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I'm no Meta apologist, but I don't know if we can blame them on this one. Unfortunately in the digital age, everything reverts to the mean so quickly. It probably turns out that the most effective way to capture user attention is to give them an algo feed of addictive slop.

Unfortunately capturing user attention is also the best way to sell advertising, so it makes sense that all their products converged on algo feeds.

Is this true? I've tried for months to get people to talk to me about their problems and the most common answer I get is "everything's... fine?".

Ply Health (YC S24) | Founding Engineer, Product | Full-time | NYC | $120K-$180K + equity | https://www.plyhealth.com/

We use AI to help healthcare providers enroll with insurance networks so they can start billing. We've been growing quickly and are almost at the point of turning away customers because we don't have enough engineering capacity to service them. We're looking for our second engineer who will focus on customer-facing product features to help wrangle the frustrating and complex world of healthcare administration.

This person will have a hand in all of our core systems, interact closely with our customers and their pain points, and work with an ex-FAANG, ex-YC engineering team.

This role is on-site only in NYC.

Job description: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ply-health/jobs/TC9bCb...

Contact david [at] plyhealth.com if interested!

Glad to see people building in the PDF space, which as a format is unfortunately both awful and ubiquitous. Are you planning to build any support for programmatically filling out existing PDF forms? That's a huge pain point our product is facing that doesn't seem easy to solve.

I feel that this is trying to treat the symptom rather than the cause. It's definitely not normal to come home feeling like you want to snap. Whether it's your work environment, or your personal circumstances, I don't know, but I think looking into changing one of those would be the more effective choice here.