That would be considered illegal here, is it legal where Greptile is based or are they breaking laws? I'm not saying this makes the practice any better, but I want to know if this actually puts them at risk of punishment.
KwisatzHaderack 1 days ago [-]
They are based in the US (CA I believe).
I think it’s certain hourly-wage jobs that have can hour limits. (ie. physically demanding jobs in hot weather conditions require periodic water breaks, in addition to hour limits)
In other hourly-wage jobs, you can still work over 40 hours but the worker is entitled to over-time pay. My mom worked at the US Post Office and during the holiday seasons she would sometimes work 12 hours a days, but all hours above 8 were paid at twice the hourly rate. Also, note that signing up for overtime was voluntary.
Software engineers, on the other hand, are salaried. Similar to lawyers, they sometimes have grueling hours (ie sleep in the office) but it’s not illegal, afaik.
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manishsharan 2 hours ago [-]
Their technology is a wrapper around LLM ; nothing original that will yield 10x return for your time if you accepted their employment.
OutOfHere 41 minutes ago [-]
In other words, just instruct the LLM to do what you need. The article is about nothing we don't already know.
jhgg 38 minutes ago [-]
Except this article is about how their efforts to prompt the LLM didn't end up working and how they used embeddings / vector search to filter out comments that the LLM generated based on user feedback.
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> Greptile offers no work-life-balance, typical workdays start at 9am and end at 11pm, often later, and we work Saturdays, sometimes also Sundays.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think it’s certain hourly-wage jobs that have can hour limits. (ie. physically demanding jobs in hot weather conditions require periodic water breaks, in addition to hour limits)
In other hourly-wage jobs, you can still work over 40 hours but the worker is entitled to over-time pay. My mom worked at the US Post Office and during the holiday seasons she would sometimes work 12 hours a days, but all hours above 8 were paid at twice the hourly rate. Also, note that signing up for overtime was voluntary.
Software engineers, on the other hand, are salaried. Similar to lawyers, they sometimes have grueling hours (ie sleep in the office) but it’s not illegal, afaik.