Sure is - and o3 is missing from the OpenAI models that Azure is serving, which I suspect isn’t a coincidence - if OpenAI has some secret sauce that lets them undercut resellers this might shake up agreements for a bit.
Or rather; the candidate didn’t have a visa, the employer would need to jump through a bunch of hoops, then a multi-month wait, OR can just hire one of the many on-shore candidates available on the market.
I think previously these sorts of offshore people were picked up by big bodyshop contractors, who could reliably place someone (and afford to have someone on the bench for a few weeks if needed) - since a massive bunch of government contracts were cancelled over the last few years this mode has dried up.
In that case, any suggestions if the answer was looking for workflow engines? Ideally something that will work for no-person-in-the-middle workloads in the tens of seconds range as well as person-making-a-decision workflows that can live for anywhere between minutes and months?
Management consulting - I expect less than 20% of what a random 24 year old in a suit that you pay $3000 per day produces is actually specific to your business problem, and the rest is formulaic.
I’m even happy to listen to generative music, so long as it’s orchestrated (haha) by musicians using musical taste to make musical decisions, rather than a pastiche of the worst derivative house you’ve ever heard by a rando with no intent.
It’s harder to demonstrate growth & development in the same job for 7 years - if you have a couple of job changes it makes a more natural narrative of how you are professionally developing - not impossible at a single org, but needs a bit more of a story of projects you delivered and how you are not the same person as 7 years ago.
I wonder if it’s a tracking off switch or a panic button? I used to work for a fleet tracking SaaS, and some customers with unionised workforces needed a way to disable tracking, and panic buttons were common too (although less so in Europe).
Signal to HQ "I'm being robbed" or something like this, I would guess.
Around here, such a button in this place would be for the 20 000 lumen extralights. Typically for cars with xenon headlights, like this Opel, the extralights are powered via a relay that takes control signal from a can-bus adapter that extracts the high beam signal, via a manual switch like this.
And when you set up 1Password, make sure you also get the CLI going, so passwords & shared gunk that's needed to access other people's services can be scripted, and when the passwords, etc get rotated no-one needs to know because no-one needs to store them.
You're going to have to elaborate. I've been using 1pw for about 7 years, including at several startups where I've handled IT. It has worked really well, yet to be breached, has a CLI, handles passkeys and SSH keys, easily separates work and personal creds, and their support is fantastic.
