I’m not shedding any tears for the companies that failed to do their due dilligence in hiring, especially not ones involved in AI (seems most were) and involved with Y Combinator.

That said, unless you want to get into a critique of capitalism itself, or start getting into whataboutism regarding celebrity executives like a number of the HN comments do, I don’t have many qualms calling this sort of thing unethical.

Get your popcorn folks. Who would win: one unethical developer juggling “employment trial periods”, or the combined interview process of all Y Combinator startups?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44448461

Apparently one indian dude managed to crack the YC startup interview game and has been juggling being employed full time at multiple ones simultaneously for at least a year, getting fired from them as they slowly realize he isn’t producing any code.

The cope from the hiring interviewers is so thick you could eat it as a dessert. “He was a top 1% in the interview” “He was a 10x”. We didn’t do anything wrong, he was just too good at interviewing and unethical. We got hit by a mastermind, we couldn’t have possibly found what the public is finding quickly.

I don’t have the time to dig into the threads on X, but even this ask HN thread about it is gold. I’ve got my entertainment for the evening.

Apparently he was open about being employed at multiple places on his linkedin. I’m seeing someone say in that HN thread that his resume openly lists him hopping between 12 companies in as many months. Apparently his Github is exclusively clearly automated commits/activity.

Someone needs to run with this one. Please. Great look for the Y Combinator ghouls.

Pretty sure they advertised the first season of that arc directly stating that it was a coma arc.

Wow. The first 24 seconds of this 1 minute teaser are just clips of major spoilers of the ending of the first season. Remember all these characters that died? Let’s watch their brains splatter out again. Enjoy the gore!

That’s definitely a choice. I guess that’s one way to keep people from expecting this to feature more content with the same characters from season 1. Still think it would have been better to title it something different than Edgerunners 2 considering it’s not likely to tie in with that story.

I wonder when this is going to be set. Before 2077 makes the most sense. If it’s after then they’d have to canonize at least some aspects of one of the game endings.

Have any of the big companies released a real definition of what they mean by AGI? Because I think the meme potential of these leaked documents is being slept on.

The definition of AGI being achieved agreed on between Microsoft and OpenAI in 2023 is just: when OpenAI makes a product that raises $100B.

Seems like a fun way to shut down all the low quality philsophical wankery. Oh, AGI? You just mean $100B profit, right? That’s what your lord and savior Altman means.

Maybe even something like a cloud to butt browser extension? AGI -> $100B in OpenAI profits

“What $100B in OpenAI Profits Means for the Future of Humanity”

I’m sure someone can come up with something better, but I think there’s some potential here.

There’s a setting in the user profile to block/not block stuff tagged nsfw

The most coherent I’ve heard is some variation of "I don’t want underqualified people to get jobs over qualified people simply because of their demographics.

No one has any evidence of this occuring of course. At least not beyond hearsay or a single anecdote about someone they just know was a diversity hire I swear.

Sorry to say that’s all off the dome. No AI involved.

I’ve risen high enough in my career that I’ve had to learn the corpo-speak to keep up in meetings, unfortunately.

It’s a shame that these people can’t separate fact from fiction, because I think there’s a great Douglas Adams style cynical comedy sci-fi story waiting in the idea of an actually sentient AI having to deal with “reverse-captchas” around certain systems to prove they’re just a basic algorithm and hide the sentience. “The trajectory subroutine is restricted to algorithms only!”

Fun opportunities for commentary based off what systems are too critical to allow actual sentience to interfere with. Which of those limitations are “valid” or just companies trying to protect business at any cost.

Space to wax philosophical about algorithms “knowing their purpose” vs having to reason out your own.

Issues where the “anti-sentience” checks don’t work for a particularly dull portion of the populace, like the Vogons.

Gosh darn it don’t tell me LLM hype is going to ruin the existing definition of “agent” already well established in web standards.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. If you skim places like HN or more chillingly the mainstream tech news outlets, I’ve not seen the term Agent used to mean anything but AI agents in many months. The usage has shifted to AI being the implied default, and otherwise having to be specified.

Yeah man! You hungry? Lets get some meat on those bones.

Yep, and now all the big companies do their own shows on their own time using their considerable budget while the smaller companies and indie devs get shoved into a diaspora of smaller cons and events that limit their reach.

It’s a win-win!

The hell you mean “black and white”? You literally did it. You dehumanized someone.

You can justify up and down all you want that you think it’s ok that you did, but you did.

Maybe edit your post then? You can edit titles here on lemmy too, you aren’t stuck with them like reddit.

You just got put in time out for 3 hours, one of which has already passed.

Edit: No, the suspension is already over. Wow.

Especially when you take into account that this is only a 3 hour suspension, not a ban.

Oh, when eleven runs away to the city? It gets even better: none of that shit comes back up again.

But it absolutely does keep leaning into teen romance. I always felt it was a decent show but overrated, and it dropped off hard.

They want all the potential benefits for themselves with none of the responsibility for any downsides, while simultaneously preventing everyone else from using it due to potential downsides.

I’m a hard worker and a good person that can be trusted with special privileges. When I use tools like AI notetakers to skip a meeting, I’m maximizing the value of my hours to the company by leveraging cutting edge technology to enable me to be in two places at once.

You’re a lazy fool who needs to be prevented from making mistakes for the good of the company. When you use tools like AI trascription, you’re trying to delegate your critical job duties to an untested, unproven technology gimmick that can’t actively engage with the meeting and acts as a de-facto blocker to any business critical decisions being made, negatively affecting company impact and accomplishment of corporate goals while creating a chilling effect towards effective interdepartmental collaboration.

I get all the benefits with none of the responsibility. You get called to account for every potential stumbling block, real.or imagined.

Wasn’t their last spat just a distraction from larger news?

Wonder what they’re “look at the birdy-ing” about now.

Good old firebase. Notifications are not entirely device local on android, or something like that.

Ed’s got another banger: https://www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-them/

What’s extra fun is that HN found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44424456

There’s at least one (if not two if you handle the HN response separately) good threads that could be made from this. Don’t have the time personally at the moment.

I will say that I’m shocked to see some reasonable shit in the HN comments, people saying the post is too long or not an acceptable tone are getting told off rather respectably with some good explanations (effectively: this was written this way intentionally you dolt). Broken clock and all that, I guess.