say "well we aren't facebook/google/amazon and what works for them might not work for our industry, we have to think this through".
When our product managers just send us AI generated JIRA tickets that are extremely long but contain no actual details and tons of irrelevant or wrong content I get extremely frustrated and are seen as not a team player. At that point I’d rather not have the product managers present in the process.
I was a bit annoyed with an IC recently because he would just respond to peoples messages with "Heres with Claude says".
He didn't understand why I was so annoyed because we have been pushing them to use AI for everything.
I had to explain to him, its like when google first came about, yes you can just send people Let me Google that for you links, or you can respond politely and reasonably to build a relationship. In the end I don't think he got it and it's something I'll need to continue working on with him.
Why is a tank this large of a chemical that can have runaway thermal reaction allowed in an area 500ft from residential areas? Why is this chemical allowed in an area that is considered light manufacturing?
Lots of cool drone usage happening
I can't answer that question but plenty of other managers are fully ready to just give bogus numbers.
For my team, use of AI has indeed lowered the story point cost. The coding part of the story takes less work so we have started to lower the story point cost for stories that would previously cost more. Think of a 5SP to 3SP reduction.
We have increased the number of features being delivered but our number of story points delivered has remained static.
Really does it matter if a company produces something that breaks constantly or gets worse or slower.(See github) Megacorps have a wide moat and have forced out all competition or they just buy them with low interest loans.
The quality of products keeps getting worse and we can do nothing but live with it. So if that's the state of the world, why wouldn't you just push as many "features" as fast as possible. More is rewarded. Less is punished. Quality does not matter.