“secret”?

Yeah , if consoles were a good financial deal maybe I’d buy them. They’re not. Steam is good value for the money.

People mandating return to office are climate criminals, all. They should be sentenced to picking up litter and other community service for the rest of their lives.

Good. Fuck all this ai slop.

We had cars. People still used them a lot instead of walking.

I am going to take this opportunity to shit on car culture. Walking several miles a week because I live in a walkable city is pleasant, and almost certainly good for my health and weight.

I don’t have objections to the rest of your post. I just hate car culture.

The whole venture capitalism thing is bullshit. It’s just vibes and rich man hubris.

Is this happening on android, too?

Not in any way I can discern! She’s in the planning meetings but her entire role seems to be sharing her screen so people can tell her what to click on. (This is excruciating to witness. It is so slow.)

Sometimes she’ll say “remember to check your capacity!”, but two other people on the team say that too.

She seems to be entirely non-technical, too, so she doesn’t have much input on any of the discussion. The inter-team stuff is handled by two other people. (A lady of importance whose title I don’t know, and some sort of business analyst)

Sure, “brightness” or “intelligence” might not be innate and immutable. But at a given time, some people are more or less various things that get called intelligence. Maybe they’re just having a bad day. Maybe they’re more routinely making bad decisions because of poor peer examples and nutrition. It’s not always their fault.

Maybe shame and embarrassment would work, but the kind of people who drive this kind of car are probably anti-social assholes who don’t care about other people very much.

But these people get off on being jerks. There’s something wrong with their brain so empathy doesn’t work right.

But if you go to the gym with a machine that lifts the weights for you, you don’t get any stronger. The point is not that the weights get lifted.

I think a lot of people really struggle to understand this.

People straight faced say things like “why would i read a book when and write an analysis when i can just have a tool do it for me?”. The teacher doesn’t really want to know your personal analysis of Dracula. They want you to practice doing analysis.

I think there’s some sort of unfortunate synergy where the people who are less bright are more likely to go for AI, and by virtue of being less bright they’re less likely, less capable, of dealing with and recognizing the hazards.

The place I work at I wouldn’t say is “over staffed” but it is maybe “wrong-staffed”.

They have a full time “scrum master” and from what I can tell all she does it share her screen so people can awkwardly tell her which tickets to click on, and she calls on people in order during the morning meeting. That’s a whole-ass job. Meanwhile, devops is like crying blood because there’s like 2 of them managing decades of systems, and no senior engineering roles have been backfilled after people left for years.

Hahaha! They don’t write tests. They are unfamiliar with the concept of unit testing.

I had to explain to them the concept of “you import your function and call it with different arguments to make sure it returns what you expect”. It took a couple tries.

Meanwhile, the head of the “quality” team keeps telling me that I should stay in my lane and not tell the developers how to do their work.

The problem is clearly that management is stupid. Futurama meme: why does the working class, the largest class, not simply eat the owning class?

That aside, even if Dave worked as intended, and doubled productivity, who’s keeping all the extra profit? Some dudes who aren’t doing any work. Fuck them.

Fuck cars. Fuck big private tech.

If fines scaled with wealth that might create an incentive for the police to harass rich people instead of poor people. It won’t, because the police serve the wealthy, but it’s a nice day fantasy.

This doesn’t spend much time on the scenario where it’s not two peers in the review, but like a junior dev and senior dev.

I recently did a code review for someone who is very junior ¹ , and after spending like two hours fixing all the syntax errors and low level goblins, I realized I couldn’t see the forest at all. I’d been staring at the “this variable is undefined in this case” trees so much. And then they were getting antsy and management was getting antsy…

¹ They’re not actually junior. They’ve been in this role for years. Unfortunately, this org has like no mentorship and no standards, so they haven’t actually learned much in all that time. They’ve just been copy-pasting code until stuff works.

There’s a manger who gets paid by copilot commits signed for sure.

That manager should be removed

I’m so tired of this shit. Break up Microsoft.

I’m so tired of every job posting frothing at the mouth over AI. “We’re ai native” , “we want employees who are excited about ai tools”, “agenic workflows”

Just fuck off.

Even if all of this stuff was a real productivity increase, who is keeping that extra production? Not the workers!

I see a lot of ads for ai slop on the subway and I refuse to engage with them. I don’t look them up. Fuck 'em.

Sometimes people vandalize them and if I saw someone doing so, I don’t know what you’re talking about.

I use nano for quick edits. I don’t know more than the basics of vim, and don’t do a lot of editing on the terminal so I haven’t needed to.