The majority of people working at Meta will never ever again in their lives get a job offer that good. Meta knows this and doesn't care about many of them quitting. They can currently scoop up an endless supply of developers that have memorized every single leetcode hard, system design and """behavioral""" interview question.

Ok, so this spyware is another step in the "either they comply with what we force them to do, or they quit, whichever way, for us it's a win-win" strategy, after Return To Office? And, just to make sure the employees get the point, they concurrently announce a further 10% round of layoffs? Yeah, makes sense...

Nothing planned at Meta that can not be achieved with the decently competent engineers who will accept this insane surveillance and don't give a shit about whether they build weapons of mass destruction/surveillance/whatever. Plenty of willing replacements ready at any time.

Long term strategically planned reduction of average salary by replacing uppity rockstars/activists with the groveling creme de la creme of codemonkeys is part of the plan.

> They can currently scoop up an endless supply of developers that have memorized every single leetcode hard, system design and """behavioral""" interview question.

And will those help them get where they think they want to go?

Yes.

Meta stock is up 33% last year, up 122% in the last 5 years. If that isn't "being where you want to be", I don't know what is.

Yes

You can have a private chef make you michelin level pizza in the stone oven in the kitchen of your private jet though.

Sounds like a prison. I can honestly say that I wouldn’t like that if i couldn’t appear in public. A luxury prison, but a prison nonetheless.

(Having the money would be nice, of course.)

Can you also have private and vetted strangers eat and mingle around you,

so you feel like less of a pariah?

Sure, but who would want that?

Not me, that’s for sure.

Yes. I know a person that used to work in casting for such events.

My point was,

you’re still a social outcast,

no matter how much expensive Truman Show you set up around you.

I have a VC fund to pitch you. Need a co-founder? /s

I actually do,

but I like to serve humans, not serve humans.

Anthropic‘s throwing out new models but the devs are NOT happy.

Was all the goodwill people had for Anthropic products them selling unsustainably high performance at a loss?

Different model limitations for different groups of people…

Imagine what the military and secret services are getting.

1. bind user to email

2. allow login via magic link via email, after login the jwt/cookie/whatever should have no expiration date

3. (optional) allow one user to have multiple emails + merging accounts/users (call it backup email to collecr multiple user emails in advance, soft nudging only, not mandatory to use the product!)

4. (optional) offer any other way to login (un+pwd), google oAuth…

It‘s THAT easy.

Email link and 2FA won't work because old people struggle with switching apps.

Right you are! We aren‘t even in the real squeezing phase yet and everyone‘s already crying about plan limits and model nerfing.

Seems like the math ain‘t mathing for any ither but Anthropics pay-per-token API plan.

Try it out and you will quickly see how much money they‘d really like for your excessive usage.

Google products ux is widely acknowledged to be a steaming pile of shit though, so I am not sure you should follow their example.

Many of the metrics they use are obviously actively user hostile.

Would you allow it on yours? As a shareholder or on the board of directors of your company I would not be pleased.

Nothing nefarious about that.

It’s not illegal, just stupid because. Because plaintiffs can use this as evidence that they can police their own platforms

That’s an internet argument. The legal issue being debated in actual courts has never been “does Facebook have the technical capability to remove content”.

There's a strong chance it's illegal so admitting to it is pretty breathtaking. They must be very confident they're in the clear, or the spokesperson didn't run this by the right people.

What is illegal about it? What law does it break?

Could these removals indicate editorial discretion that would remove § 230 protections from Facebook?

I think that would apply if they started removing user content about this. But Facebook is simply declining to accept ads about this, which doesn't seem like it would apply here.

> Maybe the brain

…is already damaged by reliance on AI.

And that’s exactly why I’ve stopped using llm’s entirely.

People who are using them frequently: you’re delusional if you think your brain is not harmed. I won’t go into great detail because I can’t be bothered and I’m sure this post will be down voted - but - I can share my own experience. Ever since I stopped using them my ability to focus, think hard and hold concepts in my brain and reason about them has increased immensely. Not only that but I re-gained the conditioning of my brain to ‘deal with the pain’ that comes with deep thought - all of that gets lost by spending too much time interacting with llm’s.