Founder and investor FOMO has reached levels of desperation and moral emptiness never seen before. It's so pervasive and powerful that it's unironically responsible for pretty much everything bad in the US over the past 5 years.
I don't understand this critique.
(1) Did you previously think you weren't getting paid for doing what a company wants you to do, aka what THEY thought was productive?
(2) Do you think all this AI generated code is useless?
As I said on Product Hunt (which upset Garry quite a lot) --
If he weren't the CEO of YC, this wouldn't be on PH, and it wouldn't be on HN.
This is not an impressive setup, folks. It's overengineered and deeply into its own form -- it will not make your agents better, and is likely to make it worse. There are lots of other people to follow/learn from/mimic for skills/context engineering.
I think skills are probably a net positive for the general population, but for power users, I do recommend moving one meta layer up --
Whenever there's an agent best practice (skill) or 'pre-prompt' that you want to use all the time, turn it into a text expansion snippet so that it works no matter where you are.
As an example, I have a design 'pre-prompt' that dictates a bunch of steering for agents re: how to pick style components, typography, layout, etc. It's a few paragraphs long and I always send it alongside requests for design implementation to get way-better-than-average output.
I could turn it into a skill, but then I'd have to make sure whatever I'm using supported skills -- and install it every time or in a way that was universally seen on my system (no, symlinking doesn't really solve this).
So I use AutoHotkey (you might use Raycast, Espanso, etc) to config that every time I type '/dsn', it auto-expands into my pre-prompt snippet.
Now, no matter whether I'm using an agent on the web/cloud, in my terminal window, or in an IDE, I've memorized my most important 'pre-prompts' and they're a few seconds away.
It's anti-fragile steering by design. Call it universal skill injection.
"The Trump administration announced on Monday that all foreign-made drones and their components posed 'unacceptable risks to the national security of the United States' and would be put on a federal blacklist of equipment makers prohibited from selling their goods freely in the country."
Yeah, everyone else in the comments so far is acting emotionally, but --
As a fan and DAU of both OpenAI and the NYT, this is just a weird discovery demand and there should be another pathway for these two to move fwd in this case (NYT to get some semblance of understanding, OAI protecting end-user privacy).
Don't you think it's a little circular that you always default to assuming that their support is about regulatory capture?
Like, what if they had that opinion before they built the company? If you saw evidence of that (as is the case with Anthropic), would that convince you to reconsider your judgement? Surely, you think... some people support regulatory frameworks, some amount of the time... and unless they banned themselves from every related industry, those might be regulatory frameworks that they might one day become subject to?
You aren't taking what he said seriously. The junior could also get sick, present management issues, etc.
If this person plus a junior represented "1.3 engineering knots," he's saying... "actually, I'm still 1.3 engineering knots without him."
When this person leaves, they go find someone else who is 1.3 engineering knots. The junior represented .3, without the 1., it doesn't matter that much. Headcount strategy shifts.