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  • Ed is getting good at lobbing these darts at hype bubbles.

    The thing that this writeup ignores is that the object isn’t to show short-term revenue, but to put all competitors out of business, be the last one standing, and create a monopoly. Either that or get bought out so the investors can move on to the next thing. But at $150B valuation, only MSFT or Nvidia can afford to buy them outright.

    Google, Meta, and Amazon burned through cash for years, but they eventually outran all competition and then monetized the users who had nowhere else to go.




  • A few jobs ago, everyone hated the tech stack. The people who had come up with it had long left. I talked to everyone, then came up with a plan to transition to a modern stack. Got buy-in from management.

    Half the people (and all who had said they hated the status quo) threatened to quit if we made the change.

    Fortunately, it was just in time to collect the 1-year retention bonus. Life’s too short. Walked away.



  • fubarx@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlAI bros
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    I actually like it when these code helpers guess from one line what the rest should be and suggest it. It’s even more fun when it keeps guessing and the suggestions get progressively more whacky. Then they just start making completely unrelated shit up.

    Once you say no, it goes back to the beginning and meekly repeats the very first suggestion, like a scolded puppy.