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Super neat concept. One super low-lift way to improve its reception: change the styling of the landing page to not be blatant AI slop.

And in the case where a team gets overworked, there are legions more fresh and bright engineers to burn.

This is definitely made by some bitter YC reject. Amazing the vitriol of those types

At one particularly reprehensible job for which I was overqualified (job market was kicking my ass), I noticed that the higher in the food chain someone was, the more convincingly busy they appeared.

The middle manager above me was genuinely skilled at this. All day, when you passed his office, he looked like he was absolutely concentrated on something.

Unrelated to AI, but it was pretty interesting.

This is a great book regarding animal tracking and other interesting clues in the outdoors. It’s very British-centric sadly though. https://www.amazon.com/Walkers-Guide-Outdoor-Clues-Signs-ebo...

You might really enjoy this book, I really did: https://www.amazon.com/Walkers-Guide-Outdoor-Clues-Signs-ebo...

I did a few flights in college but never got my license because there wasn’t an instructor light enough to meet weight requirements with me lol. Do you have yours? If so, how long did it take you?

Oh this is sooo cool. I want to try and do this in the summer too. This might be of interest to you: https://youtu.be/XTnYVh7K6xQ

57:42 here: https://youtu.be/m7LvNTbaqSI That one is borderline ^.

Then another dalton and Michael one can’t find.

“By 2018, several Y.C. partners were so frustrated with Altman’s behavior that they approached Graham to complain. Graham and Jessica Livingston, his wife and a Y.C. founder, apparently had a frank conversation with Altman. Afterward, Graham started telling people that although Altman had agreed to leave the company, he was resisting in practice”

You can subtly see residue of this frustration in Dalton and Michael’s videos when Sam Altman comes up. It’s only thinly veiled that Sam was a snake while at YC.

The author mentioned they’ve been self-employed for 15 years, then proceeds to make a bunch of claims about traditional employment, like being “your professional development being structurally supported,” but it’s important to remember the variance in normal employment, too.

When you’re valuable in a certain position at a company, trying to grow beyond it is like swimming upstream in a raging current. The pigeonholing that happens when you work for a big company is not to be underestimated.

This is a super cool game, nicely done.

As a counterpoint to the negativity in here. I purchased one of Angela Yu's basic webdev courses a couple years back and it springboarded my coding ability. I left it rather quickly to just build random stuff I wanted, but still, it was the spark.

True. I’m rooting for the lives as well.

There are billions of dollars motivated against this outcome

To me, the kind of speed that matters is maximizing the rate that your idea/product/work contacts reality. This is only indirectly explained in point 2 at the bottom of this post.

Indiscriminately espousing raw speed for every step is a perfect recipe for burnout.

Yeah fair fair. It's high variance. My roommate once had a bunch of his highschool friends over for a weekend and one of them sleep-peed onto my roommate's stack of books.

Did anyone else actually enjoy dorm life? I was a freshman some years ago, so maybe it’s generational, but it was a very fond time.

I guess it’s probably high variance. My roomate was a great dude. I can easily see how it could go the other way.

Sigh. The brazen clickbaity “fuck humans” attitude of YC startups like this and Artisan is getting so tiring.

I’m all for automation and tech, but I miss the days when technologists at least championed tech’s ability to further society and empower people. They don't even try to send that message anymore, and the general public, predictably, hates AI and technology more generally. Who would work here?

Definitely not Faang lol. He probably means $250k at most

Yeah I meant during shore leave. You have all your time to yourself, when you could hack on projects. That's pretty amazing.

This is pretty intriguing. Would love if someone would chime in as to the downsides, as this seems too good to be true. I suppose being away from home for extended periods sucks, but the stints at home sound like a hacker's dream.

Here's a link to a reddit post where someone commented the article's full text: https://www.reddit.com/r/maritime/comments/1panh11/thoughts_...

To try and add in some anecdotes without injecting too much baggage:

I am an older gen-z and launching my career has felt nigh on impossible. At my first job, the allergy toward mentorship this article mentions was incredibly palpable. None of my several managers had management experience, and one of them openly told me they didn't want to be managing me. The one annual review I got was from someone who worked alongside me for a week.

Follow that experience up with a layoff and a literally futile job search, and its hard to be optimistic about building much of a career.

I will keep this in mind. I wonder if this culture could be broken somehow.

It's widely used here state-side, yeah.

Wow. Fascinating article. I am an engineer in a family that is otherwise purely medical (mom nurse, dad pediatrician, sister veterinarian).

Over the years I hear a lot of their pain points, and EMR's are consistently very painful for my boomer parents who are not tech savvy (my understanding is that it's not an age thing, though).

I have personal experience with pt. 8: Doctors know who's good, they just won't tell you. When I had a meniscectomy with poor results, none of the orthopedists I visited after the surgery would comment even lightly on the appropriateness of that procedure given my symptoms and MRI. This isn't different to other professions, where you generally have nothing to gain from badmouthing colleagues, but its incredibly painful that thousands of people are prevented from good care because of this meritocratic breakdown.

As a totally separate point-- this format of shadowing notes in incredibly compelling! I've been shadowing chemistry and biology wet-labs lately, and I wonder if making similar writeups would be interesting to others?

A properly bizarre and interesting blogpost. Wow.

Something to note here that annoys me about the title is that the LLMs aren't taking in the raw data (LLM's are for text, after all). The raw data is fed through audio and motion models that then produce natural language descriptions, that are then fed to the LLM.

Unrelated: yeah, this article is a little creepy, but damn is it interesting technically.

This is pretty fun!