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• Post #4397344

  having a real Shyamalan-style twist reveal that it's not that my colleagues are all argumentative about my proposed PR changes, it's that Claude is and they're just forwarding along the obstinancy

• Post #4381464

  you have reached Cap Ybarra. your toot is very important to us. please remain on the line and your toot will be answered in the order it was received. for crashing out about llms, press one. for crashing out about the united states of epstein press two for toots about whatever videogame is providing brief disassociative relief, press three for my cats yelp review of my establishment press four

• Post #4289824

  it's pretty clear there are no rules anymore. forget your imposter syndrome, apply for that ceo job. become a vibe surgeon. no one cares

• Post #4289823

  run for governor with no qualifications. sell soft drinks with tap water from your hose and call it paleo. build a submarine and lease it. steal a car and say your ai agent did it. sell sea glass you found on the beach as medicine. there's no one left in any sort of oversight to care.

• Post #4289822

  america is a fire sale and you missed most of it

• Post #4289821

  my fondest wish is to outlive all this bullshit

• Post #4289820

  really i should put content warnings on seriousposting

• Post #4289819

  the unbearable burden of knowing things

• Post #4254622

  oh no it's a serious post is anyone aware of any industry or company hiring that isn't trying to roflscale their next trillion VC dollars and is content to just make a good thing people buy?

• Post #4173204

  remember: they aren't *really* saying their machines write better than we do, they are fundamentally suggesting that the quality of writing doesn't matter

• Post #4119759

  made a harness you can strap your head into and pay a hundred bucks to have it beat your skull into the wall as a sleep aid it just works

• Post #3997849

  i have been using two of my partner's college textbooks as my monitor stand since 2020. maybe it's time to invest in some infrastructure

• Post #3997632

  RE: https://beige.party/@cap_ybarra/116954784398951173 i changed my mind. boost even if you don't feel like it. tell your friends. ask your neighbors. cajole your acquaintances. i am so curious as to how widespread this phenomenon is for mastodon

• Post #3997629

  If you are a person who writes code for a living, do you report to a leader who is requiring you to use AI tools against your will? Please boost for reach if you feel like it

• Post #3680959

  one reason the state of things is so exhausting in software sphere is that the AI project and the fascist project dovetail so well, as each is replacing knowable truth - fascism with vibes, AI with plausible outputs, offering something truth-shaped or truth-feeling without actually being true it's about abandoning objective truth as worth seeking or even being possible

• Post #3662657

  i just dread meeting other people in my field now. i used to love meetups and conferences and there's just hardly any programmers left now and so many avid sloppers to dodge

• Post #3662032

  take epluribus unum off the currency, the true american motto is Caveat Emptor / Don't Hate the Player

• Post #3661595

  RE: https://plush.city/@scarlet/116575238443930665 right on. tech is a monoculture of white dudes who believed that their ascent was only due to their meritocratic fitness and then ensured they'd never hire too many people who'd challenge that

• Post #3612502

  me on sunday: i don't even know why im dreading going back to work tomorrow work on monday: we are rolling out a new initiative to put AI in breakfast cereal

• Post #3593178

  i have effectively become a one issue voter and that issue is "put the motherfuckers looting us blind in prison"

• Post #3566875

  RE: https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/116857408738695842 yup we could end this nightmare with a stroke of a congresscritter's pen! unfortunately they all belong firmly in the hands of the monied interests profiting off the nightmare

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• Post #2147716

  as compute crunch continues i look forward to hearing from all the new folks who "were always against it"

• Post #1805608

  it's hard out there for us programmer / shitposter / anti-llm-demagogue / amateur game streamer types

• Post #1805606

  The Audacity of These Motherfuckers

• Post #1805604

  hashtag420mergeit

• Post #1805603

  i do not want this cat to leave my lap so i guess im sitting here until my bladder explodes

• Post #1805601

  i am so over people who are here to talk at people and not with people. if you always are posting and are too cool to reply/acknowledge, i don't got time for ya

• Post #1805600

  i can't possibly have fallen off

• Post #1805599

  you wouldn't pre-cache a shader