Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in 4 months
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blowing the budget is their own damn fault. they put up a leaderboard, ffs.
Fucking gross trying to make people think the site crashed to trick people into turning off their adblocker .
If you use Voyager, go to the settings and turn on the setting that opens links in Reader Mode. You’ll be able read articles without all that BS.
Where is that setting? I'm not seeing anything that looks right in my settings.
Looks like it’s in general
I'm not seeing that option, it looks like it's specific to using safari.
It’s says safari, but it should say “default browser”.
I don’t use safari and it works fine. If you are on Android, it might say something else?
Does not exist in android 😭
I initially got around it by opening in safari and hiding distracting items but I like this solution better.
Safari also has a reader mode. You can choose to set it automatically based on the site.
These modes disable JavaScript and makes articles much easier to read. It works with some paywalls too, but not all.
Is this an iPhone feature? I can't find anything for Android
I’m not sure. Maybe post about it in the Voyager community and the devs can advise or add it?
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EDIT: I did a search in the community for Reader Mode on Android and it looks like Android doesn’t have an API that allows for apps to use Reader Mode, but Safari on iOS does.
TLDR; They can’t add it to Android because Chrome doesn’t support that feature.
Could you tell me where the setting is supposed to be?
It’s on the General Settings tab. I just learned that it doesn’t work on Android though because Chrome doesn’t support that feature.
It's in a section explicitly marked as Safari why would that work on Android?
I wouldn’t have any way of knowing what settings are on Android, would I? I don’t know if there’s a Chrome version or not.
I’m just trying to help other people find a cool feature.
They went from threatening people's jobs if they didn't use more AI, to threatening people's jobs if they use too much AI.
And it's ALL the workers' fault, the dummies. Let's replace them all with AI.
That's a lot. I recently reported a coworker who was spending over 100 euros on ai. We're a school.
Wow, imagine if they had put that budget into paying their employees.
$1500 per employee per agent per month? So assuming that's between three agents, that's literally $4500 per employee per month that they're choosing to waste instead of just paying their employees better...
Sounds like an opportunity for workers to sabotage the system by using AI too much without increasing productivity. Let the assholes figure it out for themselves.
Some companies are already firing people to save on salary costs and pay more for AI.
It seems to be basically crack for the command centers of capitalist companies.
AI seems like a genius solution for the mediocre and the lazy. I guess all these tech companies are full of mediocre and lazy people in the c-suite.
Unfortunately it's a bit of an "emperors new clothes" situation as none of them will admit AI is worse than what they were told
Meanwhile...
Jesus that’s it?!?! That’s less than 6/hr assuming the 20 minute estimate holds (which it won’t)
I don’t think that covers the gas…
What? How??
Are people in TX bad tippers?
I would say that Uber is a shitty company. Tipping is bs, you should get paid a decent salary and it's your employer's responsability to do that.
Ok... Unfortunately, the current model is absolutely not that. So I'm not going to make the person making Uber deliveries to make ends meet suffer by stiffing them on the tip
That's a good way to perpetuate the cycle. Also, who tips BEFORE getting a service?
Someone who wants to order delivery food because they're pretty much forced to?
You can give the delivery driver a tip when they get there. I've been doing that for decades.
Yeah I know. I also imagine that's the #1 way they get stiffed on tips so might be less likely to accept the delivery
I think the user decides how much to tip in advance, and the app conveys that information to potential matches. Orders with low tips tend to sit there unclaimed, because no driver wants to bother with that
I'm not sure if Uber does it that way, but Doordash does.
Yeah but how cheap is the delivery itself, if the total with tip is under $2?
I never go less than $5 when I use these apps, and I usually get pretty good service
But you're seeing a screenshot of an unmatched order that no driver has claimed yet. I'm saying that unless an actual match is accepted, that's not really evidence that people in a place don't tip well, just that some people don't get their orders filled.
If you never give less than $5, then any order you're involved in will involve at least a $5 tip. That may not be representative of the orders you're not involved with.
Right, I guess I assumed it was posted because it's a normal occurrence in that area.
I mean yes...? No shit?
You know what's crazy is we're still in the "charge not enough to make money" phase of these VC backed startups trajectory. It's gonna be wild when we aren't in the "hook the users with unrealistic token prices" phase.
site is dead with adblock, before anyone bothers to visit it
shitty website = downvote
What adblocker are you using? Site works fine with Ublock Origin in Firefox.
plain firefox and an outdated pihole
Oh thats sad. Wouldn't have wished it on a better corporation...
Lol
I guess more AI doesn’t mean more productivity. Who could’ve imagined?
Wtf is Poe? Is this an ad for Poe?
Did the article exceed your context window?
I’ve got tokens coming out of my ass.
I had no intention of reading the article. But why we you so antagonistic? Are you the creator of Poe?
Sometimes Lemmy crowd really confuses me. Am I supposed to know what Poe is? Is it not ok to make a joke at its expense?
Between the comments here and the article itself, there are exactly three mentions of whatever tf it is you're talking about... all from you.
It's literally on the thumbnail... There's 5 well known AI products and this random thing. Are they trying to make it seem that it's on the same level?
Have we really gone from commenting based on intelligently reading the article, to reading only the title, to commenting just based on the generic stock image thumbnail?
You're allowed to comment on any aspect of a post. You also don't have to read the articles you don't care about.