Readit NewsThere’s a balance somewhere put there, but that balance is different for everyone.
Personally I think problematic decision making is more to do with the “blame” side of ownership. It benefits the unsure more than the certain, and not many people are okay with making and admitting to mistakes.
why not fire everyone in between the top-most manager and the actual "worker" doing the work, as the report could be generated with the correct level of summary?
Middle management can sometimes be good at this, because they may actually have the time to step back and take a holistic look at things. It’s not always easy to do that when you’re deep in the weeds with clients, managers, colleagues, or direct reports bugging you about misc things.
Overall I think (or hope) the more useless reporting will die a slow death, but I also think there’ll be a loooooong period of AI slop before we reach the point where everyone says “why are we actually doing this?”
That's an opinion many disagree with. As a matter of fact, the only limited study up to date showed that LLMs usage decrease productivity for experienced developers by roughly 19%. Let's reserve opinions and link studies.
https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...
My anecdotal experience, for example, is that LLMs are such a negative drain on both time and quality that one has to be really early in their career to benefit from their usage.
1. Converting exported data into a suitable import format based on a known schema 2. Creating syntax highlighting rules for language not natively support in a Typst report
Both situations didn't have an existing solution, and while the outputs were not exactly correct, they only needed minor adjustments.
Any other situation, I'd generally prefer to learn how to do the thing, since understanding how to do something can sometimes be as important as the result.
For example, everyone now writes emails with perfect grammar in a fraction of a time. So now the expectation for emails is that they will have perfect grammar.
Or one can build an interactive dashboard to visualize their spreadsheet and make it pleasing. Again the expectation just changed. The bar is higher.
So far I have not seen productivity increase in dimensions with direct sight to revenue. (Of course there is the niche of customer service, translation services etc that already were in the process of being automated)
I had a conversation with my manager about the implications of everyone using AI to write/summarise everything. The end result will most likely be staff getting Copilot to generate a report, then their manager uses Copilot to summarise the report and generate a new report for their manager, ad inifinitum.
Eventually all context is lost, busywork is amplified, and nobody gains anything.
> To push an app no-one ever liked, you know that, but whatever. No-one likes “new” Reddit either, you know that, but whatever. Who’s even gonna use the site after this?
Is just not true at all unless you have actual stats to back that up. A ton of people disagree with that take. The site has grown a massive amount since the new design was released in 2018. So people dont mind it and probably never experienced the old layout. Additionally, the 1st party mobile app sits at #2 (2.6M reviews -- 4.8[1]) vs #10 (up from ~30 in May) for apollo (170.5k reviews -- 4.7[2]). That also tells me that a huge amount of users are perfectly fine with the reddit app.
So, knowing those basic facts, is it at all surprising that reddit is reacting this way? They are trying to keep the main, core userbase happy. The users/mods that are pushing this blackout are most definitely in the minority, and they are being disruptive to the greater userbase that clearly doesnt care.
disclaimer: old.reddit user of 13 years and only recently switched to apollo from alien blue. just calling it like i see it.
[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reddit/id1064216828 [2] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apollo-for-reddit/id979274575
Accessing reddit.com on a mobile will bombard you with pop ups to get you to access through the official app, while Apollo would only be found via word of mouth or actively seeking an alternative.
Review score average might be a better, where they're pretty on par in that regard, but again hard to tell if that's an indication of each app or a review of the content served by reddit itself.
You can change the difficulty to fail on words, individual characters, or if you fall below a % threshold.
Usually I’ll just reset the network settings (Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings) and that seems to resolve the issue.
But as far as I’m aware the issue doesn’t affect everyone, so could potentially just be some minor corruption occurring during the network/modem firmware upgrade.
Usually I’ll just reset the network settings (Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings) and that seems to resolve the issue.
While https://rssbox.herokuapp.com/ is great, I wish more websites allowed RSS rather than resorting to hacky workarounds
It solves one of the problems I’ve had with other RSS readers around the overwhelm when adding a new source/neglecting an existing source. Opening up to see tens/hundreds of items in the backlog that you feel obligated to read isn’t fun.
I’ve got it set as my new tab page, which makes it easy to see new stuff at a glance, and then I can delve into the less important stuff when I’ve got time to waste.
What the hell is the incentive of the guy posting this to encourage and help The Wolf??? He’s just doing it out of good will? What does he get out of doing the right thing? No recognition. No bonus. Nothing. Yet he still does it.
I find this fascinating.
I won’t say it’s necessarily altruistic, as of course there could be a drive from inner machinations that we’d never be privy to.
(Sometimes the exposure of an article can be considered a reward, for those looking for ego inflation)
Even myself, I generally don’t leave comments unless I feel they’re going to be helpful or insightful to someone else. But I am also biased, as I do have a very strong affinity towards sharing information, so I greatly appreciate the effort artisans and those more knowledgeable than I go through to share such knowledge.