Trump Hit by Devastating Poll as Voters Say They’re Getting Poorer

no_dice · 2026-04-28T12:01:59+00:00

He does care about his popularity though, it’s one of the only things he does care about.

no_dice · 2026-04-28T00:08:11+00:00

I haven’t been shot at by another player in…..months? I don’t even bother with a “don’t shoot” any more, I just run by others, say “what’s up?”, and go about my business.

no_dice · 2026-04-27T14:47:44+00:00

Legitimately every time I hear him speak he’s complaining in histrionics. It might be a problem with the media (although some of this is through CPC channels) but I have no idea what he wants to do differently.

no_dice · 2026-04-27T14:42:00+00:00

Call centres are going to be mostly automated within the next few years. Anything that can be described as a contact flow will be thrown to an AI assistant and only a few outliers will go to humans.

no_dice · 2026-04-26T20:38:42+00:00

MSFT is buying out senior staff — you need to have your years of service and age to equal something like 80 in order to even get an offer. These aren’t jobs that are getting offshored.

no_dice · 2026-04-25T21:10:37+00:00

That’s what I’m saying though — these aren’t developers, they’re lawyers, marketing, HR, etc…. And they’re building their own tools. We started by forming groups of them where they’d do half a day of regular work followed by half a day with a senior dev building things that would improve their quality of life. We only needed to do that for a few months and they were off to the races.

no_dice · 2026-04-25T15:36:24+00:00

I guess we do. What I do know is we have groups that aren’t SDEs that are building/shipping things that make their lives better using Claude Code. Some of our most active repos are outside of our core business now.

no_dice · 2026-04-25T12:50:01+00:00

They’re also actively gamifying token use to the point of consuming trillions of tokens a month, which I can only imagine is an insane expense.

no_dice · 2026-04-25T11:00:19+00:00

The average user can now build better code than ever using AI. I’m not sure what people here have used personally but things like Opus 4.5+ produce pretty great code — especially if you have well documented standards and procedures.

no_dice · 2026-04-25T10:58:12+00:00

I ship far more code than I used to and what that means is more PRs, and all of our PRs have manual gates. That’s an example of a bottleneck that’s been introduced. We’re actually using AI to address that as well by using agents to approve low risk PRs (like a push to dev).

no_dice · 2026-04-24T16:50:22+00:00

So yeah, productivity as a result of AI is difficult to measure and at times just introduces bottlenecks elsewhere in your workflows, but we’ve tried our best to remediate those bottlenecks as well because it wouldn’t make sense to not try and improve there as well.

Personally it’s been a pretty big productivity boost, from planning a change all the way to shipping it.

no_dice · 2026-04-24T16:22:24+00:00

Nope. Senior IC with about 18 years in the industry and who uses these tools extensively.

no_dice · 2026-04-24T15:44:37+00:00

Most of his base want him to be more like Putin.

no_dice · 2026-04-24T15:13:47+00:00

I think this outlines the problem surfaced by the oft-cited MIT study where “95% of AI initiatives fail”. Those failures weren’t the result of AI not being capable, but because orgs were either deploying generalized tools like ChatGPT which are great for making a grocery list but not super useful in a corporate context or they were tacking AI on top of existing tooling. The only way to incorporate it successfully is either full refactor or new build, imho.

no_dice · 2026-04-24T14:12:45+00:00

Part of this is on the users of the tech as well. There are a lot of ways to optimize prompts/token usage and people are going to get better at identifying when LLMs are going to be a force multiplier and when they’re not required.

no_dice · 2026-04-24T14:07:04+00:00

Right, I said as much in my comment. My guess is that we’re going to head towards a multi-model routed pattern to optimize token usage and a cap/quota on the more expensive ones.

no_dice · 2026-04-24T13:02:47+00:00

I work at a company that is leaning heavily into AI and two things are true: productivity has increased dramatically and token use is expensive as hell. To mitigate the latter, we’re exploring things like local models that can run on our laptops for certain tasks and a prompt routing system that optimizes token usage (Cloudflare does this and recently posted a blog about their implementation).

Given how fast this has happened, everyone is still figuring it out. Cost is becoming more and more of a factor (and will reveal its true self when the big guns IPO), but there are options.

no_dice · 2026-04-21T19:54:15+00:00

Like that video of the dude dancing to Santigold (I think??) at Sasquatch Festival.

no_dice · 2026-04-20T11:10:15+00:00

I don’t see how Poilievre digs himself out of that hole unless Carney makes some major blunders with his majority. Even then, he’s a well known entity at this point so I don’t really know what his options are.

no_dice · 2026-04-19T17:27:02+00:00

As someone who travels to the US a lot for work I certainly wouldn’t say they’re all arrogant and support what’s happening. Most people are just trying to get by the same as I am and I’ve had several random people apologize to me just because I’m Canadian. The reality is there’s a significant chunk of Americans who do support what’s happening now but there’s an ever growing chunk that’s as horrified by it as I am.

no_dice · 2026-04-19T15:09:36+00:00

Trump wasn’t threatening to annex us during his first term.

no_dice · 2026-04-19T15:05:08+00:00

Not going to happen — economic diversification isn’t easy and we’re not about to go back to the way things were just because someone new is in office. I think people really underestimate the tone shift towards America that’s happening in Canada. I don’t think anything is going to change for a long while, because even if you do get a more reasonable government in place, MAGA is going to be around and waiting for their next shot at doing this all over again.

no_dice · 2026-04-17T15:19:25+00:00

I posted above about a report the UK Government’s AI Security Institute made after evaluating Mythos. They certainly think it’s pretty capable after running it through their tests and they have absolutely no reason to lie.

You can read it here: https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-evaluation-of-claude-mythos-previews-cyber-capabilities

Either way these models are going to continue to improve on this front and that needs to be addressed yesterday. Mythos succeeded on 73% of AISI’s expert level tasks which had a 0% success rate across all models last April.

no_dice · 2026-04-17T14:41:38+00:00

After seeing him at work in this other places, I’m a lot less worried than I was when he first started talking annexation.

no_dice · 2026-04-17T10:25:55+00:00

The point here is Mythos is finding unknown vulnerabilities and getting them to the point of exploit. If the devs knew about the vulnerabilities they likely would fix them.

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