It doesn't violate any rules as far as I can tell. Why do certain topics get predictably flagged when they don't breach any rules? I don't know, that's a good question for the admins

No it’s definitely more important that foreign countries are manipulating American politics through social media than people in poor countries are making money off of rage bait (and likely many of the latter are being paid by the former).

It’s going to get flagged off of HN front page within the hour like it did the last two times someone posted about it

Yes I’ve noticed this change acutely, working at a couple Series A YC startups. I’ve been surprised there haven’t been more articles on this topic because it’s been a miserable shift from my perspective, and I agree with the author that the root cause is the end of the ZIRP era.

Basically, in addition to the irrational AI-everything initiatives in spite of customers not wanting or using those features, as an engineer I’m being asked to basically run my own business unit doing everything from user interviews to product/design, engineering, QA, support, and reporting. There are no EMs anymore, everyone reports to the founders.

I think the author’s post could be boiled down to: in the ZIRP era the engineers had leverage and were treated well, and in the post-ZIRP era the tech companies have the leverage and are squeezing everything they can out of engineers to the point where you’re basically doing the job of a founder within someone else’s startup.

> These are not going to be problems tomorrow because the technology will shift. As it happened many time in the span of the last 2 years.

What technology shifts have happened for LLMs in the last 2 years?