Relevant: https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/premise-data-confirms-sec...

Interesting. Seems similar to what Premise Data tried to do, and maybe would have succeeded had it not been for their slimeball CEO cratering their reputation https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/the-covert-gig-work-surve...

I probably review about 1k LoC worth of PRs / day from my coworkers. It certainly doesn't take me 33 hours (!!) to do so, so I must be one of those rockstar 10x superhero ninja engineers I keep hearing about.

Are your coworkers producing the code using LLMs? And what level of trust do you place in them?

For half my coworkers, their LLM code is better than their code.

That’s depressing. For 80% of my coworkers their LLM code is horrible. Only the seniors seem to use it well and not just spit out garbage

I think that goes back to whether they are programmers vs engineers.

Engineers will focus on professionalism of the end product, even if they used AI to generate most of the product.

And I'm not going by "title", but by mindset. Most of my fellow engineers are not - they are just programmers - as in, they don't care about the non-coding part of the job at all.

If you follow any of the programming subs on Reddit, especially the AI-oriented ones, there are a lot of people that at least claim to not code at all anymore-- 100% of their contributions are from prompts.

Curious how you came to that conclusion. Anecdotally, places where you can slur to your heart's content like /r/conservative seem far more inundated with bots than other areas of Reddit. I feel like that's really saying something too, because Reddit has a really bad bot problem overall.

Rarity of Pokemon cards is also fully controlled by the vendor, and it's of course very intentional.

Pokemon cards can get destroyed or may never enter the market for all the typical reasons or may not be particularly valuable even though they are rare. They don't have nearly as direct a control over the price.

I've seen people saying that about Meta/Facebook for a decade, but I still don't see any tangible damage to former employee's ability to get jobs. The OpenAI situation seems much closer to FB-scale politics than X though.

I think Amazon is a better example. It's a thing that some companies prefer not to hire engineers from Amazon because of the culture they bring. Whether you agree with it or not, Amazon has a reputation for a toxic culture and that sort of thing can ruin a smaller or medium size company if it seeps in.

OP wasn't talking about culture, he was talking about discriminating due to differences in political opinions, very different.

*ethical opinions

I mostly agree with you re: Meta/Facebook except that things are becoming a lot more politically volatile than they have been in the past. Generally, I think that most people believe that the more intelligent you are, the more empathetic you are, so at some point if your evil company is doing big destructive evils, the smartest engineers will probably bail.

Depending on jurisdiction, it’s maybe not that smart to hop on the internet and write “if I see it on a resume beyond a certain date, I'm not considering them” and “things are becoming a lot more politically volatile” either.

"Generally, I think that most people believe that the more intelligent you are, the more empathetic you are..."

Okay, you might need to re-evaluate the life lessons you seem to have selectively taught yourself. This is base line culture war 'You must be mentally deficient if you don't align with what I deem to be empathetic right now or I don't think you're nice enough' type stuff.

High school type shit.

A study set out to investigate why the stupids lack empathy? Where did the premise for this bullshit come from? Haha

> but I still don't see any tangible damage to former employee's ability to get jobs

I have. I've also seen it happen for Uber, for someone who worked on the god mode project that went viral for being used at holiday parties.

"The terrorists hate our freedoms."

This seems like a perfect opportunity for a revival of David Cross's standup career.

> Think about it. If someone actually bombed or invaded the continental US you'd have woke libs cheering for Donald Trump.

Huh? If anything, he'd try to put blame on "Antifa" and "the radical left."

Aiding Hegseth / The Heritage Foundation is not aiding the US. If anything, it's the exact opposite.