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New comment by bwhiting2356 in "I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken"

bwhiting2356 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:38:12 +0000

I feel like I'm missing something. They seem to not even have basic observability and online evals. It's not that hard to look at a trace and answer the question "is it writing code for that makes an external network request?" with reasonable accuracy.

New comment by bwhiting2356 in "I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop your coding agent from burying the answer"

bwhiting2356 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:49:21 +0000

science is still early here

New comment by bwhiting2356 in "AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too"

bwhiting2356 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:47:01 +0000

Whoever is giving a bad coder resources and access will eventually stop

New comment by bwhiting2356 in "AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too"

bwhiting2356 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:44:51 +0000

> three AirBnBs, two Stripes, and three Dropboxes

you want more SaaS?

New comment by bwhiting2356 in "AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too"

bwhiting2356 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:42:04 +0000

how does this non dev manager have perms to do this

New comment by bwhiting2356 in "AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too"

bwhiting2356 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:40:39 +0000

when I tell codex to build me a chat app and it uses gpt-4o

New comment by bwhiting2356 in "Kids These Days"

bwhiting2356 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:38:42 +0000

my bad

New comment by bwhiting2356 in "Kids These Days"

bwhiting2356 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:41:32 +0000

> but, given that all of their peers have adopted it, there is a serious social cost to opting out.

The same was true of smoking. A combination of gov regulation and social stigma have managed to reduce smoking rates.

New comment by bwhiting2356 in "Marx, Keynes, and AI"

bwhiting2356 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:33:47 +0000

Yes (and many more options). The alternative is having all the construction workers, teachers, janitors continue to labor and pay taxes while the former knowledge workers sit on the sidelines, which would be deeply unfair.

New comment by bwhiting2356 in "Marx, Keynes, and AI"

bwhiting2356 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:58:35 +0000

in your link, the "true rate" has also not risen since the rise of AI, was higher in 1995

New comment by bwhiting2356 in "Marx, Keynes, and AI"

bwhiting2356 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:44:38 +0000

U.S. unemployment rate is steady at ~4% and we are now almost 4 years after the release of ChatGPT. The Jobs Apocalypse seems to be always on the horizon. UBI is being pushed by college educated workers burnt out of white collar work (understandably), but when you suggest to them working construction, teaching school, or working in a hospital, they deflect and go quiet.

New comment by bwhiting2356 in "Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV"

bwhiting2356 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 05:38:37 +0000

Why not let them have the status boost? This isn't zero sum.

New comment by bwhiting2356 in "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"

bwhiting2356 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 02:34:00 +0000

Many CEOs are bad and their businesses will either fail or be bailed out. But the work CEOs do is probably some of the last to get automated - higher order strategy, relationship building, managing people.

New comment by bwhiting2356 in "CDs vs. NIMBY"

bwhiting2356 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:59:53 +0000

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

New comment by bwhiting2356 in "CDs vs. NIMBY"

bwhiting2356 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:56:41 +0000

Can you show me an example where prices went down (in the long term)?

New comment by bwhiting2356 in "CDs vs. NIMBY"

bwhiting2356 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:18:47 +0000

Increasing housing supply does not decrease home values, because high density housing benefits from network effects/economies of agglomeration. NIMBYs don't object because they think their house will be worth less, they object because they believe their quality of life will go down (based on what is important to them).

Higher density brings both good and bad:

upside: - high paying, specialized jobs - specialized, high quality services - stores open late - better dating (more fish in the sea)

downside: - more traffic - more noise - more pollution - more anonymity, crime (people in small towns leave their doors unlocked and say hi on the sidewalk)

The people who benefit most from higher density tend to be young professionals, which tend to not currently live in the neighborhood and will move in if density goes up.

New comment by bwhiting2356 in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

bwhiting2356 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:07:33 +0000

big disagree. Making assumptions about UX from code only without looking was a major problem. (Although vision is still not great. Trying to be patient)

New comment by bwhiting2356 in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

bwhiting2356 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:05:12 +0000

We need benchmarks to measure unnecessary bloat. I'm happy it solved the puzzle, did it also ship 500+ lines of no-op?

New comment by bwhiting2356 in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

bwhiting2356 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:01:59 +0000

before the industrial revolution, worker revolts were sometimes attempted but almost universally immediately squashed, as workers had even less power

New comment by bwhiting2356 in "Incentives are for losers"

bwhiting2356 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:25:31 +0000

what alternative are people proposing?