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shafyy commented on Sequoia backs Zed zed.dev/blog/sequoia-back... · Posted by u/vquemener

bigstrat2003 · 7 days ago

Because dragging politics into things is fucking obnoxious. It's off-topic, it gets people riled up so they are arguing about politics instead of having substantive discussion, and it degrades the community by threatening to destroy the focus on tech in favor of political slap fights. In short, going out of your way to bring up politics is being a jerk, and people don't appreciate that.

shafyy · a day ago

The only thing that's fucking obnoxious is that you seem to believe that technology exists in a vacuum, and that we can have discussions about technologies and companies while ignoring ethics and politics.

shafyy commented on Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States post.japanpost.jp/int/inf... · Posted by u/Kye

helloooooooo · 2 days ago

I don’t think anyone here has yet come to the realization that ending rampant consumerism is the whole damn point of the tariffs.

shafyy · 2 days ago

No, that's surely not the point of tariffs. Maybe a silver lining, but for sure not the intention.

shafyy commented on 95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend thedailyadda.com/95-of-co... · Posted by u/speckx

sillyfluke · 6 days ago

You also will have saved them all the cost of the AI summaries that are incorrect as well.

The parent states:

>Not only are the summaries better than those produced by our human agents...

Now, since they have not mentioned what it took to actually verify that the AI summaries were in fact better than the human agents, I'm sceptical they did the necessary due dillengence.

Why do I think this? Because I have actually tried to do such a verification. In order to verify that the AI summary is actually correct you have to engage in the incredibly tedious task of listening to original recording literally second by second and make sure that what is said does not conflict with the AI summary in question. Not only did the AI summary fail at this test, it failed in the first recording I tested.

The AI summary stated that "Feature x was going to be in Release 3, not 4" whereas the in the recording it is stated that the feature will be in Release 4 not 3, literally the opposite of what the AI said.

I'm sorry but the fact that the AI summary is nicely formatted and has not missed a major topic of conversation means fuck all if the details that are are discussed are spectacularly wrong from a decision tracking perspective, as in literally the opposite of what is stated.

And I know "why" the Ai summary fucked up, because in that instance the topic of conversation was about how there was some confusion about which release that feature was going to be in, that's why the issue was a major item of the meeting agenda in the first place. Predicably, the AI failed to follow the convoluted discussion and "came to" the opposite conclusion.

In short, no fucking thanks.

shafyy · 6 days ago

Well, in my own experience, the LLMs that summarize video meetings at work are not at all 100% accurate. The issue is if you have not participated in the call, you can't say which part is accurate and which is not. Therefore, they are utterly useless to me.

shafyy commented on Sequoia backs Zed zed.dev/blog/sequoia-back... · Posted by u/vquemener

throwaway329044 · 7 days ago

Because Paul consistently violates HN guidelines:

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

shafyy · 7 days ago

It's not possible in today's world and not be political. People who say they are apolitical are also political. Silence is also communication.

Pointing out that Zed has taken money from a company that openly supports one of the biggest genocides in recent history is not a "political battle".

shafyy commented on Sequoia backs Zed zed.dev/blog/sequoia-back... · Posted by u/vquemener

shafyy · 7 days ago

I don't know why you are being downvoted. This is a real issue and a legitimate concern to have as a user of this software. I feel the same way (never used Zed in the first place because they are VC backed, but this would have been the final straw for me, too).

shafyy commented on GPT-5 openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd

softwaredoug · 19 days ago

He also said he had an existential crisis that he was completely useless now at work.

shafyy · 19 days ago

Good that he finally came to the realization lol

shafyy commented on About AI priver.dev/blog/ai/about-... · Posted by u/emil_priver

demirbey05 · 20 days ago

> If an AI can replace these repeated tasks, I could spend more time with my fiancé, family, friends, and dog, which is awesome, and I am looking forward to that.

I could not understand this optimism, aren't we living in a capitalist world ?

shafyy · 20 days ago

Exactly. I am yet to see the manager that says to their employees: "Ah nice, you became 10% more efficient using AI, from now on you can work 4 hours less every week".

shafyy commented on About AI priver.dev/blog/ai/about-... · Posted by u/emil_priver

pineaux · 20 days ago

The poor dont necessarily get poorer. That is not a given in capitalism. But at some point capitalism will converge to feudalism, at that point, the poor will become slaves.

And if not needed, culled. For being "unproductive" or "unattractive" or generally "worthless".

That's my cynical take.

As long as the rich can be reigned in in a way, the poor will not necessarily become poorer.

shafyy · 20 days ago

In neoliberal capitalism they do, though. Because companies can maximize profits without internalizing external costs (such as health care, social welfare, environmental costs).

shafyy commented on About AI priver.dev/blog/ai/about-... · Posted by u/emil_priver

XCSme · 20 days ago

I am pretty sure UBI will be at least tested at a large scale in our lifetime.

shafyy · 20 days ago

In the US, they can't even figure out universal healthcare, do you really think they are giving to go for UBI?