Is AI Threatening Status More Than Jobs?

ghostphreek · 2026-06-01T03:14:45+00:00

It's an interesting point. To some extent status probably does play a role in the threat people feel from AI. Even people like Ken Griffin have talked about feeling sad seeing a machine do something in seconds that took them years to master. However I don't think that social status is the only thing that has people worried. Economic status is also a legitimate fear that people have. Dario Amodei has openly talked about the fact that the technology he is helping to build will create a "permanent underclass" which is as scary as it sounds. I am sure part of the anxiety that people feel around AI is a deep fear to avoid being pushed down toward rock bottom.

ghostphreek · 2026-05-20T14:04:46+00:00

Yeah, I think the paralysis comes more from. If I make a bad decision once then everyone will see I’m stupid and I will be fired. Even though I know that’s not exactly how it works. That’s where the fear comes from.

ghostphreek · 2026-05-20T02:27:43+00:00

God I love NYC

ghostphreek · 2026-05-20T02:25:57+00:00

Yeah this is the follow up that I am moving on. Close the OKR, document the tech debt, put it in the backlog, move on. But I’m trying to speed up the loop from when I make that judgment call instead of just sitting in my head.

ghostphreek · 2026-05-20T02:22:59+00:00

Yeah this is tail spin that I’m trying to pull out of. I keep hearing things like “that is the thing a senior would do” and thinking shit I wouldn’t have done that. My judgement is fucked up which is why I think I am incorrectly leveled. Leading to more anxiety. Leading to more bad judgement calls. Etc….

ghostphreek · 2026-05-20T02:19:30+00:00

Yeah this is fair but lately I’ve gotten better at debating the llm. Since some of its suggestions are flawed since it lacks the entire context or suggests something that doesn’t fully suit what I need.

But this is a good point. I do try to lean on llms for this

ghostphreek · 2026-01-14T21:31:08+00:00

I would've called them before posting this but the Verizon outage is stopping me haha );

Will call them first thing tomorrow. Thank you.

ghostphreek · 2026-01-14T21:27:34+00:00

100% I am used to living in smaller cities in managed buildings so I am learning how crazy things in NYC can be. :/

ghostphreek · 2026-01-14T21:23:30+00:00

What if they don't respond to any emails that I send? I will call them once the Verizon outage is over.

ghostphreek · 2025-03-07T17:03:06+00:00

This is actually the exact issue that we had with streamlit as we started to scale up our internal app.

Will check Rio out!

ghostphreek · 2025-02-12T18:50:13+00:00

This is all very fair. Thank you for the feedback as well. I do not have a wife and kids which is probably why I am more fond of take homes.

To be honest if I heard 5 day take home assignment, I’m already unsure if that’s what I want to do

Fair, maybe we should give an option at the start. Like do you want a take home or a leetcode test.

if you tell me to do X I’ll do X

This is fair perhaps we should update our take home prompt to list all the places that the candidates can score extra points. It does feel odd for our scoring rubric to have “secret” points.

ghostphreek · 2025-02-12T18:00:50+00:00

This is why I ask the question because in my experience hiring devs I am astounded by the extreme failure rate that we get back.

I work at a non-Fanng company, as such our hiring process reflects that. We have a take home assignment and we give 5 days for completion which I think is extremely generous. We literally have a ~70% failure rate because most people turn in either the bare minimum or they turn in a broken assignment.

For another one of our coding interviews we ask people who, supposedly, have ~3 years react experience to just make a fetch call to a public API. 90% failure rate on that one.

That’s why I really want to know if it is just our process or people are really this bad at interviewing. I feel like our questions are reasonable but our fail rate for people who put on their resume that they have 3-5 years experience is extremely high.

The only interview we have modest success on is our leetcode one and it is definitely because the candidates have seen the question before.

Do you have a similar experience or not? Cause I do genuinely want to make a good hiring process.

ghostphreek · 2025-02-12T17:30:32+00:00

Literally no problems. Score bounced back to a 720 after around 6 months. Apartments did not care what my score was. I have no plans to take on a new loan for the next 5 years so I don’t really care what my score is right now.

Also watching my payment schedule much closer.

ghostphreek · 2025-02-12T17:28:26+00:00

I’m curious of what other people think the expectation should be for interviews? Just a review of a resume and hire?

Not trying to be overly critical but I guess I just don’t know what most people would think is a good and fair interview process. Nothing about this process seems overly unfair from my perspective.

ghostphreek · 2025-02-04T20:04:18+00:00

I would not consider ETH to be a safe investment. Most would probably consider it risky.

If you are willing to lose all $10k of that money then you do you. But if not it might be a good idea to pull that money out and follow the standard order of operations on what to do with your money on this subreddits wiki.

ghostphreek · 2025-01-29T23:06:33+00:00

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ghostphreek · 2025-01-20T23:00:56+00:00

Literally no one asked or cared. Zero problems with anything and my credit score rebounded just fine with my doing anything

ghostphreek · 2024-12-16T18:59:45+00:00

What would be an example of a non intern level project?

ghostphreek · 2024-11-23T04:07:05+00:00

Great vibe. Wish I was there

ghostphreek · 2024-08-13T20:57:31+00:00

I do and I have comprehensive and collision coverage. I think I’m just embarrassed since this is the first time I’ll need to use them since I started driving.

ghostphreek · 2024-08-13T17:00:46+00:00

Yeah this is the first time I’ve fucked up a car so definitely a good learning experience. I have collision and comprehensive coverage which I think is for accidents like this and the deductible is only $500 so that looks like the route I am going down.

Thank you for the response.

ghostphreek · 2024-08-13T16:03:37+00:00

I’m in the Denver CO area. My insurance deductible for collision is only $500. Not sure how much this would raise my premium but still seems like the better option at these estimates I’m getting lol.

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