TuringNYC

If I had Claude Duet, i'd tell it to start a new browser and sign me up for the Claude Duet waitlist without me re-entering all my info

I'll take virtual hugs any time.

Dealing with this IRL, here is my thought

- When you step into a tech leadership role, you inherit a bunch of contracts, e.g. with Microsoft.

- The contracts are really a set of a dozen or two dozen contracts, often 1 or 2 or 3yrs long, overlapping expirations so there is never any opportunity for a clean cut

- You are faced with either a clean break where you lose millions as you double-pay, or you just accept poor products as a necessary part of the job

- Between Entra and Dataverse and everything else, the whole system is a poorly documented bowl of spaghetti.

I've transcribed calls with Microsoft Teams and 8x8 and the transcripts are absolutely awful. Sometimes so poor that one cannot reliably use them with LLMs. I feel so incredibly left out when I see these models on HN and have to go back to corporate reality and deal with Microsoft Teams and 8x8. I wish these products could produce plugins where i could direct Microsoft Teams and 8x8 streams to them to replace underperforming stock models.

Also, I dont understand why Microsoft cannot just buy some of these upstarts and swap in their awesome models.

I love this! Cant wait to try this.

Reminds me of the old slashdot post from 25yrs ago that people still chat on

Given you're comparing to codex/claude code you probably arent talking about MS Copilot (e.g. the thing inside MS Teams but also available standalone as MS Copilot 365). Try it out and be convinced :-)

I feel it is even worse than bare minimum -- it is so bad it infuriates the user. It is hard to get away from that reaction when one uses better alternatives in their personal life.

Fair point, that happens when i'm trying to be on MS Teams for a conf call, while watching my claude code terminal and then browsing HN on another monitor :-/

Even if it worked right, you know they will eventually force a paid subscription just to keep the fridge running.

I totally dont by the "no medicare funds for training". A doctor will see you for 10min (perhaps another 10min prep) and bill $1000. If you doubt this, just check your EOB statements from the insurance company or check your deductible history.

The entire salary for the resident can be earned back in 3-4 days. You still have 360 days left to pay back admin overhead, facility overhead, supplies, etc. That is earned back in the next several weeks. After that, the next ~300 days of the year are profit.

In states with balance billing, the doctor can set any price and bill you for the remaining figure with a balance bill. In NY and NJ these can be thousands or tens of thousands. If you dont pay, it goes to collection and the provider still gets 10 to 15 cents on the dollar. So no...the $75k annual salary of a resident is not a barrier to training more doctors according to any math i'm seeing. What am I missing?

What seems more likely is that supply is artificially constrained to increase scarcity and prices.

i think there is a big diff between 10-30min and 45min your 45min assessment is probably right for early career. once you have a family, it gets much harder and less common

>> Most American commute 10-30 minutes.

You're on a board full of technologists. Many are in SF or Seattle or NYC. A 10minute commute means you live in a 5-20 Million dollar home in SF. Not sure how realistic that is.

I work in NYC. The salary doesnt support having a home in the city. Yes, it can support a 1br apt, perhaps a 2br with roommates. Definitely not accomodations for a family.

Whether your company is WFH or RTO is a decision, but please dont try to do a hybrid -- where some employees on the same team are remote while others are in office. You end up with team members going to the office, and just staying on a zoom the entire day without actual interaction. Worst of all worlds.