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sshine commented on OpenClaw is changing my life reorx.com/blog/openclaw-i... · Posted by u/novoreorx

gyomu · 2 days ago

I think a sizable proportion of people just want to play "large company exec". Their dream is to have an assistant telling them how busy their day is, all the meetings they have, then to go to those meetings and listen to random fluff people tell them while saying "mmh yeah what a wise observation" or "mmh no not enough synergy here, let's pivot and really leave our mark on this market, crunch the numbers again".

I can't come up with any other explanation for why there seems to be so many people claiming that AI is changing their life and workflow, as if they have a whole team of junior engineers at their disposal, and yet have really not that much to show for it.

They're so white collar-pilled that they're in utter bliss experiencing a simulation of the peak white collar experience, being a mid-level manager in meetings all day telling others what to do, with nothing tangible coming out of it.

sshine · 2 days ago

> LARP'ing CEO

My experience with plain Claude Code is that I can step back and get an overview of what I'm doing, since I tend to hyperfocus on problems, preventing me from having a simultaneous overview.

It does feel like being a project manager (a role I've partially filled before) having your agency in autopilot, which is still more control than having team members do their thing.

So while it may feel very empowering to be the CEO of your own computer, the question is if it has any CEO-like effect on your work.

Taking it back to Claude Code and feeling like a manager, it certainly does have a real effect for me.

I won't dispute that running a bunch of agents in sync won't give you an extension of that effect.

The real test is: Do you invoice accordingly?

sshine commented on Company as Code blog.42futures.com/p/comp... · Posted by u/ahamez

amelius · 5 days ago

> but a living, breathing digital representation of our company

It is breathing already, in the form of humans doing it.

No need to transform it into a static inflexible code thing.

sshine · 5 days ago

You're citing the article mid-sentence. The full sentence is:

> Imagine if we could represent our entire organisational structure programmatically instead—not a static picture, but a living, breathing digital representation of our company that can be versioned, queried, tested, and automatically verified.

So yeah, the organisation is living and breathing by virtue of the humans inside of it.

But the representation of its organisational structure refers to a picture of an org chart.

Non-tech people also aspire to have the entire org structure represented digitally.

But in static, proprietary binary formats in file repositories that can only be manually queried.

Our code is already checked into version control and can be programmatically accessed via CI, agents, etc. Our software production environments can already be queried programmatically via APIs. Our issue trackers have hooks that react to support tickets, pull requests, CI. Then there's an airgap where the rest of the org sits with Word documents and pushes digital paper around. Artifacts delivered to customers that must be manually copied, attached, downloaded by hand.

The dream is that modern software development practices would propagate throughout companies.

Automate all the things!

sshine commented on Google AI helped IDF drones with targeting in 2024 breaching its own policies washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/bhouston

sshine · 7 days ago

“Don’t be evil” — as with anyone who works with AI-powered weapons targeting technologies, there are two tricks to stay on the moral side:

1. Only sell to good countries

2. Only target bad people

(Company pitch when I accidentally ended up interviewing at a weapons manufacturer for their new edge GPU research.)

sshine commented on LinkedIn Is Down ctrlv.link/8aQX... · Posted by u/palakd

SunshineTheCat · 7 days ago

"Why my MRR ARR LTV ARPU and DAU Skyrocketed and my CAC Plummeted (and How Yours Can Too), Lessons from the LinkedIn Apocalypse"

sshine · 7 days ago

Oh, the LinkedPocalypse of early 2026. I remember this time fondly as my family huddled around the campfire in the living room as we watched, for a glimpse, all humanity fade and return and fade and return as a broken light bulb that would flicker, not knowing its time was up.

“Why don’t you just watch tv?” you might ask. Can’t. Service update bricked my Samsung TV’s wifi capability.

sshine commented on Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal iranintl.com/en/202601255... · Posted by u/mhb

gizajob · 15 days ago

How do you know? Do you have links for that information? And if true they’d be regular murders brought in, not mercenaries.

sshine · 15 days ago

Mercenaries are murderers for hire.

Also, read the article. :)

sshine commented on Like digging 'your own grave': The translators grappling with losing work to AI cnn.com/2026/01/23/tech/t... · Posted by u/myk-e

sshine · 16 days ago

My mom retired as an independent translator 5 years ago.

She worked freelance 40 years from age 25 to age 65.

In the 15 years that preceded her retirement, she would get less and less work.

