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As a parent in the US northeast who likes taking their kids camping and hiking, ticks have been an ongoing conversation this year. I think this is going to sell well.

If the model is commoditized then the AI race becomes competition over building infrastructure to support it. China is very good at building infrastructure.

Nah, James Damore just did a stupid thing at work and wasn't talented enough for it to be overlooked. He deserved to be fired. Morals don't need to come into it.

They lost their moral compass a while ago, but it had nothing to do with Damore.

No he was kind of unhinged. That wasn't the first weird thing he did. Should've been fired.

Note that coding is not the only use of Gemini or any of these models. It's also not what this article is talking about. Gemini can be not the best coding agent, but very good at other things.

> I'd pay a business $100 for a proper report on the rentals available in a city that meet a criteria and are amalgamated from all the the various platforms.

If this can be fully automated then you can just ask your own agent to do this and wouldn't need a business for it. And agents can already fill out web forms just fine.

Is this an argument to keep DEI in place?

This is a simplistic view. E.g. how does this argument account for the data we have that someone with black sounding name will get less opportunity than someone with a white sounding name and an identical resume? In this case the lower chances to get ahead have nothing to do with economic circumstance.

I think this is a perfect example of gp's comment.

Presumably their experience.

What you're describing is an American domestic policy issue.

There's no dispute that America has become incredibly more rich and powerful over the past 40 years. The fact that that money is increasingly funneled to fewer and fewer people (as a percent of the population) is something that can be changed locally, without changing our foreign policy stance.

It's not a surprise that the "devastation" of the middle class coincides with the continued reduction of tax rates on the entities collecting all that money. The America that MAGA seems to think was great was one of higher taxes and more social programs.

On the contrary this is exactly what they said they'd do if elected. This is exactly what was voted for. Don't pretend like Americans didn't have agency in the destruction of their own country.

I think it's primarily the "how" that people are resisting. I'm not sure why that's being dismissed.

> The company has to reciprocate

OP was promoted. Question is now whether OP makes the company regret their decision or not.

Thought we were supposed to hire on merit. These folks are lowering the bar.

If all the competitors have the same quality and price then you're always going to be using some subjective criteria to decide between them. Why is choosing a minority supplier worse than any other criteria in this case?

> The only thing that concerns me is that I hope companies still do outreach to colleges outside of the major universities and start partnering with them to widen the funnel

I can assure you they think that is bullshit as well.

It's getting close to k8s in terms of activity so at least there are a lot of people working on it.

Pretty sure Datadog is literally one of the top contributors to OTel.

Isn't Odigos just OTel with simpler setup?

> And moving those metrics and OKRs doesn't get you more money.

Because you are already being paid to move those metrics and OKRs. Not doing so means you're not actually doing your job and, in a well managed company (which are admittedly few and far between), will be rightfully fired and replaced by someone who does.

The question isn't about what you'll do when you're replaced by an LLM, it's what you're doing to future proof your job. There is a difference. The risk to hedge against is the productivity boost brought by LLMs resulting in a drop in the needs for new software engineers. This will put pressure on jobs (simply don't need as many as we used to so we're cutting 15%) AND wages (more engineers looking for fewer jobs with a larger part of their utility being commoditized).

Regardless of how sharp you keep yourself you're still at subject to the macro environment.

> And when living in an appropriate place to raise children (playgrounds, etc near housing) it's super easy to meet other parents.

Ah, so this yet another aspect of health that one needs a certain amount of money to enjoy.

Definitely less. Trump has never had the support of more than half he country. Even when he won.

I don't think that's a bug. I think that helps us separate truth from fiction as we navigate the transition to this new world.

You mean an employer set an expectation, checks to see if people are meeting the expectation, and holds them accountable if they aren't? What incredible bs.

And be fired for your terrible technical judgement instead.

How is that your takeaway? Seems like the opposite of what's being said.

What kind of low budget commentary is this? Why put it on HN? What's _your_ goal here?

> if there was a platfom with a powerful enough query-language for it (e.g. give me all requests that go through 4 services, have errors on service 3 but not 4, and are associated with userId 123 on service 1)

Datadog has a new feature for querying the whole trace call graph that they seem to be testing out. Sounds like precisely the thing you're describing.