cadamsau

> Safaricom and other legacy providers have responded by lowering prices and increasing internet speeds.

Super exciting to see competition working.

My comment was about how tolerance affects the way homelessness is viewed and addressed, nothing more nothing less.

Very interesting outcome. Shows how far it’s possible to get without being idiomatic.

You say the docs contain guidance on structuring, high-level constructs, and how to make things idiomatic. It would be an interesting test to hand the unfixed revision of the code to an LLM while also giving it the docs, and say “make any fixes to make this conform to standards of the framework and libraries”.

If it picks up the same things that’s great news for novice programmers and anyone new to a framework!

LLMs will improve at making these fixes over time - even if they’re currently bad at it that won’t last.

Also in UK and AU English (and likely others) it’s the word for trashcan.

Pray your office is free of folks who think bin puns are funny & original.

Sounds great!

My hope is 2030 sees more organizations that are each smaller. It implies more services provided by the economy thanks to greater specialization. For example today, SaaS tools exist for so many things you’d have had to hire for in the past. Thanks to SaaS you can get started really easily - take payments, get a storefront, send email newsletters..

If the trend of increasing specialization crosses over and starts to include services that require intelligence, it will be a net good on a scale we can’t imagine.

The megaliths of today also have more market power than optimal, hence so much anti-consumer shenanigans.

Bring on the layoffs!

Small suggestion - you can edit U.S. to US and gain 2 characters.

Actually, location tracking was added on purpose..

It is capitalism that has been hacked.

Soooo it does what it’s supposed to?

What I’ve observed is it becomes part of the job of the office admin person. So not zero headcount maybe 0.1 or 0.2 but that’s pretty good if the SaaS bill is another 0.2 headcount.

For everyone who thinks H-1B and its ilk make it possible to hire foreign workers at below what citizens are paid - have a look on your favorite search engine for:

“Prevailing wage condition”

It’s a requirement that’s part of the Labor Condition Application wherein based on the location you’ll work (the “Metropolitan Service Area” or MSA) to be granted a visa your employer must prove they’ll pay you above publicly available and published minimum wages for each job title.

These wages are public. If you have a problem with what they’re permitted to pay H-1B workers, the published prevailing wages are what you have a problem with. Spoiler though: they’re actually pretty accurate.

Here is one example of how hard it is to underpay workers on visas: during the pandemic, workers on visas were not legally allowed to be furloughed, because they would run the risk of not meeting the prevailing wage that year, putting the employer out of compliance with the LCA and subject to fines in the event of an audit. So what happened in practice was negotiated unpaid leave or in most cases the US gov covered wages via programs like PPP.

Now this is all out the window if the published prevailing wage for a given occupation is too low or the employer somehow sneaks one by the consular officials approving petitions - by selecting a title too junior for the applicant’s years of experience, for example. There will always be anecdata that makes this seem like a huge problem so be wary because one story does not a trend make. As mentioned above, by and large the prevailing wages are pretty on point with what American citizens are paid.

The reality of the way this system works is it’s WAY more technical than fearmongerers would have you believe. Visa holders are very much NOT undercutting anyone and the H-1B is not a completely broken system - even though the lottery and the fraudulent applications cause hell for applicants and employers it does basically do what it’s intended to do. So besides the exploitative situation these changes seem to proactively address, it mostly works and alongside the O-1 and a few other visa categories, has played a key role in the US’ ongoing supremacy in AI and many other industries.

Source: Australian citizen spent over 6 years working in SF on an E-3 visa which is very similar to H-1B.

You’re only thinking in the first order.

In reality no-win scenarios are avoided by having so many cameras and such an overwhelming amount of data that Waymo would win in court instead.

This is good for all as the incentive for maximum data collection as CYA also means maximum velocity of product improvement.

Claude and pasting code back and forth for simple things. But I’d like to try Claude with a few MCP servers so it can directly modify a repo.

But lately Cursor. It’s just so effortless.

Seeing something once doesn’t make it a real phenomenon.

Besides, if that is common, Waymo will have data on it and if it’s common enough, they’ll fix it.

I’ve sat in Waymos on 2 occasions, each on a separate ride, in which the car avoided collisions that would have happened due to bad human drivers. Your fear is worth examining closely as it’ll hold you back from enjoying this amazing technology.

My non physical desk job leaves me with a fresh body after my very much non 12 hour workday.

Because I have the physical energy to, I take that body to the ocean for a swim, to the park for a cycle, and to anywhere with a nice view for a run. Depending on the day. Oh and the gym is a pleasant 12 minute walk from home, so I do that a few times a week as well.

Sorry to burst your bubble OP.