Hacker News: nateglims

New comment by nateglims in "A Meta employee gets real about the horror of working there"

nateglims — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:30:54 +0000

Compared to recent trends it’s more like the entire 2010s was over hiring

New comment by nateglims in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

nateglims — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:56:58 +0000

Amazon runs anthropic models in it's own DCs with Bedrock.

New comment by nateglims in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

nateglims — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:37:55 +0000

Within Amazon, token usage is gamified if you use Kiro and your team isn't billed for it in the same way you are billed for AWS or have to account for your capacity in older systems. I've credibly heard of people gaming this internal ranking before anyone paid attention to it. There are also tons of enthusiasts doing all kinds of internal projects and sharing them.

There's definitely some pressure from managers when they hear about N00% productivity boosts in internal presentations, but where I am at they would figure out if you were making up tasks rather than working pretty quickly and the pressure comes from aggressive deadlines and a shift from the yearly OP1 process to a more agile one.

New comment by nateglims in "The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced"

nateglims — Mon, 04 May 2026 00:12:28 +0000

Groups that are excluded from unemployment statistics aren't a specific generation. They are retirees, students, people who gave up on seeking a job, etc.

New comment by nateglims in "The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced"

nateglims — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:21:22 +0000

> * Employment was 10x better than today, and not by today's way of counting (which don't count group x y and z)

I'm pretty sure we count unemployment the same way. Those groups are just larger now because of age, education and economic malaise.

New comment by nateglims in "Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)"

nateglims — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:23:02 +0000

Wezterm has some support for it on nightly.

New comment by nateglims in "Claude Opus 4.6"

nateglims — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:33:17 +0000

I just had an idea for an RLVR startup.

New comment by nateglims in "Why software stocks are getting pummelled"

nateglims — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:20:03 +0000

It basically does

> The value of listed American enterprise-software companies is down by 10% over the past year.

New comment by nateglims in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

nateglims — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:02:27 +0000

I would wager being remote made him a target. It seems like a stretch to say it's just the global job market when the layoffs are global.

New comment by nateglims in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

nateglims — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:54:08 +0000

The layoff includes people in India.

New comment by nateglims in "Goldman Sachs Global Macro Research: Gen AI: too much spend, too little benefit [pdf] (2024)"

nateglims — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:48:27 +0000

Reality doesn't disagree with him in that the ROI is still not here yet. Maybe the coming replacement of software engineers will start to ramp up equity gains due to productivity, but it's real hard to get there by replacing your receptionists and lowest tier of support personnel.

New comment by nateglims in "Goldman Sachs Global Macro Research: Gen AI: too much spend, too little benefit [pdf] (2024)"

nateglims — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:00:13 +0000

The title is click bait. 3 of the 5 people interviewed were optimistic and one of the pessimists is an MIT professor, not a goldman analyst. The rest of it is market outlooks from 2024 for chips and power that don't seem that far off.

New comment by nateglims in "AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'"

nateglims — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:02:28 +0000

I'm a little confused by this analysis. Are you saying that all enterprise software has been replaced with MS word and AWS?

New comment by nateglims in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

nateglims — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:41:42 +0000

> To be fair, it's not entirely their own fault. Competition is strong, especially from Google and Apple. Even with perfect decisions, they likely would still have lost big since their peak. The market for alternative Browsers isn't as big any more as it used to be.

Their peak in share was also pre-chrome. They've basically been losing the battle slowly for over a decade.

New comment by nateglims in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

nateglims — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:34:19 +0000

Firefox improved in quality significantly between 2014 and the recent decline. And it's not like Brave has shown incredibly good judgement in these areas.

New comment by nateglims in "Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 1"

nateglims — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 01:43:07 +0000

I'm sympathetic to snowden and think he should just be pardoned, but in retrospect was this actually huge news? Other than reaffirming that telcos were a weak link and that we should encrypt everything, what was a major revelation?

I don't think americans broadly care if we are spying on any of the countries listed in part 1 or 2 of this. Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia and China?

New comment by nateglims in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

nateglims — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:59:12 +0000

You can use ChatGPT for minor stuff and still have a negative view on AI. In fact the non-tech white collar workers I know use chatgpt for stuff like business writing at work but are generally concerned.

Negative sentiment also comes through in opinion polling in the US.

New comment by nateglims in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

nateglims — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:48:08 +0000

Its a weak proxy for people who are not in tech.

In polling japan and sweden are very similar in terms of sentiment though: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/10/15/how-people-aro...

New comment by nateglims in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

nateglims — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 01:52:30 +0000

Sure, I meant the anglosphere. But in most countries, the less people are aware of technology or use the internet the less they are enthusiastic about AI.

New comment by nateglims in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

nateglims — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:03:03 +0000

Outside of tech, I think the opinion is generally negative. AI has lost a lot the narrative due to things like energy prices and layoffs.