> when they finally execute on the blindingly obvious strategic play that they are naturally positioned for
What's that? It's not obvious to me, anyway.
My guess would be local AI. Apple Silicon is uniquely suitable with its shared memory.
Readit Newsnewswasboring commented on OpenAI's new GPT-5 models announced early by GitHub theverge.com/news/752091/... · Posted by u/bkolobara
idk man, I'm still working the same hours as 10 years ago, and my retirement age went up since then, if anything I'm working way more, certainly more than my parents and grandparents
Yes precisely what I am trying to say. This is not an outcome of technology, its an outcome of how our socio-economic system is set up. The company owners could have easily given you the benefit of technology improvement, made a 3 day work week or made a 4 hour work day and hired more people or reduced their own ambitions. Instead they chose to squeeze everything out of you.
newswasboring commented on OpenAI's new GPT-5 models announced early by GitHub theverge.com/news/752091/... · Posted by u/bkolobara
> It took something which reduces work and made it a bad thing.
It doesn't reduce work, it improves productivity, and virtually none of the productivity boost of the last 50 years benefited the worker. So you end up working the same hours, producing more and not being paid for the difference
https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/...
Improved productivity is reduced work. We dont have to work the same hours. Labor doesn't always have to relent.
newswasboring commented on OpenAI's new GPT-5 models announced early by GitHub theverge.com/news/752091/... · Posted by u/bkolobara
It's easy to say that except this is technology that affects all of us and set us down a definite path without consultation of the public.
Maybe this will help public realize they don't hate AI, they hate current form of capitalism. It took something which reduces work and made it a bad thing.
An aside, but I am curious: as an old hat today, I now find that using the Perl RE (though some of it lives on through sed) syntax as "we used to do back in the day" in regular communications confuses most people. People are usually unfamiliar with it, so I am slowly phasing it out.
What's your experience? And what do the "kids" use these days to indicate alternative options (as above — though for that, I use bash {} syntax too) or to signal "I changed my mind" or "let me fix that for you"?
/s/ is kind of a skeuomorph for me. I have never used sed but I understand this syntax.
newswasboring commented on Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai... · Posted by u/robtherobber
Some very close haircuts.
When was the last instance of this in the last 100 years?
newswasboring commented on Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai... · Posted by u/robtherobber
When it goes on just a little too long, it can result in the French Revolution and 1917 and the election of populist candidates with unexpected consequences.
So sure, not a given, but it’s a risk that goes up as conditions get worse.
French revolution I can still see as consequences but Bolsheviks just took land and gave it to the new nobelity (the state).
newswasboring commented on Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai... · Posted by u/robtherobber
The problem is now the company has no skin in the game. If the company spent a large amount of time & energy vetting the candidate then it is a more equal transaction.
Yeah but that is true for any form of interview, if there is a leet code problem set it's the same no? So is if they ask you to write a few answers down in a form.
newswasboring commented on Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai... · Posted by u/robtherobber
I did one of these once. Once.
I felt so bad afterwards that I swore them off forever.
It's not like the 'interview' was terrible or anything. I knew it was AI from the start.
It was just that when I got done with it, I realized that I had talked at a computer for ~45 minutes. And, yet again, I was going to be ghosted by the company (I was), and that I was never going to get those 45 minutes back. That was time I could have used to apply for another job, or cook, or sleep, or exercise, or spend time with family. But no, like an idiot, I talked at a bot for that time for literally no reason.
Like, sure maaaaybe the company is going to use it as a screen for 'real' people. But the odds that it's not just another hoop they have for you to jump through are nil. If they send an AI 'interview' at you, that's the exact same as an email requesting yet more portfolio submissions. Pointless.
I hate useless excessive interview processes as much as the next guy, but all the things you've said would be true for any form of interview. You'll not get you time back and you could have been using it in many other ways. The company could still ghost you too. You said nothing which was exclusive to an AI interview.
Steve Jobs needed Wozniak at the time and it was fortunate for him, but his personality and ambition were so strong it's very likely he would have been a big deal in any scenario.