rambojohnson

ok I said these days, which includes the gutting of major instutitions and departments. not 50+ years ago, when things were still relatively sane and verifiable.

these days.

dead internet theory.

I have colleagues at prime video who consult AI the way medieval clerks once consulted omens, generating entire chains of speculative labor after ritual examinations of any of their given codebases. no real or new initiatives / innovations are being pushed forward, and thats rumored to be happening in other departments as well.

is that not the goal? I mean, its not even suppose to stop at entry level.

who can trust anything coming out of the US government these days, much less about UAPs lol... seriously guys.

a pull request required to update a wiki? bruh.

that's all we been doing now.

so cool. that happens to me with music a lot.

Mechanical engineer here. The idea of having to sift through every intricate detail this thing spits out, just to guard against one hallucinated miscalculation making its way into the real world, is enough to keep me up at night. This AI shit is getting ridiculous.

you need to get off pudding.

Vision Pro, the metaverse, all this money-sink tech the money for which could’ve fed the world a hundred times over... late-stage capitalism is a circus. We were promised hoverboards.

finite moments. cherish them.

"Instead of building Zed like a web page, we built it like a video game, --", uh, what.

and then the whole telemetry bit.

bye.

every headline coming out of america is so god damn nauseating. empire on rapid collapse.

The formatting here made it pretty hard to parse at first. For a good 10 seconds I genuinely thought I was looking at some bizarre run-on, non-sequitur sentences. Giving the main line items a bit more spacing would make it much easier to read.

Seriously. Being meaningless and insignificant gives you more freedom, and nowhere to hide from what you do with it. I’ve never understood cosmic dread. It feels like a release valve instead of a threat.

and they're going to start monitoring employee keystrokes and mouse movements to train AI. good luck guys. save up aggressively now.

Online.

Just tried it and got the usual six fingers, and half a thumb. What are they actually iterating on with these models by now…

Just tried it and got six fingers and half a thumb on a simple portrait. Mickey Mouse stuff.

So intelligence has turned into a utility per Sam Altman et al., and now the same companies get to hike the price of accessing it by 20–30%, right as it’s becoming the backbone of how teams actually ship work. People are pushing out so much, so fast that last week’s output is already a blur. I’ve got colleagues who refuse to go back to writing any of this stuff by hand.

And now maintaining that pace means absorbing arbitrary price increases, shrugged off with “we were operating at a loss anyway.”

It stops being “pay to play” and starts looking more like pay just to stay in the ring, while enterprise players barely feel the hit and everyone else gets squeezed out.

Market maturing my butthole... it’s obviously a dependency being priced in real time. Tech is an utter shit show right now, compounded by the disaster of the unemployment market still reeling from the overhiring of 2020.

save up now and career pivot. pick up gardening.

tech industry suffering from a kind of zoocosis / stockholm syndrome perhaps.

Why wouldn't they.

It's pretty damn good, and it's seen a real exodus of conscientious users; the QuitGPT movement alone hit 1.5 million participants, with Claude skyrocketing to #1 on the App Store virtually overnight. No surprise the servers are getting hammered.

time to give your devops guy his job back.

enshitification at scale, propped up by noise/water-pollution datacenters the size of several football fields, but all we care about is the price of RAM. cheers!

> is extremely woke

yikes, I've heard enough.

A couple years ago I went to a county fair because someone said the pie judging was worth seeing. I’ve been to fairs before but never really watched the judging part. They had all the pies on this weird low table, like not quite a kid’s playset table but close, so people leaning in to look kept bumping it with their legs and thighs without noticing, and after a while one of the pies just slowly started sliding toward the edge every time the table got nudged until it eventually tipped off and landed upside down on the floor while the judges were busy debating crust integrity on another pie.

I picked it up and put it back and they still gave it third place.

Actually disagree. Based on the last 20 years of my experience in corporate America, “practical decision-making” was never part of the job at any level of leadership.

the company's values... such as?

it's shallow release theater at this point, trying to fake-spike engagement.