Partly she's an introvert who relies on her network to provide work, and her network gradually retired.

But machine translation was the big killer.

Before LLMs, the early versions of Google Translate killed paid translation.

As the market adapted to machine translation, and as the internet became a globalised platform for knowledge work, it also opened up to lower grade translation, and there were suddenly many more translators willing to work at a lower wage.

Prior to Google Translate there were semi-automated systems that would fuzzy match from large databases.

But it'd still rely on a human-in-the-loop for adapting the sentences.

With Google Translate you'd get a super sketchy translation out, very crude and not at all correct or idiomatic in the target language. Any distance between the source and target language (e.g. English -> Chinese) and it'd be one big joke. With plain Google Translate it still is. But the market spoke: Probably you don't need a very good translation most of the time. Especially not if the shitty one is free.

In her later years she moved to transcription of board meetings. She'd type up everything that was said.

I work for a company now that automates transcription via the whisper model and generates summaries that can be adapted by the customer. You pay per minute of transcription, and you can regenerate summaries as much as you want after that until your prompts give the right results.

All of this manual labor that provided for my childhood is gone now.

I couldn't imagine being a professional translator today and not use AI extensively.

But unless I have a legal reason to consult with a professional translator, I probably don't even need one, since LLM-based translation is as good as it gets with just plain LLM usage, and near perfect with automated translation tools that will help you pick both the mood, formality and alternative formulations for your translation.

High-grade translation is massively parallelisable, and a human-in-the-loop is entirely for final proof-reading.

sshine commented on Internet Archive's Storage blog.dshr.org/2026/01/int... · Posted by u/zdw

fragmede · 17 days ago

If you think that's fucked up, do you know how little we pay teachers? Especially preschool-K? Clearly money is just a metric for how much moneying the money had been able to money. Goodhart out it another way: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

sshine · 16 days ago

I was a CS teacher for the past two years, so yes. I did it for quality of life reasons while my son learned to walk. But I almost doubled my salary going back to being a software dev.

sshine commented on Why Does Destroying Resources via TF Suck? newsletter.masterpoint.io... · Posted by u/mooreds

sshine · 16 days ago

I love how terraform can describe what I’ve got. Sort of. Assuming I or my colleagues or my noob customers don’t modify resources on the same account.

I don’t love how unreliable providers are, even for creating resources. Clouds like DigitalOcean will 429 throttle me for making too many plans in a row with only 100+ resources. Sometimes the plan goes through, but the apply fails. Sometimes halfway through.

I’d rather use a cloud-specific API, unless I’m certain of the quality of the specific terraform provider.

sshine commented on Internet Archive's Storage blog.dshr.org/2026/01/int... · Posted by u/zdw

AdamN · 17 days ago

I think the culture is one of 'we are doing this for all humankind' and when you get just a few smart people bought in on that level of commitment and they're trying to be lean (and also for sure underpaying themselves compared to what they might make at Big Tech) then you can get impressive results.

sshine · 17 days ago

I look at the 1990s picture of Brewster Kahle and think: He surely didn't get paid as much as me, but what did I do? Play insignificant roles in various software subscription services, many of which are gone now. And what did he do? Held on to an idea for decades.

The combined value of The Internet Archive -- whether we think just the infrastructure, just the value of the data, or the actual utility value to mankind -- vastly outperforms an individual contributor's at almost every well-paying internet startup. At the simple cost of not getting to pocket that value.

I wish I believed in something this much.

sshine commented on From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown kentik.com/blog/from-stea... · Posted by u/oavioklein

sshine · 19 days ago

When there's an uprising it's a pretty god indicator that the elections aren't working.

https://www.norwich.edu/topic/all-blog-posts/facade-democrac...

Though President Ebrahim Raisi’s sudden death in May 2024 prompted a new electoral cycle with six vetted candidates, all were affiliated with the regime and loyal to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, ensuring little real policy divergence. The Guardian Council filtered out all but hardline male clerics and a nominal reformist, creating the illusion of choice while reinforcing conservative dominance. Moreover, the presidency in Iran holds limited authority — ultimate power resides with Khamenei, who, since 1989, has steadily centralized control in his hands, rendering both elected institutions and their leaders largely symbolic. In short, the article contends that no matter who wins, Iran’s domestic and foreign agendas — especially its nuclear program and regional interventions — will remain unchanged, as they are guided by the Supreme Leader's ideology.