When the robot does it, it’s not illegal

Maybe? If corporate structures made sense then sure, but they haven’t made sense my entire time in the industry and I doubt they’ll start making sense because of this.

I agree that it hasn’t been going on long enough to be considered a tradition yet, but I think over time it may develop into one — almost out of necessity — because there is no alternative with a functionally illiterate populace. (Besides the seemingly obvious one of educating people back into literacy.)

In the same article, they speculated that LLMs may be the revenge of the written word and may lead to a change. But having to work with LLMs — practically by force — I see it differently.

LLMs allow people routes around reading and writing. They aid illiteracy. They summarize and elaborate almost like a lossy compression or decompression algorithm for the written word. They allow you to take a single sentence and pretend that there was more thought behind it than there truly was, and they digest written language and produce things that allow you to be more comfortably illiterate. Functionally, they’re a hack to allow orally oriented people to pretend that they’re more literate than they are.

Keep ass what though? /s

I’m going to have to just write my own one of these fucking things aren’t I?

We invented writing and lost oral traditions.

Then we reinvented oral traditions through illiteracy and social multimedia. I read an Atlantic article that talked about how we’ve been living in an oral age for some time now, and it has stuck in my mind ever since.

Even though it’s technically written communication, texting, slack, teams chats, and platforms like Twitter have much more in common with oral societies than ones based upon written text — and this leaves out oral platforms such as YouTube, podcasts, and TikTok. Having a debate about something on Twitter is more akin to getting into a verbal spat or an oral debate than it is to long-form letters sent back and forth between two disagreeing parties, or people publishing pieces making arguments in newspapers.

I think it also aligns with the American environment of increasing illiteracy. Some teams messages I receive daily are obviously orally dictated speech to text. My company may be an exception but there is a large emphasis on long meetings where people are forced to regurgitate written communications and parts of documents live.

I apologize a bit because this takes this thread in a completely different direction, but once you realize we live in an oral age it’s basically impossible to unsee.

We’ll see more initiatives organized end-to-end by small groups of smart people, with virtual teams/coalitions forming to bypass “archaic” processes and deliver meaningful results.

What you’re describing here has always been the case. The pattern in software is always that a small, actually empowered group does the initial development and r&d, then if the product is a success the maintenance people come in and drain it of any progress via overbearing process and middle management. There’s rare exceptions, but I’ve seen this over and over again.

Small teams build good things, then they get acquired and those things are slowly or quickly destroyed.

Eh I’m sure they kinda know beforehand, but everyone chooses themselves. There might be one or two free radicals in there, but most people are going to be afraid of career implications, legal problems, or both.

Just what everyone needs, the Internet of things wired into their brain. No problems with that ever. No sir. /s

How much mega corporations and the government give a fuck about people is becoming visceral these days.

Wow what a circlejerk this turned into.

Oh well, I guess that’s what everything really is the whole time.

AI chatbots could dissect your children and we’d still keep them. We’re finished caring about anything but money and power.

I’d like to imagine a different world from this. One where anyone gives a shit about what happens to someone else. Maybe in the next life.

FPTP primaries can be implemented in most places without any need to win elections or hold seats first. Of course though the Democrats aren’t doing this already because then every one of their geriatric do nothings in blue areas would be replaced by mamdani-esque candidates.

Yeah no way his dick still works.

Hot take: they had no ability to code in the first place.

Goodhart’s Law states, “Once a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”

In this case, it wasn’t even a good measure to begin with and became a target because of the 💩 brained business idiots that run everything.

Now these companies are racing to see who can throw the most money into the fire to show that they’re the most zealous and deferential to the AI cultist management that have taken over all software companies.

Love it

Because they want you to be a fucking debt slave and die penniless.

(That’s why they’re bragging about how well credit card companies are doing right now.)

I tried to use it to make a simple drawing for an internal app logo the other day and wound up running out of tokens for the day trying to get it to put the rungs back into the ladder that it kept removing.

For many of its uses as well, training will have to continue forever. That doesn’t seem sustainable to me but hey it is 2026 and most people’s primary concern is still fossil fuel prices. So, 🤷. Who knows how long it could go on for?