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New comment by JohnnyMarcone in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

JohnnyMarcone — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:26:42 +0000

What about everyone else in society? What happens if your skill set is no longer in demand and you become one of "everyone else"?

New comment by JohnnyMarcone in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

JohnnyMarcone — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 14:37:20 +0000

This is obviously the ideal, but we have to operate in reality as it is today while pushing in the direction of the ideal.

New comment by JohnnyMarcone in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

JohnnyMarcone — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 05:17:42 +0000

We are in a period of resistance, fighting for the next election so we can apply major collective pressure. Then he will be the lamest of ducks.

New comment by JohnnyMarcone in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

JohnnyMarcone — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:13:58 +0000

Yeah, I haven't tried to get an invite, but I enjoy lurking there. Seems like a cool system.

New comment by JohnnyMarcone in "Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations"

JohnnyMarcone — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:08:02 +0000

During COVID my company had mandatory days off (I think 14) if you reported any COVID symptoms. Those days were unpaid of course. The cherry on top is the people paid the lowest were the ones who couldn't work from home and were most likely to get COVID. This was pretty common at other places too.

New comment by JohnnyMarcone in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

JohnnyMarcone — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 15:19:08 +0000

lobste.rs is smaller but can have good discussion.

New comment by JohnnyMarcone in "Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" [video]"

JohnnyMarcone — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 04:09:13 +0000

> 100% of today’s SWE tasks are done by the models.

I do think he was overstating the current state of the models by a bit, but this is taken out of context. He is not saying this is where the models are at today.

He gives a spectrum [18:30] of the models taking over the SWE jobs:

- Model writes 90% of code (today)

- Model writes 100% of code

- Model does 90% of today's SWE tasks (end-to-end)

- Model does 100% of today's SWE tasks

- The SWE job creates new tasks that didn't exist before

- Model does the new SWE tasks as well (90% reduction in demand for SWE)

New comment by JohnnyMarcone in "Testing Ads in ChatGPT"

JohnnyMarcone — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:50:40 +0000

I was going to say that you're parroting his interviews and then you outted yourself.

New comment by JohnnyMarcone in "Claude is a space to think"

JohnnyMarcone — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:28:51 +0000

How do you parse the difference between marketing and having values? I have difficulty with that and I would love to understand how people can be confident one way or the other. In many instances, the marketing becomes so disconnected from actions that it's obvious. That hasn't happen with Anthropic for me.

New comment by JohnnyMarcone in "Claude is a space to think"

JohnnyMarcone — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:55:30 +0000

I really hope Anthropic turns out to be one of the 'good guys', or at least a net positive.

It appears they trend in the right direction:

- Have not kissed the Ring.

- Oppose blocking AI regulation that other's support (e.g. They do not support banning state AI laws [2]).

- Committing to no ads.

- Willing to risk defense department contract over objections to use for lethal operations [1]

The things that are concerning: - Palantir partnership (I'm unclear about what this actually is) [3]

- Have shifted stances as competition increased (e.g. seeking authoritarian investors [4])

It inevitable that they will have to compromise on values as competition increases and I struggle parsing the difference marketing and actually caring about values. If an organization cares about values, it's suboptimal not to highlight that at every point via marketing. The commitment to no ads is obviously good PR but if it comes from a place of values, it's a win-win.

I'm curious, how do others here think about Anthropic?

[1]https://archive.is/Pm2QS

[2]https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/opinion/anthropic-ceo-reg...

[3]https://investors.palantir.com/news-details/2024/Anthropic-a...

[4]https://archive.is/4NGBE

New comment by JohnnyMarcone in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

JohnnyMarcone — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:58:01 +0000

The fed was taking action by increasing rates up until the housing market collapsed, so at least some were taking the issues seriously.

I don't have the full context of what the thinking was back then since I was in highschool.

New comment by JohnnyMarcone in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

JohnnyMarcone — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 04:50:00 +0000

Account created 20 days ago.

New comment by JohnnyMarcone in "Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills"

JohnnyMarcone — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:21:28 +0000

It's also the fun path! Although I think we should acknowledge that most don't have the means to do this. For engineers with a high salary I would advise saving as much as possible so you have more agency.

New comment by JohnnyMarcone in "Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%"

JohnnyMarcone — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 21:25:18 +0000

This is a point in time for the US and there are institutional paths to change. The comparisons to China forget that China does not have the same mechanisms for change. China is an immutable state outside of revolution or the administration just deciding to transfer power.

If they are successful in destroying democracy, I will reevaluate my view. We don't know what's going to happen in the midterms or 2028.

New comment by JohnnyMarcone in "Statement from Jerome Powell"

JohnnyMarcone — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:22:12 +0000

Look up the build back better act that Biden proposed and tell me if you think that was centrist. It originally proposed extending the child tax credit (basically basic income for people with kids).

The Inflation Reduction Act, the negotiated paired down version was still the biggest climate bill in history.

He also attempted to cancel 10 to 20k each of student debt, a progressive priority. That was blocked by the Supreme court.

The list goes on.

If the electorate had given Biden a bigger majority in Congress he would have passed much more progressive legislation.

New comment by JohnnyMarcone in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

JohnnyMarcone — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:34:06 +0000

How are you finding lemmy community compared to reddit?

New comment by JohnnyMarcone in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

JohnnyMarcone — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:09:12 +0000

I always wonder if the general sentiment toward genai would be positive if we had wealth redistribution mechanisms in place, so everyone would benefit. Obviously that's not the case, but if you consider the theoretical, do you think your view would be different?

New comment by JohnnyMarcone in "Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use"

JohnnyMarcone — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 23:03:11 +0000

That's a much easier stance to take for people who are not facing loss of income. If we had wealth redistribution mechanisms in place, I think more people would be pro ai.

New comment by JohnnyMarcone in "Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks"

JohnnyMarcone — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 22:40:08 +0000

Thanks for this comment. I've been trying to find anything about the huge error bars. Do you have any sources you can share for further reading?

New comment by JohnnyMarcone in "Claude in Chrome"

JohnnyMarcone — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:32:26 +0000

How do you know?