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Great insight, I used to be head of SRE at a mini-Faang.

Some of the best meetings I setup were with head of the CX (Customer Experience).

The reason is SREs typically work on Infra/Product, but rarely see the pain customers endure outside of major incidents.

Higher marginal tax rates are meaningless and are continually parroted without either understanding effective tax rates or willfully ignoring them.

I have half-jokingly wish a president would introduce a 95% tax bracket at some ridiculous number so this statistic will die.

They are as long as the company doesn't fold, yes.

Binance/Coinbase use hot wallets, they are not stolen from actual user accounts.

It's not a access thing, it's a security control.

For example at most good crypto companies that hold wallets it's not possible to ssh at all, even if someone asked and go permission. It just simply isn't possible short of having a AWS root key or physical access to a computer in a DC.

There is no login, no accounts, no ssh keys or similar, they are immutable containers running from images with a signed SHA. The SHA can only be built by a build system that has it's own set of strict security controls.

Without details, I don't know why a comproised laptop would make any difference unless it submitted code through a PR and had it approved by multiple people.

sandboxing

This is a paid per month app? Why?

I use https://github.com/0cv/herdr-mobile-relay

I use it only with tailscale.

The law says you must be in the country lawfully and not through fraudulent terms. That happens before the judge.

The parent's comment is now flagged. This is ridiculous, half the repliers aren't even reading what he said.

Ironically this is why I flag these articles, any slightly nuanced discussion is not allowed, its all the reddit/X style commenters adding 0 value.

Yes and if you look those rates have been going down for years. This used to be a big talking point years ago, not so much anymore.

Why not abide by the laws of a host country?

Speed doesn't always mean accuracy either.

Try getting a api key to read your own gmail (not LDAP).

It is insanely difficult vs any other new sass startup with a profile->api key.

I won't even bother typing out all the steps.

I understand this and agree, but how do you measure it objectively.

Usually it's one outspoken engineer with lots of experience and anecdotes but not a link between cause/effect.. just a lot of war stories and slowing others down.

HN falls under the same cause/effect rise/fall of any other large community.

The larger it gets, the more fringe/outlier groups start to take over.

I think it's too nuanced of conversation topic to have a dedicated space.

All spaces turn into echo chambers with enough people. I could be wrong.

I'd be ok discussing with people NOT using AI at work as long as its not built around bashing AI. There are people I work with who still write code, I'm not going to downplay them.

It's mostly around navigating these nuances at work. Even what words to use "I built this" vs "LLM built this"

I know how to design large multi PR projects with multiple agents, but the ORG/LLM navigation , you can't learn by talking to AI.

off-topic: Sometimes I feel like applying at Costco as a SWE just to help fix their god awful tech, it's worse than 2000's e-commerce.

/rant

Lol I was thinking the same thing.

I wouldn't scold someone for thinking it, its ok to have floating thoughts. Just don't double down on them and start arguments over the internet with strangers.

This has been talked about for years and years, has little to do with AI.

I've been at places where I went years hardly doing work on a average week. But I'm also good [at some things] so when it mattered I showed up, then didn't do anything for months.

Also, if you build a foundation of being very good, you can coast on that even longer (years) in the right situation. There are 1000s of stories of people doing nothing for years making six figures, easy.

Have you worked at a public company, or better yet one that went public while you worked there?

The amount of people working on regulation, compliance and other non-revenue generating responsibilities increases substantially.

Meta: This is a topic I'm very interested in reading about. Does anyone know where people can talk about how AI is changing how people in large orgs work.

I don't mean in a forum where everyone bashes AI, but actually discusses how to navigate this?

It's not here at HN.

How do you measure 'care'. If it's a tech org, it either works or it doesn't?

You might 'care' to add features nobody asked for? Or 'care' to spend longer than necessary to refactor something that doesn't need it.

Bad analogy, it is more like they said they don't believe in texts but you can call any time and they'd love to help you move. But they won't answer your texts.

Completely false, and this goes into reasons for performative activism.

Stop saying 'guys' is performative, it is not moving the needle at all on the big stuff. The strongest people also have strong wills, taking it or leaving it. They could be the best people to have on your side.

I think you're trying to have your cake and eat it too.

I get what you're saying on paper, but in the workforce, that's not how things go down.

Counter argument is you rarely hear of sunk-cost fallacy coming into play.

I used to do the same thing without AI, I'd spend a week working on a task and only realizing at the end it was wrong, but because I spend so much time on it, I was incentived more to keep going and ignoring sunk-cost.

Now I don't care, it only takes me a an hour and I have no problems throwing it away and trying something else.

No, not really. Read the entire discussion here, it's a bunch of nerds prescribing what is best for common people, it's exhausting.

I'm not defending FB practices, I'm stating it has value beyond the hyperbole.

It's actually more than entertainment, you obviously don't use it so don't know.

They make plenty of money because of control over a product. This is just another in a long list of controls.

People don't like change, this will be a non-story in a year.

How's that different than Unions or COOPs? They also suffer from power struggle.

This is not a reflection on any type of wording of group activities, rather human nature.