chanux

They are trying I guess: https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/06/10/announcing-stack-overf...

What if there's only half a dev and a swarm of agents after the layoffs?

Who else had LinkedIn posts about this flashing before your eyes?

Someone up in the food chain must have big investments in AI though. The great shove down didn't just appear.

Software loose on theory[1] trying to compensate with moar md.

[1] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf

For a company so lost, their people talk a lot about being obsessed with feedback/data in meetups (at least 2-3 years ago.)

I guess the point is, with enough money they can afford to operate like this.

When I read it first, I appreciated the honesty, though probably unintended. The facade of fake niceness is tiring. This personally feels much better.

I thought this has something to do with the Peter Principle.

It may not stay that way for various reasons. Maybe bringing down from China may not make sense anymore.

FWIW: https://theconversation.com/china-surpasses-us-in-research-s...

The visionaries know better than us. They've known better for a long time now.

Later is never. We all knew that.

AI will do all the "later" things we could not do and the civilisation will flourish. :')

An important thing can (and one may argue will) be overdone AND hvlfvssed stealing oxygen from another important thing.

While I'm glad you posted this point of view/framing which honestly needs highlighting in the name of a better discussion, I must remind that the moaning back then was for the ceremony stealing time from building.

I have a feeling that this post is good enough reassurance for big money corps.

Long live Github under MS!

Here's the track for this moment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuNyMxLlVig

:)

There are certain things that are too obvious to some person at a given time. Hence they would not consider it's worth documenting. Some of those things are important bits and pieces of the theory[1] of the program.

[1] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf

When bean-counters took over the ecosystem [...] in their mind, every part of the system needs to be firing at 100% all the time.

This is only fair, because they themselves are firing at 100% all the time IYKWIM ;)

We already have the tech for this. It's large! j/k

TBF I went in expecting a novel OS.

I would argue the blind copy pasting, cargo cult orgs are less likely to be helpful anyway.

But I get the point, it's a numbers game so any and all usage can help catching issues.

On forced password resets, the NIST guidelines are clear. But alas, this kind of news travel very VERY slowly it seems. Even the large organisations that "care deeply" about security seem to miss the memos. Gets my goat all the time.

Thanks for the real world stories on people who are actually, physically challenged.

I think delta chat is a counter example.

Bretton Woods, Petro dollar and Lindy effect?

Whenever I have to call an IVR system for support it puts me in a blood rage 98 out of 100 times. This space is the ultimate dark pattern mine field.

My common interactions were with banks and telco companies. Absolute trash.

I'm pretty sure some systems allowed remembering the DTMF menu and press it while the voice recording played. But the recent systems I called did not allow this. It was like they intentionally made people wait to suffer the torture.

People call these systems as a last resort (At least I do). It should be illegal to make them so bad.

Also, I used to work with Telco side guys of these systems and they were very proud of these "capabilities".

Sorry for the rant. I had to vent it out.

Even though MacOS is not terribly better, it's good enough. Add to that the new cheaper macbook and it must inspire pause in the great folks at Microsoft.

With the goodwill and mindshare they earned, it does not feel impossible.

Perhaps OpenAI is aiming for a more compelling suit of things for penetrating enterprise (I'm just speculating as I go here).

Good guy Google must have published the numbers of scamming incident due to current software installation setup.

I appreciate if some good samaritan can link to it.

(Amazon could not even find enough desks for the 350,000 corporate employees it ordered back five days a week) but decisively.

I wonder if they can fit they people in available desks by now (After the layoffs).

So this is a common tactic.

I have experienced management assigning people to multiple projects, vaguely acknowledging a time split. The moment the actual work starts people have to go 100% on all projects. This is normal.

Maybe it's up to taste. Maybe the QC fell badly after some time.