That plan comes with Kagi Assistant, which is more than enough with big selection of simple models for a great portion of AI assisted queries. If you need no advanced Ai tasks then that is way enough.
Recently I started to get hold of the daily events with Kagi News, world, science, local news, AI, Cybersecurity, ... That gives a very good platform to have a broad overview quickly and as a jumping board into details of specific events making me interested. Usually it is better for (configurable to my needs) quick overview than any big news portals out there.
I think their Kagi Assistant is quite fine for AI search. Free models, or cheap ones perhaps, but for search all are great. With some privacy benefits. I even use to cross-check the findings of Claude, which sometimes pays off! (new angles, discrepancy in important details to dive into, ...)
That, and the green belts suffocating the cities where people can have jobs, and the passive money accumulated in funds seeking reliable place to park. Some others too, anyhow, better not to pick a single one.
Before studying the document with great curiosity I need to express the feeling of newcomer entrepreneurs to the construction sector not living those highlighted barriers before starting this noble quest.
However succeeding is increasingly harder and harder.
You can be the best communicator in the world but when the world only want to push their story to manipulate you towards their will then the only skill that counts is obedience or being the most aggressive manipulator. I wish that meaningful communication was a key to good and content life.
You still can have your bubbles in the universe though, there it is invaluable, of course. Isolationism on the personal level might be necessary, unfortunately.
This "serious reader" expression makes my skin crawl.
Like if it was something of a sport with olympics where people compete in their own weight and it is measured in the end to the hundredths of seconds in front of spectators in a stadion shaped library cheering READ, READ, READ! Quality is mentioned, remotely, through selection, but still, the mental picture remains the same. The post smells like a training guide from a large gym franchise for readers. It's name is 'Serious Readers!'
You know, there are millions of ways having fun that endangers no others. Millions!
(also small children have no fun, not at all! Woken up to be scared to shit, for f's sake, that's opposite of fun, the very opposite! Use your brain please!)
I am usually unemployable and unfit to the team because I believe in the existence of several correctness. Several truths. And consequently, not really putting 'enough' attention into technical details, not as much as the mainstream does, not as much as recruiters in the mainstream do. For most, it is a religion. To me, it is a tool, one of the many possible, that wears out and can be thrown away after no longer needed. Learned to be used to the level mandated by the task. Task by task. The arguing mentality (rooting in the knowing-of-THE-truth confidence) that permeates the profession just repels me. : /
So many people are willing to participate in this kind of robotic practices in human employment makes me think that many are starting to consider that this is as unavoidable as global warming and rather play along, adapts their career (life) to it, sculpture it towards a specific look, doing things that will give them point on some arbitrary test run. Which I feel being dangerous, leading to superficial minded workforce, not those good in something, including judgement of a problem and solution. But good at manipulation.
Just like with almost everything Photobucket was sold or raised money from investors throughout the years repeatedly.
That money they want back!
From somewhere, any way, pimping the EBITDA and ARR numbers to the expected one for the 5-7 years resale cycle or such. ARR needs subscription, and if you have user lock in - well, otherwise you wouldn't buy some trivial service like this wouldn't you? You counted on the lock-in, that is central to you 'business model', or more like exploitation - then try cash it. Now! You can alienate people down the line? Let that be the problem of the next owner of the product, you will cash out soon anyway. And next PE look at the price/ARR ratio mostly, anyway, it will be a fine add-on to some other PE target at least, if the ARR ratio is fine.
PE is shitting where it eats.... and others eat too ... ruining it for everyone. Don't care.
Why don't they buy oil or beef farms or whatever, why they need to ruin the internet too?
Not true for HR. Despite their name, which is a complete mislead - except handling humans as resources -, nothing human exists there, robotic approaches are the norm there.
So feel free to use AI to pimp your resume, they will use AI to process it.
Because this f%#n sh*t is jumping at you and is in your way promoting itself and want to configure and engage right away, or start some random item remained there when you in interim loss of your senses tried this crap, every time you press play instead of 8 or 9 by mistake, accidentally! But you don't want to start it, ever, anyway, that's why!
These kind of things backfire very hard. I will never ever use Apple Music whatever products, never. Just like those drawn to this remedy like flies to sugar. They make so shitty and offensive user experience that supporting them by not avoiding the vicinity of it is a crime against humanity! Basically supporting bullying kind of behaviour.
Why not to have a simple way to turn this offensive behaviour off? Nonsense. It is intentionally offensive and forceful! Straight forceful behaviour that needs to be cut down at the sprout! Otherwise it will multiply and suffocate you down the line.
Too much of the product designers adapt this arrogant attitude, Apple is just a (sizeable) drop in the sea!
> someone's KPIs to grow the engineering team to a specific number
Sigh!
Specific numbers!
I believe a more common specific number is the yearly EBITDA or ARR (or some other acronyms in this alley I care zero about to memorize) nowadays, for investor's sake. Like in our company. Since we were acquired - and some time before - the only talk in company meetings are EBITDA, ARR, compared to a number dreamed up by someone and to be reached in 5 years time. Specific financial results in specific timeframe. Our goals are specific numbers being above today's numbers by a chosen margin. The company talk are marketing campaigns and reach, campaign efficiency measurements, pricing strategies, subscription centric licensing, sales strategies, churn, and other slang around customer bullying I also do not care about, also organizational streamlining - what a loaded word! -, bla bla bla, all for the specific sacred number put up on the pedestal.
What we have zero talk about? Functionality, engineering.
I seriously do not understand these people. Why are they fiddling around with selling software in a niche sensitive to global economic fluctuations insted of selling ... I don't know. Shoes? Or better yet sugary water ... no, better is vitamin water ... no, the trendiest is protein water. That is something that needs no balanced functionality and engineering that is laborous so it is resource intensive to achieve. And is in the way of reaching the sacred number put up there. Engineers are in the way towards our goals. We are pulling back the cart! We are cost center now!!
I think this sends a clear message. And the message is this: "Don't work here! You will be f*d! Soon!"
(it also sends clear message to the clients: you will have to suffer through the cheapest to run AI agent in case of troubles, because yes, we care the most about Wall Street guy's income, not anyone else's, we save money on everything else anytime, even when we don't have to)
It feels like it was the most beneficial implementing better decision making mechanics by replacing manager with AI, not lowly folks doing actual value creation.
LLM models have better reasoning abilities than these folks....
Recently I started to get hold of the daily events with Kagi News, world, science, local news, AI, Cybersecurity, ... That gives a very good platform to have a broad overview quickly and as a jumping board into details of specific events making me interested. Usually it is better for (configurable to my needs) quick overview than any big news portals out there.