Ignacio

Stumbled onto based reddit

me: okay codex now let's add this new feature to the app i had you start building three minutes ago codex: absolutely! first let's add the NEW_FEATURE_ENABLED flag (defaulting to false) to ensure backwards compatibility with the legacy system,

I think it's really underrated by native American English speakers how extremely not hierarchical it is relative to every other language on earth

As a former bartender when they start making you measure out the booze it means you work for private equity now

god what a bleak chart

@helloguille La franquicia es demasiado baja y el monto para regalos (no duty free) no se ha reajustado en más de 10 años, si mal no recuerdo.

Si Chile tiene tantos tratados de libre comercio con arancel 0%, como es posible que deba pagar un 32%, donde asumo que hay un 19% de IVA adicional al IVA que debe haber pagado al comprarla en el otro país? Esto es claramente un abuso del sistema.

Think valuations look crazy right now? This is what they looked like during the 'Dot Com' bubble:

Wow

The Swiss grid is almost completely carbon free, yet it is largely illegal to install air conditioning in a house in Geneva, without a doctor's note and heat pumps have the a/c mode disabled and fines issued if used. A mean spirited degrowth mindset that transcends class and hides behind an environmental narrative even when it has nothing to do with the environment, like here. This is emblematic of a pathological hatred of the future and progress, that is a threat to Europe.

the funniest part of replacing receptionists with AI will be realizing nobody actually documented half the things jessica the front desk person just magically handled every day.

All customs enforcement actions take the name of “united states vs [item description]”, not the owner of the product. The US loses cases against inanimate objects on a regular basis

At this point I think OpenAI has more MacOS engineers than Apple does

Every now and then I boot up Claude on a windows device and watch it suffer.

This is equivalent to trying to sell a cop drugs while he’s in uniform in his police car.

The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen. Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders - have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope AI estimation). Everyone outside that group feels like they can work their well-paying (but <$500k) job for their whole life and never get there. Worse yet, layoffs are in full swing. Many software engineers feel like their life's skill is no longer useful. The day to day role of most jobs has changed overnight with AI. As a result, 1. The corporate ladder looks like the wrong building to climb. Everyone's trying to align with a new set of career "paths": should I be a founder? Is it too late to join Anthropic / OpenAI? should I get into AI? what company stock will 10x next? People are demanding higher salaries and switching jobs more and more. 2. There’s a deep malaise about work (and its future). Why even work at all for “peanuts”? Will my job even exist in a few years? Many feel helpless. You hear the “permanent underclass” conversation a lot, esp from young people. It's hard to focus on doing good work when you think "man, if I joined Anthropic 2yrs ago, I could retire" 3. The mid to late middle managers feel paralyzed. Many have families and don't feel like they have the energy or network to just "start a company". They don't particularly have any AI skills. They see the writing on the wall: middle management is being hollowed out in many companies. 4. The rich aren’t particularly happy either. No one is shedding tears for them (and rightfully so). But those who have "made it" experience a profound lack of purpose too. Some have gone from <$150k to >$50M in a few years with no ramp. It flips your life plans upside down. For some, comparison is the thief of joy. For some, they escape to NYC to "live life". For others still, they start companies "just cuz", often to win status points. They never imagined that by age 30, they'd be set. I once asked a post-economic founder friend why they didn't just sell the co and they said "and do what? right now, everyone wants to talk to me. if i sell, I will only have money." I understand that many reading this scoff at the champagne problems of the valley. Society is warped in this tech bubble. What is often well-off anywhere else in the world is bang average here. Unlike many other places, tenure, intelligence and hard work can be loosely correlated with outcomes in the Bay. Living through a societally transformative gold rush in that environment can be paralyzing. "Am I in the right place? Should I move? Is there time still left? Am I gonna make it?" It psychologically torments many who have moved here in search of "success". Ironically, a frequent side effect of this torment is to spin up the very products making everyone rich in hopes that you too can vibecode your path to economic enlightenment.

thank you chatgpt this is very helpful

The entire world is a fucking clown show

130k tech layoffs year-to-date. Insane.

someone wrote a 680 page interactive book on cs algorithms

As a millennial: Phone is for fun internet (shit posting) Computer is for serious internet (booking flights)