Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49617631

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I went in totally unprepared for logical tests, and flubbed the perfect answer partially, but it was funny because I asked the guy if I was "doing an interview to be an electrician or a software developer?".

Since then I've been just fine, and to this day, I've never had to answer that question nor use that type of logic on any job... I reverse engineer & migrate major software apps all the time as a Solutions Architect & Development Director.

I've always found interviews that involve behavioral and cognitive tests to never be good for me as long-term jobs... Now I interview & hire people regularly without asking those types of questions at all because the questions can too easily be studied & rehearsed prior to interviews.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48601479

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028189

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Also, a major feature of "vibe coding" now is the rough edges on UI design that don't make sense at all... It's pretty obvious that code bases aren't evolving because these systems can't handle complex prompts while retaining features from prior releases, and it seems like functional testing for releases has now become the kid who can't speak that fell down a well... Oh well.

Evangelists will preach Ai because it's good for corporations that don't care about customer needs, but in the same sense, it may well be the catalyst for many to move out of cities to more human areas as it grows.

Businesses dictate the spread of Ai, and then foist it on customers because they think monopolies are sustainable, but the foundational rules always ring true -- Customer service & commitment are essential to the survival of a business. This tone deaf approach will eventually alienate many from companies that adopt it, and there aren't enough tech-inclined introverts to sustain profit in a world where Ai takes everyone's jobs. We don't ALWAYS want to talk to vending machines, human interaction is a need for many that Ai evangelists seem to think will simply go away.

I hope there are still some reasonable minded business leaders out there to swoop in and fix things after the ashes this era leaves along with all the VC carnage & political damage rendered on our economy.

Ai is great for math though... Maybe that should be the less-destructive focus.

If you can find a company that allows clients to install Let's Encrypt Certs on shared hosting, please let me know.

Most of my clients don't have budgets big enough for cloud hosting.

I think pretty much every social platform has transitioned into the same "edgelordy-ness" we dealt with on smaller community forums & IRC back in the day...

Nobody talks about it on platforms out of a fear of retribution, but a handful of people are not meant to have this much control over massive groups of people...

It always devolves into a scheme that only serves the top & only profit at the top.

Twitter was a very useful real-time information tool, that slowly degraded into a payola promo haven, just like FaceBook, Instagram, and now even TikTok...

The time for useful tools of that kind has surpassed us, as most people on these platforms lie about their botted & payola boosted audiences & views.

Social media simply got too big, there aren't even categorized topics one can subscribe to anymore without it all being blended into a random timeline of everyone's posts... That's the final trumpet call for it, something totally different will need to come along and take over until it too becomes overran monopolized as an emotional manipulation tool.

A far better way to promote skills & business is to paint your info on the side of your car now... Far more people will see it than your social account, without needing to pay a membership or for to boost each post. shrug

Totally plausible.

Otherwise it's too late.

They do things like blocking containers & SSH to make installing free certs impossible.

They also have elevated the price of their own certs (that they can conveniently provide) to ridiculous prices in contrast to free certs their customers can't even use...

It would be a huge price-fixing scandal if Congress had any idea of how technology works.

I think it's important to clarify understandings for non-scientific/med community each time these types of technical discussions occur.

Wait, we're talking about birds right?

Investors that have no idea of what the tech is really doing, nor even the huge copyright implications are flocking to invest based on agenda-laced news reports of Ai taking jobs, and for that very reason it's creating a huge set up. Ai is over-promised already, just like self checkouts at the supermarkets, everyone in EV self-driving cars , and speed cameras in preventing crimes were years ago..>

These things are made to drive company profit, and they do, even well after law suits are settled, so I guess that's why it keeps happening with funded mega-marketing campaigns.

Twitter came out of the Dot.Com era, so did many other tools we still use... Let's hope that they change Ai and social media to generate actual money and useability for non-corporate-backed (everyday non-millionaire+) humans without ever-increasing monthly subscriptions...

That's the only way it won't end up shelved as a meme generator, or just used as an expensive calculator. Ai's pretty good at math though.

Twitter ended up later going from one of the world's most valuable platforms to being a meme of itself for only $45 billion. Great job they did there.

I won't miss it if it does get banned. It's stressed so many people out for no good reason, and sucked up millions of hours of free labor from unrecognized & unpaid creators that deserve better.

That doesn't mean that any Meta product is good for content creators mind you.

Big business will eventually need to abandon this old "market domination" model because of consumer demand to own physical files if things work correctly. Millions of people streaming the same movies and music over and over again is very wasteful and not sustainable in the long run, as each monthly service is a different (continually increasing) bill, it will only serve to bring bootlegging operations back to popularity in the long run... As once you download & save a digital file, it doesn't really require that bandwidth again & again per device.

Subverting Net Neutrality is just another way companies will exert greed on consumers, but in the long run, consumers will always win when they withdraw from subscriptions and these companies begin to falter.

We should be paying $25 a month for Internet service by now, and $2 to permanently buy a movie, and perhaps $4 to buy an album on memory stick. That would be the fair future... Instead, they're charging each user $24 a month just for (very limited selection) Netflix alone, and each other service is doing the same... Companies stand to lose everything in this battle because of the huge infrastructure (up-front) investments they need to make in order to operate... Customers can go back to pirating Mp3s, Mp4s, CDs, DVDs, Vinyl, and even Tape decks if need be. It's long overdue for the industry to check itself and do a reset... Bandwidth is not the real battle going on here, it's all economic.