They told me I could re-apply in six months and encouraged me (seemingly genuinely) to re-apply for their capricious activity, I just laughed in their face.

It genuinely took me another year to even consider applying to another job it was so demoralizing.

Now the center right is supporting concentration camps like "alligator alcatraz" so the overton window has shifted a lot in the last ten years.

That's not really possible with frontier models changing every 3-6 months, just like javascript frameworks there's not enough time to learn the ins and outs and they mostly expose the same interface, so unless you have rigorous evals you are working on vibes, and the amount of meetings I have had in the last 3 years of engineers confidently reporting on their vibes is SO TIRING.

Most employees can't tell you what database to use, what software programming framework to use, what document management framework to use, but they are expected to know which of the 25 models available to use for a task, budget appropriately, monitor efficacy, update models to the most relevant for a task, continue to manage architecture patterns??? for LLM agents, this list goes on.

This is getting stupid folks.

The reality is that most places you get on the order of 200 bucks per person PER MONTH, so that's not going far on steaks and shrimp.

Auditing and finding fraud is useful, but we also have to value it against the cost of auditing and fraud management in the first place, and the value is put up against honest people who have to a decent chunk of hours every month juggling government paperwork and websites to get the most meager of handouts.

Club live lost msft millions of dollars by itself.

Trying to abstract history into major shifts that are attributable to inanimate objects is just very ludic fallacy.