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It's not a mystery, artificial intelligence ranks opus exactly as 1/8 to 1/4th cheaper.

No they are not, why would you think that, they are bundling Gemini in their suite and millions of professionals use it as it's already part of their Gmail, docs, etc.

Literally all my non tech friends are writing Gemini gems or using notebooklm, with a minority on copilot.

Bing introduced it first!

Yes, by definition, they literally posted a loss this quarter.

That was already forecasted, but not that they were going so cash flow negative.

Because many have built a career and identity on the ability to write code. And confused it with engineering. So it's a hard to swallow pill.

I'm Italian too, you don't need any reason to fire, in fact you're not firing rather than not confirming during the waiver period.

Very complex naming is a feature in the entire monitor industry.

Remember when Microsoft was saying, in 2021-2022, that they were going to provide legal assistance to anybody contesting the license of Copilot-generated code?

I'm European, you can put in the contract a waiver period, it's generally between one and six months, depends on the role, but worker and company are protected from firing/leaving if they are not happy.

Technical interviews have always been silly and our is one of the very few industries where they were common practice, with take home assignments and multiple rounds.

Just hire fast and fire fast if it doesn't work. Less expensive and better success ratio than this silliness where you get the MIT-bred Leetcode ninja that ends up having negative value between his lack of productivity and terrible code.

> Unions still work?

Go ask major US port operators whose employees make astronomic figure and if you don't bend they block the country.

Unions worked in the pre-globalized world.

Once companies can just outsource anything from manufacturing to services the only categories that can really unionize with success are those that can de facto block everything at once (port workers are an example).

Since Windows 7, which was I think almost 20 years ago, I've seen a single BSOD.

I've seen more on MacOs/OSX in the same time frame.

The average human spends 100$ per month in food.