Readit News> The Bay Area continues to lose jobs across high-income sectors (-0.4% YOY), driving modest overall employment declines. These job losses have slowed compared to a year ago but remain negative YOY. Despite generating substantial spending and wealth, the AI-driven tech boom hasn’t added meaningful employment to the region.
> Your personal data fuels its monopoly. Market-dominant due to anti-competitive and anti-consumer practices.
> Qwant
> Based in Europe. Uses Bing results. Sends tracking data to Microsoft.
> DuckDuckGo
> Privacy-focused. Relies on Bing results but never tracks or profiles you.
> Ecosia
> May plant trees for clicking ads. Relies on Bing and Google. Sends tracking data to Microsoft and Google.
> Microsoft Bing
> Collects extensive personal data. Privacy controls are buried and limited. Subjectively overwhelming UI.
> Kagi
> Privacy-focused. Customizable results without ads or tracking. Requires a paid account.
This is exactly right. Our role is shifting from writing implementation details to defining and verifying behavior.
I recently needed to add recursive uploads to a complex S3-to-SFTP Python operator that had a dozen path manipulation flags. My process was:
* Extract the existing behavior into a clear spec (i.e., get the unit tests passing).
* Expand that spec to cover the new recursive functionality.
* Hand the problem and the tests to a coding agent.
I quickly realized I didn't need to understand the old code at all. My entire focus was on whether the new code was faithful to the spec. This is the future: our value will be in demonstrating correctness through verification, while the code itself becomes an implementation detail handled by an agent.
I could argue that our main job was always that - defining and verifying behavior. As in, it was a large part of the job. Time spent on writing implementation details have always been on a downward trend via higher level languages, compilers and other abstractions.
> Build it and they will come is a fallacy.
This is true. But is this the alternative?
No trying to minimize the efforts of people who do this as real jobs or influencing - you do you. However, generating fake message screenshot, sending unsolicited messages etc? And the winner is the one who gets the biggest rise from the consumer, authentic or not.
Distribution is hard, I get it. But isn't this the equivalent of everyone just rocking up to the village square in the most outrageous costumes and screaming into the megaphone?
A heat shield has some leakage of heat that the people inside know that there's heat, but enough cover that the team is shielded somewhat.