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nomad-nigirion OpenAI's product launches are stirring something which Apple hasn't in a while

I read this and immediately thought of the scene in gladiator where Maximus efficiently annihilates all his combatants and crowd is not enthused. He yells:

“are you not entertained”

Apple is crushing it. If you’re in tech look around you. Phone, watch, laptop, headphone. All miles ahead of any other device. Even the thing you could strap on to your face is a leap. And yet we yawn.

Look studio gibli images. Wow. Apple has lost it.

Currently consumer AI is a toy. When it becomes a utility Apple has a track record of success. The future of AI is decidedly on device.

nomad-nigirion Techie pointed out meetings are pointless, and was punished for it

We’ve effectively hacked status or update meetings by doing them asynchronously but voice. People monologuing about their issue is fine when you can listen to it at 1.5X or go back to it. Folks thread responses.

nomad-nigirion Turn any bicycle electric

Very cool concept. It’d be helpful if there was videos of it working or some details on the process you made to build it. Or even why you did.

nomad-nigirion Ask HN: Is anyone building their own AR glasses?

https://hallidayglobal.com/pages/how-it-works

nomad-nigirion Ask HN: Is anyone building their own AR glasses?

What are you working on?

nomad-nigirion Ask HN: Is anyone building their own AR glasses?

Industrial use case safety googles. Not very exciting.

nomad-nigirion Ask HN: Is anyone building their own AR glasses?

Yea!! I was looking at some options in Alibaba. Haven’t found anything good. Anyone root meta glasses yet?

nomad-nigirion Amazon employees: 'I'd rather go back to school than work in an office again'

The golden handcuffs at Amazon for top performers is really strong. I’ve heard SWE making $750K (with options) after 24 months of proving yourself.

That’s an $125K bonus every 120 days. Or $1000 a day to go into the office. lol

nomad-nigirion Amazon employees: 'I'd rather go back to school than work in an office again'

I read about an Amazon SWE that was trying do as little as possible to not get fired or just get a severance. I wonder if this is the most effective way to weed out all those.

With 300K employees they likely have thousands of zombie wfh employees.

nomad-nigirion The shortest, strangest engineering interview I've ever done

This is why you interview.

nomad-nigirion Ask HN: Do you find that product requirements degrade over time?

Loom videos walking through Figma prototypes >>>> any doc.

Archive everything > 60 days

nomad-nigirion Product Hunt Upvotes Are Worthless: Real Customers Aren't There

Can confirm that investors do not value product hunt traction. Many see it as a negative signal.

nomad-nigirion OpenAI says some creative jobs that AI will replace shouldn't exist anyway

Thanks for sharing your perspective, it’s broadened my own. I’m pro-ai, I believe in the potential. I was asking if GPTs or image generators have replaced human jobs yet. The loss of jobs seems like an over reaction. I personally think like all major tech breakthroughs it will create industries/markets not previously possible.

nomad-nigirion OpenAI says some creative jobs that AI will replace shouldn't exist anyway

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ai+layoffs

From the links on page 1-4 looks like companies are laying people off to invest in AI infra. That’s different than getting replaced by it. I just can’t think of a workflow that can be automated by “AI”

nomad-nigirion OpenAI says some creative jobs that AI will replace shouldn't exist anyway

Links?

nomad-nigirion OpenAI says some creative jobs that AI will replace shouldn't exist anyway

ChatGPT is like a 3.0 version of grammerly or google auto complete. Has anyone done anything remarkable with it or because of it?

nomad-nigirion OpenAI says some creative jobs that AI will replace shouldn't exist anyway

I’m pro-AI. I don’t really trust openAI to be the harbingers of AGI. But they earned that right (so far) by building and monetizing the initial breakthrough product. It’s been 2 years, has anyone actually lost their job to AI? I rarely see the midjourney images that were all the rage 6 months ago. Hiring less maybe causal. All companies pulled back after the boom times of ZIRP. Seems this is all much ado about nothing.

nomad-nigirion Apple surpasses Microsoft as most valuable company

With on device LLMs Apple is poised to incentivize most users to upgrade.

nomad-nigirion Ask HN: Is there any point being a programmer anymore?

Try startups. I never had a formal performance review on a small team.

nomad-nigirion If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO

CEOs have three responsibilities that I doubt an AI will ever do. 1. Ensure the company has money to operate. 2. Recruit and inspire employees to do their best work collectively. 3. Make decisions where there isn’t definitive supporting data.

nomad-nigirion Slack AI Training with Customer Data

Isn’t Salesforce’s primary value proposition trust?

nomad-nigirion Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

My bet is he joins Ive

nomad-nigirion The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework

Who is this framework useful for?