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CEO replaces engineering team with AI.

CEO learns why this was a bad idea.

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It sucks that there were a bunch of people downstream who were negatively affected by this, but this was an entirely foreseeable problem on his company's part.

Even when we consider those real problems with Railway. Software engineers have to evaluate our tools as part of our job. Those complaints about Railway, while legitimate, are still part of the typical sort of questions that every engineering team has to ask of the services they rely on:

What does API key grant us access to?

What if someone runs a delete command against our data?

How do we prepare against losing our prod database?

Etc.

And answering those questions with, "We'll just follow what their docs say, lol," is almost never good enough of an answer on its own. Which is something that most good engineers know already.

This HN submission reads like a classic case of FAFO by cheapening out with the "latest and greatest" models.

"What <placeholder> taught me about B2B Sales."

All of the things listed that he learned could've also been learned from reading the work produced by, y'know, other Software Engineers. I learned all of those principles by reading Sandi Metz's POODR and by following prolific experts at the time, like Scott Hanselman.

But I suppose, learning things the constructive way is boring. No one wants to write the article that says, How I Learned To Do Things Right By Listening To People Who Do Things Right.

This is proof that you don't need vision to create a thing of beauty.

As someone who, indeed, went in unprepared to just to see what happens, I was also left wanting in knowing what exactly I was looking at. It all just looked arbitrarily random to me.

As I've heard it said regarding art, part of the appreciation comes from knowing _how_ it was made (and why), not merely from what was made. We don't appreciate Warhol's soup cans because they're soup cans -- it's everything else about them that makes it art.

So, my recommendation is, make the narrator a default panel on the opening screen. Give folks a narrative description of the events occurring up front, and then invite them to explore the work from there.

Even then, he goes through the typical heroic arc of:

1) Starting the story by Resisting the Call to adventure -- in a way that reveals strong character motivation (a strong desire to live)

2) He suffers a series of trials that slowly push him to the opposite view: That he must act boldly and selflessly if he is to survive (and thereby also save the Discworld)

3) He performs a heroic act (even if only armed with a "half-brick in a sock") contributing to the good side's overall victory

Although to be fair, he does tend to revert by the start of his next story.

Also a counterpoint, but from the other side (from British Speculative fiction): Terry Pratchett's Discworld series

These books, written by a British author, are full of characters with strong wants who are roused into situation-defying action.

These books are also best-sellers on _both_ sides of the pond, and often share shelves with Adams.

It is certainly a privilege being an American right now and not having to worry about:

1) A rapidly growing economic crisis due to aggressive and inchorent foreign policy decisions

2) The new force of Gestapo murdering and harming citizens in cities all across the nation

A real privilege.

The Monroe Doctrine was about preventing colonial powers from enacting NEW efforts to reach into the Americas, not about getting rid of previous control.

"The occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects FOR FUTURE COLONIZATION by any European powers." (emphasis mine)

https://usinfo.org/PUBS/LivingDoc_e/monroe.htm

Mine gave me a brutal double-roast:

"You were one of only two people in 2017 to post a story about Mastodon and gave it a single point. You essentially predicted the platform’s entire future relevance in one brutally honest data point."

I have ADHD, and I drink 2-3 cups' worth of coffee every day.

I'm basically a vampire now.

Don't worry, once the Wall Street tap runs dry, the U.S. government will be more than happy to step in and bail out the AI corps. at the taxpayer's expense.

> At one side, people are unhappy about AI, at the other side, who of those same people will stop using ChatGPT to write their work e-mails and assignments for them.

As Newsweek points out*, the people most unhappy about AI are the ones who CAN'T use ChatGPT to write their work e-mails and assignments because they NO LONGER have access to those jobs. There are many of us who believe that the backlash against AI would never have gotten so strong if it hadn't come at the expense of the creators, the engineers, and the unskilled laborers first.

AI agents are the new scabs, and the people haven't been fooled into believing that AI will be an improvement in their lives.

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*and goes deeper on in this article: https://www.newsweek.com/clanker-ai-slur-customer-service-jo...

It is a language, just not a turing complete one.

Pidgen is a type of language, too, but you wouldn't be writing Shakespeare in it.

There's nothing to be pedantic about HTML here, and it just seems so absolutely pointless to me that people try to find a way to be.

I DON'T see this as transparency. There is ZERO mention of the burrito in the post-mortem document itself.

0/10, get it right the first time, folks. (/s)

We're in a Live Fast Die Young karma world. If you can't get a TikTok ready with 2 minutes of the post modem drop, you might as well quit and become a barista instead.

You, too, are practicing and advocating for a philosophy here.

