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That close out is brutal, "to our teammates who are leaving".

Real "Oh no! So sorry to see you go totally by your own choice" vibes.

The business is "solid", but is it not profitable? Who is cashing in on cutting these jobs? Which exec is losing their job for overhiring?

"Coverage is denied for the cost of your visit to the doctor and prescribed treatment because you didn't go through our triage concierge chat bot first."

Also so that the engineers have something for the resume that looks and sounds impressive.

They don't know that Dario told me Fable is going to hack the planet.

This will only delay the inevitable. Sitting on some magic prompts is hardly the moat they need.

My colleagues like this one.

dotnet on linux friend, what are you using for templating?

I mostly answer unknown calls with monotone "hello" and then wait for their introduction before talking normally.

Wankfluencer has now been added to my lexicon. It's a word that feels like it should always have existed, but didn't. So very aptly describes these personas who would pimp their own mother for a t-shirt with a logo on it.

Codex can also delete all your files if you ask it to.

Just because it can do it, doesn't mean that it's a good idea.

Crazy to me that people are producing code they don't read, expect another human to review it or just let ai take the wheel and review. Then yeet it out the window into prod.

Why are we not ok with this for our cars, but we are ok with this for our software(banking, health care, etc.). Doesn't make any sense to me.

From what I've seen, LLMs just accelerate or compound this whole process as well.

Everyone has the same group think, it bleeds into the way the LLM generates code and ultimately it just rots teams.

You're not looking at the code?

The growing problem with this and many other AI offerings is the asymmetry of effort.

All of them take my notes, meeting transcripts, jira tickets, code, websites, and give me more to read.

Then everyone else in the org is doing the same, to give me more to read. At the end of the day there is too much to read.

AI is supposed to be reducing toil, but it's just making more.

How many UE5 games run even remotely well? I've not played one.

Doom runs like butter on the switch.

Might be hard to run, I don't know, but at least it was well made.

By word of mouth, HDJWNSK just rolls off the tongue.

I do some times wonder if the ai providers are funding things like this for marketing or if the creator is just using buzz words to try get more attention.

No, no, you're misreading.

This is Microsoft politely saying that not all studios are good enough for them.

And by good enough they mean enough of a money printer.

You also missed the part where they positioned themselves as the value offering. That's gonna be hard to beat whilst still achieving "return to growth".

That's the neat part, when it's vibed it works, until it doesn't and then it's really hard to make it work again.

I think at some point soon, it's going to become really cringy to put out the typical purple background with neon colour slop site. I do hope that people start to remember that just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

Those who've made AI their entire personality really do seem to lack the emotional fortitude to deal with someone else having an opinion.

I'm anti Zuck, but it's mostly because he's a lizard man with no morals. You are anti Zuck because he's mentioned that the promise of AI isn't going to the moon as promised. We are not the same.

So you mean to tell me that they are in it for the money and not the love of the game?

Latency, unless we get instantaneous comms working there will always be lag.

Annoying when you play games, likely expensive when the robot keeps breaking things.

Every single one of these robot plays are going to try pivot to having someone do you laundry remotely for a dollar a day.

If they ever get the tech down (I doubt it), they will then try move to broader labour replacement.

This is why all the robots need to be humanoid.

This is the key point, they're all enforcing tagging with no means to filter it out entirely.

"If Disney wants to retain their rights to Mickey they really shouldn't be showing any images of him to the world."

I do wonder if there isn't enough computer science / software engineering that is being taught as part of data science.

People I've worked with that used R and manged data / did analysis didn't really seem too concerned with long term maintenance.

Secondary observation, these same people were the first to preach for the AI coding gospel.

Always fun to remember when calculating TAM - something like 85 - 90% of the world earns less than $1000 usd per month.

The math don’t math here, there literally aren’t enough people to afford this and businesses will go under the more people are displaced for gainful employment.

Not even an IDE. A workflow built on top of an opensource editor.

That must be a mistake, revenue isn't the word for the money you're going to throw in the furnace.

I feel like you've maybe had the benefit of working in teams where this didn't happen.

I've seen it first hand, people cotton on to EM's latest buzz word, find some space to shove it into and then show it off. EM is blown away despite the result being over engineered or poor fit for the solution.

Last time I saw this was a system decomposed to events when tight orchestration was necessary. 10 months later a single function app was dropped in place to replace it. Dev who did the original work got a promotion for their gift of technical debt.