Product and service reviews are completely useless now too, and have been for a while. Restaurant ratings are pure noise, everything is 4 stars and there is absolutely no correlation to the quality of food or service. None of it is real.
Those newspaper tech job ads have been going on for at least the last... 20 years. When you see those, the company already has the role filled, they just need a justification for the visa. "We tried to find a US worker but failed!" Which honestly may or may not be true, I think the ad is just standard procedure at this point.
Tax the tokens, I actually like that idea. It'd be like a gasoline tax -- drivers pay for infrastructure maintenance. In this case, token consumers would pay for the increased burden on the grid.
> Don’t be fooled, they already 100% do that if you use any of these products.
Just to clarify for anyone not paying attention -- Anthropic has written postmortems detailing their Claude Code monitoring and how they "coordinated with authorities" as they "gathered actionable intelligence" from users creating bad content [0].
> I can’t help but read the logic as not being too far off from: “libfoo switched to being developed using emacs instead of vim so we can’t trust it anymore”
So let's say they up the ante and set up a cron job to rewrite the entire codebase in a new language on the first Monday of every month: from Rust to C++ to Go to Swift and back again.
For customers using the product, that's basically the same as a maintainer switching editors? Irrelevant detail?
These poor kids don't stand a chance... to not learn something!