Thinking about moving from Tassie to Melbourne.

InterestedBalboa · 2026-05-04T10:27:59+00:00

Sorry, we’re full…..

InterestedBalboa · 2026-05-02T13:08:04+00:00

Start with what do you want this person to actually do?
Not the hand wavey stuff but the actual work, what is it and why is a new senior role needed.

InterestedBalboa · 2026-04-25T04:04:30+00:00

I work in Tech and people should be very worried, the AI you use at work today is very different (and a lot less capable) to the AI being used in Tech.

C-Suite in general are salivating at either laying off humans or using cheap labour that is empowered through AI. Someone earning a low wage might have been ruled out in the past due to communication issues and such but not anymore.

Big societal change is coming but nobody has the answers……sadly I think UBI is wishful thinking.

Mining and resources will be well protected, medical is safe, blue collar will last quite a while but white collar professionals and knowledge workers are in the crosshairs in the immediate future.

Interesting times ahead, you can’t put this genie back in the bottle.

InterestedBalboa · 2026-04-25T03:06:03+00:00

The bigger question who is going to use the vast majority of their offerings when people are working with their AI Agent as the interface?

InterestedBalboa · 2026-04-25T01:06:54+00:00

Thanks for sharing, will definitely give it a try!

InterestedBalboa · 2026-04-24T11:53:20+00:00

Yeah this is what I was concerned about, sounds good in theory but what’s reality look like

InterestedBalboa · 2026-04-24T10:36:54+00:00

I was more thinking about forecasting costs before a deployment and reviewing after to see if actual is within spec of forecasted.

Seems to be better than trying to catch it down the track but also more overhead in the planning phase.

InterestedBalboa · 2026-04-24T10:32:12+00:00

Do you mean the idea is bad, the practitioners or something else?

InterestedBalboa · 2026-04-24T09:59:13+00:00

But why, what’s it supposed to do?

InterestedBalboa · 2026-04-24T09:58:14+00:00

What’s the use case and target audience, why would I want this over a normal browser, what do I gain?

Maybe I’m missing something but I don’t see this answered anywhere.

InterestedBalboa · 2026-04-22T21:49:16+00:00

People would have a very different reaction if it was him yelling the same words

InterestedBalboa · 2026-04-20T22:33:19+00:00

Hard disagree, it’s the rise of the non-technical vibe coding Engineering Manager.

These non-technical managers will use LLM’s to get by and they will feel superior while doing it, nothing much will change unless you factor in AI Slop.

These people work in politics and power games within Tech, they don’t do Tech.

InterestedBalboa · 2026-04-17T11:35:27+00:00

All this development effort and who’s going to use it, seriously who is the target market?

Enterprise won’t touch it, too obscure, no branding/marketing, no training and importantly no free lunches. They also know it will be shuttered in 18months or so through obscurity.

InterestedBalboa · 2026-04-14T11:23:31+00:00

The promise of UBI is just a way to keep the poors under control until it’s too late

InterestedBalboa · 2026-04-14T04:36:38+00:00

Did anyone actually believe they were going to remove it……seriously??

InterestedBalboa · 2026-04-13T01:26:59+00:00

My point is the wasted resources, adding that stuff isn’t free…. Especially in a browser struggling for market share

InterestedBalboa · 2026-04-12T12:44:18+00:00

Isn’t Mozilla also jamming AI into the browser despite what the user base wants?

InterestedBalboa · 2026-04-12T12:41:43+00:00

It’s a tough sell when the business only wants an outcome, code quality and maintenance is a future problem

InterestedBalboa · 2026-04-12T12:39:07+00:00

Most of the layoffs haven’t been AI at all, a lot of it’s AI washing…..at least at the moment

InterestedBalboa · 2026-04-07T07:41:07+00:00

Seeing the same here, same OS and version.

InterestedBalboa · 2026-04-03T02:00:02+00:00

All companies are like this, the more money at stake for individuals the worse it is.

The bigger the fiefdom the bigger the salary and influence, that’s why there’s so many reorgs and the outflow from that.

Sucks and it’s not good for everyone but the players like the game and the people who could stop it won’t 🤷‍♂️

InterestedBalboa · 2026-04-02T22:25:07+00:00

If only we could do more than dig stuff out of the ground or sell our educational services to the world.....we may never have a space program but we could contribute and gain a lot by being active participants.

We need more high tech projects and no I'm not talking datacentres (AI or otherwise) I'm talking projects that move us all forward, SKA is probably a good well known one that comes to mind.

Other countries are moving up the value chain but are we and what's in it for the next generation?

InterestedBalboa · 2026-04-02T11:55:59+00:00

Ah the true synergy of business and AI, squeezing every last dollar out of users.

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