Yeah, I hear people use “Stardew Valley” clone or rip-off too. Which doesn’t bother me either. Stardrew Valley is a ripoff of Harvest Moon.

I think Palworld is more base-building and stuff than the turn-based Pokemon games that are out there – but it definitely looks more of a ripoff than the game itself leads on.

I don’t know because these guys aren’t data scientists … they’re devs so they can only do this by prompting so it’s just gonna be whatever steps they add to the agentic workflow.

I actually agree with a lot of what you said. Software engineers didn’t want to form a union and stuff because they had high salaries and we’re so sought after. lol, to be clear, I’m not one of those crazy useful or overpaid tech guys (not anywhere close to FAANG). Although overpaid is always relative. Regardless, I think all workers should unite beyond tech … it’s the “tech bros” that are also making the world worse right now and I’m not happy these chuds are holding that moniker.

I’m 40 something and I didn’t make FAANG level money. I still need to work for at least a little while but I am still planning to retire early as well.

I definitely feel for the next generation as well. Every new job I usually did my best to train the juniors and try to put them on a good career path. It seems like it was already difficult with the thirty million line problem and just how much sits in between the code can be a lot. Now add in AI and it’s just a mess :/

Remember how they kept saying their victims of woke being taught in schools?

I hate them.

Got more work done that doesn’t matter and also atrophied their workers mind.

I’d go further, I think in an ideal world all the countries of the world would be funding these projects and holding these huge tech companies to task.

When you demonize people that don’t look or think like you, there’s a safety in the “known” evil.

Soon, you don’t see people from other races as people but you see the humanity in the evils perpetrated by people who do look like you.

Do that with the social media bubbles you have now that constantly reinforce these biases and we have the shitty fucking situation where rich people leverage to get themselves elected. Soon they’re going to remove the voting entirely.

“AI artists” 😂

Toxic positivity has never caused any problems … 🙄

I remember calling NFTs a scam and my friend hated me saying that.

When I use the phrase NFTs I was referring to the culture, usage and trading and all of that jazz. He was specifically talking about the technical implementation. So there was that …

However, he said, “just because 99.9% of NFTs are scams, that doesn’t mean you can call it a scam.”

I then said, “if 99% of anything is a description of it, I think we can safely use that descriptor”

I like watching and following chess but I really suck at playing. I get schooled so easily. I also feel too old to learn :P

Maybe I’ll post all the weird chess things I watch on the side.

I think Rogan believes he’s in charge though. He talks like he’s making his own decisions.

Undoubtedly he’s being manipulated but yeah at the very least he’s a useful idiot.

AI is great! I work in programming and when I got thrown into this project … AI went down for two hours and I was in a rush so I asked my coworkers that have been working on a project for four weeks how auth worked they and had no idea, they didn’t know how the application fucking worked, nor what we used redis or the db for or any of this shit. It’s so good losing the respect of my all my coworkers! /s

I didn’t put a dime into my headset after Meta took it over so I didn’t pay much attention but I don’t know of many innovations from that 80B. I’m sure there’s people who really work in it which can name some tools or libraries or games they thought were great but I don’t think anything broke into the mainstream? The main VR games that I know of are HL: Alyx, Beat Saber, and Superhot. I can’t believe with 80B there hasn’t been another die hard game or application that hasn’t broke into the mainstream.

I love Nintendo. I’ve bought every single one of their consoles. I am skipping the Switch 2 though.

I feel like giving someone a Switch 2 is a bit like a white elephant. I can’t say that I’m a fan of what’s happening lately. It’s a shame because the industry is where it is because of them. It’s a shame they can’t treat their customers a little better.

This Futurama joke makes more sense now: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qAur04gWg3s

I haven’t used Amazon in such a long time but I figured they would have made it better with LLMs and stuff.

What about if you had to train your overseas replacement?

I skimmed it but anyone that’s been or going to go to these places call me if they still ask for a tip :P