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  It irritates me to no end that a lot of folks seem to believe that since we have the AI, only velocity matters, and all the engineering principles of abstraction, encapsulation, access control and good architecture can go out the window. Because AI can bridge the gap or something. Yes, AI is a powerful tool. No, it won't be fine if you ignore all lessons computer science has learned in the last 70 or so years. 😮‍💨

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  I wish YouTube supported word banlist for suggested videos. "Reacts to" would go straight on that. Yes, there are a few informative videos where someone knowledgeable does an actual analysis of the thing, and shares useful information that isn't readily apparent in the original. But the vast majority is just "ooooh" and "woooow" and "this is nuts" and rehashing the obvious.

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  I think 2038 would be a fine year for me to take a sabbatical.

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  Asciiticism is a digital lifestyle characterized by voluntary abstinence from using any unnecessary characters that weren’t present in the original ascii table.

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  Well, that's a first. I've dealt with slop pull requests before. Today for the first time I got a slop review in response to my pull requests. Unachievenent unlocked 🏆

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  Rabbit holes all the way down... I need to go fiddle on a server to adjust some of the containers I run there... Meh, I don't have tmux set up there, and ssh'ing multiple times is for n00bs... Let me try this new terminal I heard can replace tmux but better... Let me spend two evenings reading through its configs to get keymapping the way I'm use to... Now this is complex enough config I ought to store it in my dotfiles repo... Let me double-check my dotfiles repo t...

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  🏆 Achievement unlocked: fixed a bug strictly by deleting lines of code.

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  Everyone is worried about AI paperclip optimizers, but capitalism has been doing it all along.

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  The moment you think yourself too important to be disagreed with, you stop being qualified for being important.