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Outside of tech, seeking a 20% increase would be relatively uncommon.

I agree, but it isn’t.

I would posit that many people working on a sponsored visa may feel differently.

edit: To be clear, when your relationship with work is good and your employer is largely benevolent, it can be fine.

When things go sideways and you're forced to do things that you disagree with (morally/ethically) or risk deportation, it is no longer OK.

Perhaps shocking to most of Silicon Valley, but you can do things outside of work, which have nothing to do with work, with no social connections to people at work.

Many local governments and municipalities use Twitter as the sole way to make announcements.

Interesting idea, very ambitious.

Does it actually work? I don't think anyone is going to sign up for DeepGram just to test this out.

That's not the full story. A few quotes from Amnesty International's report:

> Even before internet access became widely available in Myanmar, Facebook was already the dominant platform in the country.

> In 2011, despite widespread restrictions on internet access, it was estimated that approximately 80% of Myanmar's few internet users had Facebook accounts.

> By 2014, Facebook was estimated to have had hundreds of thousands of users in Myanmar, many of whom were accessing the platform through internet cafes or devices belonging to their friends or family members.

> Prior to 2015, Facebook was only available in Myanmar via an English-language interface, but a specific Myanmar version was launched in 2015.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa16/5933/2022/en/

General question. How do y’all define this?

Working on platforms of sufficient scale, there’s a lot happening that’s out of your control. You can build the mental model around it, but it will contain a lot of black boxes where an abstraction hides details.

Generated code changes this, probably, but I’m curious by what degree.

The internet and the real world don't exist in separate vacuums. Internet communication and amplification of hate speech helped create an environment where hateful sermons were planned and popularized, and vice-versa.

Facebook pages and posts espousing these viewpoints (using sensationalized or completely fictional justifications) were then amplified by the algorithm. The amplification reached people that were not otherwise inclined to participate, but were convinced through information they received online.

You can't have one without the other. Influence is driven through both in-person physical events/marketing and online platforms. Categorizing the online influence as a "sideshow" completely misinterprets how important online communities have become in radicalization. "Reach" is a key social media metric for a reason.

> WTF!! When did we land in the middle of a Black Mirror episode?

At least a decade ago! The first TVs with Automatic Content Recognition shipped in 2013[0]. There was also a brief panic in 2024 about air fryers spying on people[1].

And of course practically every website you visit is doing a full session recording with mouse movements and key presses captured.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_content_recognition

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/05/air-fryer...

It is a crime if the debts are to the state

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/09/how-common-is...

I agree that blanket GenAI bans won't be viable much longer, as competition will move much faster.

But also, game development economics are very different from SaaS products. You can't spend a ton of money in tokens per month and expect that the gains from selling those features will support the cost of building them. Game dev margins are already slim-to-negative for most independent studios.

yeah, I don’t know why anyone thinks otherwise.

for personal/hobby accounts sure. for a business, it’s much better to negotiate around billing or adjust systems/processes post-facto than it is to have service cut off unexpectedly.

debts are easier to manage when you have an active (ideally growing) customer base. you don’t have customers anymore if your cloud account takes down your service for the rest of the month due to spending limits.

Regulation of predatory pricing practices is a primary function of government.

In the title.

Sorry, let me clarify. Regulations should have legal penalties for the corporations who violate them, yes.

What I meant was that we do not need to go from the Wild West straight to “anyone who, as an individual, connects a `bad thing` to an LLM will go to jail”

We don’t even need to jump straight to legal penalties - why not just regulate that these companies can’t build partnerships with organizations in designated risky/regulated industries such as biotech, defense, etc?

Instead of what they are doing now, which appears to be actively courting as many of them as possible for vast sums of money.

it’s satire…

this happens all the time. have you heard of the Sackler family and the opioid crisis?

the difference here is that they’re calling for someone to stop them, which is both weird and unconvincing because these immensely powerful billionaires can in fact make their own decisions

Project 2025 is a great analogy, because of course, they did exactly what was in the plan despite distancing themselves from it during the election.

When people tell you who they are, you should believe them. These guys are all Yud acolytes who think they are the only ones who can prevent Roko’s Basilisk.

pretty sure it’s more Wild West than ever out here. engineers aren’t even reading the code anymore.

no, it’s worse. software users will randomly be flagged to be testers of new code without their knowledge or consent. they don’t have to accept changes in SaaS, they get what you give them and they pay you for the privilege of having their software change in undesirable ways and having to contact support when it breaks.

I want this to be a thing, but a $3000 non-upgradable box is not the way we’re going to get there.

> But they're still around because there are a lot of devs who don't even glance at what the agents are writing for them

But how does automated AI code review help, here? Doesn’t it just reinforce that they don’t need to look at it (or change their habits), because the AI review will catch the issues?

Gemini is utterly useless, but every other modern model would be capable of answering this correctly. If you ran a local coding agent, I wouldn’t be surprised if you could one-shot implement gesture support in Ghostty. It’d definitely configure BTT for you.

Here’s GPT 6’s answer to the prompt “What macOS terminal apps support gestures? Include a reference to the docs on how to enable/configure them.”:

iTerm2 supports configurable three-finger taps and swipes for switching tabs/panes, creating splits, pasting, etc. Set them up under Settings > Pointer > Bindings. Check for conflicting macOS trackpad assignments. [1]

The others are more limited: Ghostty supports macOS lookup/Quick Look gestures [2], while WezTerm lets you bind scroll events—for example, Ctrl+scroll to change font size. [3] Neither is equivalent to iTerm2’s gesture bindings.

For custom gestures without switching terminals, BetterTouchTool can map app-specific trackpad gestures to the terminal’s existing keyboard shortcuts. [4]

[1] https://iterm2.com/documentation-preferences-pointer.html

[2] https://ghostty.org/docs/features#macos

[3] https://wezterm.org/config/mouse.html

[4] https://docs.folivora.ai/docs/trackpad-mouse/magic-mouse-tra...

Tremendous amounts of the Java out there in the training corpus would be based on outdated patterns, especially anything pre-Java 8 or pre-Java 21 (Pattern Matching, Project Loom). I don’t think this negatively impacts the quality of LLM Java code but it sort of calls into question whether this is simply a case of more is better.

My personal experience is that LLMs are quite good at one-shotting complex solutions in both Rust and Go, and tend to be idiomatic.

While I don’t disagree that they should be fighting for open source AI, Sanders is hardly “fighting against all AI”.

https://jacobin.com/2026/07/ai-nationalization-sanders-liber...

I’ve had a good experience with a greenfield project.

The single thing that seems to have helped is that we all agreed to use OpenSpec early on, and to commit the specs alongside the code.

I have no affiliation with OpenSpec and I don’t suspect it’s doing anything unique here, but having the intent develop alongside the code in the repository seems to have ensured that agents have a more holistic view of the project.

It’s a night/day difference when I use an agent against this codebase that integrates its changes using OpenSpec and those that ignore it.

in the US? no.

Not factual