At least in UK we don't turn off half the internet when football matches are on. Looking at you, Spain

AI as a term is getting synonymous with low quality slop which is a shame since weather forecasts are almost certainly not done with LLMs and it's likely an improvement than slopification

You're either free OSS that gets flooded with AI slop PRs to overwhelm maintainers or you're a corporate OSS that uses AI slop to frustrate contributors. Are there any positive stories I've not seen?

I'm hopeful. However so long Meta, Apple and Google use them for interviewing, new grads going to have to keep grinding for best odds of landing internships and offers

It really bums me out that these mega corps can't spend a little to ensure nearby residents are not left worse off. Maybe you can't fix the water wells, but perhaps you can just pay for a filtration system for nearby residents. All in all a fraction of a penny compared to costs of raising these data centres in just a few months

Is this just Elon shitposting through Grok's account

Why do we still have SMS. It seems to be solely used for weak 2FA, account takeovers and scams.

Majority of my phone usage outside of reading HN is through dedicated apps. News, social media, chats and even substack. If I was building a product today, web would be quite low on the priority list outside of SEO capture.

If you want to climb the career ladder this is a good mindset to have. As someone who got into engineering cause I like to build neat products for people, it's a hard mindset to adopt. It switches your goals from what is the best for the people using it to what's going to make the most $