- sleazebreezeI noticed that too, I had to re-read it a few times to make sure I was understanding it properly, it seemed so out of place. Then I read the rest of the article and realized this guy has zero perspective on anything.
- I see a good case for my company to use Lit for creating complex components such as highly interactive panels/widgets to be shared between React/Angular apps in our large ecosystem. However the decision was: 1. Prefer sharing plain JS/TS over framework code so try that first and 2. if the component is so complex and tricky to get right, it probably needs to be re-implemented in each framework anyways (or some sort of wrapper)
My secondary concern with Lit is the additional complexity of using shadow and light DOM together in long lived React/Angular apps. Adding a new paradigm for 75+ contributors to consider has a high bar for acceptance.
- I just evaluated Lit for work and while we didn't go with it, it was very nice. I love the base custom elements API regardless of using Lit or not, turns out that's all you really need to make intricate UIs that feel seamless.
- Props to Sean for this post. I have found his writings to be much closer to how I’ve learned to understand my career and companies than many standard reddit/HN posts portray things.
- and around and around we'll go again!
- Schmoozers learned grit and grind? That's opposite of my experience and observations.
What role do you play in the educational neglect? I am not sure I understand the decline here.
- AI probably generated all of that and the OP didn't even review its output.
- RIP, end of an era. Thank you everyone who worked on this, it was an extraordinarily useful and reliable project.
- Aren't all these transactions checked by a human after the fact? IIRC I interviewed someone who worked on this and thats what they said.
- Contrary to the OP, there is a useless chatbot on the Amazon homepage ("Rufus" sparkle button).
- ANPRs are very popular and common in the EU. More so than in the US, even.
- I don't want to deal with prompt injection attacks leading to being swatted. That's where all this reporting to the authorities is leading and it's not looking fun.
> Is being dead better, or is having complete privacy better? Or does it depend?
I know you're being provocative, but this feels like a false dichotomy. Mental health professionals are pro-privacy AND have mandatory reporting laws based on their best judgement. Do we trust LLMs to report a suicidal person that has been driven there by the LLM itself?
LLMs can't truly be controlled and can't be designed to not encourage mentally ill people to kill themselves.
> Mentally ill people trying to use an LLM for therapy
Yes indeed this is one of the core problems. I have experimented with this myself and the results were highly discouraging. Others that don't have the same level of discernment for LLM usage may mistake the confidence of the output for a well-trained therapist.
- Or maybe I just want to be able to talk to an LLM without worrying about if its going to report me to the authorities.
- Anduril employees think they're Tony Stark, but they're just cranking out cheap shit that kills people. America's enemies or whatever.
The employees seem to be laboring under the idea they're a family and the author sure seems to think so, but the 10% desired attrition rate and the weeks without sleep is really just an indicator they're expendable resources. They don't love you like that, man.
- Some very accomplished and smart people are also huge narcissists. They read something like that AI drivel and go "yeah thats me to a T" without a hint of irony.
- Nothing to see here. Move right along. I'm sure one or two or a handful of repeated incidents don't represent a trend or potential for future fuck-ups.
What is DOGE even doing now? Can we get some status reports on what the DOGE employees are doing every week since they're such proponents of radical accountability?
- They also aren’t building anything worthwhile. Just a lot of agentic slop with zero users. No users, no valuable data, who cares?
- I’ve read his writing for years, and he knows how to express things that feel real and true to me. However the skill of writing for a broad audience doesn’t mean you are more effective in your specific job or company.
It can be true that Lethain is an excellent writer and also a job hopper who doesn’t bear the consequences of his decisions.
- What are the chances that a Bybit insider is behind this?