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uptownJimmy commented on GitHub CEO Warns Developers: "Either Embrace AI or Get Out of This Career"   finalroundai.com/blog/git... · Posted by u/pjmlp
uptownJimmy · a month ago
Surely GitHub can (and should) find someone less unhinged to run the company.
uptownJimmy commented on Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights   jameshard.ing/pilot... · Posted by u/jamesharding
uptownJimmy · 3 months ago
Maaaaan, this is so cool. I'm geekin'.
uptownJimmy commented on Sergey Brin says 60 hours a week is the 'sweet spot'   fortune.com/2025/02/28/se... · Posted by u/hakaneskici
uptownJimmy · 6 months ago
I'll not be taking advice on how many hours per week I should work from someone who doesn't work at all.
uptownJimmy commented on Vanilla Prime: A simpler, more sustainable way of web development   github.com/morris/vanilla... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
uptownJimmy · a year ago
"purity" is a word that sets off alarm bells for me, every time.
uptownJimmy commented on Google is a monopoly – the fix isn't obvious   theregister.com/2024/08/1... · Posted by u/rntn
uptownJimmy · a year ago
Google's "search results" are the textbook definition of a monopolized good/service. The whole thing is almost a casino, rigged to the point of absurdity.

There has been nothing in my life so disillusioning as working on a Web app for a company that is more or less required to play Google's game.

uptownJimmy commented on Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?    · Posted by u/45HCPW
uptownJimmy · a year ago
Whatever you decide, don't assume that it would be hard to find devs.

There are a lot of us who prefer to work for real businesses offering real products/services, and avoid working in the startup world with all its concomitant pipe dreams, wishful thinking and scams.

uptownJimmy commented on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops   old.reddit.com/r/crowdstr... · Posted by u/BLKNSLVR
peterleiser · a year ago
In this case it was tracked to Russia.
uptownJimmy · a year ago
That is absolutely one of the A-tier "certain type of a criminal a55hole".
uptownJimmy commented on Publishing AI Slop Is a Choice   daringfireball.net/linked... · Posted by u/mpweiher
uptownJimmy · a year ago
Google's market share was suffering because they have been using their dominance to force everyone to participate in the "game the search engine" scam that Google was selling, which exists only to cheat the Google search engine.

Once enough of us realized that Google search results are usually just paid ads, what's the point anymore?

It's insane, and "AI" isn't going to fix any of it.

The rot in our tech economy is astonishing.

uptownJimmy commented on VCs aren’t your friends   openvc.app/blog/vcs-arent... · Posted by u/taubek
uptownJimmy · a year ago
I remain confused as to why anyone would take VCs seriously at all, much less want to be friends with them. They mostly give strong vibes of "sociopath" and "malignant narcissist".
uptownJimmy commented on The jobs being replaced by AI – an analysis of 5M freelancing jobs   bloomberry.com/i-analyzed... · Posted by u/mooreds
uptownJimmy · a year ago
"One is that these generative AI tools are already good enough to replace many writing tasks, whether it’s writing an article, or a social media post."

Good enough to what? Give me a headache when I try to read any of the articles that Google coughs up when I search almost anything these days?

The auto-generated pap that passes for "good enough" is literally a tsunami of near-meaningless word-porridge that is burying the Web in nonsense. Might as well shove large chunks of lorem ipsum into your "articles" or "social media posts".

u/uptownJimmy

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