Post #1721492

2026-04-19 16:50 UTC

employers will likely say that you should be hypervigilant all the time, no matter what but hypervigilance, famously, destroys your mind and body. when employers act like it's expected, it is a very strong message that they do not care about their workers.

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@jneen@unstable.systems 2026-04-19 16:50

what *actually* happens is the workforce pretends to be hypervigilant all the time ("i always check the output!") in ways that are clearly, obviously impossible, and which if true would have turned them into an empty husk of a human being - just to say they "aren't vibe coding" (they are)

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@clarfonthey@toot.cat 2026-04-19 19:13

@jneen reminds me of something my boss at my last employer said I asked whether we should be concerned about deploying big changes on Fridays they seemed offended at even the implication with the idea that being scared of deploying changes on Friday is antithetical to "customer obsession" (fucking hate that term) like there's a difference between Being in Fear and just reducing all chances of problems and tech has this toxic relationship with problems where you should forget they exist until you have to drop everything to fix them

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@jason@logoff.website 2026-04-27 01:37

@jneen they don’t! What about it?

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@alwayscurious@infosec.exchange 2026-05-08 18:31

@jneen@unstable.systems “hypervigilance, famously, destroys your mind and body” Link to that? As an aside, I think that any open source maintainer that receives a lot of outside contributions from untrusted people already needs to be hypervigilant. I treat LLM output as if it came from an untrusted new contributor.

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