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Yea you probably want that too, but I don't think that's enough.

For some you need legal holds on employee messages and in other cases you will want to un-delete messages for investigations etc.

For just random online communities, which is the niche discord is in, I agree it does sound nice.

I wouldn't know. With the post mentioning teams and slack I just got the feeling it was on the cards, so I thought it was worth posting that in case it hadn't occurred to them.

A thought if you want to sell to companies, "with per-user keys that get shredded when a user decides to delete their account."

You'll need soft delete, work messages belong to the employer and not the user.

I get where you're coming from, though I'm not quite at 30 years yet. I like building stuff, I don't like configuring, debugging or troubleshooting my OS or computer. I just want it to work and get out of the way.

For me this has translated into a slightly different outcome: stock ubuntu with basically just zsh/powerlevel10k, I add component assembly when I buy a new desktop, I'm about to probably replace my home server with a NAS etc.

Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Remote: Yes, ideally not full time

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: AWS, GCP, Python, Java, Rust, CI/CD, Containers, pipelines, backend, security engineering, risk analysis etc.

Résumé/CV: <needs updating, happy to send over on request>

Email: regs.hn@badsynthesis.com

I've been at this for over 15 years now, been the first employee at a startup and now at FANAG, and I'm looking to partially swap track, ideally I'd love to work on biological cell simulation but I'm not sure any company would pay me for that, so instead I'm hoping to work on genomics software and learn more about that side of things.

If you have a role that could fit, let's chat.

As I understand it ramping up a new fab takes a couple of years and several billion dollars. The last time they ramped up production prices had crashed back down by the the time the new fab was fully up and running, so this time they're betting that the scarcity will resolve itself like it did last time.

AI is slowing down 1 month ago

That's progress, last time I tried that a month or something ago gemini (the web app) crashed when trying to generate slides.

Yea, and a related annoying thing that started in 4.7. It often stops halfway "Do you want to continue?".

Then I want to shout at it "Is the work done? No it isn't so yes of course continue, are you stupid?", but then I remember it's basically a big matrix and for the 58th time type up "Yes, ultrathink and continue"

A junior developer would learn, claude doesn't. I've tried adding this to CLAUDE.md but it doesn't help.

I think it's very useful but the hype promises so much more than it delivers. And a lot of the proponents are all in on the hype it gets annoying.

I use claude to write a design, review the design, turn that into an implementation plan, spend 2-3 turns reviewing that, but still when that is turned into code it misses things or creates helpers that's not actually used or... It creates massive files and unless I explicitly tell it to it never refactors them. It often just silences errors and warnings instead of actually fixing the problem.

It saves a lot of time, and I'm building things I couldn't have on my own. But it makes a lot of mistakes, it's far far from one shots which the hype keep going on and on about. It's tricky to put firm limits on what it does. A lot of the mistakes I catch because I've spent 15 years without an agent and sometimes it's just "hm, this smells weird" and I begin digging. I worry about the next generation.

For me the mental framing of "It's all hallucinations, some of those hallucinations are useful" is helpful to keep frustration in check as I ask it to review the same implementation plan for the 4th time and it turns up different issues because the input was slightly different, or review the output code and see allow(dead_code) despite my claude.md forbidding it.

Plus they now also have to compensate for the giant money fire called xai and the nazi cuddle huddle X/Twitter.

The valuation is insane and the very low float plus short timeframe for actual price discovery just seems built to extract money from index investors.

They can follow the same rules as everyone else.

If SpaceX was only Starlink or only Starlink and rockets it would be an horrible circumvention of the rules.

But now he's also trying to get the indexes to pay for the giant cash fire called X.ai and the far right huddle Twitter too.

I have zero interest in owning anything of either of those companies.

I'm in BigTech and these days we have to fight to even get backfill hiring. If we can get one head count per year we're aiming for someone that can handle a wider range of tasks.

Which is a damn shame because most juniors I've worked with are amazing and the most recent junior hire 1.5-2 years ago is so much better than I was their age it's almost embarrassing.

And my team is in an area termed "strategically important" before anything other than AI became an annoyance.

What I saw somewhere, don't know if it's true or a rumour, was that it was a wallstreet guy offering them $5M for if he could shift the strategy. So be bought a _lot_ of shares of the very cheap pre-pivot price, paid them $5M for the pivot, sold the shares at the now 600% stock increase. Netted a tidy profit after the $5M.

They didn't trade company fundamentals, they traded the market sentiment.

"Two years later, enticed by the prospect that a higher degree would open doors to more opportunities, she enrolled at Rollins College, a private liberal arts school in Winter Park, Fla. She started studying art history, which felt like a natural extension of her love of art, writing and research."

I'm surprised that one goes into a field as small and competitive as art history in these days.

Museums, how many relevant art related roles can there be nation wide?

Flex work time is awesome. Other than flights I haven't set an alarm since before covid.

1.5 years of basically no irl social life and going to bed at 22 every day has really hammered home my rhythm. I still wake up around 06-07 every day.