abandoning the science part of computer science has left the door open for woo. everything the bot peddlers do reeks of it. oh your code won't compile because this agent is a scorpio and saturn's in the fourth house or whatthefuckever
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emphatically did not sign up for any of this horseshit
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as a javascript apologist i can admit that the fandom main site doesn't make a great case for its continued existence. even with an ad blocker that thing is a phone-heating fucking barely usable eyesore so of course we have stored all the gaming guides on it
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@zzt@mas.to need to implement a fashtech prediction market so i can retire on how fucking predictable these dolts are
If you are a person who writes code for a living, do you report to a leader who is requiring you to use AI tools against your will?
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If you are a person who writes code for a living, do you report to a leader who is requiring you to use AI tools against your will? Please boost for reach if you feel like it
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though we are slow to admit it, That Fuckin Guy is our civilization's truest face.
he is everything we as a society have carved into our values: nepotism, greed, scamming, theft, disdain for truth, tackiness.
we expect to somehow have our problems go away with him when he's only the apotheosis of our code
me on sunday: i don't even know why im dreading going back to work tomorrow
work on monday: we are rolling out a new initiative to put AI in breakfast cereal
oh no it's a serious post
is anyone aware of any industry or company hiring that isn't trying to roflscale their next trillion VC dollars and is content to just make a good thing people buy?
it's pretty clear there are no rules anymore. forget your imposter syndrome, apply for that ceo job. become a vibe surgeon. no one cares
you would be hard pressed any given work day to convince me i have not already died and gone to programmer hell
the unbearable burden of knowing things
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run @prietschka@mastodon.social bluesky is a private forum run by a clique for their enrichment and entertainment only; our usage is predicated only on robustly observing those rules
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@zzt@mas.to @davidgerard@circumstances.run dealing with getting caught posting fashy stuff by posting through it? bold choice, let's see how that works out for them
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@glyph@mastodon.social @tante@tldr.nettime.org it is a difficult rhetorical position to ascertain the difference between "cannot fix a systemic issue with personal behavior" and "i was just following orders". at some point we have some responsibility for our actions, no?
my fondest wish is to outlive all this bullshit
run for governor with no qualifications. sell soft drinks with tap water from your hose and call it paleo. build a submarine and lease it. steal a car and say your ai agent did it. sell sea glass you found on the beach as medicine. there's no one left in any sort of oversight to care.
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@theorangetheme@en.osm.town @davidgerard@circumstances.run the lamentation and garment rending of the worlds most talentless "programmers" as they finally must absorb 1% of the true cost of their beloved bullshit engine is like the singing of a thousand angels
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don't get me wrong, when an impatient hell finally drags him through their gates i'll tie one on with the rest of you and i don't drink
i am saying the rot can't be cured by that alone
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@RyeNCode@mstdn.ca yeah it may be a naive hope. hard to tell if it's actually likely or a coping mechanism
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@zzt@mas.to a thing about almost all con men is contempt for their victims. you deserved to get fooled because you weren't smart enough. they are so righteous in their scamming
i just dread meeting other people in my field now. i used to love meetups and conferences and there's just hardly any programmers left now and so many avid sloppers to dodge
having a real Shyamalan-style twist reveal that it's not that my colleagues are all argumentative about my proposed PR changes, it's that Claude is and they're just forwarding along the obstinancy
really i should put content warnings on seriousposting
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@cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev i am likely applying some lossy filtering here for sure. the amount of astroturf has guaranteed i no longer have time to sift through it all anymore so i've had to make my peace with that stance
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@cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev agree, although i don't believe the neutral hosting arguments here are being made in good faith
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@rupert@mastodon.nz @RyeNCode@mstdn.ca i would hope so but in my little bubble right now reason has been in the rear view for quite awhile now
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@Guillotine_Jones@beige.party just this american life; the standard of living, the radio show is probably fine
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a society of con artists defined primarily by grift and fraud and sneering contempt for the victims
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@RyeNCode@mstdn.ca it really is you having to interview a ton of companies to see which ones have any competent tech leadership left. that's a shit situation to be in and you have my sympathies for needing to deal with it
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a zero sum game in which the only way to win is to steal more than is stolen from you
RE: https://plush.city/@scarlet/116575238443930665
right on. tech is a monoculture of white dudes who believed that their ascent was only due to their meritocratic fitness and then ensured they'd never hire too many people who'd challenge that
i have effectively become a one issue voter and that issue is "put the motherfuckers looting us blind in prison"
RE: https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/116857408738695842
yup we could end this nightmare with a stroke of a congresscritter's pen! unfortunately they all belong firmly in the hands of the monied interests profiting off the nightmare
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The cure for most of the problems of Large Language Model generative AI systems is making the firms absolutely liable for what their AI models say and do. Financially, Legally, and Criminally. The firms can then decide which of their AI services they wish to continue deploying to the public under that set of constraints. It will be completely up to them!
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@baldur@toot.cafe hmm i'd like some details on that PR ...(begins hearing something in his earpiece)
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@baldur@toot.cafe my presumption is that all companies are behaving as though the law now only applies selectively to the regime's enemies
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@baldur@toot.cafe we bold visionaries just do whatever we think will make the most money now and we will let legal figure it out later
made a harness you can strap your head into and pay a hundred bucks to have it beat your skull into the wall as a sleep aid
it just works
RE: https://beige.party/@cap_ybarra/116954784398951173
i changed my mind. boost even if you don't feel like it. tell your friends. ask your neighbors. cajole your acquaintances.
i am so curious as to how widespread this phenomenon is for mastodon
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If you are a person who writes code for a living, do you report to a leader who is requiring you to use AI tools against your will?
Please boost for reach if you feel like it
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@joeposaurus@chaos.social have been screaming this at top of lungs for a year now to anyone who will listen. they believe "they're gonna make megabucks so who cares"
i have been using two of my partner's college textbooks as my monitor stand since 2020. maybe it's time to invest in some infrastructure
remember: they aren't *really* saying their machines write better than we do, they are fundamentally suggesting that the quality of writing doesn't matter
america is a fire sale and you missed most of it
one reason the state of things is so exhausting in software sphere is that the AI project and the fascist project dovetail so well, as each is replacing knowable truth - fascism with vibes, AI with plausible outputs, offering something truth-shaped or truth-feeling without actually being true
it's about abandoning objective truth as worth seeking or even being possible