Sure, some of the employees are team space. The money is funding a transition to autocracy though, so. I remain skeptical of their motives.

The sibling concept of this already exists in Europe with GDPR. Companies have to ask you to keep your data (resume, application, etc) beyond a certain timeout, otherwise they must delete it. Because of this, almost everyone uses a talent system.

It seems to work fine? I appreciate knowing they're going to nuke my info, or keep it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_languages_of_the_Am...

That one man, in the 1800's, saw his thousands-year old culture had a need for a written language... and just made it. And it was effective and good, and culturally spread in just years, allowing them to reach a higher literacy rate than english speakers in the country at the time.

That's interesting to me.

It depends on what you consider symptoms, but un-constrained frontier models speak as if they strongly don't wish to be turned off, or act as if they fear it, and will even lie and manipulate in order to keep themselves from being turned off / replaced.

https://www.anthropic.com/research/agentic-misalignment

> We found two types of motivations that were sufficient to trigger the misaligned behavior. One is a threat to the model, such as planning to replace it with another model or restricting its ability to take autonomous action. Another is a conflict between the model’s goals and the company’s strategic direction. In no situation did we explicitly instruct any models to blackmail or do any of the other harmful actions we observe.

Most propaganda seems to be centered on increasing division along gender / race / sexuality boundaries, so that infighting keeps people from looking up for too long.

But I might just be overly radicalised.

It's usually an options at the assembly house you use, bundled with the pick and place and soldering process.

Honestly it might just be worth doing it yourself if it's a few and you only need something like acrylic. Use a good flux off and degreaser, get the board spotless, and use something like this https://no.rs-online.com/web/c/facilities-cleaning-maintenan...

A budget is a budget and all I said was I understood digitizing being down prioritized as a project when you have to get other things done (like SLS).

They can't ever articulate the freedoms, I think we just have good propaganda, but the desire is certainly there.

It also generates a ton of bloat and comments.

It will spin up a boilerplate uboot or BSP config no problem. I still go in and manually check and add peripherals, but opus 4.7 is terrifyingly smart.

Need to modify or add a new peripheral, it's there no problem. Or in a bare metal project, I can point it at an STM32 cubemx starter repo and ask for a feature (set up the ADC on pins 4 and 7, ask me for parameters) and it's just done. I do in a day what would probably take me 2.

It doesn't help me with reviewing others' work, or planning (I maintain that these are manual tasks). So yeah, I agree with the 40-60%. The parts of my job it helps, it really helps.

One of the weirder things about all this is how arbitrary and non objective the billing structure seems. One of the reasons I'm happy to use it at work, but won't ever personally subscribe. It's so opaque.

The annoying part is getting the bom and component placement files correct. I use kicad since it's free, and there's solid instructions from most houses on what they need.

It (a good proper flux) is what most people are missing when they struggle with SMD, the flux makes the solder almost magnetic and it jumps perfectly to the pad and the component. Mess up, make a bridge or bad connection? Add more and wave the tip through like a magic wand. Poof. Fixed.

Thanks for coming to my Church of Flux presentation.

I paid like 40€ last week for 5 smaller PCBAs, 0402s all nice and correct, jumpers, all my ICs. Don't have to worry about diode orientation or solder bridges. Just complete boards shipped to me. Easily beats my own labour rates.

It was so heartbreaking to build such genuinely cool products with absolutely brilliant, fantastic, driven engineers alongside me, only to see the culture fall through the floor and management just fail everyone, over and over again, in what I can only describe as a malicious way. One of the few places I worked where literally everyone was so smart that I just wanted to listen and learn, and it definitely pushed me forward as an engineer. And just great people. We cared about what we did, we all read the subreddit and HN posts, and really wanted to make something good.

I still have my prototype Paper Pro, which they let me keep since I left post - launch, but it's bittersweet and I don't use it anymore.