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> as well as artists, photographers, and animators I know who have had a significant drop in typical advertising work with the advent of AI...

Much of this was offshored earlier this decade independent of AI.

The sunsetting of film and art production tax credits and subsidizes in much of North America while the UK, Europe, NZ, India, and Colombia dramatically ramped theirs up meant much of the industry got offshored.

And new media has changed how advertising works. Influencer and guerrilla advertising lands better as it feels more "authentic" amongst consumers. This also reduces spend on traditional advertising and the teams needed to do so.

You overestimate how much YC cares about HN. The only reason it still exists is because its PG's baby. Most YCers over the past decade either don't use HN or haven't even heard of HN. Most conversations and deep dives have transitioned to IRL, X, or Discord now.

We are assigned a number of those in AP and honors classes, which is what most Harvard students have taken.

Hum 10a/b wasn't that brutal. It was a decent amount of reading and writing, but it was pretty fun and more engaged alternative to Expos 20.

Most of us were already competitive in speech and debate in HS or were introduced to similar content via our AP teachers in high school, so it wasn't much of a transition.

That's not why. The Soul like other small cars (eg. Fit, Yaris, Accent) saw shrinking uptake from consumers.

People on HN love talking about small cars, but purchasing data has shown otherwise in most markets.

The Kia Soul was also heavy hit by tariffs on South Korean automotive exports in North America and the EU as well as the sanctions on Russia, as it was manufactured and assembled in Kia's Gwangju and Kaliningrad factories. Btw, the Russian factory now assembles Chinese cars for the Russian and Belarusian market.

> If your work does not benefit from current AI tooling, that is a finding, not a failing. Document why, share it with your community of peers, bring it to your manager, and work to find solutions. An engineer who can explain where AI does not yet help their work is demonstrating the judgement we are asking for...

> As a technical or organizational leader, part of your job is making sure that your team or organization is using AI to the best effect to improve delivery for customers and your business. That requires deeply understanding these technologies yourself, working with them hands-on rather than relying on what you hear, and understanding how others are using them. Sufficient understanding means you have used these tools on your production work, can describe a task where they helped and a task where they did not, and can explain that judgement to your team. Deploying AI in your organizations requires carefully balancing between exploring new and better ways to do things and investing in doubling down on the ones you already have. Judgement and care are key. As a leader, we expect you to be taking ownership of connecting the inputs and outputs in your team or organization...

> We have also found that SDEs and SDMs who are closer to their products and businesses are able to take the most advantage of AI and agentic software development. As Amazon has grown, we’ve seen some of our ICs and SDMs become less connected to their customers and business. We want to reverse this trend. We recommend that ICs of all levels find ways to become deeply connected to your customers, and your team or org’s product direction. As always, the scope and depth of this ownership will increase as you become more senior. For SDMs, we also recommend spending time making sure you’re close to your customers and business, and you’re helping the ICs in your organization to do the same...

Good.

This is why I've always been derisive about smaller MSSPs, Pentest shops, and other "channel" partners.

Firms like MonsterCloud are just the tip of the iceberg.

I built my own system using both sentiment polarity analysis, hard-coded logic, and some semi-active tuning, but I'd rather not divulge specifics. IMO anyone can spin up their own similar system.

> I don't want certain types of users to know anything about me. I wouldn't have felt this way, say, 5 years back...

Frankly, most people DGAF about random HNers and (a general or meta-comment targeted at the reader, not you OP) if someone needs to use throwaways to post negatively polarized statements on HN, then they shouldn't even be on HN in the first place.

2022 was when the degradation really took hold.

HN essentially became mainstream after the New Yorker profile, Reddit's degradation due to the mod blackout and API changes, and Lemmy flopping.

I've gotten my HN back to the pre-2022 consensus but it takes severe filtering, with around 200 posts being hidden a day. And it's those posts that drive the majority of discourse on the platform now.

The fact that throwaways like you are so normalized is a huge reason.

HN has also gotten divorced from tech and water-cooler conversations in much of the tech industry, and a lot of that seems to be because HN no longer has the same plurality of Bay/NYC/Seattle/Austin techies that it used to, and the userbase is way older than much of tech now (I was always younger than average on HN, but the amount of 1980s to early 2000s references shows that the platform has frozen in time demographically).

Ignore Reddit - HN has functionally become Slashdot (the fact that I even know what slashdot is highlights how the age demographics are so skewed on HN).

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> 2022 is when tech funding dried up...

Tech funding didn't dry up then. It just coencided with the time period that most vintages that originated in early 2010s were closing out and those that originated in 2016-18 were hitting their 5 year mark.

This meant a lot of dry-powder didn't get deployed until 2023-24.

> stands to reason that we ran out of hacker topics...

They are still being posted at the same rate based on my filtering. The difference is a massive deluge in non-"traditional HN" related content being posted, and the younger generation of techies and founders (those below 35) not using HN.

Pretty much. I've been on HN for a long time as well (this account is actually my 2nd burner after I forgot a couple previous ones).