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Engineers that have the audacity to think they can context switch between a dozen different lines of work deserve every ounce of burnout they feel. You're the tech equivalent of wanting to be a Kardashian and you're complicit in the damage being caused to society. No, this isn't hyperbole.

Who knew managing a team of ten occasionally brilliant but generally unreliable engineers would be so draining.

All this disruption to every facet of society. For what? So you can roleplay as the next billionaire startup founder with your weekend project? All while the actual tech billionaires have a giant dick measuring contest.

I appreciate the author making that the first sentence.

It's not that our identity is grounded in being competent, it's that we're tired of cleaning up messes left by people taking shortcuts.

Writing the code is where I discover the complexity I missed while planning. I don't truly understand my creation until I've gone through a few iterations of this. Maybe I'm just bad at planning.

My tinfoil guess is archive.today is compromised by a state actor. Simply shutting it down would cause too much drama. Instead turn it into villain, and then take it down.

Most businesses like to pretend change orders don't apply to software.

Title should be "AI labs are raping the planet"

Thank you!

Now I'm curious... How the hell do you synchronize clocks to such an extreme accuracy? Anybody have a good resource before I try to find one myself?

Is the author's point that every business should be an employee-owned cooperative? How do we get there?

Sounds very Lumon.

This is presented as if it's part of something like a terror plot, but my money is on it being related to your car warranty expiring.

I wonder if the author could have replicated the couchdb database locally to make their life easier.

What does synthetic training data actually mean? Just saying the same things in different ways? It seems like we're training in a way that's just not sustainable.

I don't understand why we need more data for training. Assuming we've already digitized every book, magazine, research paper, newspaper, and other forms of media, why do we need this "second internet?" Legal issues aside, don't we already have the totality of human knowledge available to us for training?

What's wrong with that?

Reality distortion, or they're just using military terminology?

I mean, let's be realistic.... should they just use an excel spreadsheet?

It's more like $0.30+ when you account for delivery, which costs more than supply. And then some fees on top of that.

I've seen some of this around ktown. The elevators are always tiny and dingy. Not a fan at all.

I'm working with product managers that are almost certainly using LLMs to generate product requirement docs, complete with code samples, data type definitions, and diagrams. Everything looks good to the untrained eye, but it's complete and utter bullshit. LLM abuse is going to be the end of so many tech companies.

I think they all lost a little something when Ryan suddenly died.

You're not wrong. I think people just like to feel like they're doing their part, even if it's not actually a net benefit.

That could be true, but maybe OP's goal isn't making a positive impact on the global scale.

The absolute nightmares people create in order to attain this ideal...

Is this something they disclose on the packaging? I'm curious how to identify this in the cheese I buy.

Sure, replace "appearance" with "impression" for a more accurate representation of my intent.

How long until cheese makers start adding the crunchy crystals to give the appearance of quality without the actual quality?