I see the "no gains except tech" repeated everywhere. That's from layoffs and putting excessive pressure on the remains, forcing everyone to focus on speed and ignore tech debt. You can do the same without AI and the result would be the same. Profits now! And a horrible mess later.

Try to register your email to sign up for Claude 101. The validation code won't send and the js output is full of errors. It's been broken for months.

More broken web to come, much more.

They think other cable providers are their competition?

HA!

We switched to basic internet, put up an antenna last year, installed Pluto and Youtube.

Hard to compete with nearly free.

I'm sure, as a long-term unemployed software engineer, I'll definately get some relief from that money, and it won't disappear into ad agencies, management consulting fees, and PACs enormous/s/enormous

This basically takes access to H1-B's from JimBob's Trucking Co and sweat shops like Infosys and gives them to Silicon Valley. The letter doesn't mind paying an extra 100k for talent.

The Epstein conspiracy as presented by many wasn't real dude. Epstein himself liked the kiddies, and maybe a few others upon request at party hardy island. If Epstein was as powerful as you think he was, he wouldn't have been convicted as he was, nor Ghislane.

the "Joooooos blackmail our whole g-g-government!" and "x is a pedophile i just know it!!" is a bunch of ragebait. The age of consent in the Virgin Islands is 16, so any actual crime was no more than a few isolated events.

It's classic Fed jawboning and double-speak. The problem is the Fed chairman can move market mountains with a few words.

If he had told everyone his plan was "interest rates are going up, AND we're expanding the Fed balance sheet", like what is happening now, people would have immediately started dumping bonds and tech stocks and we'd be way worse off now.

So he said the opposite, which just confused people and had zero effect. That's the goal...remain market neutral as much as possible. Which means they spew a lot of conflicting BS.

Also, another consideration...input token cost.

I just made this mistake. I was in a long-running programming session with a lot of context, and I asked an unrelated question, "how to slob a knob" or something like that.

I constantly check my balance and noticed I burned 200k tokens with a simple question.

Then it dawned on me. It included every scrap of information in the session with the request, as it does, juicing me for a mountain of unnecessary input tokens.

So, lesson learned. For each unrelated task, start a new blank session. If you treat it like a never-ending text message contact, the context load (and input token costs) will snowball for no benefit.

The UI for Copilot kind of obscures this, but you click the "+" at the top and select "New Chat" for a fresh session.

Are you tweaking your reasoning level? That's becoming more important lately when managing your token burn.

I'm using Deepseek Pro until a better quality per cost option comes along, but I burned through about 100 million tokens per day ($8.70 at current prices) set at Maximum reasoning. You're basically telling it to torch tokens at ludicrous overkill, but the output is was exactly what I needed for the task. I finished a massive load of work in a few days that I had been stalled on for months because my other attempts at automating it were just not cutting it. And I'm too cheap and unemployed to pay for the equivalent horsepower at the usual frontier model rate.

Disclaimer: No, I'm not working on anything proprietary. Exposing proprietary code to a Chinese model may or may not be a good idea. Also they're about to double their prices.

I hope brain composer software becomes a thing one day. I compose a lot of cool music in my head all the time, but I never have time to actually make it. And even if I did, there is so much friction that you have to make it your full-time gig to do it.

This is what the communists want...everyone destitute. They do not care, period. But not for the reason you think. Any pension or 401k would be wiped out too. Millions would starve to death, or be killed because they were rioting becuae they were starving. Mao and Stalin and their cronies became the new rich and middle class, while everyone else suffered. Why? Greed.

^ there it is, a peasant hot on the rage rat wheel ðY

If only. The markets can remain irrational far longer than you might think.

Especially so because official government economic statatistics have been cooked harder than a 4am gas station hot dog since about 2022

That's an interesting quirk of modern Marxism. A classical Marxist is able to see and discuss contrast, while a modern one attaches any opposing viewpoint to a strawman (fascist, etc), painting the world as a battle of extremes when rather the truth is as boring as the speaker, who sounds as predictable as a Christian admonishing you that they believe Jesus died on the cross for your sins and only through him will you achieve eternal salvation through tedious repetition of canned phrases and no deep understanding of what is said.

Doesn't this place the business at the mercy of the shareholder's whims?

Lol hell no. Most shares are owned by ETF indexes. The way the ETF managers vote determines the outcome, and that outcome can be arranged with a bit of bribery.

Now you know wh most public companies are run by incompetant tumors in suits who don't give a damn about the shareholder. They've been tokenized away from any sort of relevance.

Yeah. I wad laid off in February. Last time I went job hunting (2013) I put out 3 resumes, got 2 interviews, and 1 decent offer that I accepted. The whole process took a week from start to offer acceptance. The other company indicated interest months later and that probably would have turned into an offer if they weren't so painfully slow. I've put in the same quality I did then (tailored resumes, great fit for the position, etc). I'm about 60 in and not a single interview (other than the BS AI phone screens). Thanks to my severance package, I can't collect unemployment right now, so I'm not counted. This is like the worst of the depths of the .com bust