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I remember hearing on some podcast years ago that thanks to HGTV everyone started painting their houses white or beige, because they saw on reality TV shows that that made the house easier to sell. What you're describing sounds like a scaled up version of that.

> Say you’re cooking braised white beans and greens with parmesan, NYT Cooking app in hand. But you notice that you’re out of chard and only have spinach. Cooking veterans know that chard is a rough-and-tumble green that has some backbone, while spinach is a comparative wimp that will wilt the moment you look at it funny. If you need to sub in spinach for chard, how would the recipe change? Would you, for instance, add the spinach later than you would the chard to account for its pathetic stamina? That’s the sort of thing the new AI feature could account for.

Frankly I can see how this would be useful to some people. At least it would help prevent the ridiculous "I didn't have eggs so I added applesauce, the cake came out all flat IDK what's wrong" type of substitutions.

There are also of people with deep technical knowledge that has a lot of value but doesn't necessarily find a lucrative market outside Microsoft (e.g. Windows internals).

I wouldn't say it's zero skill but I'm always surprised by people who act like it's a big differentiator that requires significant "training". Uncharitably it feels like vibe-coders want to count their "skills" as equivalent to actual software engineering rather than something you can pick up in 2-3 weeks of effort.

One thing I've noticed about Microsoft is that the engineers seem much less mobile than people at SV companies might be used to. Part of it is that there just aren't as many good options in the Seattle area where many MSFT employees are based (by far the standout alternative alternative is Amazon and they don't exactly have the best reputation for workplace culture).

Also Microsoft has already been trashing morale with year after year of layoffs. They probably assume this won't move the needle.

Is there a transcript of the meeting anywhere?

It saved your muscles from the very tiring work of agitating the contents of the washtub.

This is small-scale but I know a lot of Blind people who are vibe-coding accessible tools to solve their problems. Most of them have never done any programming at all.

For example, my friend Marco has built like 10 different apps. I've used some of them and they're useful. I think this is an example of something that just wouldn't be happening on this scale without LLMs.

https://marconius.com/

This one showed up in HN a while ago

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-14/ai-medical-scribe-err...

AI transcribed chart said the patient took psychedelics when they never said that.

Unfortunately those sound like organizations that wouldn't see much value in the goodwill generated by funding PHP.

Slack's backend is PHP I believe.

In my (mostly standard I think) dialect of American English sufficient and proficient are pronounced with a schwa and rhyme, while deficient is pronounced with a "short i" sound or a schwa.

If you appreciate street tree fruits just know you can eat these when they're red and soft, they taste like a slightly bland peach:

https://i0.wp.com/gathervictoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2019...

And the small plums on these purple plum trees (they're hard to see because they are the same color as the leaves when ripe):

https://www.thetreecenter.com/c/uploads/plum-purple-leaf-thu...

Both are popular ornamentals in the bay area.

> I's probably to take the side of caution, treat everything as important and update everything promptly

The risk is that if people keep seeing headlines about some vuln emergency that isn't in fact exploitable in most cases they'll just start to ignore them.

I'm an American and don't remember ever hearing this pronunciation. Wiktionary lists /draʊt/ for both the US and UK pronunciation. America has a lot of regional accents though, it's not unbelievable to me that this exists somewhere.

This doesn't seem clear cut to me. Sufficient and deficient have the same stress pattern, but deficient doesn't have a double letter. Neither does proficient.

> In support of its adoption of "drouth" in place of "drought" THE TRIBUNE cites the fact that most persons use the pronunciation indicated by the first — and simpler — spelling.

This one seems very strange. Do people really pronounce the final sound as /θ/?

I like how Muse Spark's looks like an Onion cartoon

https://www.modelcompare.ai/blog/ai-models-controversial-tak...

Reminds me of this somewhat related video that describes the process of selling off state industries in East Germany

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cdrSiIoWm7U&pp=ygUMZ2RyIHRyZXV...

It's not worth arguing with the troll. Obviously opining about a task is not the same job as doing the task. Everyone understands this. It's like saying "my cooking got better when I delegated the implementation to a private chef".

Japanese customers are very harsh with ratings on Google as well. When I was living in Japan I learned that restaurants with like 4.2 stars were often really good. It's calibrated differently inareas with a lot of foreign tourists though.

Maybe it's because Brad Lander "proudly" invested New York City's money in Israeli weapons company Elbit Systems during the midst of the Gaza genocide. That should count for something.

It's also an abstraction to hire a software engineer and tell them what kind of app you want, but I don't think we can call it "programming" at that point.

Frankly this kind of premature excuse making won't get us anywhere. People say they're concerned about the rise of fascism or oligarchy but when it comes to pushing back, even the smallest bit of inconvenience is too much.

The Montgomery bus boycott lasted 381 days. People walked miles and organized carpools to work for over a year.

Now we can't even imagine making the sacrifice to send our friends and family an SMS, let alone getting them to download Signal when they kinda don't want to.

In case folks aren't aware, the Hind Rajab Foundations goes after IDF war criminals who post videos of themselves smiling while committing war crimes. The reason there are so many such videos is that these war crimes are popular in Israel. The IDF even had to repeatedly remind the soldiers to stop posting their own war crimes to social media.

Your comment reminded me that a few years ago a Microsoft engineer stabbed a random guy on campus, and afterword it was discovered he had a public journal of his own drug habits

https://web.archive.org/web/20230224010752/https://josephcan...

Seems kind of cool actually. Unfortunate that this is the way I heard about it.

Interesting how the answers you're getting are just a variation of the 14 words.

> the center-right party copies the far-right messages in hopes of gaining the votes of the far-right voters, then enters a coalition with them as the "voice of reason to reign them in", to ultimately just achieve normalization of those narratives, a hollowed-out democracy, destroyed political discourse and an empowered far-right party.

Now imagine you had only a center-right and a far-right party, and you have the U.S. :/

Tailors didn't do those things.