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  Executives: "You can all go 10x faster now, you're empowered!" Managers: "Yes let's go team!" Managers schedule 10x as many meetings to go faster Execs: "Look, even designers are shipping code now! So much empowerment!" Engineering: "Fuckit, APPROVE, I don't have time to review anymore. Have to get to the next meeting about the designer vibe coded feature we're shipping tomorrow." Execs: &a...

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  Some people live in a delusional fantasy world with no self awareness at all. Must be nice.

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  Merging the PR that deletes 330k lines of old prototype code on a Friday afternoon then walking out to the pub for a pint on a sunny day... Doesn't get much better.

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  The AI industry has reached its logical conclusion. Vulnerabilities as a Service. VaaS is the hot new thing folks: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116347212857125753

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  I just discovered I live in a city where on Easter Sunday we have a competition to find the most hunky Jesus and then we can watch our neighbors hurl themselves down a steep hill on big wheel bikes dressed in the most outrageous costumes. SF continues to amaze and delight.

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  Recruiter messaging me about a job opportunity. What's this? An interesting job building web apps for high performance monitoring of generalized novel hardware systems... Right up my street. Hardware, check, web, check, visualizations, yup, performance, yes please! Oh... "3+ years experience with React and CSS-in-JS". Ah. You didn't actually mean you were serious about performance did you? I do not, nor would I ever, recommend you try and build high performa...

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  Watching teams start migrations towards React "because our team knows it, and we want to have LLMs generate it" is so depressing. Sure, shoot yourselves in both feet while you're at it.

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  @revk @tindie haha yeah knowing the team that was running this at Supplyframe (the parent company) this is undoubtedly a fuck up. More likely someone failed a deploy due to some system never having been updated, and now nobody knows how to restore.

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  @slightlyoff it does. I honestly want this or something like it as a platform primitive. There were some efforts along those lines going on a while back but I lost track of them.

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  Just saw this from a friend and now I can't unsee it: "I just had a weird thought. (LLM type) AI is a lot like torture, in that you'll get an answer that sounds plausible, but might not be true because the victim/AI will give whatever answer it thinks you want. From now on I'm going to think of asking AI stuff like you're waterboarding a nerdy seven year old." Stop the AI waterboarding!

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  @cstross@wandering.shop yeah exactly. My grandmother has a 2011 iMac. It hasn't been updated since she bought it. By my M4 ruined eyes it's the most frustrating experience in the world. The only thing she was annoyed about was all the Adobe Flash popups that suddenly started appearing on her online Bridge website when we finally shut down that plugin ecosystem!

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  @cstross@wandering.shop yup. UX development has a lot to answer for in terms of compute excess. The web 2.0 era similarly ate up a lot of performance. The very idea that 32gb of ram might not be enough for a user like this even in 5years time is ridiculous to me.