desolate_muffin

Did you even read the article? They specifically bypassed the NYT paywall and obfuscated their access.

> that's all that I want to find when I search

That ship has long since sailed for every search product. Companies have long-since learned that intent-based results are much more profitable (why show an empty result page when you can show something for people to buy or click on?), but it is also often genuinely useful when your search is not perfect or what you want doesn't actually exist. I agree that it is annoying when you really truly do only want something very specific and the ranking prioritizes the wrong things (e.g., sponsored results, more profitable items, etc.) over exact matches, but can you honestly and truly say you've never found any value from intent search algorithms?

Hard disagree. I am positive I could do this, but I do no cardio. The weightlifting I do has had little effect on my cardio fitness as it relates to doing things that would increase my VO2 max.

Do you really think that's the fundamental issue here?

My partner works there as an engineer. The org they work in had loads of people transferred to the "AAI" org doing data labelling. I find it almost unbelievable as well, but it is true.

The presence of an alternative launcher does not prevent spotlight background tasks from running

As opposed to the AI-free operating system, Android?

Not really how it works anymore. Everyone just gets 4 year RSU grants with an even vesting schedule and no lockout period, and it has been that way for a long time now. I've never really heard of anyone at Meta getting options (maybe possible for execs?).

That said, with enough stock growth, the stacking RSU grants can still enter into "never having to work again" territory depending on your role/level and how many grants you've been able to stack.

ok so no evidence, just racist innuendo

I read the book on release and loved it. The main themes and plot points are present in the movie, though it's overall a bit less nerdy and a bit more comical than the book. I think it is easily one of the best, most enjoyable sci-fi movies released this decade.

I don't know, but it makes me uncomfortable

I for one hope not to live in a world where academic journals fall out of favor and are replaced by vibe-coded papers by citizen scientists with inflated egos from one too many “you’re absolutely right!” Claude responses.

I am not sure. I think we're talking about the one where Trump illegally and unilaterally ignored the sale or de-list deadline passed in said bipartisan bill so he could figure out which Trump loyalists would be taking over. I'm glad they finally got it sorted out a little over a year after the January 19, 2025 deadline in the bill.

Thank you for your service

I noticed that, too. They seemed to tense up and notice it with enough time to spare to manually intervene and either slam on the brakes or swerve to avoid it.

Well for starters, maybe my new grad SWE buddy with 2 YOE will finally find a job after being laid off for nearly a year.

If you use YouTube this much, just get YT Premium maybe? It comes with YT Music, which seems like 70% as good as Spotify to me.

Do you actually own AirPods or just assume that's the case? Nobody I know has really had to replace their AirPods unless they lose them, forget them in a pocket and wash them, or decide to upgrade after a few years (myself included). Certainly there are some people on the edges who replace them more often for whatever reason, but you might consider the possibility that they sell well because many people (myself again included) believe they are a pretty damn good product.

Might want to see a doctor about that

I don't think wages are suppressed because immigrant tech workers make less money. Instead, It seems like the effect of the dramatically increased supply of workers would dominate, effectively lowering wages; i.e., you can pay less money for a job the more workers there are to take the job.

Why think when your phone or the AI can do it for you? I imagine there are a few people in this forum who might have some thoughts about that.

Well and actually building the thing well enough for them to become/remain customers.

I think also it's the reality in most engineering roles that you will often have to pivot to new technologies, help out on unfamiliar projects using different technologies (e.g., work on the front-end for a bit when you're a backend engineer), etc. Some engineers aren't comfortable with this and it shows. This is how I understood the original comment, anyway.

I don't write Go, but reading this, it feels like you don't actually need functional scoping at all. In Java, I would simply write:

try (SomeResource foo = SomeResource.open()) { method(foo); }

or

public void method() { try(...) { // all business logic wrapped in try-with-resources } }

To me it seems like lexical scoping can accomplish nearly everything functional scoping can, just without any surprising behavior.

It's not hard to imagine an alternative universe where Github is a steward of innovation for both git and the code review process; alas, this is not the world we live in.

I am not sure what you mean. Stateless RPCs, cache controls, client-side typing, tracing/observability, and bidirectional streaming are all things that strike me as very relevant to the modern web for all but the smallest of toy projects, let alone projects in serious engineering organizations.

> Author also seems to expect that the result from MCP tool usage will feed directly to an LLM

Isn't this exactly what MCP is for? Most tools I've come across are to feed context from other sources directly to the LLM. I believe this is the most common use-case for the protocol.

In addition to what others have complained about, another issue I haven't seen highlighted as much in the comments is the infuriating explosion of content length.

AI responses seem to have very low information density by default, so for me the irritation is threefold—it requires very little mental effort for the sender (i.e., I often read responses that don't feel sufficiently considered); it is often poorly validated by the sender; and it is disrespectful to the reader's time.

Like some of the other commenters, I am also not in a position to change this at work, but I am disheartened by how some of my fellow engineers have taken to putting up low effort PRs with errors, as well as unreasonably long design docs. My entire company seems to have bought into the whole "AI-first company" thing without actually validating if the outputs are worth the squeeze. Maybe sometimes they are, but I get a sense that the path of least resistance tends toward accepting lower quality code and communication.

This phenomenon really frustrates me on behalf of my peers. I'm not sure what the right answer is, but anecdotally I've observed many others struggle to get their first jobs in tech, while, meanwhile, I am mostly being assigned to interview people who require visa sponsorship. Most of my referrals for my low YOE peers are rejected before the recruiter call. I have observed this at both very-big tech and my current medium-sized tech company.

I have also observed that on my team, more than half of the people are either currently on immigrant visas or were previously on immigrant visas. Just to be absolutely clear—these people are great, and I don't fault them or hold any ill will for them having coming here to work.

At the same time, it seems that most hiring is done at the mid and senior level. If we only hire senior talent and rely on immigrant visa labor to fill these ranks, where exactly is each subsequent generation of seniors supposed to come from? I feel there should be some requirements in place to ensure that companies aren't perpetuating this shortage by hiring very few domestic workers at the entry level.