merrvk

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Comment · 1 month ago

Absolutely spot on.The time main output is unnecessary busywork that is purely designed to pad out CV’s

Comment · 1 month ago

These lot cause more harm than good in larger organisations (imo)

I’m suprised that so many orgs invest so much in teams that provide no product value, rather than letting the product teams learn for themselves

Comment · 2 months ago

Tried using Spotify web client on Safari the other day. Performance was absolutely terrible.

For comparison I was using Apple Music via safari before.

I’m just surprised that such a big company can produce such an awful web experience, guess everyone is just using the native app, but for some that’s not possible

Comment · 2 months ago

Need to let this project die and invest the manpower + experience into something useful.

Comment · 2 months ago

It’s quite embarrassing how bad it is. Fair play to the founders making bank on the ai hype though

Comment · 3 months ago

They could have done at least one pass on the UI. Can't even get simple table spacing right

Comment · 5 months ago

Got to say, Anthropic have hell of a marketing team.

Comment · 5 months ago

They are far far better at marketing than OpenAI

Comment · 5 months ago

PR reviews were never the bottleneck

Comment · 7 months ago

Who advises on these acquisitions?

Or are they just using a dartboard?

Comment · 7 months ago

I had a guy doing this to reply to PR review comments, copying in the comment to the LLM and pasting the response back.