jamiequint

In the new world, these formerly high-performing software engineers are no longer high-performing software engineers.

"don't try to shove shit down their throat unless you're willing to get it shoved down yours."

Fortunately the employer controls the relationship and can just fire employees with this kind of toxic attitude.

The world has changed. There are zero high performing software engineers who refuse to use AI. Zero.

Plenty of people thrive in environments where high performance is demanded. This idea that you produce the best outputs by coddling your employees is pure cope.

Demanding high performance also doesn't necessarily mean forcing everyone to work 996 or yelling at people, but it can mean enforcing standards that everyone might not like or agree with.

"Have people completely lost their humanity? Is winning at whatever you’re doing that important we can’t be equally obligated to show each other decency?"

It's a team not a family.

The idea that demanding performance from your employees is "losing your humanity" is insane.

Should be possible to play this with Jev.

The important question with any AI-related news story is what is the counterfactual.

Sure, it sucks if your self driving car gets in a crash or your AI scribe incorrectly transcribes something to your medical record. This is news now. What isn't news is humans getting into crashes or doctors making poor medical decisions as a result of low quality or missing notes.

Good thing you don't get to decide.

Ed Zitron also said that consumers were losing interest in ChatGPT in January 2024, that AI models were reaching their upper possible limits in Feburary 2024, that ChatGPT and similar products were "not particularly useful for anything", that hallucinations could not possibly be reduced in models, etc.

He's a churlish AI skeptic that isn't worth listening to.

"Internet constellations may be mildly profitable"

It's insanely profitable they did $7.2bn in EBITDA on $11.4bn in revenue in 2025.

Effective ads absolutely require knowing more about the user than the context on the page it's a 1-2 orders of magnitude revenue difference for the publisher per-impression.

except it's not? lol

What is worse a "hamfisted system prompt push to prod" or a system and organization built to enforce systematic bias in the name of anti-bias?