There used to be significant differences in performance that drove browser choices. The top dog browser always had a way of getting fat and slow and then something else would come along. This is how Chrome got its start. But today’s much more powerful hardware hides a lot of poor performance, and most web bottlenecks are in the content (ads and shitty site design) where the browser can only make a small difference.
Their situation is: they’re a tired social media site that is traded on the stock exchange and it’s just all downhill for them unless they change something big. They do want to be Steve Jobs, the guy who created a trillion dollar platform ecosystem, and they think hey we can use our social media site as one big ad for it to get things going. What else are you going to do with a tired social media property? You can at least fool some shareholders by telling them no, we have a whole new chapter about to begin. It’s a stupid game, I think driven more by market capitalism than personal ego, though of course there’s also plenty of that.
They’re trying to create a new something. and there doesn’t seem to be another idea. The iPhone really only blew up the world because of the quality of its execution. The idea had been bouncing along for a long time. So every asshole thinks “we’ll just execute right and nail this thing.”
Yes we’ve begun to track “token use” all over my company so it doesn’t spiral out of control, as it easily can do when you have agents managing agents connecting to MCP servers that themselves use the models to generate responses. The engineers around me say that they basically have multiple agents cranking full time and just keep an eye on them every so often. They will even queue up things to run overnight to make use of the time. They never actually close their laptops. This is an insane amount of usage, well beyond what anyone can do in the ChatGPT application by typing with their fingers, and there’s no way it can continue like this.
You have to hand it to NVidia. People only have two complaints about their products: that they cost too much and are constantly sold out.
Oh so you mean it’s an “artificial problem” as in they are “solving” a problem they created themselves. Not that there isn’t actually a problem.
I might support this point of view if the last 20 years of lifespan promises with new light bulb technology had actually been true.
I thought we all agreed there is a problem with headlights these days? Is it just not because of LEDs specifically?
There’s an active onwers forum for these on Reddit if you’d like to see what more people think.
Chevy Bolt - first American car I’ve ever owned and we absolutely love it.
I hope to never buy another. We have an ICE minivan as a second car and it compliments our compact EV well. But 10/10 I prefer driving and maintaining the EV. I always knew EVs were quick, but I didn’t expect how quiet they would be. I can actually hear my music.
This is a rage bait headline for the masses who don’t understand what it means to have a work-issued phone.
As I have one for work which is not my personal phone. And it is totally enterprise-managed so they put whatever apps they want on it and block anything they want. It’s their phone essentially. This headline seems like a nothingburger to me.
It’s not.
What I meant was you can dismiss people for poor performance, but that’s the only valid reason. You cannot lay people off in Japan in the sense of “we cut the budget and decided we don’t want to employ you anymore.”
However, that said… if you want to lay someone off, you can jump through a million hoops. I have seen people relegated to ridiculously inappropriate roles to convince them to leave. You can also mess with non-salary compensation if you want. And you can offer generous severance. And maybe you can convince people to let you “lay them off.”
I knew more than many that worked there, just by actually reading their terms, and understand the mindset behind them.
Yeah okay, guy. You know more about it than people with direct experience. In fact their direct experience only clouds their minds!
You have a dangerous kind of arrogance. The kind that makes you think you know what’s best for others more than they do just by your piercing insight.
You also patently don’t understand how to read a TOS. They are by design incredibly over-reaching and self-interested to the exclusion of the rights of others. This is a legal fiction they reserve in advance so that no matter the eventuality, they can claim you agreed to it. It represents the uttermost limit of what they can imagine. Not the center of gravity of what it’s like to work there.
Anyway, I don’t need to hear more about how your insight penetrates the world from the comfort of your chair.
Let’s just define all the degrees of knowing anything:
So yeah. I’m not a #7, just a #4, but this is a few degrees past #1
But my point is not to argue that I know so much, just that the vast majority of people who think they can see everything from a million miles away are full of shit. They don’t know what they don’t know. I don’t know everything, but I at least have a sense of how much most people don’t know.
We went through that phase. A couple of vibe-coding douchenozzles had our management convinced that everyone can ship code now. They launched a whole initiative to get product managers and UX designers deploying. It failed. Then they dialed it back to “cosmetic fixes only” that aren’t worth an engineer’s time. Now they realize that having uneducated PMs using AI to ship code is actually slower than that PM asking an engineer to use AI to ship code. So we’re back to having distinct functions again. All that really matters is that someone in the chain is using AI to accelerate the process, and the engineers turn out to be so much better at it than anyone else that we now just let them work.
What you said is fine for people learning, but there’s nothing wrong with having AI do something for you when you’ve done it a hundred times and don’t want to do it again. Some of us are actually out here working, not just learning.
I know. My weakness isn’t necessarily waiting time, but time spent on dull work like housework. My brains starts going “BOORRING!”
It’s an almost universal problem. Everything wants to grow so it starts doing things their existing users don’t like, because they’re trying to appeal to people they don’t already have.