EchoChamberKryptonite

Android practicalist.
My views and opinions are yours too, only bolder.
Never stop never stopping.

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@MaxMynter Yegge's doing something similar in building his game Wyvern I think. I think these tech evangelists need to be a little realistic about the true utility of these technologies.

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@felixrieseberg Hunger does not beat tenure. It just makes you more easily taken advantage of.

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@JohnStrongHodl @0xGeeGee Getting hired by SpaceXAI is not a flex my dude nor does it make the argument solid. She's literally paid to evangelize the technology. Of course, she's going to say it's the next best thing since sliced bread.

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@0xGeeGee @JohnStrongHodl People have let go of critical thinking for the new grift. I bet you in 10 years if the tech goes nowhere in terms of revolutionizing the world, they'd all come with some revisionism and say how they were decrying the technology.

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@0xGeeGee Solid ground that is.

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@poteto I think we're painting his actions as something else. Understanding the system your building is important and that is why code is important. Now does that mean he should slag you with ad hominems? No.

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@GergelyOrosz @neogoose_btw I don't think OpenAI is a bastion of emotional intelligence. Take a peak at the tone-deaf things their CEO says for instance.

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@aquapoiesis @Shopify Please inform them of the strategy whiplash they'd have to endure @Shopify.

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@SimonHoiberg Then you need to expand your horizons. This is an absolutely incorrect take that I question the quality of your products.

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"I see the hurt it’s causing my ex-colleagues, their families and their kids. Layoffs, forced relocations, PIPs. It’s brutal and I don’t want to brush past that."

and yet he did with:

"But here’s my honest take. Microsoft needs fewer people."

Quite tone-deaf.

[Merill Fernando @merill]

Folks,

I left Microsoft three months ago to start my own company. Two weeks after I left, my whole team in Australia was let go.

I see the hurt it’s causing my ex-colleagues, their families and their kids. Layoffs, forced relocations, PIPs. It’s brutal and I don’t want to brush past that.

But here’s my honest take.

Microsoft needs fewer people.

I’ve been on the inside. I’ve seen how things get built. Lots of small orgs. Layers on layers. Silos everywhere.

Here’s a real example.

The Entra team shipped managed identities back in 2017. No more secrets in code. A clear security win.

Then they tried to get the rest of Microsoft to adopt it. Very few teams did, and the ones that did moved at a snail’s pace. Every org had its own priorities and its own decision makers.

It took Microsoft getting hacked, and the Secure Future Initiative that followed, before things really moved.

Today almost every Microsoft app and service supports managed identity.

Six years, and a major breach, to get there.

In a world with agents and fewer people, that rollout would be possible across Microsoft in months, not years.

Microsoft already has everything else. The customers. The infrastructure. The scale.

What it needs is fewer people, leaning hard into agentic work.

Right now OpenAI and Anthropic are shipping at a pace Microsoft can’t match.

Microsoft has to change to survive.

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@merill "I see the hurt it’s causing my ex-colleagues, their families and their kids. Layoffs, forced relocations, PIPs. It’s brutal and I don’t want to brush past that."

and yet you did with:

"But here’s my honest take. Microsoft needs fewer people."

Quite tone-deaf.

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@TheThing89 @GergelyOrosz Your current slant is the archetype that gives SWEs a bad rep as emotionally immature folks. I hope you learn and understand that empathy is something you show by your actions not something you say you are. Take some time to think about how you behave. Start with ur tweets.

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@TheThing89 @GergelyOrosz I never advocated for people who disagree to be fired. There is a difference between "No, I think this is wrong." and "No, this is a stupid idea." One of those is productive and the other is insulting. I hope you grow up, mature some more and learn how to engage properly.

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@TheThing89 @GergelyOrosz Being polite and having empathy at work is not "go in a circle and sing kumbayah". Nor is being rude "being an adult and having programming to do". Disagreements are fine but HOW you disagree is more important than WHY. It seems you think being caustic in your disagreement is ok.

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@NatTowsen @statikstasis @texasrunnerDFW Is Akihabara not in Tokyo? Trash on streets is a problem there too. Like I said, you lot should stop fetishizing Japan as some utopia. It's not.

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@UWS_Parent @mysteriouskat I took over 6 weeks off last year and probably taking over 7 this year.

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@JDub0905 @misalud1st @Dexerto Reviews on airbnb cannot be trusted.

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@yvanachiha @MarktheRed21 @Dexerto Whoa...lookie here. Cost of doing business.

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@LoganARobison @jamesglenos They didn't stay there for free. They get to do nothing other than lock up and leave,