ronbenton

I think a lot of people in this thread are missing the point that CEOs or other execs can’t be replaced simply because AI can do their jobs. C-suite job security comes from power structures, not task execution.

With AI we do have the chance to return to meritocracy

I think I am more inclined to believe the opposite of this

"Ads plus AI is sort of uniquely unsettling to me. I kind of think of ads as a last resort for us for a business model." - Sam Altman

I feel like the DRY concern with RSS feeds is overstated. I can’t remember the last time I had trouble with automagically generating an RSS feed using whatever open source framework I was authoring with at the time.

Have it work down my jira tickets while I’m sitting on the porcelain throne

Think this needs calibration, it's way too hard!

IMO this is the social internet at its best. Pretty obscure question answered relatively quickly with answer and source.

Easy, then you just delay your project’s dependency updates just a little more than everyone else

Weird dark surveillance state stuff. I thought EU was trying to champion privacy?

Glad to hear this is a universal big tech experience. The promo process is entirely antithetical to shipping good products

One “trick” nowadays is to just do a thing for the sake of doing the thing. I draw. Not to post my drawings to social media, not to try to get income from paid commissions, but rather just to enjoy the act of drawing. It’s very liberating in a world where it feels like almost everything has to be in service of some kind of larger scheme.

Truly have so much trouble keeping up with the frontend (or JavaScript?) ecosystem. I so miss working in laravel. Wish more jobs paid well to use it.

Seems like a good way to get targeted by attackers

Here's my translation of this announcement: https://layofftranslator.com/layoffs/2026-06-24-elastic/

I have worked some places where a significant amount of business logic lived in database functions and triggers and, hoo boy, that was really hard to reason about. If you're disciplined enough to have migrations around that implemented all that stuff, you're still going to have an unpleasant time piecing all of it together when debugging. But often you're in a state where you don't even have those breadcrumbs and you're pulling out your hair trying to figure out what's going on.

I’ve seen a framework strip body content off GET requests, so doing hacky things doesn’t even always work. The QUERY method is a welcome addition

No? CORS is about preventing an unauthorized third party from _accessing_ data. That’s the meaning of “resource sharing.” If you want to prevent action-taking, there are other mechanisms. For example, using a header-based CSRF token if your auth scheme relies on cookies.

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should

Some felt too easily guessable. Too many joke answers maybe?

Can’t trust anything online

In this market they can essentially all collude to treat employees like garbage

They’re saving that for the next one

lol how is something so simple both inaccessible (poor color contrast) and not mobile friendly?

For a hot second I thought we were looking at glorious jquery until I saw this line at the top

const $ = (id) => document.getElementById(id);

Very happy I had my wife and kids throughout the pandemic and continued remote work since then. I would not have done well otherwise.

Build for developers, not benchmarks

That sounds like something you say when you don't benchmark well

I’m shocked I say. Shocked.

Humans are complex. I think it's perfectly reasonable to assume there are a lot of people who both rely on and don't like the idea of AI. People can need a car to get around and also be worried about the effects of car emissions. People can dislike cigarettes and be smokers.

This makes me an outcast. In tech, and out of it.

In tech, maybe. Out of tech? No way. A bunch of surveys show that people are mostly negative on AI. For example: https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2025/09/17/how-americans...

Petition to rename this “SlopCop”