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Comment Stop hiring for the sake of hiring (Score 1) 59

The number of jobs are increasing, because the number of jobs being filled is rapidly decreasing. So, new job listings are often old job listings reworded to exclude more candidates.

If you have one or two good engineers (not programmers, not developers... honest to goodness engineers) who with AI can keep 15-20 tasks running simultaneously (the cost is GPUs and screens), you don't need to hire someone right now.

Companies want the best they can get. They don't want to fill seats anymore. If they already have a few developers, the LLMs are increasing their productivity 10-20x (yes, real engineers who learn LLMs and how to use them as though they're programming languages get that kind of gain), then they can hold out.

Here's a great one for you... I would never hire anyone without a great GitHub now. I want to see projects and I want to see both hand written code and LLM generated code. I want to see external projects they've patched to see if they can work on other peoples code. I want to see student/professional projects (things with deadlines) AND fun projects.

I'm in no rush. I will post a job, if I don't find someone great, I'll change the posting and wait again. LLMs will give me the buffer I need.

Comment Re:Anthropic _is_ the odd one out. (Score 0) 21

Google, Microsoft and Meta profit by open sourcing models. (more like hedges their losses)

OpenAI released shit models as open source and OpenAI and Anthropic are junk without gigantic caches from mass economy. The model is far less important than the cache. So, if Anthropic actually opened anything it would be junk too.

And I think the Pentagon should be legally required to make their own models. I think that depending on external companies for their most important technology is idiotic. The government should own and operate their own drone companies and their own AI companies. They should not legally be allowed to use outsiders that are easily influenced by external entities.

Comment I'll testify in favor of cursor (Score 1) 110

AI belongs in a sandbox on test servers. We don't use AI in production.

When a programmer is programming, they use an offline database and an offline server. When their code passes tests and code review, we push to production.

If you don't work like this you have no right to sue.

Comment Re:I don't live in California but... (Score 1) 244

"chase kids on ebikes across parks and playgrounds."

The problem is they aren't in parks and playgrounds riding their "e-bikes" (they're more electric motorcycle than bicycle). They're on the road with cars and major traffic. I see it, particularly, in more affluent neighborhoods (Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach, Santa Monica).

And we're not talking about a few... They're everywhere -- particularly after school hours and weekends.

Comment Cross-discipline issues (Score 3, Interesting) 81

I have spent time with 9 neurosurgeons, 2 neurologists, 1 orthopedic surgeon, 8 general practitioners and over 50 nurses in 2026. There have also been 3 or more radiologists/neuroradiologists involved.

They all disagree on what is wrong with me or throw their hands in the air and say "I don't know" and another said "it'll heal in a few days, ignore it".

Here's the catch, the doctors all lack the ability to understand what is wrong with me. But as I collect information from each one of them and I upload the CTs and MRIs into the AIs and finally I have a doctor who isn't very good, but is not a specialist. As a result, I have a list of questions to ask the doctors to see if we can work on the problems.

As someone who takes 16 pain killers every day for months now, I want to get past this. I don't believe the doctors will figure it out. I believe it will be the AIs

Comment Re: Cue up (Score 1) 347

You realize there are a bunch of homes available for sale in all sorts of places for next to nothing. The problem isn't "housing", it is "housing where people want to live". Declining population in places like Italy have created housing collapse where nice houses aren't sold, and sit empty, and they'll pay you to move into one.

Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 191

It isn't colonial, it is industrial. The current format of school is that of preparing for a factory workforce. We are post industrial, knowledge/AI/Whatever it will be called workforce.

Educators need to come to grip with getting EVERY child their MAX educational value we can. This means breaking the rows and columns of desks in a classroom, and getting kids their most valuable education they can get. This means some will do much better than others. Talent has gradations. Not everyone can be a Astro Physics expert.

Comment Re:Cue up (Score -1, Troll) 347

"fair" is subjective. What you think is "fair" isn't really fair. It is objectively unfair to use qualitative terms in discussion of policy.

What would be fair, is that Government live within the means we ALREADY tax out of the public. Cut Spending first. Then, when all cuts that can be made, are made, then MAYBE we can have a discussion on tax increases.

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