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I yearn for the day when Anthropic moves on to dealing with big problems and leaves the mundane to cheaper models that focus on volume over quality, because it's no longer worth their time.

It'll mean the AI we all need in daily life is nowhere near the frontier anymore.

The question becomes, are you more productive than ever? I (or my agent) can do a lot of interacting with GitHub and nothing of value can come of it.

If more was expected of everyone and everyone was producing more, it'd be a different issue.

Well put

At what point will this exemption become an unreasonable request?

Some exemptions businesses are required to accommodate, like putting in a ramp to an office so someone can get to a desk. Others are considered unreasonable, making it possible for someone who uses a wheelchair to work on high-tension wires.

I think the time for nerds to shine has already come, and maybe past.

The fact this headline conflates tech and social media is evidence. Disatisfaction with the way AI, social media, and inequality has changed life is all being packaged up and called "tech."

Tumblr too?

What actually is Scribd?

They were always just that thing that showed up in Google searches cause they scraped presentations and stuff that was unknowingly public. But I didn’t quite know why anyone found them of value.

Will be interesting to see if November 2026 is looked at as the inflection point or a hiccup for markets.

The silent majority doesn’t live on Hacker News

What this, and the article, really point to is a need for folks in tech and other high performing areas despite their epilepsy to come together.

Other groups I’ve found in recent years have provided support and shown me for the first time I wasn’t alone. But none talk a lot about this.

Nope

Interesting enfough, wave years tend not to produce much of this post-election bump. And often a small near term dip followed by a muted year

But let’s consider what causes a wave. Economic anger.

Th difference now is Trump will be on his way out

It when will the past become good enough for daily use?

They make new car models each year. Plenty of folks drive old ones. Few do annual upgrades.