> Zuck: "They 'trust me'" > Zuck: "Dumb fucks" - 2004
> ___ has been working hard to control the scientific narrative on their products Instead of tech, tobacco, whatever It's just corporations. The food and sugar industries have tried to control or pollute scientific…
The diseases don't even have to be rare: * https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9802334/ * https://time.com/6074224/gender-medicine-history/
Notion Mail, Mechanical Turk, Fiverr, Relay, a bunch of Salesforce, Upwork, Gitlab (~15% layoffs), Atlassian (lots of layoffs already - more product cuts coming), Stack Overflow, ... And that's not counting AI companies…
> Ultimately the value will be in the data. And the compute. Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI(whatever is it called these days) are sitting on mountains of compute. Yes, local and open-weight models will continue…
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> six months of being stupid on purpose Those are rookie numbers. I've been doing that for 40 years
For sure. Especially as organizations grow in size. A small startup usually has little-to-no "junk" or "fat" to trim. But as orgs grow, and since we have imperfect knowledge and communication systems, more an more…
> removing those people disrupts the organization Or worse, you removed the workers and left the 'telephone' people. In my anecdotal experience, MOST companies don't take any time to understand what they are cutting.…
Especially when school is not in session and children are not present. How much is that likely to bias the dataset?
> the proof did not explain why So humans do/did still have a role to play
Right?! It could have just been a regular black usb stick an I bet nobody would have questioned it. Instead "why is there something in toilet paper behind the TV?"
> the critical part of the backend where a new 300ms delay will cost the company millions then yeah. If it is so critical, why don't we have tests and benchmarks for it? Oh right, because "Greg the super-coder" never…
> We shouldn't give up on line-by-line review for serious applications. But how many changes are actually serious? I can have an agent mass-produce security bug fixes, zip through our low-priority backlog, etc. IMO - we…
Another reason: They keep all the input and use it for training data and reinforcement. If you're being "mean" to it, you're "spoiling" the data you "give" to them - causing them more work to filter it out later. As…
100% I don't mind something that requires a modifier key like Shift+click to follow a URL But so many times now I'll click to get focus and now that's selected some option or opened some pane. If I wanted that, I'd use…
Anthropic _absolutely_ does They are just better at hiding it or configuring Claude. I have several skills that reformat text to remove AI-speak tells.
> even Nvidia Why "even Nvidia"? They are fully behind using AI for basically everything. What's next? "Damn, even McDonald's is putting out unhealthy food"
Caring for humans hurts profits
Not the original commenter, but I did this in all of them. Their skills formats are basically identical, so I setup simlinks from their own skills directories into a shared one so Claude, Codex, Cursor, and anything…
9 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183665
And you are presuming they _aren't_ talking with disabled people. https://www.xbox.com/en-US/accessories/controllers/xbox-adap... Received high praise if I recall correctly. Sure, we've all known engineers and product…
> stop selling door knobs, or doors that accept round knobs. Ok, but that's not a "Silicon Valley" thing. Go talk to politicians or Home Depot and Lowe's and the home builders conventions. That's why the post screams of…
> Zuck: "They 'trust me'" > Zuck: "Dumb fucks" - 2004
> ___ has been working hard to control the scientific narrative on their products Instead of tech, tobacco, whatever It's just corporations. The food and sugar industries have tried to control or pollute scientific…
The diseases don't even have to be rare: * https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9802334/ * https://time.com/6074224/gender-medicine-history/
Notion Mail, Mechanical Turk, Fiverr, Relay, a bunch of Salesforce, Upwork, Gitlab (~15% layoffs), Atlassian (lots of layoffs already - more product cuts coming), Stack Overflow, ... And that's not counting AI companies…
> Ultimately the value will be in the data. And the compute. Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI(whatever is it called these days) are sitting on mountains of compute. Yes, local and open-weight models will continue…
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> six months of being stupid on purpose Those are rookie numbers. I've been doing that for 40 years
For sure. Especially as organizations grow in size. A small startup usually has little-to-no "junk" or "fat" to trim. But as orgs grow, and since we have imperfect knowledge and communication systems, more an more…
> removing those people disrupts the organization Or worse, you removed the workers and left the 'telephone' people. In my anecdotal experience, MOST companies don't take any time to understand what they are cutting.…
Especially when school is not in session and children are not present. How much is that likely to bias the dataset?
> the proof did not explain why So humans do/did still have a role to play
Right?! It could have just been a regular black usb stick an I bet nobody would have questioned it. Instead "why is there something in toilet paper behind the TV?"
> the critical part of the backend where a new 300ms delay will cost the company millions then yeah. If it is so critical, why don't we have tests and benchmarks for it? Oh right, because "Greg the super-coder" never…
> We shouldn't give up on line-by-line review for serious applications. But how many changes are actually serious? I can have an agent mass-produce security bug fixes, zip through our low-priority backlog, etc. IMO - we…
Another reason: They keep all the input and use it for training data and reinforcement. If you're being "mean" to it, you're "spoiling" the data you "give" to them - causing them more work to filter it out later. As…
100% I don't mind something that requires a modifier key like Shift+click to follow a URL But so many times now I'll click to get focus and now that's selected some option or opened some pane. If I wanted that, I'd use…
Anthropic _absolutely_ does They are just better at hiding it or configuring Claude. I have several skills that reformat text to remove AI-speak tells.
> even Nvidia Why "even Nvidia"? They are fully behind using AI for basically everything. What's next? "Damn, even McDonald's is putting out unhealthy food"
Caring for humans hurts profits
Not the original commenter, but I did this in all of them. Their skills formats are basically identical, so I setup simlinks from their own skills directories into a shared one so Claude, Codex, Cursor, and anything…
9 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183665
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And you are presuming they _aren't_ talking with disabled people. https://www.xbox.com/en-US/accessories/controllers/xbox-adap... Received high praise if I recall correctly. Sure, we've all known engineers and product…
> stop selling door knobs, or doors that accept round knobs. Ok, but that's not a "Silicon Valley" thing. Go talk to politicians or Home Depot and Lowe's and the home builders conventions. That's why the post screams of…