Also, the lack of objectivity in the universe doesn't necessarily mean that nihilism is the ONLY way to go. Existentialism, for example, doesn't accept an objective reality either, and folks have found ways to make morality (and even religious faith) fully compatible within that framework.

Obviously, it's not good to delve into metaphysical speculation, as it often clearly leads to junk conclusions written by people who don't have the credentials to account for what the actual science (OR the actual philosophy) says.

But I do wonder what it would be like if modern physicists were more willing to pair up with modern philosophers once in awhile. I would very much love to see a collaboration between the two fields to explore what a subjective universe really MEANS to us as both a species and as moral beings in that universe.

I, very much, would love to see what some of these implications are, as written out by the folks who actually understand the science. Even if there's no true consensus among them, just learning what the different possibilities might be could be very enlightening.

They already censored the not-porn (but still NSFW) photos. I don't think it would've made as much of a difference censoring the porn photos as well, especially when trying to convince people that they're not just creating click-bait.

A lot of folks use TikTok on a regular basis. This article is the one making the claim that's far and away different from what most folks experience on the platform.

Since I'm not about to go on there, pretend to be a 13-year old boy, and start seeking out the porn myself, I really need to see some evidence that this is a thing that is actually possible before I start picking out a pitchfork.

> After a “small number of clicks” the researchers encountered pornographic content ranging from women flashing to penetrative sex.

I (40m) don't think I've ever seen literal flashing or literal porn on TikTok, and my algorithm does like to throw in thirst content between my usual hobby stuff.

Are they making the claim that showing porn is a normal behavior for TikTok's algorithm overall, or are they saying that this is something that specifically pervasive with child accounts?

I was once brought in to a Fortune500 company to teach basic ENTRY LEVEL web development to a room full of supposedly "highly educated" H-1B Software Engineers.

Much of my presentation included things that most of my unemployed American colleagues, all of whom were actively looking for work, already knew how to do implicitly. Because it literally was just basic, "This is how flexbox works"-type of stuff.

Maybe the H-1B program is a great program for hospitals. For tech, it is 100% being used to import cheap, disposable labor in a way that harms U.S. citizens economically.

It's because they're using AI for the interviews, too.

It was 3 people who were replaced for the making of a list.

The number 50 was what Doctorow presumed was the entirety of the department that could potentially have been replaced by AI, of which the making of this list had been only one of that department's overall tasks.

At 3 interns per article, having 30 interns working on 10 simultaneous articles at any given time seems like reasonable output for an online zine.

Okay, but my boss still demands I give him a metric. I'm not allowed to tell him, "Just trust me bro" when I'm asked how much our security has improved over the past sprint. I'm supposed to give hard numbers, and the OP at least offers an alternative for that.

The closest I can think of right now is the "Before & After" category from Wheel of Fortune. It relies on there being a single word that ends one phrase and begins another.

But that doesn't bring into the idea of this word being _cutting_

Yeah, I agree with the OP here. After all this time, being able to change the chat colors at this point has some real We-reached-the-bottom-of-the-backlog energy, and they're just now implementing the ideas that weren't considered important enough before by the PMs to consider.

It hardly feels like a next generation release.

As a related anecdote (not saying that this is industry standard, just pointing out my own experience), the startup I work for launched their app four years ago, and, for all four of those years, we've had "Implement a Dark Mode design" sitting at the bottom of our own backlog. Higher priority feature requests are always pre-empting it.

I have deuteranomaly, and the hallucination worked for me, and it did appear like a crazy saturated blue-green ring around the shrinking red circle.

I suspect, however, that those of us with deuteranomaly probably see a different blue-green than normal-sighted folks due to the bent color cones.

The real question is, what about the folks with Deuteranopia (no working green cones at all)?

Deuteranomaly, though, is still probably the best place to start since that's the big one that affects (some say) up to 10% of all males. Every other form of colorblindness affects a much slimmer percentage of the population.

At the very least, one should be a regular user of a platform prior to marketing on that platform. Every platform has nuance to it, and if you don't understand that nuance, then you're better off paying someone else to do it on your behalf.

The OP was never going to succeed in her efforts there.

The numbers don't paint a rosy picture, as the article author points out.

The current administration tends to be much more brazen with their lies.

Even today, with modern information available to us, people still woefully underestimate what it would take to live in a true wilderness.

I, for one, am happy that I'm no longer managing state across hundreds of independent jQuery values and making raw XHR calls to jsonp endpoints.

Sure, if all you're doing is buying the latest Call of Duty iteration/clone.

But imagine spending $30 on a story-driven video game and just skipping the story.

That's almost as bad as buying a book and never reading it.

(Which, to be fair, is a sin that I do, sometimes, commit).