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New comment by gedy in "We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit"

gedy — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:04:11 +0000

Is this what these generated Chinese company names on Amazon will end up doing?

'Welcome to Remxtby Shoppe', etc

New comment by gedy in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

gedy — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:37:01 +0000

Well "non-believers" don't see any gain from being faster, right? That'll just set expectations of "do a lot more for same". Fear of being "toast" will get you the loyalty you'd expect from fear.

New comment by gedy in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

gedy — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:50:44 +0000

Price-wise it's reasonable but the general feeling I and others have is subscription fatigue. It's no one subscription's fault, but in aggregate a lot of us are done with it. App looks nice, good luck.

New comment by gedy in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

gedy — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:19:48 +0000

They probably don't have much choice with burn rates and investors, tbh. Market is shaky, etc.

New comment by gedy in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

gedy — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:16:51 +0000

> because I'm paying $200 a month for this thing.

My gut feeling is this is not enough money for them by far (not to mention their investors), and we'll eventually get ratcheted up inline with dev salaries. E.g. "look how many devs you didn't have to hire", etc.

New comment by gedy in "Layoff Thinking"

gedy — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:45:45 +0000

I'm talking in-house recruiters/HR, not the external broker types

New comment by gedy in "Layoff Thinking"

gedy — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:54:41 +0000

> once said long term technical unemployment would be a sign of the singularity; just pray for a soft take off

I think that's true, but in your case (mine as well), companies just don't really want to hire older people. People get touchy when this is brought up, but young recruiter women aren't attracted to them and are biased, younger guys/interviewers view them as some dragon to be slayed to prove themselves, etc. When they say they want "experienced", they mean not so junior so as to be clueless, but not so experienced that you see through their company bullshit.

New comment by gedy in "EFF is leaving X"

gedy — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:46:59 +0000

Yes, but also much of this was due to Stalin/USSR having alliance/agreement with Germany on attacking Poland. Many/most? US leftists were pacifists until Hitler attacked the USSR.

New comment by gedy in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

gedy — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:50:12 +0000

Honestly these loudmouths are usually quite privileged themselves. These theatrics are either to deflect from themselves, or they are delusional about how tough their life is.

New comment by gedy in "Claude Code is locking people out for hours"

gedy — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:36:35 +0000

You missed: "Simon says:"

New comment by gedy in "Claude Code Down"

gedy — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:00:03 +0000

A keyboard /s

New comment by gedy in "France pulls last gold held in US"

gedy — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:32:05 +0000

Sounds like corporate politics too!

New comment by gedy in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

gedy — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:43:03 +0000

Yes it feels a lot like the earlier internet days, when people only saw the upside/utopian view based on a high trust environment.

New comment by gedy in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

gedy — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:38:07 +0000

There's definitely folks working on automatically marketing via LLMs, but I have my doubts that it wont just numb people further to marketing as we are close to saturation.

New comment by gedy in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

gedy — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:21:52 +0000

I'm definitely looking forward to that, as I really want people to control their own tools.

New comment by gedy in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

gedy — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:59:02 +0000

We aren't talking pocket calculators here (I see the irony of phone app in pocket), LLMs are hugely expensive things made and controlled behind costly commercial subscriptions. And likely in the middle of a huge investment bubble and stability is uncertain. So we all need to be careful about "gee we don't need that skill or person anymore", etc.

New comment by gedy in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

gedy — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:07:41 +0000

I think they'll more likely launch competing AI projects like 'Aquarius' and 'Doh' or something

New comment by gedy in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

gedy — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:05:41 +0000

Microsoft Azure .NET Copilot 365

New comment by gedy in "Fake Fans"

gedy — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:17:26 +0000

I do think when rent was cheaper (globally) you could live even when not paid well.

New comment by gedy in "A Few Good Magazines From the 70s and 80s"

gedy — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:29:08 +0000

That was a favorite of mine hands down. Anyone have suggestions on where to access all/most issues?