This caused me to reconsider something. I had kinda assumed that everything sucks because the bar of quality for software is so low, and that’s pulling it down for every other field now that software proliferated into eating the world.

But I didn’t examine that the relationship could work in both directions. Software sucks some of the time, but it doesn’t excuse shit like how Crowdstrike can still be in business, and we should probably look into what’s caused us to develop the attitude about not caring that shit is shit, just because the shit salesmen told us it’ll be less shit in the future.

I don’t like to speculate, but it seems tptacek is not happy about it for some reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44291623

https://www.gauntletai.com/

10 weeks of 100h work weeks so you can have a 98% (publically disclosed) chance of being denied a Golden Ticket to the AI factory.

This is very weird but not particularly notable, other than that these guys have apparently been YC funded in 2017, and I can’t find anything about the company in the directory: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?batch=Summer+2017… until I looked at the CEO’s name. Lambda School Bloom Institute GauntletAI’s latest pivot is asking for 1000 hours of voluntary unpaid labour.

e: apologies for the vaguepost, I could’ve sworn I put down the name, but in any case, it’s the return of PG’s favourite guy not named Sam Altman, Austen Allred

Being paid to reddit has to be the most pathetic thing you can do, and I say that as someone who once reddited unpaid.

This almost reads like tptacek doesn’t understand why lucidity’s piece a year ago was so effective and tried to write it from the opposite angle by punching down instead of punching up.

I’d have thought that a guy who writes on the internet like it’s a competition sport could recognize the obvious problems of this, but maybe I’m just a vibe coding Youtuber.

“ChatGPT is good, but only if no one in a position of authority uses it”

Cool.