The problem is the job market has basically priced in exaggerations on resumes. People exaggerate all the time and don’t get punished for it.

If you don’t exaggerate, you may even miss out on opportunities and hamper your career goals whatever they may be, because they already assume you exaggerate and already account for it when reading your resume. And if you don’t exaggerate? Well, they’re happy to pay you less than they would’ve.

Certainly at least in tech in the Bay Area, fake it till you make it is the norm. I’ve met plenty of people with amazing resumes and references just to see them not be as good as advertised.

Blame all the companies with ridiculously high requirements just to hire people who don’t meet all of them. It’s a common advice to apply even when you don’t meet all the reqs, because it works out so often.

This whole thing is basically a nonstory when you realize how much money is in tech. Meta changed their name and sank billions on an idea that everyone thought was stupid from the beginning, and they’re still fine.

Putting a billion into the flavor-of-the-month that has like 10% chance to be the next big thing is a no-brainer when you’re printing multiple billions in profit doing nothing, and have a lot more cash on hand.

The real story, is how wealth inequality and monopolies have essentially allowed the rich to waste tons of money chasing more wealth while having almost no incentive to provide value to society. Who gives a fuck about hallucination and prompt injection? It’s all trivial details that VCs are giving away billions to eventually solve.

Everyone loves the idea of scraping, no one likes maintaining scrapers that break once a week because the CSS or HTML changed.

That’s Silicon Valley’s MO. Just half a year ago, people were putting crypto BS in their products.

Same, having competitors to Android and iOS would be great.

If you were a company, you might think twice before advertising on a site that has their users actively, publicly, and loudly trashing on the CEO.

Isn’t this just wishful thinking? Let’s be 100% real for a moment, those people posting fuck spez on r/place aren’t doing it because they’re moving or have moved to an alternative, they’re doing it because they are addicted to Reddit and can’t stop using it. The true protest is moving to an alternative like Lemmy.

If I’m an advertiser, all I see is a very captive audience. This isn’t like the Twitter situation, where your ads will be shown to increasingly objectionable content. In fact, with all the users begrudgingly downloading the official Reddit app, the value of advertising on Reddit may be going up not down.

That being said, Reddit has never been a good place for advertising outside of a few niches, and that hasn’t changed, so in the long run Reddit most likely won’t survive. But in the short run, I don’t think this is the victory lap.

Not understanding the true power you wield or the consequences of your actions

Sibling, I make CRUD apps with React and Python. I don’t think it’s that dramatic lmao

A lot of schools use Chromebooks for their students. They’re cheap laptops that are easier to administer than Windows.

That’s really cool! What country do you live in if you don’t mind me asking?

But none of that affects the amount of money they lose.

In fact the CEO of the parent company has been pretty transparent about cost cutting, and I’d bet 30m is probably the lowest yearly losses for Tumblr.

I know people want to make this a moral victory, like the losses are the result of bad community management for Reddit/Twitter/Tumblr but that’s just not true. They were dumpster fires business-wise before they shat on their community, and they were dumpster fires after.

No one has cracked the code on how to make a profitable social media company. The two choices are either community funded (like the Fediverse), or steal all the data like Meta, and arguably the second option isn’t really an option for anyone because Meta would eat your lunch all day everyday.

Could’ve fooled me. I got mine for the temperature control and the goose neck spout. Going strong for 3-4 years now.

Wouldn’t any automated system ideally escalate to the next tier of (human) support when it detects something complicated?

Though I agree with you, I don’t think LLMs are lay-off 90% good.

How many of these billboard/muni and bart ads are by companies who end up failing?

It really seems like the billboard/transit ad is perfect for founders with too much money and not enough marketing sense.

Not an answer, but same. I’ve been using my cast iron as a pizza stone and I’ve never managed the same results. One of the first thing I do when I get a yard is get a pizza oven, but that may be a bit down the road.

100%. Reddit has been looking for an exit for years lol. They’d probably sell for anyone at a few billion valuation.

My favorite code reviews are where the reviewer only comments about trivial shit that doesn’t matter, like “it would be more readable if you added a newline here” type stuff.

People will rarely say they want to endlessly scroll, but given the options, they’ll always choose the option that let’s them consume more content, aka doom scroll.