He is even politely asked at first “no AI sludge please” which is honestly way more self-restraint than I would have on my maintained projects, but he triples down with a fucking AI-generated changeset.

Ye I mean I found it after I got halfway through the article and there were no tea jokes, since that seemed kind of odd.

Ah, yes, medicine. A field without regulations

Okay but there’s is a rather large chance there will be no regulations by end of 2025 once RFK has his fun, so they’re just ahead of their time

I had no idea what Lloyd’s is, I was 100% sure we were talking about the mid tea brand and couldn’t for the life of me figure out why they’d have a chatbot

The comment and response are much better in full

Also it’s incredibly amusing the guy’s profile picture is the only one that doesn’t load on the entire site, I don’t even know why that is but thank god I don’t have to look at that artistic abortion.

The platform was designed first and foremost to be a virtual town hall of engagement opportunities in which all technologies are seamlessly integrated and abstracted

what

That’s like reading the marketing page for some cloud tool that your manager will surely pester you about on the next daily. “Hey, I think we should use Sporgle. They seamlessly integrate and abstract all technologies in a virtual town hall of engagement opportunities.” ¹

Just have fun with your friends and we’ll take care of the rest.

That’s what I’ve been doing and I didn’t need you to help with that so I’ll just carry on I think.

¹ Only that was back in 2020. Now they’ve rebranded to Sporgle.ai. The marketing page is exactly the same only there’s “with the power of AI” added at the end.

Do you sometimes read what you wrote and apply some sort of self-reflection?

changing upper/lower capitalization

That’s literally a built-in VSCode command my dude, it does it in milliseconds and doesn’t require switching a window or even a conscious thought from you

It’s maddening that they did actually take away the headphone jack from all modern phones and there’s nothing we can do about it even though it objectively sucks

Ok but that’s an economic argument for the business not an advertisement, like why would I care about this as the consumer of your fries

Conservative nostalgia, concretely for fries themselves and abstractly for a fake, idealised version of the past.

This is so weird to me like you can literally just go out and have fries today and they’re great? They’re so much better now because there’s so many different places that literally just sell fries with various sauces so they have to be in an arms-race for the most delicious kind of sauce and the best fries. Plus everyone now offers sweet potato fries if you’re bored of the normal ones. There’s never been a better time for fries. When I was a kid fries fucking sucked man, and they had only ketchup.

I still don’t understand what that was about, like do fries made in tallow taste better? Or at least noticeably different?

In terms of sailing the high seas, an AI data center is worse than a boat too.

Steve

There’s no way someone called their product fucking Steve come on god jesus christ

“Philosophy & Music” are indeed two categories of things that share one letter between them.

Feel very happy to recognise only Corbyn and Penrose by name, no idea what any of them are doing there.

I mean, I know who Penrose was, but from the context I assume he’s probably acutely suffering from Nobel Disease and I have zero idea what he’s been up to outside of physics.

And isn’t Corbyn just a boring lefty UK politician? Does he have like a philosophy background or something?

This is really weird because every single person in academia I talked to about non-CS stuff is either a perfectly median centrist social-democrat or literally a member of the local communist party, with zero variation in between those two.

Like it’s either you’re a young idealist that still believes the world can be better, or you’re 40 with three kids and a mortgage that just wants the government to be relatively stable and not fuck shit up for you.

I know zero Americans though, so maybe there’s a skew there.

I haven’t worked in industry for a while now but from your accounts it seems like… nothing’s changed?

Sturgeon’s law very much applies to software engineers. I’m sorry but the vast majority of people in my junior cohort I wouldn’t hire to replace my lightbulb. Of course they’re all in on LLMs. They’ll be doing what they were doing best, generating tons of awful code they copied from somewhere else that the adults in the room will have to clean up later, just the generation and copying is now paid at a $100 monthly subscription.

Like seriously, it doesn’t matter even a tiny bit the code got generated by a bullshit machine when the code is Node.JS anyway. If you’re building a giant penis out of cow dung it doesn’t matter who your construction crew is and how good they are. And the industry is like 90% building giant penises than never come to fruition anyway.

Just use “intern”.

And Bukele, two best buds and their gilded fascism

After @daphnelawless.com on bsky

Nice morning chuckle