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New comment by whateveracct in "Building an AI-native engineering org"

whateveracct — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:19:45 +0000

some things are just dumb on their face

New comment by whateveracct in "Building an AI-native engineering org"

whateveracct — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:15:29 +0000

> I think AI has been a net positive and has been used responsibly at my work. It can be used to make existing products better and more secure. You just won't naturally hear about that. There's some challenges like emerging social mores but overall good.

It always works best when layering on top of good human code. The thing is, you start to run out of that as you lean in. Tricky.

New comment by whateveracct in "The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI"

whateveracct — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 03:33:52 +0000

haha so if someone gives me a salary, they can't be a dumbfuck?

they give me a salary because they need what i can do btw

my favorite thing to do is get a salary from these execs and work like 2h per week. they literally pay me to play video games at 2pm kek.

New comment by whateveracct in "AI promised less work. I've never worked more"

whateveracct — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:19:23 +0000

i have looked at all my software dev contracts and none of them say 40hrs/week. which is nice because that means i am free to work whatever.

New comment by whateveracct in "Anthropic S-1"

whateveracct — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:21:07 +0000

right but before, employees' shares counted. that's one of the changes i'm talking about.

New comment by whateveracct in "AI promised less work. I've never worked more"

whateveracct — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:16:04 +0000

i've been doing it for a literal decade hehe

always above expectations on my perf reviews btw :) so i guess i'm fulfilling my at-will employment contract just fine! (nothing in that contract says "40 hours" or "9-5")

New comment by whateveracct in "The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI"

whateveracct — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:15:46 +0000

lol okay i'm glad you're enjoying defending execs you don't even know.

New comment by whateveracct in "The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI"

whateveracct — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 05:03:29 +0000

the problems were due to their decisions a year before. some problems can't be solved with a half dozen extra sets of hands.

mythical man month also applies here. people with no context cost something to get ramped up.

New comment by whateveracct in "The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI"

whateveracct — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 21:17:44 +0000

at my current job alone, i can count over 5 times in the last 5 years where mgmt threw people at a problem and didn't actually help if not hurt.

now, leadership will never admit they're wrong and they act like they're heroes. but i can confidently say that they made things worse.

New comment by whateveracct in "Anthropic S-1"

whateveracct — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:57:15 +0000

yes tho. once you hit a certain number of shareholders (which anthropic clearly is past), you used to have to report with the regularity and rigor of a public company. so if you do, why not IPO and get some cash?

that and other changes that enabled private investment at this scale. it's all about privatize the pump socialize the dump via IPO

New comment by whateveracct in "AI promised less work. I've never worked more"

whateveracct — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:52:57 +0000

nope. it basically says "if we haven't fired you, you're good." (at-will)

it's kinda nice because you can manipulate your output and do less work. so long as my employer doesn't know my sausage is made, i'm free to add sawdust ;)

New comment by whateveracct in "AI promised less work. I've never worked more"

whateveracct — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:35:22 +0000

I've done this for years thanks to remote work

New comment by whateveracct in "Anthropic S-1"

whateveracct — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:46:16 +0000

they were not forced but they were forced to report like a public company even if they didn't IPO. all the cost with none of the benefit was an incentive to IPO earlier.

New comment by whateveracct in "Anthropic S-1"

whateveracct — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:30:37 +0000

In today's world, yes.

But in the past, rules & regulations basically forced companies to IPO at a certain size. This meant that when they IPO'd, there was still growth upside.

Those rules are gone now, so they can stay private and have all the growth happen privately. When they IPO now, it's more just an exit. The growth was captured by insiders only.

New comment by whateveracct in "LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale"

whateveracct — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 05:18:37 +0000

in heavy air quotes, yeah

New comment by whateveracct in "Important updates to AI use on Etsy"

whateveracct — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:06:46 +0000

this is great. there's really no good argument for this kind of AI use. it's strictly just making society worse here.

New comment by whateveracct in "Pillowfort Is Closing"

whateveracct — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:22:08 +0000

tumblr is very much alive lol

New comment by whateveracct in "Show HN: The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake"

whateveracct — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:10:44 +0000

i think the second one is canon but it has time travel and stuff so it's also basically not

(the second one wasn't very good..but the first is a great game and runs even better on Switch 2.)

New comment by whateveracct in "Butlerian Jihad"

whateveracct — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 05:19:48 +0000

you have it backwards. good world building means everything makes sense. you're basically saying evolution isn't real - it's intelligent design.

New comment by whateveracct in "Things to know when you get cancer"

whateveracct — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:03:29 +0000

LLMs aren't genies