jamiequint

In the new world, these formerly high-performing software engineers are no longer high-performing software engineers.

"don't try to shove shit down their throat unless you're willing to get it shoved down yours."

Fortunately the employer controls the relationship and can just fire employees with this kind of toxic attitude.

Plenty of people thrive in environments where high performance is demanded. This idea that you produce the best outputs by coddling your employees is pure cope.

Demanding high performance also doesn't necessarily mean forcing everyone to work 996 or yelling at people, but it can mean enforcing standards that everyone might not like or agree with.

"Have people completely lost their humanity? Is winning at whatever you’re doing that important we can’t be equally obligated to show each other decency?"

It's a team not a family.

The idea that demanding performance from your employees is "losing your humanity" is insane.

Should be possible to play this with Jev.

The important question with any AI-related news story is what is the counterfactual.

Sure, it sucks if your self driving car gets in a crash or your AI scribe incorrectly transcribes something to your medical record. This is news now. What isn't news is humans getting into crashes or doctors making poor medical decisions as a result of low quality or missing notes.

Good thing you don't get to decide.

Ed Zitron also said that consumers were losing interest in ChatGPT in January 2024, that AI models were reaching their upper possible limits in Feburary 2024, that ChatGPT and similar products were "not particularly useful for anything", that hallucinations could not possibly be reduced in models, etc.

He's a churlish AI skeptic that isn't worth listening to.

"Internet constellations may be mildly profitable"

It's insanely profitable they did $7.2bn in EBITDA on $11.4bn in revenue in 2025.

Effective ads absolutely require knowing more about the user than the context on the page it's a 1-2 orders of magnitude revenue difference for the publisher per-impression.

except it's not? lol

What is worse a "hamfisted system prompt push to prod" or a system and organization built to enforce systematic bias in the name of anti-bias?

OK great, do you consider Gemini/Google untrustworthy software that shouldn't be used? Just making sure we're being intellectually honest here.

LOL, pot meet kettle for real.

The reality is both are likely well meaning attempts to squash model bias gone wrong. Since you happen to align with the politics of one more than the other, you are having trouble being intellectually honest about your own biases.

They had a bug in their model that they fixed within days is evidence they are "untrustworthy"?

read the top comment

Do you have any examples to illustrate these extraordinary claims?

"What exactly is there in the USA's destruction of the economic norms that have always served it"

What destruction? US GDP growth has recovered to the pre-COVID trendline while EU lags behind it's already-slow previous pace.

"Fading superpower" is typical EU cope. It may help to be a little bit introspective about why one might want to oppose EU politics, or its leaders, whose "leadership" over the last decade has led to unprecedented migrant, economic, and energy crises, and stalling growth.

Called photography poor facsimiles of painting, not real art, etc.

Baudelaire and many others said the same thing about photography.

You're confusing law with ethics, they are not the same.

"I thought the goal was to generate tax revenue from the taxes, which wouldn't happen to the extent they end up in the hands of NYC residents."

You're right, I'm saying I think it is a good tax for reasons secondary to revenue. We all know NYC is going to squander the money, at least they might make housing slightly cheaper for the average New Yorker in the process.

"If you make the tax too high it starts discouraging the behavior you're taxing, which can paradoxically reduce overall tax revenue."

I am generally against more taxes, but the structure of this one is quite good in terms of the incentives. If wealthy people who only live in the city part-time stay in hotels instead of buying second homes, the net effect should be to increase the cost of hotel rooms and reduce the cost of owned-housing. NYC charges nearly 10% tax on hotel stays, so recoups some of the cost there. Having property in your city mostly being occupied by people who live their full time, particularly when property is already very expensive, seems like a good thing overall.

Yes, envy is a bitch.

There being more $10+ billionaires doesn't make your life worse when you are earning 50% more on a real dollar basis than you would have been 50 years ago.

And yet somehow, magically, all of these things are better than they have been ever at any point throughout human history. It's almost as if the system is working.

This is extreme cope.

I've been in Waymos that have needed teleop rescue multiple times in the last year so by that metric it's not a L4 system either.