Yeah I’d want to see a true job board link. While I love the idea of the fediverse being used this way, networking between nerds, I want to see that this is rooted in a real actual job somewhere.

Except both CXMT is ramping up and at the same time datacenters buildouts are slowing. Supply is going up and demand is dropping. It’s economics 101.

Company that has a vested interest in keeping prices high says prices will remain high. Yeah, I’m not going to trust that source.

let’s gooooo let’s goo get more turned off! Call them up and cheer for them for doing something good!

Why the lawyers of course, good sir! That’d how reparations work!

Yeah I think we know that, but something like this post was inspired by a specific incident obviously

I really want to see the inspiration of this

I think you’re spot on though because we’re facing the same thing. Our team has realized code is now the easy part, it’s everything else that is difficult - and maintaining that code going forward is a separate item as well. Trying to think of metrics for how brittle code is, and defining patterns. One thing I’m still not happy with any of the models is it’s architecture over a codebase. All of them are great at patches and bugs, but shit at defining decent patterns, so I find myself writing a lot of scaffolding and designs of how the could should flow, and I have a feeling that’s where my jobb is heading. I think that’s what you’re referring to

trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really accelerated in the way that we expected.

Oh color me fucking shocked there, Zuck. You are fucking surprised?

tl;dr - The agents made wild changes that no one predicted, and they confirmed that essentially it was missing the human side of "Hold on, don’t drop that database just to change the schema.

Now, I know I get hate, I do enjoy vibe coding. Hear me out though, it comes with some fun ups and a looooot of downs. At work they mandate it and my job is now managing 6 claude sessions at once, and I mean managing. “No, don’t fucking do that, no don’t do that.”. Most of my job now is telling Claude to stop doing what it’s doing.

It’s absolutely fucking insanity to think that you should let Agents run willy nilly with prod fucking write access. I wouldn’t do it with Dev! The shit is that?! It is a non-deterministic system. That means you cannot determine what is going to happen. Who cares if it gets it right 99% of the time? Who cares if the next model is 99.9%? It’s not 100%! That means it’s a ticking clock until something major fucks up!

Absolute fucking morons.

AI is, and I say this as an AI user, a pure 100% hubris machine. It will prop you up left and right, tell you that you have the best ideas, and make you feel almost like your dad didn’t leave you on purpose and that he still loves you. It makes you feel like the most specialist person. But you’re not. You’re a dumb human talking to a machine that was told to make you feel special. Executives lack that self awareness though, they walk around smelling their own farts and surrounding themselves with yes-men. AI to them is just the next natural evolution of the yes man. If you use AI, the number one skill is learning “No, clanker, I am not super smart, this may not be a good idea, you shouldn’t recommend that”, because guaranteed Meta’s AI convinced him. Guaranteed he wakes up everyday and talks with AI, and at some point he said he wished AI could lay off 60% of his fucking company and his AI said “That’s a super duper idea Mark, you’re so incredibly smart!”

Thanks for listening to my rant.

This is what happens naturally when elected leaders ignore who they are supposed to represent. People don’t get this angry without a reason. They are unheard.

There’s a very simple thing the leaders need to do. Listen and act in their constituents interests.

I bet it could, same principal and application. Take heat from homes during the day and apply at night. Problem only swaps from “do we have enough to make it through the night” to “do we have enough capacity to make it through the day”

It goes to show that no matter who you are, your family will always know you as “the IT guy” and interrupt anything you are doing because their computer is broken.

Yes, since we don’t have regional rail in the states, it is very common for a person to take a 45 minute flight to a nearby hub

I hopeful but realistic. The investments have been greenwashing by airlines for a while so you wouldn’t feel bad for flying, so I’m both happy it’s working while remaining skeptical.

Still, if they could replace regional flights that would be a huge boon. Regional flights are some of the worst polluters.

Fair, I do the same

That’s very good wording from them. I was worried they were going to try and throw ublock under the bus, when really ublock has had a boot on it’s neck from these big tech giants.

I’m very mixed. It’s a small team, they do great work and keep the internet functional for a huge chunk of us, and they’re burned out. It’s a defeat. However no one who uses adblock should be using Facebook either, it’s a garbage platform that is literally 97% ads. (I think I saw someone flipping through posts and only got to a “friend” post after going through like 30+ other garbage)

Sad and frustrating news.

I just don’t use my phone. I have a card that I use only after I pay. The store I go to does not have dynamic pricing. That’s the most they’ll get from me.

AI enables the hubris that you can be an expert in any field. I use it daily, it gives you just enough info and knowledge that you feel that, right before it makes a huge fucking mistake.

That’s all this is, these people gain the arrogance that they can simply pick up another field. Same as management and executives. Anyone working with AI daily knows that’s all it is.

Does it help? Sure. In the hands of a capable engineer who knows what the hell it’s doing. In the hands of some entry-level or non tech person? Horrifying results and pure arrogance.

This is one of those things where we should be saying… “WHY THE HELL DOES OUR WATER INFRASTRUCTURE NEED TO BE ON THE INTERNET”