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New comment by senexex in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

senexex — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:45:16 +0000

The level of group think here is unbelievable. Any opinion other than this is down voted immediately. A whole page of people bargaining and not wanting to face reality.

At my work, our healthcare plan renewed May 1st. We have great insurance. The CEO told us that the healthcare premiums just went up 50% so enjoy this year because it is going to be less great next year.

It doesn't matter how many people have a type of religious faith that this has nothing to do with AI and is all posturing.

The reality is AI is going to get cheaper in the future and I am just going to keep getting more expensive as an employee as we circle the drain in this health care and debt death spiral that everyone is also in complete denial of with no political will to do anything about.

S&P 500 is at an all time high. The real layoffs haven't even started yet.

New comment by senexex in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

senexex — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:59:24 +0000

The problem is we can't see the counter factual of what hiring looks like without LLMs on some alternative timeline.

It is perfectly plausible that hiring would be much more without LLMs so that data is not proof of what the article pretends it to be.

New comment by senexex in "Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks"

senexex — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:54:00 +0000

An additional problem is that it looks like the colors are from the intersection of 3 random paintings. The masters already picked their colors on one painting. If you randomly average them it is like a kid mixing finger paints. You aren't going to get a better color scheme from 3 random masterworks.