theplatman

why aren't mentioning their failed rewrite from 3 years ago? https://www.monicahq.com/en/blog/chandler-is-in-beta/

would encourage you to read up about how the rest of the world has solved this

are they? given this has been happening frequently over past year and there's been minimal clear communication on their end on how they plan to address this

biggest thing i wish was present in more discussions about models is people providing more specifics on their setups vs. vague descriptions of harnesses

more future proof except for the fact that these guys are infamous for breaking changes

i really don't think after there's much interest from the larger community after multiple annoying RR breaking changes -> Remix -> Remix 2 -> React Router v7 -> now an entirely new framework.

have always wondered about this especially post Cambridge Analytica where Meta imposed really stringent requirements for API use even for personal things while it was blatantly obvious that internally it was a different story

they are essentially Lyft in early Uber vs. Lyft days. They are marketing themselves vaguely as being "better" because they're "more ethical" but their actions make it clear that they're not much better than OAI.

you can use claude code with these other providers

so we're trusting the guy who created tech to make it easier for bots to exist on the internet to then sell us the solution to fix the problem he made worse?

do we know whether Microsoft could have been selling secondary shares as part of various funding rounds?

my impression is that many of these "investments" are structured IOUs for circular deals based on compute resources in exchange for LLM usage

when i realized that sama isn't that much of an ai researcher, it became clearer that this is more akin to a group delusion for hype purposes than a real possibility

open source projects are usually creating something for themselves so it's much easier to know what to build when you are the user

whereas, commercial software has a disconnect between who are the users and developers are

that ship has sailed along time ago

Engineers say they want to work on hard problems then complain that they can’t solve something because it’s too complex

working class people are predominantly using public transit to get around nyc

this claim has been debunked many times and anyone with eyes can see who the private drivers in NYC are

the problem with ETH at its peak is that the gas fees made cost of doing anything real too costly

if there was a real use case it would have manifested itself at this point

i think the abstraction needs to be much higher to end user for this stuff to have value. having to manage your own wallet doesn't make sense.

With all due respect, engineers in finance can’t allow for outages like this because then you are losing massive amounts of money and potentially going out of business.

there are high trust societies where you still cannot take people at their word because it might not be a culture of being direct to others. thinking of japan which is high social cohesion and trust, but still difficult to navigate business contexts due to how problems would be communicated.

i cannot imagine how they are going to be able to meet their obligations unless they pull off a massive hail mary at this point via a bail out or finding someone to provide tens of billions of dollars in funding.

i agree - it shows a remarkable lack of creativity that we're still stuck with a fairly subpar UX for interacting with these tools

open ai is at risk of complete collapse if it cannot fulfill its financial obligations. if people willing to give them money don't have faith in their ability to win the AI race anymore, then they're going out of business.

can't comment on west coast but from perspective in NYC, i think the market for SWEs willing to work in office here is very good. might be different since there's lots of different industries hiring for SWE roles in addition to typical tech "startups" here.

i've noticed that folks who want to work remote having a tougher time if they're looking for tech jobs. makes sense if you look for jobs at a local non-tech company, you might have better luck.

generally seems like remote jobs have the most competition so if you can find jobs localized to your market, you will have more luck there.

For awhile now I’ve felt like YC has turned into another badge for the type people who are obsessed with prestige. It’s all about checking a box and not about the substance of what they want to do.

This is evident in how disappointed certain people are when they’re rejected from YC. Their startup is merely a vehicle to get into the club.

There is a balance between getting to market as fast as possible and avoiding an architecture that will immediately make it hard to iterate after MVP.

The problem is that a lot of engineers don’t know how to not over engineer and waste time. And product/sales usually don’t know how to strike the balance.

philosophy is probably a bad example to use because i think it's actually one of the "liberal arts" majors that's actually very applicable to skills you need in the corporate world.

the skillset you get from philosphy make it a common degree for folks who want to study law. a big part of studying philosophy is learning how to construct and analyze ideas and arguments so you would be well suited for consulting, politics, marketing, etc.

This is crazy. I have worked at some large orgs and never experienced that level of bureaucracy to deploy to test/qa environments.

I’ve seen in sensitive apps needing an approval to go to prod but it’s async and didn’t require a meeting!

BigInt shipped because financial organizations needed it for certain applications.

Yeah I definitely agree that they’re doing some great engineering work in the company.

It’s a strange place because it’s fully owned by Mike Bloomberg without any board or other group of shareholders that oversees his decisions. There is a “board” equivalent but they report to him. It’s great in someways like how they’re able to spend so much of their profits on philanthropy but leads to a lot of quirks.

If you’re the type of person who won’t just move on from an idea when you’ve been repeatedly told no that indicates you’re probably a difficult person to work with in other ways.

That kind of behavior is less welcome in enterprise environments where they want you to get in line with the top level goals.

From my experience working at Bloomberg, there was a limit to how much you could rock the boat as a dev and in many ways the technology/language choices were limited to the approved stack.

And we can also see ample evidence that overly controlling kids has a detrimental effect on them as they grow older.