2026-10-10 19:06 UTC
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@rhamph@awful.systems 2026-10-10 21:25
Years ago I thought, I like writing hobby software but I don’t think I would enjoy it as a career. And so, I do not work (at least directly) in software development. If only I knew the armour-piercing fin-stabilised discarding sabot I was dodging there.
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@BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 2026-10-10 22:31
For a while it looked like devs would resist the slop, but now it looks like the slop is winning. It is pretty depressing. I am thinking about leaving tech altogether. Honestly, can’t blame you - with how utterly tech’s surrendered to the slop machines, and how its actively sabotaged attempts to resist them, I’d be looking to leave as well.
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@blakestacey@awful.systems 2026-10-10 23:17
I’ve been squeezed out of physics academia after years of ordinary career pressure and obstacles that aren’t very interesting or pertinent to this thread. The fact that the insitutions and the community have no resistance to slop, that’s why I’m not even trying to go back.
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@JustTesting@bookstodon.com 2026-10-11 07:10
@EFreethought@awful.systems @BlueMonday1984@awful.systems not even just meetups, having dinner with programmer friends also mostly revolves around AI. Sure, some of it is talking negatively about it. But a few years ago we'd talk politics, hobbies, personal life etc. and now that's overshadowed by AI talk. It's just invading every space. Luckily still less so with my non-tech friends.
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@Evinceo@awful.systems 2026-10-11 22:27
For a while it looked like devs would resist the slop I don’t think I ever saw this. The only indication would have been a major dev org like the FSF, OSI, SFC or somebody hitting Microsoft with a really aggressive lawsuit over OpenAI. They would have had a slam dunk and it would have set the tone for the way the rest of the world reacted, I think. Instead it was just ‘wow cool toy.’ That was when I realized the real politics of Foss wasn’t just a couple of bad actors like Eric Raymond but a full on rot. I am thinking about leaving tech altogether. I wish I had a plan B, but I’ve devoted my life to being a software engineer and have no idea what else I could do . It is pretty depressing. Yeah. I’ve sort of resigned to my world being ruined and everything I ever worked on stolen and sold back to my bosses for the rest of my career. I just wish there were some way to inflict some fraction of this pain on the people responsible, the people who go to work every day to ruin mine.