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rightbyteon AI usage patterns in software teams

Why would a company want to leak its processes and workflows to another company in a capitalist system. Seems sloppy and a short sighted transfer of wealth to external stockowners.

rightbyteon Norway should buy OpenAI

In some sense I would argue that it is the next highest bid that determine the worth. I.e. what the buyer could hope to resell for.

rightbyteon Norway should buy OpenAI

I think I have to commend you for trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube. These expressions are more or less some form of fatalism and when used in political context it is very annoying. Especially when some politicians are working there asses off to make something claimed inevitable happen.

rightbyteon My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup

> And way low on the scale of things: every goddamn restaurant since 2024 using AI image gen, meaning you have no goddamn clue what the food you're ordering actually is. Or you do but you know that it's _not_ what is pictured. And the logos are all ugly.

Pictures in menus just vaguely resembling the actual dish. Dunno what value the authors think a made up picture provides except for tourist traps. Like, I wont trust your menu twice.

I didn't anticipate McDonalds menu pictures becoming in the authentic and informative range of menus.

rightbyteon Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee

The golden egg factory section drawing made it all very clear.

Is Softbank making any money or just dissipating Alibaba gains?

rightbyteon The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding

I think it is some sort of whataboutism without any regard to proportions. Some people have a really hard time emotionally dealing with systems that occusionally fail.

rightbyteon Software Engineering fundamentals matter more

I move furniture in one piece if possible to fit the door. The screw inserts and plugs etc wear out fast if reused.

rightbyteon When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs

I think the established word is "class traitors".

rightbyteon Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove

https://blog.roboflow.com/neuralhash-collision/

Seems like about 3 collisions per 100 million pictures. If everyone have 1000 pictures that is 3 collisions per 100 000 users.

Raiding 2 people in my city for made up CSAM pictures would be way to high false positive rate.

But you can also make any picture match a CSAM hash by adding picked noise.

rightbyteon Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove

Apple's CSAM hash filter removing peoples photos (did it notify the police too?) could be an indicator of how false positives on big scale work out.

rightbyteon I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program

There is a big difference between automatic data collection on my habits and local staff recognizing me. The later is nice socialy. The former is to my disadvantage.

rightbyteon California Uber, Lyft drivers win union recognition

Yes there need to be solidarity between members of unions otherwise it is just some feudal guild society.

rightbyteon AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?

Such recruiting selects for KPI hunters. It is probably bad for an org to select for people that game it rather than doing "what is right".

A dice throw and some chitchat would be better recruiting.

rightbyteon Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta

It is different for different users and different at different times. It is probably especially bad with few contacts that write on FB or if you log in like twice a year.

Similar confusion on HN comments about SaaS UX arise when there is AB testing and some are victims and some are not.

rightbyteon LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

I remember when SMS had a cost per message.

rightbyteon As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing

An analogy would be automatic raid wait rooms in WoW.

Like what is the point of making grinding in games more efficient as you remove the fun and social aspect and the advantage of organizing a party.

rightbyteon The UK's war on anonymity has come to America

Specifically, it was about the need to tax the rich and not grant them exemptions for favours like nobles.

rightbyteon As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing

I think the lure with matchmaking was that when it was introduced, it made you really good compared to before by easier access to better practice.

In Data 2 the skill level shifted upwards enourmously for pro players and I feel also for normal players. But the scene also got kinda lame and boring with too optimized strategies.

rightbyteon As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing

There is an pink elephant behind you. In practice, I believe that at least after the dust have settled, events of the type of "Count Ferdinand was shoot dead infront of 100 witnesses", like maybe 1/50 are fake? Dunno what share.

The faking part would be in who is blamed and what country to bomb etc.

rightbyteon Defending my own brain against enshittification

Time alone is essentially zero sum with kids unless grandparents are covering up way more than most actually do. There is no adversial angle needed.

rightbyteon As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing

I believe many of those "everything" sites are just middle men for ordering from other sites.

rightbyteon Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

I think the main selling point of Windows Search is spying and manipulation. Turning off websearch just leaves a carcass.

rightbyteon France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls

It works versus serious companies cold calling you. Scammers and semi-scammers still call. There is some need to adress what it doesn't solve too.

rightbyteon 70% of AI revenue comes from OpenAI and Anthropic [video]

Nvidia and constructions companies certainly are. And a lot of middle men...

rightbyteon Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

Yeah. Should be possible to do those proceduraly to save ram and some clever animation design to not use too much CPU.

Anyways it is a bad trade off for the users to make and most don't even know they areaking it.

rightbyteon Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

Seems very wasteful to help MS make their closed system better.

rightbyteon “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers

Yes something like that. Devs are in the position of apprentices and helper boys in the context of blacksmiths.

Equity is mostly not handed out in a way that grants power but the opposite to tie the dev to the workplace. Some lottery tickets are winners though.

rightbyteon The Philippines' big offshoring industry is growing despite AI

The WFH aficionados that emerged during Covid had no concept of bargain power or power structures.

Dunno why there was such resistance from the owning class afterwards with return to office mandates.

rightbyteon Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

Yeah. A bit overused by now I refrained from quoting it.

Someone here on HN crowned Sam Altman as a "sociopat sociapat" i.e. playing sociopats for money. I think that was the insight of years for me.

Battle Royal explodeing collars for the working class in his doomsday bunker. Or was that Seth of Reddit?

It is a especially visible concept in the new tech sector war industry. Edgelord as a Service.

rightbyteon Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

Except the strange dysgenics reason for the downfall of high civilization in Idiocracy it is a interesting movie. It should have talked more about cultural enshittification.