A Youtuber who put together a more thorough overview of the controversy. Covers a lot of the debate, including much of the AI guy's arguments for doubling down on his choices:
No individual person can be the superhero that saves the day on everyone's behalf. But what we can do is provide what little help or insight that we have, and then pass the issue along to others.
Perhaps all it means is that you end up doing what OP did: the "deeper" research that you mentioned plus a little post on Hacker News or elsewhere.
Even if nothing comes of it in the end, at least you'll have tried.
Has a doctor restricted you from doing martial arts specifically?
I ask because there are certainly lighter martial arts programs out there that even folks with medical and/or mental issues can still do and gain benefit from them.
Without a firm proposal of what a company can or should do instead, this just becomes another example of complaints being easier to make than actual solutions. We all know that large corps are structured in a way that eliminates individual initiative. So what can we do about it?
I've heard of "hierarchy-less" company structures being attempted before. I've also heard that each and every one of those attempts always ended up with hierarchies anyway, only now they became "shadow" hierarchies, unofficial and undocumented. Because that's just how human nature works. Not everyone can stay locked in on what every else is doing while still also keeping up with their own responsibilities, so other people get deferred to instead.
Is there happy middle-ground that can be found here? Is there any research out that offers tree-less company structures that might actually work in the real world?
Piracy never stopped the music industry, and the folks who were harmed the most by music piracy were the poor, cash-strapped billion-dollar corporations whose entire operating models already depended upon sucking wealth out of the actual, struggling artists who do all the work.
I'd posit that the book industry will turn out to be the same. Piracy will harm the bottom line of the companies already at the top while giving exposure to the authors at the bottom. The latter being the ones who often strong-armed into terrible financial deals just to gain access to book-industry's four big gatekeepers, and who likely need that exposure to help keep a roof over their heads.
Anecdotally, I'm one of those folks who end up purchasing many of the books I pirate or otherwise obtain for free, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who does this.
"Gemini researches" has been my go-to for awhile (although GPT seems to have gotten better recently in this category?).
Essentially, I use it when I truly only need an "Advanced Google" to find lots of document or website references based on only some partial understanding of "X". I don't like having it do anything with those things. Only when I need to find those things.
Claude, especially, seems to absolutely hate doing research when there are major ambiguities in your question. It's the only one of the major models that keeps playing 20 questions with me when I neither know nor care what the answers to those questions are.
It sucks that there were a bunch of people downstream who were negatively affected by this, but this was an entirely foreseeable problem on his company's part.
Even when we consider those real problems with Railway. Software engineers have to evaluate our tools as part of our job. Those complaints about Railway, while legitimate, are still part of the typical sort of questions that every engineering team has to ask of the services they rely on:
What does API key grant us access to?
What if someone runs a delete command against our data?
How do we prepare against losing our prod database?
Etc.
And answering those questions with, "We'll just follow what their docs say, lol," is almost never good enough of an answer on its own. Which is something that most good engineers know already.
This HN submission reads like a classic case of FAFO by cheapening out with the "latest and greatest" models.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0TMtY_xdgU [video|35:29]
The video's given timestamps:
- 0:00 - intro
- 2:49 - the initial idea video
- 4:35 - "am I crazy for thinking this is weird" tiktok
- 7:35 - comments
- 8:01 - creative people LIKE being creative!
- 10:30 - kyles first video
- 12:32 - comments
- 15:04 - anianne "am i overreacting?" tiktok
- 17:34 - comments | THE DOLORES UMBRIDGE ARGUMENT
- 23:24 - kyle's argument continues...
- 27:26 - victoria aveyard enters the comments!
- 29:06 - he apologizes but why...
- 30:04 - the "apology"
- 32:42 - aniannes final response
- 34:02 - closing thoughts