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New comment by 650 in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

650 — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:48:00 +0000

Why did a PM create the merge request? It seems like internal testing brought up issues, why was it merged regardless? Is velocity a metric you were aiming for when merging this?

New comment by 650 in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

650 — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:07:28 +0000

This was merged by a Principal SWE though. Maybe overruled by leadership :)

New comment by 650 in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

650 — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:05:45 +0000

A Principal Software Engineer at Microslop merged this - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmitriy-vasyura-9191611/

This is the author of the MR - https://github.com/cwebster-99 - A Product Manager at Microslop

I've routinely spoken on the uselessness, and oftentimes detriment of product managers in tech.

The dearth of leadership driving for vanity metrics like PMs writing code doesn't help either.

New comment by 650 in "Uber’s Anthropic AI push hits a wall"

650 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:37:36 +0000

Large companies have been incentivizing and correlating token spend to performance, thus creating needless spend of tokens for now. Goodharts Law and all that.

New comment by 650 in "Intelligent people are better judges of the intelligence of others"

650 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:55:58 +0000

I've heard the parable, "If you didn't eat breakfast or lunch yesterday, how would you feel around 3pm?", a common response is apparently "but I did eat lunch and breakfast yesterday".

New comment by 650 in "Delve into Compliance Theatre"

650 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:28:44 +0000

Patrick (patio11) has been actively speaking about the Delve (YCW24) fraud allegations - (https://deepdelver.substack.com/p/192144506 - Pt2) extensively on X/Twitter. Delve's response is lacking.

New comment by 650 in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service – Part II"

650 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:24:08 +0000

Delve will soon fail as a visible example of fairness. The other startups exaggerating their product and financials will continue for now.

The founders fake interviews on TikTok were amusing to say the least, dropout 20 year olds with 8 papers published, we're dealing with Von Neumanns by the dozens.

New comment by 650 in "The first 40 months of the AI era"

650 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:30:59 +0000

What did you build? Given how new the account is

New comment by 650 in "The dead Internet is not a theory anymore"

650 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:18:26 +0000

community idea:

"my2cents"

0.02 to post or send a message

New comment by 650 in "Most of the US economy is in a recession"

650 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:46:27 +0000

Business Insider slop; Hacker News should not become Reddit. We've been talking about recessions since 2022.

New comment by 650 in "Tech jobs are getting demolished in ways not seen since 2008"

650 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:33:28 +0000

We are only slowing growth after a big jump in hiring during COVID 2020-2022... these attention grabbing slop headlines are junk news.

"We’ve lost 50k jobs last two years after decades of adding 100k+ every year including the pandemic highs of 300k+ per year. Total employment remains way above 2000s, 2008 and 2020 unlike the title suggests."

See the thread here for more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278426

"Business Insider" is a waste of time in my opinion.

New comment by 650 in "My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs"

650 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 02:47:53 +0000

Meta, and other large companies have been encouraging PMs to code, while I've seen many negative responses from engineers having to code review, debug, deal with production issues, etc. stemming from crappy code they don't understand. Metrics and KPIs are being gamed into stupid incentives like lines of code, commits, and tickets closed. Leadership claims they are aware of Goodhart's Law, but their actions show otherwise.

Overall the rise of business types in tech company leadership has led to a drop in engineering quality, a rise in short term metrics, and fiascos like the COVID overhiring into multiple rounds of layoffs.

New comment by 650 in "Breaking Free"

650 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 02:30:28 +0000

Is ought fallacy. Just because this is happening, doesn’t mean it should happen. Cannot derive morality from current situation. See Hume

New comment by 650 in "Layoffs at Block"

650 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:08:06 +0000

Won't companies just offshore?

New comment by 650 in "Layoffs at Block"

650 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:55:33 +0000

This is akin to the is-ought fallacy. Just because a company had layoffs and cited AI, doesn't mean other companies should follow suit or that it will happen. As others have noted in the comments, BTC dropped heavily which Block was invested in, and a lot of their bets went south. Block managers complained at times about certain people not working privately. They also acquired a few companies at peak valuations post COVID.

New comment by 650 in "How AI skills are quietly automating my workday"

650 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:11:49 +0000

So far 1/6 comments on this post and the post itself are AI slop

New comment by 650 in "Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox"

650 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:17:05 +0000

What are people using OpenClaw for that is useful?

New comment by 650 in "H-1B Exposed: Banking sector visa sponsorship investigation"

650 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:23:32 +0000

With all the discourse around H1Bs recently, I ask what the alternative is? Offshoring and workers paying taxes in their own countries? The common argument of X number of CS grads unemployed fails to hold as CS has been a monkey degree over the past few years due to the rush for money. Some investigation will show many graduates are not able to perform software engineering duties up to par, and sub par graduates compared to pre 2015. Of course its nuanced between training that companies used to offer etc.

New comment by 650 in "Mamdani Hires Lisa Gelobter as Chief Tech Officer"

650 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:29:24 +0000

Which tech folks you respect are applauding the choice? (politically aligned) with is something you noted, which may be why they are applauding it. I am not slamming her technical ability, there is no representation of it online, and her roles are not technical at all and do not lend credence to the headline, or verbiage used in articles about her ability.

New comment by 650 in "Mamdani Hires Lisa Gelobter as Chief Tech Officer"

650 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:47:52 +0000

She was Director of Program Management, which is different from Product Management as well. You can google what a program manager usually does, and its usually not inventing things or technical work.