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Thank you, I wholeheartedly agree. AI for the sake of AI is just pleasing shareholders, and it just feels wrong to call that out as the solution when there are actual engineering avenues that can be explored. At the same time, I feel like it would be burning a bridge if I tried to hold my ground and disagree with the PE. The PE is not my manager (and is not the only PE), but there are also not very many engineers held to that standard in my company. I don’t want to be remembered as the guy that called the PE out on poorly conceived feedback.

You know, there is probably some salt to this. There was one part of my doc where his comment felt somewhat defensive. Thanks for your perspective!

I hope something comes of this. They have truly gotten away with way too many human rights violations.

I’m curious if anyone has found a story indicating that they actually want a photo of your face? The original Engadget article seems to indicate that they’re talking about Apple FaceID/TouchID, not an actual image upload.

Apple stores all biometrics data locally on the device. Reddit wouldn’t ever see your face if this is the case; they would just get the passkey token generated by the secure enclave. Am I misunderstanding why this is causing outrage?

Honestly it was even before the Nazi salute. Dude went down the ketamine and red pill rabbit hole years before that and lost a lot of his left-leaning fanboys. It became super obvious at that point that he was just another sociopathic nepo baby grifter.

I 100% agree. To me it sort of feels like that old “Let me Google that for you” website. Like I wouldn’t have asked you something if I wanted you to just prompt ChatGPT. I want your informed opinion. But I guess informed opinions are hard to come by these days.

The tech debt problem will keep getting worse as product teams keep promising more in less time. Keep making developers move faster. I’m sure nothing bad will come of it.

Capitalism truly ruins everything good and pure. I used to love writing clean code and now it’s just “prompt this AI to spit out sloppy code that mostly works so you can focus on what really matters… meetings!”

Yep, take a look into GitHub actions. Basically you can make it so that a specific set of tests are run every time a PR is opened against your code repo. In the background it just spins up a container and runs any commands you define in a YAML config file.

Their buddies in the fossil fuel industry want to see line go up, so they placate them with stuff like this. It’s all about money and a strong lack of long-term vision. Short term “wins” are all most politicians care about.

Oh, a bunch of Republicans are leaving? That’s interesting, I wonder why. It sure would be a shame if their seats were replaced by people that actually want to make a difference.

Slack does have AI features now, mostly focused around summarization. I found the features pretty useless and turned them off (as much as they allow you to, at least). It’s not very often that I don’t care to know the whole context of messages I receive at work. And I do have channels that I usually just skim or ignore that the summaries weren’t super helpful for. It strips out way too much of the conversation.

Similarly, I really dislike the Apple Intelligence summarization features. It drove me to finally turn off Apple Intelligence on all my devices. Do people find summarization useful? Genuinely curious for use cases.

Honestly, Youtube was already pretty shit with all of the obvious monetization schemes and paid “influencer” content. Even though I never watch reaction videos I feel like they are always recommended to me. Their algorithms were already busted to prefer user-created slop. This is just another step towards complete enshittification.