It’s less unflattering than the legless avatar from his $80 billion waste of money.

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/yUEJgQzunhbnYYtsckup7i.jpg

Don’t unsubscribe - that’s a signal of a live email address. Add a rule filing their domain straight to trash.

My understanding is that this is outdated advice.

There are definitely some vendors who respect an unsubscribe request, and some who don't. No way to tell ahead of time.

I won't buy, ever again, from someone who doesn't respect the unsub request.

A vendor I never interacted with emailing me usually has no respect of me.

In the UK there are legal guarantees, the unsubscribe button nearly always works.

Facebook is working with the talent that can’t find a job at some other company. It doesn’t surprise me they ship mediocrity.

> a deeply concerning culture of anthropomorphization and magical thinking.

That’s the reverse Turing test. A human that can’t tell that it’s talking to a machine.

Surely a Big Sur compound stocked with iodine and gold, protected by security goons fitted with exploding collars, is someone’s definition of paradise.

They could always visit lawnmower at the Lanai compound if they got bored of Big Sur.

> I need to decide if the remaining work - understanding requirements, managing teams, what have you - is still enjoyable enough to continue.

It’s not for me. Being a middle manager, with all of the liability and none of the agency, is not what I want to do for a living. Telling a robot to generate mediocre web apps and SVGs of penguins on bicycles is a lousy job.

[GitHub] platform activity is surging. — https://twitter.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878

"I want to argue that AI models will write good code because of economic incentives. Good code is cheaper to generate and maintain."

This is possibly the dumbest version of an "economic incentives" argument. Current code is the result of current economic incentives. It is a mystery to me why making code generation cheaper will make it more "good" in any way, instead of being either more of what we have now, or worse.

Sam Altman made his stake at the table with a shady and failed location data harvesting app (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopt). That's who he is, that's what he does, and we're all better off paying less attention to the sounds he emits, and more to the things he does.

> the things he does.

The things he does is convince investors to give him billions of dollars to build what he wants. Where exactly does that leave us?

A fool and his money shall soon be parted. Sam is a face. If it wasnt him, it would be someone else.

> unless they manage to turn things around, my next laptop won't be an apple.

Meh. I ran Linux on a PowerBook back in the day, because Apple made the best hardware and behind-the-times software, before deciding that Mac OS X was "Unix with decent office software" and wholesale switching. I'm fine going back to FVWM on a MacBook if macOS 27 is as bad as 26.