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I mean astroturfing reddit was never new. It's why /r/HailCorporate existed and tools tried to disenfranchise that sub so much.

It's just 10 times worse because of the phenomenon you described. It also doesn't help that reddit and walled garden social media killed traditional forums so you don't have those to index anymore either. You either have SEO garbage sites trying to bombard you with ads and referral links, links to a walled garden you can't actually see, or reddit posts.

It's a cycle that's bound to repeat, especially with AI. Because that's how MBAs and snake oil salesmen get money, by ruining communal spaces.

“Why can’t I get insurance for hauling away children from their mothers???”

You can tell they were having fun with this review

The “film” is part propaganda, sure, and part sop to Big Tech companies who require constant regulatory approval for financial manoeuvrings. Even then, it is bad. It will exist as a striking artefact – like The Birth of a Nation or Triumph of the Will – of a time when Americans willingly subordinated themselves to a political and economic oligopoly. Organising plans for his return to the White House at 2am, after the Starlight Ball, Trump announces he will immediately “begin straightening out the nation”. “We’re all very grateful,” his event producer whimpers sycophantically. It is a visceral moment where audiences, around the world, will begin to taste the boot that the American establishment so blithely licks.

I feel that.

Even in my current job they’re pushing us to use chatbots and LLMs even when it doesn’t make sense. There’s a lot of people hoping for the mythical productivity boosts that snake oil salesmen are shoveling. Going to the point where they see a future where “you check in prompts to source control because LLMs will be so good at translating those”. Which is batshit but you gotta let c level people learn this the hard way and fire everyone else for their mistakes.

As a full time software engineer you’ll get a lot more out of learning how things work, even in the short term, if you properly learn the craft.

Otherwise when something deals you won’t have the tools to debug it. When the work LLMs are great but if things go haywire you wanna be able to stop and triage yourself.

I’ve never had a manager complain about leaving a few minutes early.

It destroys more good will and motivation than the theoretical 40 hour a month. I say theoretical because the odds of anyone getting anything done in those 3 min are astronomically slim.

That employee is never going to stay later to help with anything if they don’t have the wiggle room to leave a few minutes early.

So people are idiots. Got it.

I dunno man working on a video game as a side hobby they’re the worst things I’d use for gen ai. There’s too many things from pathing to physics and collision that require human input to make work.

Anytime I’ve tried it’s given some absolute shit results.

I don’t see this as MTG being a good guy.

I see this as MAGA eating itself. And I’m here for that.

How much do fake user ratings go for nowadays?

Given that numerous people, not just me, misunderstood your intent I’m gonna go with that purpose was not well communicated.

Thomas the Tank Engine: Nightmare in Back Hill Woods

Blowing a .8 on the breathalyzer gets you instant access to the controls.

It’s in all the handbooks.

If Netflix paid $75 million for a worldwide theatrical release of that documentary that would be an apt comparison.

They did not and it is not.

That was doctored sadly

Do we have confirmation? Would love to point a link to friends.

Their focus is purely on getting whales to buy more and nothing else.

This one is less political and more “take public figure and make them googly eyed”

TL;DR it’s a way of indicating VP level positions at Amazon. It’s someone really high up the chain. To put in perspective Andy Jassy is an L12.

Longer answer. At Amazon every position has a level. I was a software engineer so that’s what I’ll speak to here but these apply to non engineering positions as well.

L1-3 are non engineering positions.

L4 is junior engineer

L5 is mid-senior IC (individual contributor) and the lowest rung for Engineering management.

L6 is Senior IC and middle rung for managers.

L7 is Principal engineer and Senior Manager. For context only about 1-2% of the company ever get this high.

L8 is Senior principal and Director level management.

L9 you skip because that was Bezos’ level and everyone just doesn’t use it.

L10 are VP level management. You occasionally get an IC this high when Amazon wants to poach talent from another company but generally this is reserved for management.

Does the DHS funding also require 60 votes? Or is that gonna just be a majority vote that Dems can be like “sEe iTs NoT us!”?

“With all their tools, all their AI, Amazon Web Services — they didn’t just come up with that number randomly,” Da Frè said. “They believe, through their metrics, that it’s worth that amount.”

Having worked at Amazon for a couple years this is the most hilarious thing I've read.

If someone L10+ wants something to happen its gonna happen metrics be damned. Lemmings will fudge numbers and just make it work. For all the bluster about LPs and such it's a very top down culture and what VPs and above want they fucking get it.