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What I don't understand is why the Democrats don't just come out hard against AI at this point. It is unpopular and the tech titans are openly Republicans.

What are you paying for tokens?

Things like SOC II effectively require merge control. That doesn't mean the organization really values it, but for compliance purposes, the approval process needs to be there and is applied by someone up on high.

That happens a lot, but rarely have I seen the reviewer get blamed. The guy who shipped it gets blamed.

> Then, I’d get a ping from his manager asking on why am I blocking the review.

The suffering is self inflicted for this particular person. The organization doesn’t value code review.

> Then, I’d get a ping from his manager asking on why am I blocking the review.

If you are in a culture like this, you may as well just ship slop.

Management wants to break stuff, that is on them.

Even if you do track them, if 0.1% of customers are unhappy and contacting support, that's not worth any kind of thought when AI is such an open space at the moment.

> to send their most frustrated customers through a chatbot

But do those frustrated customers matter?

Eh, I can see support simply not being worth any real effort, i.e. having nobody working on it full time.

I worked for a unicorn tech company where they determined that anyone with under 50,000 ARR was too unsophisticated to be worth offering support. Their emails were sent straight to the bin until they quit. The support queue was entirely for their psychological support/to buy a few months of extra revenue.

It didn't matter what their problems were. Supporting smaller people simply wasn't worth the effort statistically.

> I think it's possible for Anthropic to make the kind of experience that delights customers. Service that feels magical. Claude is such an incredible breakthrough, and I would be very interested in seeing what Anthropic can do with Claude let loose.

Are there enough people who need support that it matters?

Make a deal with big ag to cap food price growth in exchange for allowing ANYTHING they do to farmers. They can squeeze as hard and in as monopolistic a manner as they please on that end.

Kill two birds with one stone.

Farmers have a lot of equity that corporates could be given in exchange for lower food prices.

Never worked for a place that locked down and one of my jobs is in healthcare tech.

Enjoy being crippled and use the time to be mediocre and just collect checks.

Wouldn't the target customers of this overwhelmingly be people who chose not to continue their line? Would they care?

> Does YCombinator have any interest in this?

https://x.com/garrytan

Does he need to deliver? The past few years have demonstrated that you can just lie about the next big thing.

Is a cybersecurity problem still a disaster unless it steals your crypto? Security seems rather optional at the moment.

All the more reason to nuke the key ASAP, no?

Is there a way to meaningfully be wary of it?

The value of skill changes over time. There was a point when being a dev required things like download size optimization and performance profiling.

How many devs today even conceptually know of those, yet alone do them?

Wikipedia is waiting for news sources to confirm things.

Eh, even when journalism exists, it is generally just ignored by the public.

As shown by DOGE, they merely care about the spend, whatever it does being a minor detail.

Even leaving out whether it is fair returns or not, you will notice no vision or political goal in this article other than fighting taxation. There is no concept of winning support other than whining that people are ungrateful.

The sum of individual anecdotes drives the state budget.

Proclaiming that everything is great only works politically if for at least a large block of people, they agree.

SV is presently running Donald Trump. It ran DOGE. It is deeply embedded into politics at all levels.

No, that would be the American people.

Plenty of tech was sold that way, from HTTPS to integration testing to blockchain.

60% is far from vast and the party in power is all for it.

> 60% of Americans oppose sending US troops into Venezuela to remove Maduro from power. Support is heavily concentrated among Republicans, with 58% in favor, compared to just 21% of independents and 14% of Democrats.

But they do.

Americans have been all for this the last couple of rounds as well.

> not supported by the vast majority of the country

Votes suggest otherwise.

Do any of those people regret those first three?