Hacker News: MicrosoftShill

New comment by MicrosoftShill in "Regression: malware reminder on every read still causes subagent refusals"

MicrosoftShill — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:22:10 +0000

I ran into this issue and told Claude that the code isn't malware, Claude agreed, and then it stopped scanning those files.

New comment by MicrosoftShill in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

MicrosoftShill — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 20:45:40 +0000

I've lived in the Seattle area most of my life and lived in San Francisco for a year.

SF embraces tech and in general (politics, etc) has a culture of being willing to try new things. Overall tech hostility is low, but the city becoming a testbed for projects like Waymo is possibly changing that. There is a continuous argument that their free-spirited culture has been cannibalized by tech.

Seattle feels like the complete opposite. Resistant to change, resistant to trying things, and if you say you work in tech you're now a "techbro" and met with eyerolls. This is in part because in Seattle if you are a "techbro" you work for one of the megacorps whereas in SF a "techbro" could be working for any number of cool startups.

As you mentioned, Seattle has also been taken over by said megacorps which has colored the impressions of everyone. When you have entire city blocks taken over by Microsoft/Amazon and the roads congested by them it definitely has some negative domino effects.

As an aside, on TV we in the Seattle area get ads about how much Amazon has been doing for the community. Definitely some PR campaign to keep local hostility low.

New comment by MicrosoftShill in "Find Your People"

MicrosoftShill — Fri, 23 May 2025 19:30:29 +0000

It sounds like you need some friends in the maker space or something similar where tinkering in something temporary is normal. I'd say you're among friends in the HN space where tinkerers are more common!

Keep working on your trauma. Don't however think that your healing is a requirement to have friends, love, etc. We are all broken and hurt. We are broken together.

New comment by MicrosoftShill in "The Google Willow Thing"

MicrosoftShill — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:51:50 +0000

Hey there - professionally I'm a sr cloud engineer focused on Azure. I have an interest in quantum as a hobbyist and maybe a career focus in coming years/decades. Katas seems like a good place to learn things, but if you were to give a 5 year outlook, what specifically should I be looking into? Is there something as an administrator/architect of these quantum products that I should focus expertise on? Or something in the Azure/O365/etc ecosystem I should be looking at that leverages these technologies? If I was to become a consultant, what would be my focus as an Azure cloud engineer in relation to quantum technologies?

I'm unsure I am even asking the right questions. I'd appreciate any direction you can give me!

New comment by MicrosoftShill in "WFH – Watched from Home: Office 365 and workplace surveillance creep (2022)"

MicrosoftShill — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 19:57:46 +0000

All enterprise productivity products are capable of spying on their users. It is up to the sysadmins, legal/ethics teams, and company culture to not allow for that surveillance to be used. And to be fair, most of the data that is being discussed isn't new and has been available to employers for ~10 years in one form or another. Not that that makes it better.

I run an O365 instance for my company. We have thousands of users. The only time the data that is referenced here is being used is for some rare troubleshooting or litigation reasons.

New comment by MicrosoftShill in "WFH – Watched from Home: Office 365 and workplace surveillance creep (2022)"

MicrosoftShill — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 19:45:31 +0000

"As a manager, it can be difficult to know what your team is working on and who is actually productive"

Successful managers figure out how to do their jobs without micromanaging or creating a culture of surveillance. Bad managers do what you're saying.

New comment by MicrosoftShill in "OpenAI and Microsoft extend partnership"

MicrosoftShill — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 18:37:16 +0000

Azure/O365 admin here. No, nothing special from a technical perspective.

The value to OpenAI to go Azure(/Microsoft) exclusive is:

- Money & general financial security forever

- Integration with the largest software suite in the world (Windows, O365, Active Directory, etc)

- Rapid push to worldwide enterprise sector

- Rapid push to worldwide gov/mil sector (ChatGPT, coming soon to a war near you!)

- Rapid push to education sector