lunarcave

I can't remember where I heard this, but the moment it flipped for me is when someone phrased this as - "be a heat shield".

A heat shield has some leakage of heat that the people inside know that there's heat, but enough cover that the team is shielded somewhat.

From the article:

> The Bay Area continues to lose jobs across high-income sectors (-0.4% YOY), driving modest overall employment declines. These job losses have slowed compared to a year ago but remain negative YOY. Despite generating substantial spending and wealth, the AI-driven tech boom hasn’t added meaningful employment to the region.

In the "choose a default search engine" page, it has a slightly amusing summary for each.

> Google

> Your personal data fuels its monopoly. Market-dominant due to anti-competitive and anti-consumer practices.

> Qwant

> Based in Europe. Uses Bing results. Sends tracking data to Microsoft.

> DuckDuckGo

> Privacy-focused. Relies on Bing results but never tracks or profiles you.

> Ecosia

> May plant trees for clicking ads. Relies on Bing and Google. Sends tracking data to Microsoft and Google.

> Microsoft Bing

> Collects extensive personal data. Privacy controls are buried and limited. Subjectively overwhelming UI.

> Kagi

> Privacy-focused. Customizable results without ads or tracking. Requires a paid account.

> Our role is shifting from writing implementation details to defining and verifying behavior.

I could argue that our main job was always that - defining and verifying behavior. As in, it was a large part of the job. Time spent on writing implementation details have always been on a downward trend via higher level languages, compilers and other abstractions.

It's a nice write up.

> Build it and they will come is a fallacy.

This is true. But is this the alternative?

No trying to minimize the efforts of people who do this as real jobs or influencing - you do you. However, generating fake message screenshot, sending unsolicited messages etc? And the winner is the one who gets the biggest rise from the consumer, authentic or not.

Distribution is hard, I get it. But isn't this the equivalent of everyone just rocking up to the village square in the most outrageous costumes and screaming into the megaphone?