I suggest it is not the gardening but the sun that is giving this benefit.
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freddealmeida commented on I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me grell.dev/blog/ai_rejecti... · Posted by u/serhack_
Maybe Anthropic uses Workday for its HR, which is being sued for possible systematic discrimination by AI. (See links below)
https://www.insidetechlaw.com/blog/2025/06/workday-ai-lawsui...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2025/06/23/what-th...
I hate workday.
freddealmeida commented on I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me grell.dev/blog/ai_rejecti... · Posted by u/serhack_
yeah, as this is so often the case, many times good, relevant applications are missed. I hope that this Hacker News post will get to one of the key people at Anthropic and they change their minds.
At my firms I saw this happen often. HR would review, or a junior engineer and pass on very good candidates. It wasn't until I set up a review system with A-class engineers that we started to catch the best people. A-class engineers recognize themselves far better than anyone else. But they prefer to build than review resumes.
I ended up building my own head hunting firm specifically to address the whole pipeline. That helped somewhat but head hunting is its own very odd space. Full of inefficiencies and bias.
With any AI company, there are always limits you hit. Energy, compute, optimizations, inference, team resources, money, and all the flows to make it a company. HR is usually the one that gets the fewest resources.
Sheesh. 12B. Here I am working my ass off for $25M.
I run a small home lab, about 30 services
One day I decided to change my main disk and used the opportunity to rebuild everything from scratch and from backups. I was up in about an hour.
And then I spent a week fixing this and that, ah yes I changed that too and, crap, I cannot remember why this thingie is set up this way. And some more.
This is a one-man lab, with simple services, all on docker. I also work in IT.
Recovering from scratch a whole infrastructure managed by many people over the years is a titanic task.
I helped to recover my nearby hospital as a volunteer when it was ransomwared. The poor two IT guys over there has no idea how to recover and the official help was pityful.
I also helped with a ransomware attack on a large company. The effort people had to do to remember why something was that way, or just remember whatever was colossal. Sure a lot of things were "documented" and "tested" but reality hit hard.
Chamath's new company 80/90 is targeting this pain. Large firms often have no idea what their software is trying to do. Rebuilding it is cheaper and leads to better software.
freddealmeida commented on Nail salon employee pleads guilty after holding 13 remote IT jobs yahoo.com/news/nail-salon... · Posted by u/gpi
That title is very misleading.
The facts are convoluted as well.
This is a mix of greed, espionage, incompetent government agencies, and companies that do not vet their remote workers yet giving them access to software and data they shouldn't have. Crazy. But with the stories coming out of DOGE, I am not even shocked.
At least in this case one person (out of how many?) is going to jail. How many more of these people exist in the US now?
When I read that headline I really assumed it was about another case of nepotism - after the Zoe Law drama some time ago. Glad to hear it's not that.
Same. Thought this was just another tax scam.
freddealmeida commented on Vibe Coding is not an excuse for low-quality work addyo.substack.com/p/vibe... · Posted by u/saikatsg
Vibe coding for me meant a roll-the-dice approach to building something that world. Never a care for strong architecture or good code standards. Allowing anyone to become an "engineer". A friend of mine, who can't code, used Cursor to build fully functional Nextjs web apps. I was impressed. Vibe coding is a super power for average people.
I do think this article fully grasps that change. Using AI to do tasks is not vibe coding. At least to me.
When will the first vibe coding book come out I wonder?
freddealmeida commented on A 1980s toy robot arm inspired modern robotics technologyreview.com/2025... · Posted by u/danso
Hahaha. I had one and look at that I worked in robotics and AI.
Never realized that before. Toys do have impact, don't they?
Wait the philipines is real?!