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tonymet commented on AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/JustExAWS

Viliam1234 · a day ago

Exactly. If the AI can multiply everyone's power by hundred or thousand, you want to keep all people who make a positive contribution (and only get rid of those who are actively harmful). With sufficiently good AI, perhaps the group of juniors you just fired could have created a new product in a week.

tonymet · a day ago

even within the AI-paradigm, you could keep the juniors to validate and test the AI generated code. You still need some level of acceptance testing for the increased production. And the juniors could be producing automation engineering at or above the level of the product code they were producing prior to AI. A win win ( more production & more career growth)

In other words, none of these stories make any sense, even if you take the AI superpower at face value.

tonymet commented on AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/JustExAWS

tonymet · a day ago

If AI is truly this effective, we would be selling 10x-10Kx more stuff, building 10x more features (and more quickly), improving quality & reliability 10x. There would be no reason to fire anyone because the owners would be swimming in cash. I'm talking good old-fashioned greed here.

You don't fire people if you anticipate a 100x growth. Who cares about saving 0.1% of your money in 10 years? You want to sell 100x / 1000x/ 10000x more .

So the story is hard to swallow. The real reason is as usual, they anticipate a downturn and want to keep earnings stable.

tonymet commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso

tonymet · 3 days ago

So it's a paywall with -- good intentions -- and even more accessibility concerns. Thus accelerating enshittification.

Who's managing the network effects? How do site owners control false positives? Do they have support teams granting access? How do we know this is doing any good?

It's convoluted security theater mucking up an already bloated , flimsy and sluggish internet. It's frustrating enough to guess schoolbuses every time I want to get work done, now I have to see porfnified kitty waifus

(openwrt is another community plagued with this crap)

tonymet · 2 days ago

here is the community post with Anubis pro / con experiences https://forum.openwrt.org/t/trying-out-anubis-on-the-wiki/23...

tonymet commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso

tonymet · 3 days ago

So it's a paywall with -- good intentions -- and even more accessibility concerns. Thus accelerating enshittification.

Who's managing the network effects? How do site owners control false positives? Do they have support teams granting access? How do we know this is doing any good?

(openwrt is another community plagued with this crap)

tonymet commented on Critical Cache Poisoning Vulnerability in Dnsmasq lists.thekelleys.org.uk/p... · Posted by u/westurner

tonymet · 4 days ago

there are easily 300m+ installs of dnsmasq that will never be updated, because they are buried in forked , unmaintained firmwares on consumer routers.

We truly need a "right to repair" for IOT & consumer networking devices. Any device not receiving monthly security updates should have the firmware keys & source published so the community can take over.

tonymet commented on How much do electric car batteries degrade? sustainabilitybynumbers.c... · Posted by u/xnx

Sohcahtoa82 · 4 days ago

> first off that's not the case just check everyone running their battery calibration tests on forums.

Relying on posts from forums is going to end up with some major selection bias. People who don't have significant battery degradation are less likely to go to forums to see what others have been dealing with.

tonymet · 4 days ago

i agree partially. I think both outliers will post. the good ones for bragging rights.

But don't be too quick to dismiss. there's an entire industry in tesla battery repair to address the loss in value. That wouldn't exist if the batteries were at the claimed level.

and there are many other indications.

It's funny how "statistics" from tesla will be taken at face value, whereas other real experiences from owners are dismissed as "anecdotal".

They are all just stories. Who do you want to listen to?

tonymet commented on How much do electric car batteries degrade? sustainabilitybynumbers.c... · Posted by u/xnx

imtringued · 5 days ago

Depending on the car brand you can drive several dozen kilometers even after hitting 0%.

Fully emptying an electric car is a boring exercise in stupidity. Unless you are going out of your way to do it, you will never run into a situation where you need to get your car towed.

tonymet · 4 days ago

That’s not true. I have documented a forecasting calibration issue specific to certain supercharging scenarios where the forecast drops 10% upon departure . The driver can follow the plan and still go below 0

tonymet commented on How much do electric car batteries degrade? sustainabilitybynumbers.c... · Posted by u/xnx

foobazgt · 5 days ago

> first off that's not the case

It's objectively the case. They literally have the data to back it up, regardless of what anecdata you might have seen on some forums.

> And the context above

Their fleet data says 85% battery average capacity at 200K mi and that battery degradation slows down over time. That's a far cry from 70% at 9 years.

tonymet · 5 days ago

Not to mention what’s the stddev ? That’s still a lot of write offs even going by their subjective figures

tonymet commented on How much do electric car batteries degrade? sustainabilitybynumbers.c... · Posted by u/xnx

foobazgt · 5 days ago

> first off that's not the case

It's objectively the case. They literally have the data to back it up, regardless of what anecdata you might have seen on some forums.

> And the context above

Their fleet data says 85% battery average capacity at 200K mi and that battery degradation slows down over time. That's a far cry from 70% at 9 years.

tonymet · 5 days ago

That’s the opposite of objective.

tonymet commented on How much do electric car batteries degrade? sustainabilitybynumbers.c... · Posted by u/xnx

foobazgt · 5 days ago

It's stated directly in the article that Tesla's study reports vehicles with 200K miles generally retaining 85% capacity. That's nearly 300% better than what you're suggesting.

tonymet · 5 days ago

first off that's not the case just check everyone running their battery calibration tests on forums.

And the context above is the warranty not covering long enough durations. 70% or 8 years does not protect the value of the vehicle. Below 70% @ 9 years is a worthless car

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