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New comment by coffeebeqn in "Companies rein in AI usage as costs strain budgets"

coffeebeqn — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:22:10 +0000

We’ve had our AI budget per Engineer cut twice now since the peak mania in early 2026 and Fable was banned even before it was removed by Anthropic due to cost. It’s still used a lot but I think maybe they’re not really seeing the ROI especially when some people spent thousands and thousands per month on dubious AI things.

Personally I truly can’t manage that many tasks (really 1 or 2 max) in parallel with these since you need to think very hard about everything the AI spits out because they’re such natural bullshitters and you end up in places where no one on the team understands anything in the project

New comment by coffeebeqn in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

coffeebeqn — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:21:29 +0000

Try mint on a live boot. I’ve found it to be the most “just works” on various laptops

New comment by coffeebeqn in "The AirPods Effect"

coffeebeqn — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:00:28 +0000

Just any time in your day where you’re not bombarded with external input is getting very rare

New comment by coffeebeqn in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

coffeebeqn — Sat, 30 May 2026 07:44:45 +0000

That’s not really true at studios - maybe at Unreal and Unity they get paid normal wages. I know some people working on the in house engine and rendering of AAA studios and they make like 60% of what I make in general big-ish tech backend

New comment by coffeebeqn in "The Coming Layoffs and the Revenge of the Measurers"

coffeebeqn — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:31:55 +0000

This is so hyperbolic I don’t even know what to say. A 1000x Engineer? Have you actually used these tools?

New comment by coffeebeqn in "Deno 2.8"

coffeebeqn — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:29:19 +0000

In my area it feels like it’s competing against go which is a language purposefully designed for the thing we’re building and has a great tool chain already. I never really wanted JavaScript. It’s not a very thoughtfully designed language and the not very good design was made for the browser. I just used node because it was simple to get it working. And you have bun and things like that competing for the space too

New comment by coffeebeqn in "Googlebook"

coffeebeqn — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:43:01 +0000

Just the build quality on MacBooks compared to your random PC laptop piece of plastic that falls apart within a few years would make me very picky. I have a random “corporate” Lenovo and everything physical in it is way way worse than in my work MacBook

New comment by coffeebeqn in "eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible"

coffeebeqn — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:30:21 +0000

Neither is GameStop

New comment by coffeebeqn in "eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible"

coffeebeqn — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:25:45 +0000

They’re only 22 years behind

New comment by coffeebeqn in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

coffeebeqn — Tue, 12 May 2026 08:28:51 +0000

Feels like musical chairs. We’ll see how long until it’s just a few oligarchs with their robot software teams

New comment by coffeebeqn in "A.I. note takers are making lawyers nervous"

coffeebeqn — Mon, 11 May 2026 11:48:48 +0000

Plus they are super inaccurate. Gemini gets one of its three bullet subtly or very majorly wrong almost every time. Just a few weeks ago Gemini said we’re rolling out our payment setup in Russia. You know the place where we have 20+ sanctions packages on? We were talking about France in the meeting.

New comment by coffeebeqn in "The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"

coffeebeqn — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:11:48 +0000

Don’t try to make money from it and you can still do fun things in life

New comment by coffeebeqn in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

coffeebeqn — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:12:14 +0000

Sadly that was Etsy 10 years ago but today is a dropshipping front

New comment by coffeebeqn in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

coffeebeqn — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:32:53 +0000

That sounds like a very low value add. So you’ll have some teenagers clicking on the eBay portal for me like I’ve never used a computer before?

New comment by coffeebeqn in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

coffeebeqn — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:24:04 +0000

When your bright new business-saving idea is to be a pawn shop I might wonder is this the most efficient place for me to keep my capital in

New comment by coffeebeqn in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

coffeebeqn — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:20:25 +0000

Neat - Setting up a eBay account for your company doesn’t cost $55B. I’m available as a part time CFO from now on

New comment by coffeebeqn in "Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym"

coffeebeqn — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:49:04 +0000

And I almost never get a no when I make the effort. One of the people I spend the most time with as an adult is one of my childhood friends who we just randomly went for beers once after not seeing in 15 years and now meet up every month or two since we still had the same chemistry as we did as kids

New comment by coffeebeqn in "Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym"

coffeebeqn — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:46:46 +0000

Strong gaydar on this gentleman

New comment by coffeebeqn in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

coffeebeqn — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:28:29 +0000

It’s probably mostly your social anxiety speaking there. If you go in not expecting anything in return it won’t get that awkward just go alright I’ll let you get back to it and go back to doing your thing.

I had like 20 years of social anxiety and it’s actually very anti-climactic when you can have a normal short conversation with a stranger. Not dramatic and no one’s traumatized

New comment by coffeebeqn in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

coffeebeqn — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:19:45 +0000

Different gyms do have different cultures and probably time of day matters too. Absolute worst is right after work it’s so packed and everyone’s still kind of stressed and looking to get done and head out on to the next chore