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New comment by weatherlite in "The Amazon tax"

weatherlite — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:31:05 +0000

I like the stock

New comment by weatherlite in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

weatherlite — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:38:39 +0000

Why does it bother you that I mention it? Think about that.

New comment by weatherlite in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

weatherlite — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:34:38 +0000

> People are not stupid

Maybe not but they are "by proxy" quite racist according to your description

New comment by weatherlite in "Software Engineering fundamentals matter more"

weatherlite — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:43:42 +0000

> Perhaps 1% percent of current software engineers of today will be needed in the future when AI code inevitably has the ability to follow good software engineering practice..

So who talks / prompts the agents to do the work - the PM ? he will do his normal job of figma designs, customer strategy , high level requirements etc etc + do all the back and forth and validation with the agent for the actual coding?

Will it be a new type of job or will we still call it a software engineer ? And if its a software engineer why do you determine it is only 1% of current software engineers - and if indeed only 1% then how soon does it happen - will it be in 3 years ? 5 years? 15? Dario said last year that this year maybe 50% of white collar new entries gets decimated. Has it happened? If not why not?

Our predictions currently suck ass. I'm not saying you're wrong - but you could be very early which is almost the same as being wrong. I don't really care if software development as a career collapses in 10 years. I really do care if it happens next year.

New comment by weatherlite in "Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption"

weatherlite — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:43:25 +0000

> Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption

I don't understand why we need to bring LGBTQ+ into everything

New comment by weatherlite in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

weatherlite — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:02:18 +0000

> gym fitness

Not necessarily, there's a growing and somewhat untapped market for BBWs

New comment by weatherlite in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

weatherlite — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:44:26 +0000

Is it really that simple ? A programming function that has set inputs and determinstic outputs is rather verifyable. A ten million lines code base is not easily verifyable. Knowing whether an agent is improving when it's working on a huge codebase is not that easy - it could easily start hurting code quality without it being clear in any output.

New comment by weatherlite in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

weatherlite — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:36:09 +0000

The way you handled those numbers makes me think you have leadership potential, perhaps even U.S presidency material

New comment by weatherlite in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering"

weatherlite — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:09:34 +0000

What's wrong with being mediocre?

New comment by weatherlite in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

weatherlite — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:08:50 +0000

But those H1Bs all come for a very narrow set of work - mostly software development or other adjacent roles. So your 4 million figure that counts all graduates in all fields doesn't make sense when we talk about tech.

There are around 100k U.S CS graduates . You're telling me 100k H1-Bs don't make any impact on them?

New comment by weatherlite in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

weatherlite — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:50:45 +0000

All fields are basically over as a long term career besides perhaps prostitutes and even there I'm not entirely sure. But the questions of how soon and by how much matter a lot. Being early is the same as being wrong a clever guy once said.

New comment by weatherlite in "What I love about Django"

weatherlite — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:38:59 +0000

Naa you lie you love twinkies more than Django

New comment by weatherlite in "What I love about Django"

weatherlite — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:30:44 +0000

Just wanted to say I saw your last stand up , you're hilarious!

New comment by weatherlite in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

weatherlite — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:14:00 +0000

Not sure what you mean

New comment by weatherlite in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

weatherlite — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:10:07 +0000

> i suppose they could be happy in a world where they (a) are still the agents' preferred search index and (b) own or produce a good percentage of the hardware that anthropic and openai run on.

If the goal is to maximize share price (which it is) this is probably the safest approach. Why do they have to keep chasing developing the best model when they can

a) charge everyone for the cloud infra

b) have a "good enough" experience for normal consumers

Their current setup will be worth trillions. Already is. Let anthropic get paid for the most expensive queries while they get a bill from Google for their cloud/TPU use. GCP grew 82% YOY with 24B revenue and improving margins. So GCP became a 100B business. Anyone doubts it's gonna double in less than 5 years? Gemini just needs to be good enough for normal folks who want personal agents for everyday use. I don't think Google has to compete with Anthropic on making the best agentic programming model.

New comment by weatherlite in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

weatherlite — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:07:24 +0000

> and has been given the newly created title of Alphabet Chief Scientist. Are these just face-saving titles, or does he still have any real influence over Google/DeepMind's pursuit of AGI?

Alphabet Chief Scientist doesnt sound like a demotion / lack of influence to me but who knows. We're all just speculating here.

New comment by weatherlite in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

weatherlite — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:05:18 +0000

> as Chief Scientist for all of Alphabet

IS that a promotion or demotion ?

New comment by weatherlite in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

weatherlite — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 07:42:41 +0000

Is it failing ? Take a look at the stock price

New comment by weatherlite in "Waymo in Dallas"

weatherlite — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:44:37 +0000

You are right, the clear solution is to eliminate all human drivers.

- ChatGPT

New comment by weatherlite in "Waymo in Dallas"

weatherlite — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:50:43 +0000

Its complex. Cell phone plans became way cheaper in my country than 20 years ago, they used to be shockingly expensive. People old enough will remember SMS weren't cheap and a single minute of call was shockingly expensive. I'd same similar thing happened with the internet, you can now get a basic plan for cheaper than 20 years ago. Is it as cheap as it should be? Probably not.

It's interesting this hasn't happened with cable I somewhat agree with you there. However you have alternatives that are just as good like Netflix and cost 20 bucks or less if you can live with ads.