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They do not, however, have the same price per task or task execution ability at any thinking level. Token cost alone is not a sufficient metric.

VCs count as people unfortunately.

Who is buying these at 70% of new pricing given the sky high likelihood of them being shot? Maybe it's safe to buy from small labs that went under quickly, but I can't imagine a cluster that has been operating near its thermal limits for a couple years fetching that kind of resale.

When I tried warp I was convinced that was where the industry was going (agents as terminal replacement), but it felt a bit too heavy to me so I haven’t been using it lately. Still think all things will converge on terminal and browser replacement.

(1) be naturally gifted, (2) avoid falling down wells of distraction, (3) be lucky. Don’t sleep on (3), it’s easy to call it capitalizing on opportunity in hindsight when it was honestly just luck.

You may be referring to PayPal as one of those companies, but in case you’re not: Elon did not found Tesla.

You do not know with any degree of certainty what their motivations are. In fact, the utter disdain they demonstrate for certain US citizens dismantles your entire claim.

Then frankly you weren’t paying attention. This was all laid out in Project 2025 and there were plentiful ties between it and Trump despite his deflection.

My industry? My industry is tech, where I got paid 7 figures for years and years doing fuck all to benefit society. It’s pretty telling that you just assumed someone defending a marginalized group was a member of that cohort.

Are there improvements that could be made in the grant process? Sure, just like there are improvements that could be made in any process. That is not a justification for taking a sledgehammer to the existing institution and affecting thousands of our brightest and hardest working residents who generally are not in it for godforsaken money but to better society. The ends in your kindergarten example do not justify the means. This is political, it’s not a merit-based cleansing.

I’m sure someone such as yourself would never see medical research as a public good so I guess we’re done here. The ideological bridge is too vast and frankly I have lost complete interest in the drivel on the other side.

What I’m describing is most labs for first-time PIs and there will not be a path to recovery for most of them. It’s not like tech where you can just come up with the next shitty idea and try again. PIs don’t get to fail 3 times like you. So stop being a fragile little snowflake tech douche when you don’t know what you’re talking about. Grow some empathy for others; history will never forget your kind even long after it forgets you.

I’m financially independent from years of working in tech. Never touched research at all, but I have empathy and respect for those who dedicate their lives to it for minimal monetary benefit to themselves.

You sound ripe for layoff. Stay worried.

If someone had a study section next week, it could take months to reschedule which could absolutely put them deep in the red if this was already a desperate effort to save their lab. Look, I know you have some pathetic agenda to carry out and that is blinding you to real problems, but for heavens sake just keep your damn mouth shut.

People will absolutely lose their labs over this, please stop spreading lies either intentionally or from a place of ignorance.

Oh good, it’s just grant proposals so only some people will lose their labs due to the idiotic politicization of the NIH. This pushes back study sections by months even if they do resume on Feb 1. You can’t just schedule x leading researchers to review a grant on a whim, it’s planned months in advance.

Except middle America, where the populace would find a reason to be distrustful of a straight up cure.

Someone very close to me had their study section next week cancelled with no further comms. They are already fucking up grants. Please everyone, educate yourselves on this; the sky actually is falling this time.

If you have no idea what you’re talking about, then consider keeping your mouth shut. You are the problem in this world.

Engineering crushing stress from existential threats of my own creation is just about the only productivity trick I have. It works at least.

Some might argue that is what LLMs do.

If someone sends me an multi-thousand line CR, I'll review it and give them impactful feedback. I may miss some details, but I guarantee I'll miss close to all of the details if that is split over 40 CRs. I wouldn't want to work with someone who has time to review like that unless it's a very niche domain.

I just think the people who whole-heartedly believe in such "best practices" (and much more so the people who succumb to them) help justify my salary.

You should consider yourself lucky that you haven't witnessed the torched sushi craze [yet].

I am teetering on the decision myself. Have you enjoyed it?

[at a FAANG] Just the other day my director chastised his directs for "letting low performers leave without getting fired," which is something I had yet to hear get broadcasted to a full room of people. The company's leaders would rather get credit for a URA target than do what's best for the company (in this case, not paying out severance). Tech is so polluted with this kind of thinking that I really can't wait to leave it.

After surviving what feels like a dozen rounds of layoffs over the past year, morale is already non-existent. You can go weeks and sometimes months without even hearing a peep from the people you once thought were the brightest and hardest working. The whole thing just feels in need of a reboot. Is this consistent across all companies at the moment or is it just time for me to leave?

At Amazon scale that last x% is a multi-decade problem and still going. It’s intractable full stop.

Their sincerity does not matter when there is actual market demand.

The biggest risk to that security risk is its own name. Needs rebranding asap.

I would wager some of it is from unconscious bias since he is already positioned as a criminal before you even even see the photograph. Your brain wants to tell itself that it can identify such criminals so it picks up on what it can.

The rest is very much "oh, this person is now known as a criminal, let me find the most sinister looking photo of them possible."

I was responding in a sub-thread about risks/opportunities associated with sequential IDs with an anecdote on opportunities.

Years ago I wrote a library that would exaggerate sequential IDs to make our SaaS platform appear more popular than it actually was to anyone trying to pay attention. Not sure if I’m proud of the hack or embarrassed. But of both I suppose.