What? Forward-deployed engineers have existed since long before Palantir. Does the OP truly think the idea of embedding engineers into the sales department only began in 2003?

They've had this "culture problem" for decades ... but monopolies can save you from a lot of "culture problems".

I worked at a company acquired by Chegg, back when AI was starting to become commonly used (about two years ago).

The CEO of the company came to an All Hands meeting and told the entire company that Chegg had all the data on what professors required what, how students studied, and so on. Since OpenAI didn't have that data, the company had nothing to worry about from them. Chegg would just embrace AI, use its data, and remain the best at serving students.

It sounded a lot like he'd just learned what AI was, and had been coached on his answer, but I'm still not sure whether he was an idiot who believed what his tech people told him, or whether he was just saying anything he could to keep the stock prices up, knowing it was BS.

Screen sizes may change, but how your eye perceives things at a distance is fixed, as the researchers confirmed in a follow-up experiment:

Thus, their results can be extrapolated for any size screen, and in fact ...

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/resea...

This guy gets it.

Here's an example: I've been doing some dataabase work lately, and I'll say "Claude go figure out what migration caused X weirdness in my DB": it does so, providing me with a few sentences of readable English and a file path. I say "Claude, I have these existing migrations that alter tables A & B a certain way, can you create migrations that make similar changes to tables C & D?" It just does so.

You get the idea: I give Claude the basic gist of what I want, and tells me what I need to know, or writes the code for me. Even if I have to review and tweak the result, I'm still completing tasks orders of magnitude faster ... for $20/month. That's *nothing* like an actual junior, who costs $70k+ a year.

You really need to try actually using the tool before you assume it can't help you. To reference your own signature, don't just tell everyone your uninformed opinion: spend a few minutes to research it and educate yourself ;)

Have you tried Claude code? And what obscure domain/language are you using that you think AI won't help with?

I'm a programmer who started out hesitant about AI, and at first I thought all that it could do was auto-complete better.

Then I tried Claude Code, and it really is like having your own personal junior dev assisting you're every need. Like a junior, it makes mistakes, but using the *massive* amount of good code that it creates, and fixing what's left, is so much faster than writing it all from scratch yourself.

If you're a developer in 2025 and you're not using AI, you either have very specific concerns (ie. you can't let *anyone* else, not even an AI, see your code) ... or you're a few steps removed from being a Luddite.

No this is just tech bros bring tech bros. They don't want to enslave anyone, they just want to squeeze more productivity out by paying for their employees' dating app.

*Of course* it's idiotic, and there is tons of evidence that more hours reduces productivity ... but they are tech bros. They're in the position they're in for their ballsiness and ability to convince VCs to give them money, not for actually knowing anything about how to run a company (well).

I'm sorry, that concept was already named in 1951, by Isaac Asimov, and the correct name is "psychohistory" ;)

The modders are on a (bad) roll today! And I literally just ran out of mod points yesterday :(

4Chan is a terrible site, that sucks so badly it regresses all of humanity with its very existence ... but it's also the perfect poster child for "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

I don't usually quote song lyrics on Slashdot, but these seemed relevant:

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mSf_i1U0TI)

It's not about legality: he was on private property, and the university could legally remove him from saying 100% legal (but perhaps annoying, disturbing and/or inappropriate) things on their campus.

This sort of thing happens all the time: creepy men act inappropriately to women, and when it reaches a certain threshold, the women report it to the authorities. Sadly, it's so common it's very much not news-worthy.

What's newsworthy is that this is the first report of a creep being creepy with smart glasses (that can record video of the women).

(And by "people who control stock prices" I don't mean shadowy secret overlords ... I mean traders.)