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wNjdbfm on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @12:55PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Like a lot of folks, I'm trying to understand the AI reality vs. the hype cycle. I have my own experiences both using it and seeing it rolled out with a “do more AI” mandate at a huge tech company. Even looking here at discussions we have the full spectrum from engineers who say they don’t code anymore, they just manage agents, to engineers who say they find it basically useless because of how...
Is this a US ONLY problem? I'm not trying to start a flame war, I'm genuinely wondering for example: European air travel doesn't seem any less safe than the US so whatever they are doing seems to work just as well. Do they have trouble hiring and keeping ATCs? Is their comp/work life/training/etc very different than ours? Would appreciate any insight from folks that know.
From my own personal experience I’d recommend getting your B12 checked. I had similar problems, bloodwork came back with B12 a little low and the doc recommended I supplement it (monthly injections). Helped a ton.
Obviously I’m not a doctor and can’t give medical advice, just relaying something that happened to me.
I have engineering VPs that report to me. In our weekly 1 on 1s we catch up on how we’re both doing and I ask them if there’s anything I can do to make their work lives better/easier or unblock them in some way. If so we talk about it and I make a plan to get them what they need. If not we wrap early. Seems to work pretty well without causing stress or wasting time.
I thought of an example of my own so I don’t accidentally throw my wife under the bus accidentally.
I was on a flight and it was cancelled for some reason after we had boarded. We all had to go to the customer service desk to make new arrangements and whatnot. The dude in front of me didn’t like the solution they provided (if I recall it was a night in an airport hotel and a flight out next day). He started yelling, berating the customer service person, generally being an ass, and they ended up giving him airline miles and an upgrade in the future in addition to he initial offer. Being next in line and having overhead everything I said “I’d like the offer you gave him”. They said “no”. So I guess at that point I can either accept the initial offer or start yelling like the other guy did until they give me the good offer. The incentive in this system is to act like an ass. Pretty unfortunate.
Tangentially related: My wife worked in customer service for a few years remotely and would regularly vent to me about it. One of the interesting things that she said is that we are training an annoyingly large subset of customers that if they just make themselves annoying enough they get free stuff. Eventually the company decides to reward their craziness by caving to their demands and creating a weird incentive dynamic which repeats. Obviously I can’t give specifics but she said the % of her day spent on people in that category grew steadily over the years she was in that line of work. Anyone else in that area experience similar?
Posted by
wNjdbfm on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @11:22AM
from the ask-hn dept.
It seems that during the pandemic we crossed some invisible line with regard to remote working, certainly in tech adjacent fields. Remote schooling has been a much tougher nut to crack for a variety of reasons. My own kids, jr high and college age, have seen their instructors just abjectly fail at running online versions of their classes. One would think that two years in things would improve...
I have a Tesla Model Y and I love it so much. I also paid $10k for “full self driving” and I’m in the beta program and I’d ask for a refund for that if I could. It behaves unpredictably - sometimes it seems smarter than you could imagine and then it does something that seems obviously dumb. That unpredictability makes it stressful to drive because being ready to take over instantly means trying to predict what it will do. I couldn’t live with myself if it did something I wasn’t prepared for and someone got hurt. So I don’t use it.
It’s unfortunate that Elon has gone all in on self driving being the future of Tesla because they built a hell of a car on its own merits.
These Tesla threads are always tense but there’s a lot of important discussions to be had about Tesla and FSD wrt technology and society. That said user: omedyentral seems to be farming anti tesla rage both here on HN and on their Twitter page. I’m not sure that’s in the spirit of what HN is trying to be.
Posted by
wNjdbfm on Saturday July 13, 2019 @04:32PM
from the ask-hn dept.
tl;dr:
-Any advice for someone looking to switch from their own lifestyle business to working on someone else's project?
-Any advice for someone on the wrong side of 40 with C level experience trying to find startups or fun projects that might value my experience?I've had a successful lifestyle business for the last 15 years where I've held the role of CTO or COO. Recently for a variety of...