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Re:Karpathy: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a b... by scorpioxy on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @10:49PM (#46790833)
From what I am seeing, no one is feeling coy simply because of the cost savings that management is able to show the higher-ups and shareholders. At that level, there's very little understanding of anything technical and outages or bugs will simply get a "we've asked our technical resources to work on it". But every one understands that spending $50 when you were spending $100 is a great achievement. That's if you stop and not think about any downsides. Said management will then take the bonuses and disappear before the explosions start with their resume glowing about all the cost savings and team leadership achievements. I've experienced this first hand very recently.
Re:Karpathy: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a b... by daxfohl on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @11:01PM (#46790917)
Of all the looming tipping points whereby humans could destroy the fabric of their existence, this one has to be the stupidest. And therefore the most likely.
Re:Karpathy: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a b... by bgilroy26 on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @11:02AM (#46797079)
There really ought to be a class of professionals like forensic accountants who can show up in a corrupted organization and do a post mortem on their management of technical debt