I have taken to describing Claude as adding a veneer, not polish, which is exactly what makes it so insidious in the workplace when misapplied.

FWIW, college coaching is generally seen as a more time consuming job because of the recruiting aspect. Every hour they aren't in the office or on the field is spent on the phone with a recruit or visiting one.

Well now they can replace that part of the job with wheelbarrows full of cash!

Exaggerated or poorly represented? One candidate for governor in my state likens it to the railroad bubble. Satya Nadella makes the same comparison. What happens when the bubble pops? We're seeing data centers outbid industrial plants for sites. Plants which would provide 100x as many jobs as a data center and not be abandoned in 2028 when the chips still aren't available and contracts come due.

Oh right, just some rubes in flyover states that don't know what's good for them.

There’s a difference between using and sharing. I don’t want to see your notebook. I want to see the finished document. To some of us, the difference is intuitively obvious, so we’re offended by what we’re getting at work these days.

I'm very envious of your workplace if the stuff before AI was somehow well written. If I had AI 10 years ago I would've been mostly using it to interpret most of the corporate speak e-mails and poorly written technical briefs.

Now I get corporate-speak tech docs in addition to irrelevant internal comms. AI doesn't magically make your coworkers put in more effort. It just puts a veneer of professionalism over the same output.

How do you tactfully fix that, or can you?

What the industry is discovering is that copywriting is actually a skill. And it becomes pretty obvious if you don’t have any of it.

Comparing getting an American to uproot themselves from their entire community to move to the Bay Area for a job vs. someone on the other side of the world who is looking to get into America just aren't the same. Ultimately, H1Bs are used to lower the working standards of Americans and enrich tiny pockets of existing regional capital holders.

Regional wealth inequality in America has not gotten better as Silicon Valley has gotten richer and brought in more foreign labor. At some point, the people making money hand over fist need to show how they're improving the situation for Americans instead of just saying "trust us, bro."

The AI discussion hasn't helped Silicon Valley seem more in touch with "flyover" states either. It's pretty clear there's a lot of disdain and hostility from Silicon Valley towards the "average" American.

The best people I worked from (in the bay area) were from Switzerland, Germany, the UK, France , Israel, etc.

Were they on H1Bs? Most I knew from similar countries in the Bay Area wouldn’t have been.

But these visas aren’t about best, btw. They’re about none available. The goalpost has moved to “none available for my price in the most expensive place on earth.” In my experience, the overall effect of these policies was hiring foreign masters students who were more exploitable over American undergraduates who would require the same training. The graduate pipeline, where domestic students were being warned off during the early 2000s already due to poor working conditions, became a credentialism excuse which was also exploited by researchers.

Again, we keep coming to these tertiary arguments which don’t deal with the issue: domestic born Americans are unhappy with their outcomes. Immigration is about the dumbest solution to Americans not being able to afford kids I can imagine. If that’s Silicon Valley’s best solution to a biological imperative, I expect things to only get worse. No, dorm-style housing that requires two tech incomes is not the American Dream. Please look at housing costs in San Jose before asking for more exploitable labor.

They all eventually became permanent residents and citizens. But they all start off as h1 or the one that lets you stay a while after finishing a PhD. Some switched to O-1 (or whatever the extraordinary talent one is).

I’ve worked with some amazing Austrians who had to go to 3rd country for a year waiting for the lottery.

I've worked with amazing people from all parts of the world. I'm a bit uncomfortable with bucketing my coworkers' abilities by ethnicity like this though.

But I am American: most of us couldn't even guess our own ethnic origins after a couple generations, especially if our ancestors weren't affluent. That fundamental difference in worldview makes all these discussions so difficult.

Yeah, maybe Open AI did some bad engineering instead of this being AGI? What's the consensus on the engineering level at Open AI, again? Every anecdote I hear is a bunch of children discovered fire and can barely keep the lights on from a business perspective. Maybe if they ban others from competing with them they can find a business model... I think that's suspicious, personally.

That so few people are asking for the requirements given shows how much we want to be God that created Man. It's so silly.

The HDMI cables are a lie anyway with how many versions I've owned. I'm sick of squinting at the writing on the wires. Just buy new ones.

I don't know if much has changed based on my professional experience. For me, the code was always the fast part. The hard part was figuring out what to do. Maybe others had more mechanical coding jobs, but I've been pretty baffled by those who think producing more text (email, code, or docs or whatever) with less understanding is any sort of gain. Seems like the same sort of braindead thinking that would make someone think the fast typer is the the best programmer.