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New comment by subulaz in "How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next"

subulaz — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:10:14 +0000

a LOT of the people who love benchmarks are middle management hard-selling GenAI/LLM as magic tech sauce to vaguely technical executives who only want to know about the money aka headcount savings they so desperately desire.

their collective butts are already glued to the hype train as they chase numbers they (often) manufactured to justify the latest round of tech spend.

lots of good use cases out there - like the incredible progress with medical imaging analysis or complex system models for construction - and lots of crap use cases that need benchmarks to cosplay relevance.

New comment by subulaz in "Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026"

subulaz — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:12:42 +0000

in case this is not sarcasm... tech managers != tech leaders.

most are one, some are neither, and a small minority are both. i have works for more than 20 tech managers in 30+ years, have managed technologists (ops, app-dev, network, infra, etc.) multiple times, and have hired and fired tech managers. i can count the genuine tech leaders+managers i've met on one hand. fewer around than ever nowadays.

New comment by subulaz in "Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026"

subulaz — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:40:06 +0000

i understood that reference... and, like Wash, feel like i'm "flying" a stone at gravity's whim while i pretend to be in control. tech leadership at a lot of corps do the exact same thing most days. a good reason to find your tribe asap, get out of corp, and assert some control.

New comment by subulaz in "Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internet"

subulaz — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:54:35 +0000

constantcrying's comment may be meant with sarcasm because Airbus leads Boeing in market share in addition to having fewer models with explosive decompression issues...

New comment by subulaz in "Tesla Reported Zero Federal Income Tax on $2B of U.S. Income in 2024"

subulaz — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:10:56 +0000

not too difficult actually, US corps are required to disclose specifics on employee option compensation for tax purposes: https://www.thetaxadviser.com/issues/2023/dec/executive-comp...

FINRA 2360 provides disclosure and tax requirements to any organization which issues options, provides grant exercises, or simply issues stock as compensation: https://www.finra.org/rules-guidance/rulebooks/finra-rules/2...

Side note: the regs are partly why you can see detailed information about types and amounts of stock and option activity by different investor classes in tools like https://www.barchart.com/investing-ideas/insider-trading-act...

New comment by subulaz in "Amazon has approval from FTC to acquire One Medical primary-care clinics"

subulaz — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 14:26:57 +0000

too bad this country can't seem to leave essential services like health care in the hands of medical specialists instead of capitalists. no matter how Amazon tries to spin this one out, it's unlikely to end well:

"By taking a large portion of healthy, well-educated patients who require less-complex care out of the usual primary care system, tech companies such as Amazon will leave primary care, a specialty essential to the future of health in the U.S. that is already on life support, even more desolate."

https://www.statnews.com/2022/07/23/deal-between-amazon-and-...