RhodesianHunter

Don't let it outside the sandbox. Don't let it have access to anything but dev environments. Continue using git.

Never had any issues.

My feeling is we're still in the Uber era subsidy period

I often wonder whether this doesn't continue indefinitely.

Uber was able to do this because it was just them and Lyft playing second fiddle, with a huge barrier to entry once the network effects had kicked in.

It just seems like the model space has way too many competitors, + OSS/Local options for them to ever be able to jack up their prices. At least once the datacenter bottleneck has been cleared.

Just because it's been done before for a different use-case doesn't mean that building exclusively for this use-case doesn't remove friction.

There are many obvious ways in which this may not be true.

Anyone learning the language and some people with learning disabilities, for example, may communicate better via an LLM.

You're welcome to move somewhere with no taxes. I hear those places are all very pleasant.

That's what happens when there's a need for something.

You see an explosion in offerings, and then eventually it's whittled down to a handful of survivors.

I just don't think ancient artifacts are comparable to an old TV.

Well, and once this kills the web then Google's AI no longer has a data source its AI can tap to answer questions about anything that happens afterward, so it kind of needs the web to at least limp along.

Yes, but are they on Instagram though?

That doesn't seem like much of a plan given their trailing position in the cloud space and the fact that Microsoft and AWS both have their own offerings.

I wonder if they're pulling the wall-mart model. Ruthlessly cut costs and sell at-or-below costs until your competitors go out of business, then ratchet up the prices once you have market dominance.

Half of builders went out of business in 2008 and 1/3 left the trades.

We only just recently reached the level of new home starts we were hitting pre great-recession.

We have a decade's worth of supply deficit and in most locale's aren't doing much to overcome this.

Malibu, CA is very expensive to live in as well.

Hard to get much denser than NYC without massive capital expenditure.

Collusion requires taking supply off the market in order to raise prices.

This is factually incorrect.

Yes, living in one of the, if not the, most desirable cities on the planet comes with additional costs.

Housing supply is inelastic due to the time it takes to permit and built.

Housing demand is more elastic than you suspect. People have income on a curve, and at a certain point of price/quality will move further out and commute or move to a lower cost of living city entirely.

I have a strong incentive to undercut them

Not in a supply constrained market where your rental will be occupied either way.

True but, look up the price fixing that's been going on in big AG via AgriStats. Similar story as OP.

I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm genuinely curious. Have you ever read the economics literature on price controls?

Dynamic price control of rents

How many economics studies, from all schools of economic thought, across 100 years of research need to prove that price controls don't work before people start accepting that fact?

Location: US - Seeking work in Europe

Remote: either

Willing to relocate: technically a requirement :)

Technologies: Kafka, stream processing, JVM (Java, Kotlin, Scala), distributed systems, concurrency, large scale

Email: rhodesianhunter [at] gmail

Situation: I know this is a long shot but I'm throwing it out there just in case.

I am a Principal level distributed systems engineer in the US who would love to move to Europe and would require visa sponsorship to do so. I currently make in the 400k TC range and am willing to take less for this opportunity, but not 1/3 which is what I've seen in previous searches, and is why I'm putting this post out there just in case.

I have over 12 years of experience as a software engineer across a variety of stacks. Over the last 6 I have specialized in stream processing, distributed systems, and data storage working on systems that handle millions of messages per second. I generally write code in JVM languages but have experience with many and am eager to learn anything.

If it sounds like I might be a fit please let me know, thank you!

I don't think this is a matter of good or evil, simply a matter of business strategy.

If LLMs end up being the platform of the future, Zuck doesn't want OpenAI/Microsoft to be able to monopolize it.

Stock vests over time. By providing stock instead of cash the company incentivizes the employee to do their best, because that will ostensibly help the stock to be worth more than the cash by the time it vests. Hence, incentive.

Does that make more sense?

You seem to have missed an absolutely critical element of what drives human behavior. We call it "incentive".

Meta just keeps releasing their models as open-source, so that whole line of thinking breaks down quickly.

Just being earlier doesn’t mean they contribute more to the company

No, but being earlier does mean taking on more risk, which is the whole argument founders and seed investors make for their cuts.

I know people in your position who have ~$200k cash comp in addition to meaningful equity.

That's great, so long as its taken within the context of "200k is way more than the average US engineer makes without any equity"

It's a Ponzi scheme for VC and other investors.

Founders just get greased palms along the way if they're successful.

I don't think you fully understand the context in which this was written, but you probably should before passing so much judgement.