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Venture capital is having a bad time — and AI isn’t going to fix it in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] cwood@awful.systems 11 points 3 weeks ago

As usual, the business fundamentals thing happens after the compensation has been paid out.

even DHH suggests Mullenweg might wanna cool it in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] cwood@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

I'm getting the picture that governance is a great thing until you find out that other people want to govern you back.

Want to hear the truth about Automattic, the not-like-the-other-girls company that still thinks it is a startup after 20 years and his founder acts like he invented remote working? in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] cwood@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The encouragement of a situation where you disconnect with those outside, the sleep deprivation, the drip of hints that you're not meeting the standard, the trust in the great leader.

It also sounds corporate, yes.

Grindr proposes ‘AI wingman’ to optimize away the gay sex bit in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] cwood@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago

You know how sometimes you use a grocery app and it's fairly obvious that the people writing them don't spend time in grocery stores? I'm getting that same impression here.

VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] cwood@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So pretty much like playing Hexen 2 on a P100 in 1997 huh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexen_II