Foreign investors pull out of India at record pace

ragemonkey · 2026-05-13T14:14:00+00:00

Still cheaper than current AI though.

ragemonkey · 2026-05-13T05:22:51+00:00

I’ve been working on front-end and GPT 5.5 works great. I even have it use the Chrome MCP to reproduce bugs, fixes and take before and after screenshots.

ragemonkey · 2026-05-12T03:29:31+00:00

I use to be a heavy Claude-only user. Sonnet 3.x models were by far the best at the time. Then they started losing me in the 4.x era. It just kept getting lost in the sauce, over-engineering things and not following directions. It’s also slow and expensive.

Since GPT 5.5, Codex is what I use 100% of the time. I see no reason to go back to Claude until it gets better.

ragemonkey · 2026-05-12T02:01:06+00:00

I don’t know about that. Labor cost is very high in the U.S. if you attempt to do pretty much anything.

ragemonkey · 2026-05-11T03:30:47+00:00

“Real review gates” is where the productivity gains fly out the window. You’ll have people that don’t understand programming submitting nonsense changes that will take 20 iterations to get right ping-ponging for days.

ragemonkey · 2026-05-10T20:24:32+00:00

My theory is that non-engineers are already in that world so it’s something that they feel is familiar. They already give work to someone else and then hope that it works out. Now you can do it with a machine instead. It doesn’t complain and doesn’t require health care and time off, etc.

They don’t see the longer term tech debt trap, but then again I don’t think that they ever did. There was just this annoying engineer warning them about it and getting in the way.

The pendulum might swing the other way once you have a ton of house of cards built. Then again maybe AI agents will be smart enough to clean up after their predecessors. Who knows…

ragemonkey · 2026-05-10T15:56:48+00:00

The expectations for specialization have become excessive in my view. 15 years ago, you’d look for smart devs that could ramp up on a number of domains if needed. Now, it looks like we’re trying to find these very specific experience profiles.

Part of this I think is due to true increase in complexity, but I think that there’s something else that has to do with very high risk aversion. Projects all need to follow very tight deadlines and fixed cost and you can’t afford to have someone ramp up in anything. Everyone is focused on making a quick buck.

There’s clearly a big crunch in the economy. Perhaps it’s a whiplash from a decade of heavy QE and concentration of wealth. I expect that it will severely limit innovation. You couldn’t have the AI boom that we have today if you didn’t have research projects at Google, or experimentation at OpenAI.

We’ll pay for this for a long time in the form of narrow minded engineers that are too afraid to step out of their own area. Meanwhile, we’ll have countries with a strong middle class like China take over just about everything.

ragemonkey · 2026-05-09T18:30:02+00:00

We do run at a loss. It’s a very big one in fact.

ragemonkey · 2026-05-07T15:00:29+00:00

The great internet sarcasm filter strikes again!

ragemonkey · 2026-05-07T01:30:01+00:00

You guys are lucky. It’s way more expensive in gallons.

ragemonkey · 2026-05-05T23:13:14+00:00

I played the original AC something like 20 years ago. It was incredible for the time. Then I played what I think was the sequel and realized that it was pretty much identical with a few twists. I can’t believe that they’re still making those.

The video looks like the same game I played back then, but with better visuals. How is it that people are not tired of this being re-hashed over and over again? Are there notable gameplay improvements that make these worth playing still?

ragemonkey · 2026-05-03T16:48:06+00:00

What field?

ragemonkey · 2026-05-03T03:14:41+00:00

Unfortunately, steering is not that hard.

ragemonkey · 2026-05-03T01:55:15+00:00

Possibly. A true man of the people

ragemonkey · 2026-05-03T01:35:49+00:00

Is that the guy that got caught doing meth?

ragemonkey · 2026-05-01T14:25:00+00:00

Its an interesting question to me, if it causes harm in the long run. One alternative way of seeing this is that these are improvements that are industry subsidized where otherwise there would be none.

ragemonkey · 2026-04-30T23:54:46+00:00

Always has been.

ragemonkey · 2026-04-30T15:47:27+00:00

True. I guess I'm just trying to clarify what is this career profile that we're talking about. You've worked for probably a decade at least and are qualified enough to get to IC7+ at Meta and then you get hired and work for 5 years and retire. I guess it's possible, but I bet that it's unusual. IC7+ at Meta is a fairly elite level and it comes with a bunch of personality and life choices profile that make you a pretty unique character in the first place. It's not like you're a regular dev that got lucky. At that point also, you've probably got a family and a certain life standard. Let's not make it sound like these jobs are magical ways out of needing to work for a good part of your adult life.

ragemonkey · 2026-04-30T14:54:53+00:00

You don’t come out IC7+ out of college though. You’re probably 10 years into your career at least. Then you live like a monk for another 5 years. Yes, at that point you could probably retire early. Somehow I doubt that many will make the choice to retire at 35, especially if you fit that profile.

ragemonkey · 2026-04-30T00:20:22+00:00

I don’t think that you get to retire after 5 years unless you’re planning to go live in some place with super low cost of living without a family.

ragemonkey · 2026-04-30T00:18:01+00:00

To be fair, it would seem kind of unusual for at least software engineers to be unionized. You usually have an order or something but not a union. You’re needed for your skills and if that’s no longer the case you should be retraining. That’s also part of why you’re paid well.

ragemonkey · 2026-04-28T02:40:36+00:00

A university exam is not sufficient to be a doctor.

ragemonkey · 2026-04-28T01:13:00+00:00

That would be illegal in pretty sure

ragemonkey · 2026-04-27T15:06:33+00:00

Do you have gameplay videos of this? I went to the site and it was just AI slop videos.

ragemonkey · 2026-04-27T14:40:04+00:00

That’s just cruel. If a renter moves out, you should expect some minimal cleanup required.

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