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I had a job interview like this recently: "what's the most technically complex problem you've ever worked on?"

The stuff I'm proudest of solved a problem and made money but it wasn't complicated for the sake of being complicated. It's like asking a mechanical engineer "what's the thing you've designed with the most parts"

I bet you like the state using force to protect your stuff though, right? If someone scary sets up a tent on your front lawn because they have nowhere to live I bet you're all about using government services to enact violence.

The Greenhouse example is so crazy - with no additional context about the interview, what possible value could an AI add to a summary of a real event that happened?

Individuals who personally spent hundreds of thousands of dollars a year running agents? I would love to see one example.

My work is apparently paying for seats in multiple AI tools for everybody. There's a corporate mandate that you "have to use AI for your job". People seem to mostly be using it to for (a) slide decks with cringe images (b) making their PRs look more impressive by generating a bunch of ineffective boilerplate unit tests.

Considering the current US regime would like to revisit Wong Kim Ark (1898), the 19th amendment (1920) and the Voting Rights Act (1965) it's fair to say they're trying undo over 100 years of civil rights progress.

Not to mention the growing ICE detention camp archipelago which is reminiscent of the era of Japanese Interment (1942-1946).

Even economically - though we're in a K-shaped recovery - many of the labour protections and economic promises of the New Deal have been repealed since the Reagan era (by both parties).

Given the recent changes to American policy I know people with American passports who are worried they can't even go back into the United States.

So they form the plastic (already processed) using machines they've imported, and then put pre-populated PCBs with components made in China inside them? Hardly soup to nuts manufacturing.

I've worked in a niche assembly line in North America where we populated some of the board components in-house, but they were etched in batches off-site.

"have you traveled outside the country?" is a pretty common question. Doctors trained and practice in a specific context - an American hospital - may not recognize symptoms of common parasites or illnesses in other places. 16 years is a long time to incubate something but it could also be related to imported food, travelling back home, or a recent arrival of someone else.

Ed Zitron writes about this constantly: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-against-generative-ai/

All of the big players - Nvidia, OpenAI, Oracle, Microsoft - are in insane circular financing agreements that would make Enron executives blush.