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Employees are using AI to do each other’s work (Blind)

• AndruJasru (Amazon): This just shows that people think other people’s jobs are easy. PMs think they don’t need engineers because they can just type in prompt and generate code slop. Eng thinks they don’t need PM bc they can just generate document slop. They both think they don’t need design bc they think their slop looks good enough. Leadership thinks they don’t need any of the above bc they can type into chat box and make tokens go brrr. So they actually laid off everyone
• Whacksmang (Zillow Group): they all trying to code and don’t know what a loop is or what a conditional is. Assistants using AI to code up dashboards connected to production data is wild.. no compliance, no architectural thought.. nothing can scale but heck.. they are productive.
• fallguy312 (ex-Amazon): lol yeah I love it when the PMs copy paste our eng docs into Claude to “provide feedback” and then also generate full docs themselves

Amazon AGI Layoffs - Why? (Blind)

• mT37j (Google): Amazon doesn’t do research things where the ROI isn’t clear. These people didn’t have any results to show during their last review.
• tanho (Amazon): These are still the ripple effects of Rohit leaving last December and AGI being restructured. The foundation model is now being built by a small team under Peter Abbeel, many hired from Google Deepmind, which is a radical departure from Rohit’s previous approach, where hundreds of people were collaborating on this.
• boredddddd (Microsoft): I don’t like Amazon overall but this is one of the smartest thing they have done. AGI doesn’t serve amazon’s product and businesses in any way and there is no point pouring money into a leaky bucket.

Google Coding Bar is insane!!! (Blind)

• bdFp52 (Meta): NGL dude. I got G offer 2 week ago. Idk how TF I solved my coding problems, I came home, looked back and was in awe of how I even did it. I really was just wired. Almost felt like someone else did it through me, I was just a vessel. So I feel this.
• pothos🍃 (ex-Chime): Joining Google is now a matter of luck. Nothing else.
• NRQf45 (Microsoft): The point is usually to have difficult to impossible problems to see how one thinks and approaches problems because that’s the job. You don’t usually get handed a clear straightforward obvious and precise spec

Is it illegal to trick the US government into wiping your phone during a questionably legal search | The case of a traveler who allegedly entered a ‘duress password’ to wipe his phone raises a legal question with no easy answers (r/technology)

• OftTopic: The part I found the most alarming was that Customs claimed that the interrogation room in the Atlanta airport was not part of the United States. Therefore citizens have no rights.
• kstargate-425: I was being harrassed and intimidated by government goons with guns and I mistakenly gave them the wrong password as they rushed me and entered it quickly 🤷‍♂️
• not_the_fox: They asked for a code while detaining him, not mirandizing him, and not allowing him a lawyer. He did the best he could under the circumstances. It’s unreasonable to expect cooperation. If they want to search the phone they could but they started asking for codes from someone detained while refusing them legal counsel.

Willie Nelson Urges Americans to Fight the Construction of Data Centers: They ‘Only Destroy the Environment Around Them’ (r/technology)

• mrbasedballed: He’s right. I’m witnessing it firsthand. These techno-fascists sure in the hell did a great job of getting their henchmen into local government to push this shit through. Want to complain at a town meeting? Get arrested. We’re not angry enough yet.
• alsatian01: How about we limit their size, require them to use actual coolant instead of water, and derive a significant amount of their power from wind and solar?
• postitnote: I think we can find a compromise where we build datacenters next to people who believe in minimal regulation and state interference of free markets. Quite easy to find, they are next to farmlands typically.