If that's a real concern, vibe-code one and self host.
Unfortunately, the App Store says the game is not currently available in my country (the US). In the meantime, there is a web version of the game:
I started monitoring LinkedIn for assignments and networking opportunities. But it's just FaceBook with more AI cringe. I don't know what I hope to find anymore when I open it out of habit.
1) With the internet you can work from home and not have to travel. Time savings.
Your company: We want you to commute in everyday and waste time.
2) Use our platform to network productively.
Also platform: Waste hours of time playing shitty games.
3) AI will save you time.
Your Company: Don't negotiate with us because you are being productive. We will replace you with AI... really some people overseas we call AI.
Still, it is not like nothing happens:
1) Many people I know in IT work at least partially from home, thing which would have not been possible 20 years ago.
2) I find networking in any circumstances a hit and miss and depending also on luck. Of course people try to attract you with promises, but it was the same for events/conferences/you name it.
3) AI saves many people time. Maybe it will not reduce the time by 10x (and if it does, search for another job), but it's still better than nothing. And it's not something, new for example google translate saves people time since some time already.
You just like to not commute and that conflicts with the business desire. That alone is not a lie.
And there's two simple cases outside of that:
- workers not paid hourly. If you're paid by the day or on another scale, commute time is wasted for both the company and the worker. Time is zero-sum after all, and in that case the company pays the same whatever happens.
- workers with external constraints (kids, health, public transport availability etc.). A worker will leave earlier if they need to commute to their kid's daycare or their doctor's office. Salary might be deducted, but if your workers are carrying their weight that's lost opportunities that are avoidable.
Agree with AI and commute
The reality is, no matter how you spin it, labor marketing is labor marketing - intended to trick you into continuing to participate.
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Talking about balance: maybe I got lucky with my guesses, but today's puzzles all seemed pretty easy.
I'll freely admit it works on me. I have changed my schedule to work from the coffee shop just because I didn't guess the word in three turns. However, if this were attached to a national chain I might be less hesitant to participate. It's kinda funny to me that a local "snooty" coffee shop has adopted the practices of the oppressors.
> For example, during wartime or economic uncertainty, puzzles like crosswords were promoted as a way to "escape the woes of the news pages," with editors explicitly noting that readers needed diversions during stressful times. This strategy proved effective: as readers grew to expect puzzles, newspapers benefited from increased sales and more consistent readership, which in turn attracted more advertisers.
We are escaping the woes of AI and radicalization, I guess..
>We are escaping the woes of AI and radicalization, I guess..
The button does nothing: no discount, no deal, nothing. And yet at the end of Meh’s first year they issued a report and said that something like seventeen people had clicked that button every day of that year. That kind of habit is huge for a site like meh.com, and they accomplished it with a silly button that does nothing but show a custom illustration.
Prompt AI model for a very short 2-3 word phrase that would generate an interesting image => Have the model generate 4 candidate images => Have the user guess what the original prompt the model created was based on the images
I finally got around to vibe coding it a little while ago and it's kind of fun with a new puzzle being generated each day.
Pure, grade-A LLMese. Seeing this makes me have to summon all my strength to skim to the end (having given up reading), which I did in this case because I found the subject interesting and hoped there might be something thought-provoking in the article.
Would:
> Daily puzzles are engaging, efficient, scalable, and well-aligned with key product and business goals.
bring it back within the realm of human-generated PR text? Or it's too perfect? I find the perfect number of syllables to be off putting sometimes, it can feel like the uncanny valley of text.
hooverd•4h ago