ryandvm

>> They, for so long, refused to support RCS and downgraded the messaging experience with android.

>As a consumer I just can't possibly be made to care about this.

Not caring that you are not able to effectively use your *telecommunications device* with people that buy a different brand of telecommunications device is wild. Kool Aid is a helluva drug.

I don't know. I suppose it depends on what we're optimizing for, but from what I've observed, the most underrated skill is bullshitting.

I have seen countless engineers just while away the years modestly building and documenting incredible systems. Systems that "just work" for years on end. They never get fired because they're recognized for their value, but they also never get to the top.

Bullshitters, on the other hand, have no ceiling. They are never out of their depth because they transcend skill or accountability. They'll tell you they know everything, they'll tell you nothing is impossible, they'll gossip and disparage everyone else. The best bullshitters are full-on psychopaths and these are the guys that run the world.

Indeed. So much so that the richest CEO of all is spread across so many companies that there's no way he's actually doing any real "work".

I don't know. For as long as I can remember, game dev has had the reputation of being the most sweat-shoppish of all the software engineering disciplines. I have a hard time believing that game devs aren't also going to find themselves being crushed under the CTO imperative to "use AI or else" like the rest of us.

I feel like legislation that resulted in every taxpayer getting an itemized receipt like this would be hugely popular and a massive PR win for the representatives that sponsored it.

I can only conclude that the reason it hasn't been done is because they don't actually want you to know.

Yup. Agile definitely suffers from the "nobody ever tried Communism correctly" argument. As far as I'm concerned Agile is: A) nearly impossible to get right, and B) not particularly helpful at unfucking poorly run projects.

It's definitely not a magic bullet and I suppose the only reason it's had the staying power it has had is because unlike other project management philosophies, it has an extremely profitable "Agile Seminary" ecosystem.

Or at least think you've uncovered deception. It's not clear to me yet that any of these "AI detectors" are reliable, and if they are, it's just an arms race.

Indeed. And with the frontier AI models it's worse than that. You can literally just have them write test cases for the product you want to clone, then set it loose reverse engineering the code base.

That said, all these models are trained on the open source code bases presumably, so it would be interesting to see if AI-blackbox reverse engineering actually holds up in court.

Devastating news - expect the stock to jump 10%.

Free markets don't exist when the political system is engineered for regulatory capture. Look at corporate political spending over the last 30 years. We don't have free markets.

Yup. I'm all for letting people get wealthy.

What I'm not for is letting them rig the rules of the game through unlimited political spending and not having functional social safety nets because we don't want to offend the all the future billionaires-to-be.

Basically, money makes money and at some level you get into infinite money glitch dynasties. I am no longer convinced that allowing that to happen is a good idea.

48 years old and I am 100% feeling this.

Yes, I am much more productive having Claude Code bang out boilerplate back-end code, but honestly I always kind of enjoyed doing it. Now I'm just a micro-manager for an AI.

And honestly, how long will that last? Given that LLMs came out of nowhere to radically redefine my role from software engineer to prompt writer in just a couple years, I have every reason to believe that they're coming for my role as prompt engineer next. (As my CEO surely hopes.)

I'm just glad the timing of the great AI replacement began right when I was nearing burnout anyway.

Yeah, the current Chromecast on an HDMI port is far superior than anything the TV vendors offer. I think you pretty much get access to every service you might want except Apple TV (no surprise, Apple gonna Apple).

There should be a law to require the ability to disable algorithmic customization of content. If these apps are so compelling it shouldn't take a Spark cluster riffing on my private viewing habits to come up with content for me.

I don't recall a lot of complaints about Facebook or Instagram when it was actually your friends' content. But now it's force-feeding everybody their own "guilty pleasure" viewing material 24 hours a day. It's fucking sick.

Indeed. Every time someone complains that LLMs can't come up with anything new, I'm assaulted with the depressing remembrance that neither do I.

Perhaps, but damn, fixing shitty code is not the "craft" that I signed up for twenty years ago.

Advertising is always a race to the bottom and ads ruin everything.

I feel like in a couple hundred years they're going to look back at our advertising encrusted existence like we look upon the pre-sewage-treatment era of humanity.

Yeah, it is not clear to me that the average person is going to do any better with googling then they are with asking an LLM. At least the LLM is mostly the average of all published knowledge (and misinformation).

I feel like people that ask questions like this must have much smarter friends and family members than I do.

I know people that still believe in Pizzagate or chemtrails or that vaccines cause autism. Clearly finding reputable information sources is not a strong suit for a lot (half?) of the population.

That agreement is largely about "Personal Information", not the posts and comments.

That said, there are "no scraping" and "commercial use restricted" carve-outs for the content on HN. Which honestly is bullshit.

Eh, fuck that agreement. I'm kind of old school in that I believe if you put it on the internet without an auth-wall, people should be allowed to do whatever they want with it. The AI companies seem to agree.

Then again, I'm not the guy that is going to get sued...

I guess 25 years of "unions are for under-performers" is finally going to bite us in the ass.

If folks don't want LLMs scanning their codebases we should just make some new OSS licenses. Basically, "GPL/BSD/MIT + You pinky promise not to scan this for machine learning".

Either it works and the AI makers stop stop slurping up OSS or it doesn't hold up in court and shrinkwrap licenses are deemed bullshit. A win/win scenario if you ask me.

Nah, as opposed to Linux (for me).

It feels like a lot of people are having an existential crisis...

Cute, and while I will agree that Apple hardware is generally superior or at least an excellent value, and OS X is miles beyond Windows in usability, I can't in good conscience recommend a Mac on principle.

They impose obsessive control over their walled garden, constant pressure to use Apple ecosystem products, and they are staunchly opposed to interoperability regardless of it being an obviously anti-consumer tactical moat.

Buying a Mac in spite of such anti-consumer behavior reminds me of voting for a bad person because you like their policies.

Ironic indeed. The Great Replacers of white collar jobs are finding themselves easily replaceable. Delicious.

I don't know. I think the simpler answer is that Elon knows damn well that we're not colonizing Mars any time soon, but he also knows he could probably bag a few trillion if he can trick humanity into kicking off the biggest space boondoggle the world has ever seen.

Find a smarter dog park

Well... there's only one way to find The Great Filter

What happens when the genies realize that the meatbags that require 3000 kilocalories a day are just a net drag on the whole system?