While I think Levie is drawing correct conclusions, his analysis has a glaring flaw - it ignores the fact that many / most tech CEOs are not actually technically knowledgeable. Most of them are, at best, tech-adjacent. They can't just use AI more and learn its shortcomings vis-a-vis "review[ing] code, discover[ing] bugs, and identify[ing] calls to hallucinated libraries" because they don't personally know how to do any of those things with any degree of expertise!

"I'm sure [AI] can do it, but I'd much rather give this job to a real human being," he said in the video.

Is he offering to pay that "real human being", or is he just looking for someone who'll donate their time and skills to his hobby project for free?

Wow, they've been very busy recently! The machines we have in our labs were included there as of a few days ago. Wonderful!

I mean, aren't there plenty of sites which offer pretty much the same thing?

It's nice that Dell is financially supporting this, but - I wish they'd support it for more machines. Last time I checked, it appeared Dell only supported this for a single model out of their entire line.

If "we" are doing the latter, than "we" are being stupid. We need to keep training our users to be skeptical - they should always first ask "does this pass the smell test?" because no technology is perfect.

So basically this is just admin laziness, as in they don't want to manage a separate DKIM / SPF setup for their customers versus their actual employees?

Someone in the Mastodon thread linked from TFS was claiming that Google and Apple basically doing that - which is mind-blowingly stupid, if true. I'm actually a bit skeptical (but feeling too lazy ATM to dig into it right now).

One of our grad students got burned by this - fake emails purportedly coming from his faculty advisor.

I don't get how people fall for it, though... in this case, the faux professor told the student first to go buy a few hundred dollars in gift cards, then to send him the gift card numbers and the confirmation codes (the ones you have to scratch off to access). I mean, why would you think your professor would ask you to do these things?

Here's Seattle's bell schedule, for example:

https://www.seattleschools.org...

In every school district I'm familiar with, the junior high schools and high schools both start AND end one hour earlier than the elementary schools do. And the stated reason is specifically to cut down on transportation costs.

If people really cared about the kids above all, they wouldn't make the junior high and high school students go in so early - they'd raise taxes on themselves to buy more busses and pay for more drivers so that the schools all start and end at the same time.

Streelights aren't useful for my late-night summer barbeques, dammit!

(I just want the back-and-forth to end, I'm close enough to retirement that I don't really care all that much about this anymore)

... what the Labor Department calls the information industry, which includes employment of software developers and other tech workers. ... which [also[ includes media and entertainment.

The fact that, for this discussion, they decided to explicitly include "media and entertainment" makes it pretty obvious any increase in hiring is only in that group. We've all seen the copious amount of stories documenting this. Actual tech workers - especially new graduates - are having a hard time finding jobs. I also see and hear about this frequently in discussions with the students in our department.

If you really want to see the grift, you can see how rapidly TrumpCoin fell a short while after being announced... and has continued to fall over the past 17 months.

The other possibility is - this was one of those very rare occasions where he learned GOP senators were not going to fall in lockstep behind him.