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New comment by jamiequint in "Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews'"

jamiequint — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 14:44:10 +0000

In the new world, these formerly high-performing software engineers are no longer high-performing software engineers.

New comment by jamiequint in "Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews'"

jamiequint — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 19:12:35 +0000

"don't try to shove shit down their throat unless you're willing to get it shoved down yours."

Fortunately the employer controls the relationship and can just fire employees with this kind of toxic attitude.

New comment by jamiequint in "Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews'"

jamiequint — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 19:10:33 +0000

Plenty of people thrive in environments where high performance is demanded. This idea that you produce the best outputs by coddling your employees is pure cope.

Demanding high performance also doesn't necessarily mean forcing everyone to work 996 or yelling at people, but it can mean enforcing standards that everyone might not like or agree with.

New comment by jamiequint in "Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews'"

jamiequint — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:53:25 +0000

"Have people completely lost their humanity? Is winning at whatever you’re doing that important we can’t be equally obligated to show each other decency?"

It's a team not a family.

The idea that demanding performance from your employees is "losing your humanity" is insane.

New comment by jamiequint in "Brood War Bench"

jamiequint — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 21:24:28 +0000

Should be possible to play this with Jev.

New comment by jamiequint in "Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated"

jamiequint — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:21:40 +0000

The important question with any AI-related news story is what is the counterfactual.

Sure, it sucks if your self driving car gets in a crash or your AI scribe incorrectly transcribes something to your medical record. This is news now. What isn't news is humans getting into crashes or doctors making poor medical decisions as a result of low quality or missing notes.

New comment by jamiequint in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

jamiequint — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:42:32 +0000

Good thing you don't get to decide.

New comment by jamiequint in "Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When AI Bubble Bursts"

jamiequint — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:25:27 +0000

Ed Zitron also said that consumers were losing interest in ChatGPT in January 2024, that AI models were reaching their upper possible limits in Feburary 2024, that ChatGPT and similar products were "not particularly useful for anything", that hallucinations could not possibly be reduced in models, etc.

He's a churlish AI skeptic that isn't worth listening to.

New comment by jamiequint in "Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake"

jamiequint — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:11:33 +0000

"Internet constellations may be mildly profitable"

It's insanely profitable they did $7.2bn in EBITDA on $11.4bn in revenue in 2025.

New comment by jamiequint in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

jamiequint — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:06:09 +0000

Effective ads absolutely require knowing more about the user than the context on the page it's a 1-2 orders of magnitude revenue difference for the publisher per-impression.

New comment by jamiequint in "Grok Build is open source"

jamiequint — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:02:16 +0000

except it's not? lol

New comment by jamiequint in "Grok Build is open source"

jamiequint — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:49:27 +0000

What is worse a "hamfisted system prompt push to prod" or a system and organization built to enforce systematic bias in the name of anti-bias?

New comment by jamiequint in "Grok Build"

jamiequint — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:43:58 +0000

OK great, do you consider Gemini/Google untrustworthy software that shouldn't be used? Just making sure we're being intellectually honest here.

New comment by jamiequint in "Grok Build is open source"

jamiequint — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:40:51 +0000

LOL, pot meet kettle for real.

New comment by jamiequint in "Grok Build is open source"

jamiequint — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:38:41 +0000

The reality is both are likely well meaning attempts to squash model bias gone wrong. Since you happen to align with the politics of one more than the other, you are having trouble being intellectually honest about your own biases.

New comment by jamiequint in "Grok Build is open source"

jamiequint — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:27:50 +0000

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-making-changes...

New comment by jamiequint in "Grok Build is open source"

jamiequint — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:27:11 +0000

They had a bug in their model that they fixed within days is evidence they are "untrustworthy"?

New comment by jamiequint in "Grok Build is open source"

jamiequint — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:25:14 +0000

read the top comment

New comment by jamiequint in "Grok Build is open source"

jamiequint — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:16:37 +0000

Do you have any examples to illustrate these extraordinary claims?

New comment by jamiequint in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

jamiequint — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:21:38 +0000

"What exactly is there in the USA's destruction of the economic norms that have always served it"

What destruction? US GDP growth has recovered to the pre-COVID trendline while EU lags behind it's already-slow previous pace.