But even thiel doesn’t care as much about trivial things like awards and flattery the same way trump does.

Well, grafana is an example. They want their own AI agent that you can pay for. So they still need the apis to be good. But they don’t make it easy to get your AI it own api token. Each user would essentially have to have two accounts. Which they probably charge for too. It’s not impossible to work around, but it’s a barrier. I would expect more of that kind of thing. Any tool that doesn’t have a way for AI to work with it is going to be selected against for a while. So there is pressure for them to be accessible.

So I am so ewhat pro AI. But hear me out. I sometimes refer to myself as an automation engineer. I spend a lot of my time automating the set up and use of various software tools. For those who know the term Infrastructure As Code is a part of my job too. And soo many tools have shitty UIs and even shittier apis. The rise of AI is going to add pressure to have better apis because that is what the AI uses. So even if AI falls flat on it’s face in a few years, any improvements in apis is a vig win for me. And since the automation I write is for my coworkers, not external customers, anyone in tech benefits from this.

Now for me personally, I work ina lot of different languages and DSLs. I rarely spend enough time in any one of them to really memorize the syntax. I pretty much can’t write a working program without some sort of reference. So, I can tell AI exactly what I want it to do, and it can code and test until it runs. Then I can use that as my syntax reference and make it do what it is supposed to do. That ends up being much faster than me having to google various syntaxes to see where I need a semicolon vs a comma, or where I need to use [] instead of {}. So it helps me.

And I do love using AI to file my jira tickets. Works great for those of us who’s work is interrupt driven. We often file the ticket after we’ve solved the problem.

So studies on mice have shown that transfusing young blood into old mice has a rejuvenating effect. You may not be far off.

I do think it will improve under vance. He is far more likely to listen to advisors. And far less likely to start a war to distract from him being in the Epstien files.

Lol. Been there. And it actually can be rough. The company I stupidly spent 15+ years working for refused to use new tech. So while I got a large severance, I didn’t have experience with the tech people hired for. I had to learn new stuff on my own, then structure my resume so that it didn’t make it clear that I had not used that tech in a professional setting. That at least got me interviews here and there. But in the end, it was basically just luck I was able to get a new job.
I often wonder what my life would be like if I had listened to the people who advised me to work a few years at my fist company and then change companies a few times early in my career.

I’m buying extra fireworks this year to save for the day.

And I bet that 8k was after tax. The unemployment is taxed later. Which is always fun come tax time. Cause if you didn’t make quarterly payments, you might owe a tax penalty. I know it’s a 1%er type problem, but still annoying.

Well, they can make it required like they do for health insurance. Then it will be like a forced group savings account, but they get the jnterest, and they control how much you get out of it no matter what you put in it. Thats the capitalist dream.

Lol, I didn’t post it on X, should be safe from Elons eyes.

True. But in theory, those are for people who have jobs. And technically that’s a loan. I am surprised that we don’t have private unemployment insurance, where like health insurance you pay into it even when not collecting. I believe in most states everyone pays into unemployment insurance that is run by the state. But since it is state run, it doesn’t cost much. If they privatize it, the cost will have to go up. So they are missing an opportunity. Which capitalism doesn’t tend to like. Thus my suprise.

What I find vaguely interesting is that the US hasn’t managed to privatize unemployment insurance. I mean it could be made much more inefficient, line the pockets of the billionaires, and be of less use to laid off employees. Doesn’t capitalism demand it be privatized?

You can take both. And for most tech sector workers, the unemployment payments are tiny compared thier salary. Also the unemployment payments don’t last forever. For anyone with say 10 years at the company, the ttotal unemployment payout would be less than the severance.

I did forget it was the 1st, and I did laugh initially. Then I remebered the date. So to me at least, it was funny. :shrug:

That doesn’t sound like it is saying don’t identify yourself. That it’s called claude isn’t internal information. So it doesn’t seem that instruction is doing tpwhat you are saying. Must be more instructions.

I didn’t turn it on, and I see it doing it all the time. In my case though the mistakes are often absurd. I often feel like claude is a very junior programmer that has a hard time remembering the original requirements.

Well, I thpught he confessed to his dad or something, and his dad called it in because he thought his son was going to kill himself or something. Not like an interrogation confession.

I thought the kid more or less confessed. Are they saying he actually didn’t? Or that he fired, but he missed? Also, did we ever find out what the real story with the kid was. There was a lot of conflicting accounts about his life before this all went down.

So I guess blocking payments to porn sites or whatever they were doing before is supposed to stop. Right? Right?

In the US (possibly state specific), the estate (all assets of the deceased) are held for a time. There are laws about allowing people the deceased owed money to to make a claim. I think in my state it was that an ad had to be placed in a newspaper or something, and then 30 days.

After that, some government agency or court decides/rules if the claims are valid. If so the estate is liquidated enough to pay those bills. After that, anything that is left is claimable by next of kin. If the debt is higher, anyone who wants something from the estate, like someone who was left a specific item of value, would have to take on the debt to get the item directly. Though they can probably work something out to just buy the item as part of the liquidation.

For rent specifically, it would depend on the rental contract. But anyone who didn’t sign it is most probably free to leave without paying. Anyone wanting to stay would have to work it out with the landlord.

All that said and done. If you are considering this as a way out. Don’t. Not having to pay the debt will be little consolation to the roomates who undoubtedly would find the body. Further… the world may suck today. But tomorrow aliens may arrive, kill all our greedy leaders and revelutionize our lives into something of comfort and meaning. Or something simpler but worth being arou pnd for could happen. Death is so… final.