The founder appears to be Brazilian, and when I worked for a Brazilian company (very briefly) this was the vibe. it was very weird as this particular company often didn't seem to care about results, only the grind.
From the job posting it sounds like the company value prop is AI agents as debt collector? They want to “solve deep problems like collecting more money”. What a shitty dystopia we’re creating.
Tech just became yuppie 2.0, just like in the 80s and early 90s every sociopath looking for a large paycheck jumped into finance, in the 2010s onward it's been tech.
Why would you assume it's LLM slop when Python's been around for decades? Lots of folks are enthusiastic enough about "Python magic" to have done excellent writeups of literally ever dunder function under the sun on a single page, at a level of detail and excellence that the python documentation, bless its heart, cannot ever hope to match.
- The python docs are there to give you the information you need.
- Passion pages are there to do a deep dive into all the crazy shit you can do with that information =D
Back of the envelope (and some quick googling), a large container ship burns hundreds of tons of fuel per day, at a cost of 700-1000 $/t. Plus, all that fuel occupies tonnage that isn't carrying paying cargo. If you can save on that with a magic new reactor, the cost of a well trained tech on every ship isn't going to break the budget.
Fusion fuel isn't going to be free. Fusion reactors aren't magic: in a sense they're very traditional in that they will be used to turn water into superheated steam that spins a steam turbine to drive the propeller. Just like in 1897. Even if the fusion reactor could somehow magically be made maintenance free, the steam plant will be maintenance intensive. Ask any engineering officer who worked on a steam plant, regardless of whether the heat source was fossil fuel or fission. This is part of the reason why merchant ships switched from steam turbines to diesel engines decades ago: lower maintenance costs and lower crew training requirements.
Maritime fusion power could be a good idea but you have to evaluate complete system lifecycle cost instead of looking at just one component.
Fusion fuel will be close enough to free. Deuterium is less than a thousandth of the hydrogen in water, and there's enough in your morning shower to provide all your energy needs for a year. A liter of heavy water costs about a thousand bucks.
For DT reactors, lithium is the other side of the fuel equation, and at the scale we need that's really cheap as well.
Not "worrying" in a rational sense (i.e. we should put more thought into the possibility of this collision), but in a human emotional sense ("if NASA engineers can change their minds this quickly, surely we don't know nearly as much as we think, and the universe feels like a scarier place again").
I've seen energy-harvesting remote light switches for sale — they supposedly get enough energy from the physical act of flipping the toggle to send a few radio packets. I haven't used one in the real world though.
