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Me: Shoot me in the face, @cringebot

Cringebot: :salute: on it!

no one is going to be willing to make the massive investments necessary to continue pushing the scale frontier.

that sounds great to me. anything that slows down the pace and gives us a chance to prepare for, at best, massive job displacement, and at worst, robots turning us all into paperclips.

"your mom, because she's..."

a lovely lady.

Social media and nearly all news articles covering the past decade or so have made me want to forget how to read entirely.

at least we have that in common

This is the bed they made and now they, too, have to sleep in it.

How will they sleep at night on that giant pile money.

some vague hint about what the article is about before clicking on it would be.. nice.

"Remember the good old days of Windows 2k's UI?" is not something I thought I'd ever say.

What are they after for here? Customer base? Talent?

users

It is more impactful to me to instead think of it like this: Elon Musk's net worth is roughly 1 million times the median American's. So Elon "earned" as much as the combined life savings of a city roughly the size of Houston or Phoenix.

What's a 20% productivity gain if I constantly feel deflated by work that used to energize me?

I think it's called 'capitalism'

I didnt read the article cause this seems like a prime example of that so someone can correct me if I’m wrong

if only there were some kind of magical universal summarizer you could use..

today, Anthropic engineers on average ship 8x as much code per quarter as they did from 2021-2025.

strongest argument for token limits that I can think of, right here.

I know some people who are adamantly against solar and wind

Yes, down with Big Sun

"if he doesn't do it, another engineer will do it. Might as well take the money".

You should introduce your friend to Kant. He’s taken a situational excuse and turned it into a general principle: ‘If someone else would do it anyway, it’s okay for me to do it.’

It's kinda like.. Kant's whole 'thing'.

don't forget to let them vote.. "algorithms are people too"

sounds like you need an AsshoLLM to sit between you and Claude to translate.

Maybe some money to be made?

In the same way that there is money to be made by entering a poker tournament, yes.

As long as he didn't place any bets, I think what he did is totally fine.

you might need to take your imagination and critical thinking out for a spin if you can't see where this leads.

Doing so disables AI and all the other features and just gets you 10 links like in the old days…

i expect that opt-out to become harder and harder to find on every re-design, until it is gone entirely. that's on like.. page 2 in the playbook for introducing some shitty new thing that is good for shareholders and not users.

or put differently, you melted x cubic meters of polar ice

AI search.. they should at least put that behind a "I'm feeling unlucky" button

cross-tribe hands trading

sounds like they had some cross cutting concerns

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A counterpoint:

Working in /plan mode bouncing ideas back and forth with the AI, me catching its wrong assumptions, it filling in knowledge gaps with a clear explanation when needed, is very intellectually stimulating and I think is making me a better engineer. The key for me has been to be socratic with the AI, think through everything it is proposing carefully, and don't get hypnotized by its confidence, perfectly structured arguments, etc.

speak for yourself, i'm not a big fan of murder

Long live "SQOMCO"

Operationally, we grew into a shape that was right for the last era and isn't right for this one.

"We did nothing wrong, but ended up in the wrong shape!"

Slop-opedia

i assure you they don't do that to be generous, they do it to get you to sign a piece of paper which reduces their legal risk profile

read the article?