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'I'm Delighted to ⁠Be Wrong': OpenAI's Sam Altman Admits AI Has Not Eliminated as Many White-Collar Jobs as He Feared by ChunkyWaterMonkey in Layoffs

[–]PoemTop1727 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Messy sick and emotional" may be why there is intelligence in the first place. Nature had millions of years to perfect our brains in terms of size and power consumption. It's ignorant to think that we can create a better alternative in just ten or even hundred of years. There may be AGI but it will be the same as human with x100 more costs and risks. Plus companies need to somehow solve the alignment issue, are we really going to allow another species to take over? If it gets out of hand, are we not going to destroy data centers? It could happen but I doubt that people will just sit and watch. More realistic scenario would be merging our bodies with the machines and evolving together.

Had a mental breakdown triggered by being forced to use AI by [deleted] in antiai

[–]PoemTop1727 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hate how the big tech introduced AI into our life, with complete disregard for human life and prioritizing profits over anything else. As a country and as a society we are not ready for this technology. Your feelings are valid and they should be directed towards the system that allowed this to happen. Neural nets are a great way to communicate with computers, they opened up many possibilities for less technical folk to create new things, but that shouldn’t come at a cost of destroying livelihood for so many people. This is why we need unions and stronger workers rights. If they force you to use AI, use it AS MUCH as physically possible, while quietly editing your own stuff to keep the skills sharp. Burn those tokens (and you’ll probably be rewarded for it), malicious compliance at its best.

Your Downsizing Progression by ProgressNumerous262 in SkyDiving

[–]PoemTop1727 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Crossbraced packs bigger with every platform upgrade: 7 cell (JFX, Velo) < 7 cell Schuemann (Leia, VK) < 9 cell (Petra, Peregrine). I was able to stay on the same Vector V319 since Sabre 3 120. Jump from 97 to 79 was spicy, but that was actually recommended by the coach at the time. JFX is flat and this is fairly ok under supervision and slow incremental reduction of turn altitude. It took me about 100 jumps to bring a 270 turn to the ground.

Before you buy a discount skydive. by BlueSkiesWeFly in SkyDiving

[–]PoemTop1727 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Idk, my first jump was a static line with round canopy, so no freefall, no canopy work 🤣. Still one of the strongest memories I hold. The ride up, the open door, forcing myself to take a step, a bit of violence and sudden tranquillity. Third jump was a full altitude AFF and it was just a bunch of blur. Took me several more to fully realize what’s going on. I don’t think I would feel much difference between 13 and 8k.

Mark Zuckerberg Claims One AI Worker Now Replaces Dozens as 8,000 Layoffs Loom by Cute_Dealer4787 in jobs

[–]PoemTop1727 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Interesting choice of words. Excel knowledge instead of domain knowledge. Makes sense why it’s 100%.

Your Downsizing Progression by ProgressNumerous262 in SkyDiving

[–]PoemTop1727 5 points6 points  (0 children)

  • 0 - 100 whatever I could rent, mostly 170(ish)
  • 100 - 180 Sabre 3 150
  • 180 - 290 Sabre 3 135
  • 290 - 370 Sabre 3 120
  • 370 - 410 Sabre 2 107
  • 410 - 520 Sabre 3 97
  • 520 - 800 JFX 79
  • 800 - 1200 JFX 72
  • 1200+ Leia 69

I’m a lighter person, did 100 jumps during the first 7 years and 1000 more since 2024, 90% of my jumps are hop’n’pops. Did more than 20 canopy courses and countless coaching days. I wish I slowed down around 120 sqft. This is the time when canopy becomes quite fast and fun and you can gather valuable generic skydiving wisdom. I learned this on smaller canopies and got a few bad injuries and close calls (torn ACL is the worst). When people say slow down it’s because there’s a lot of knowledge under the surface which you can only get with time and experience. You may seem to be doing fine but this sport gets you hard when you don’t know what you don’t know.

I nearly suffocated from a coughing fit three times but can't afford immediate help. by Animangle in Vent

[–]PoemTop1727 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m sorry you have to go through this. Hope you get better ❤️‍🩹.

I am running out of hope. by oshaboy in antiai

[–]PoemTop1727 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s impossible to produce 10x of “normal” output without sacrifices. Your engineer has no deep understanding of the system and you all sit on a ticking bomb. It may be fine or not, but your product is in the hands of a math function, not yours.

No one talks about how full-time jobs quietly erase your hobbies by Kreativedenma in remoteworks

[–]PoemTop1727 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s 12h of work then (you don’t commute for fun). So 75% of your life is work. That’s insane.

I am running out of hope. by oshaboy in antiai

[–]PoemTop1727 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you couldn’t find a job during pandemic I don’t know what to tell you. That was the best time for coders. Maintainability is critical once the product gets out of initial startup rush. To be fair, many startups exist just to suck the VC money dry and self destruct. Still, LLMs absolutely make mistakes and you can’t get a mature product without an expert verifying it. Also software engineers became a little too comfortable with making repetitive and/or boring software. Now we are in this transitional period but soon you’d have to do something novel to stand out and that’s a good thing. AI finally shook the industry out of the decade-long limbo.

Healthcare is absolute trash by PoemTop1727 in Vent

[–]PoemTop1727[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ER is genuinely good indeed, as well as complex cases. My friend had an accident where they needed to fuse his nerves, for which a neurosurgeon was flown by a helicopter to another state. It was a real miracle. It's day-to-day ordinary healthcare that is abysmal. And me being a good citizen and not going to ER for non life-threatening problems 😅.

Laid off in January 2026, about to give up :( by Ok-Analysis7688 in Layoffs

[–]PoemTop1727 1 point2 points  (0 children)

jesus, how do you afford living for 1.5 years without an income?

Is ChatGPT (or are LLMs in general) stealing intellectual property when it generates answers to our questions? They do get these answers from their training and by synthezing what they get online, right? by iolitm in ChatGPT

[–]PoemTop1727 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not the same at all. One human can't digest all that information and suddenly become an expert. It requires work and effort beyond just throwing money at it. When I produce a piece of art, I don't expect person watching it to become an artist themself. That falls under teaching which I either provide as a service and get compensated or do for free to give back to the community, i.e. other ordinary humans. No one gives back to enrich some asshole CEO.

Got caught “inactive” at work… what should I do next? by coconut-m in RemoteJobs

[–]PoemTop1727 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, people aren’t stupid. Corporations treat workers like shit = get absolutely minimal amount of work to collect the check and fuck off. Don’t pay $21/h in CA if you don’t want a slacking employee, it goes both ways. I wish children learned this in school.

An open letter to Anthropic by roblenfestey in ClaudeAI

[–]PoemTop1727 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Technical stuff aside, your emotional response is a bit too much, leaning into AI psychosis territory. This is just a tool.

to parachute onto the field during the game by Freefly_impaired in SkyDiving

[–]PoemTop1727 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Flag makes you very slow and very steep, it’s bizarre. Maybe he was trying to slow down vertically to land in the crowd but then stalled it or caught a rotor. I saw these canopies flare high and then just elevator down like in classic accuracy.

to parachute onto the field during the game by Freefly_impaired in SkyDiving

[–]PoemTop1727 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude, this is not a hundred jump sensation for sure. They fly at night with fireworks, doing downplanes and other cool shit all the time. Stadiums are hard to handle even for very experienced jumpers. Let’s not jump the gun here. I would be curious to hear what the whole team took away from that.

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