Seems like that’s most of the point. Quality software wasn’t really the point of the SaaS wave, the point was to control the target sector and put a choke point in everyone’s real business for software CEOs. LLMs are the same thing, but with software development itself being the thing controlled.

Of course it causes deskilling, that’s exactly the point. They’re trying to make everyone dependent upon their corporations to do any software development at all, and then they can control everything about how it gets done.

In a way, as a software developer myself, I feel like I was played for a fool for the last two decades. Software development was never about improving anyone’s life and always about controlling other people and companies, and extracting all of the profits for themselves. They paid us pretty well to do this because they had no choice. Now they do.

Yeah because the Polish government cannot possibly create a secure messaging app of their own.

You know before cryptography was a software feature it was a crucial part of statecraft. IMO there is nothing wrong with states building their own secure communication software. It has more precedent than “download a US app” — that may or may not have an NSA backdoor — does.

Maybe? If corporate structures made sense then sure, but they haven’t made sense my entire time in the industry and I doubt they’ll start making sense because of this.

Keep ass what though? /s

I’m going to have to just write my own one of these fucking things aren’t I?

We’ll see more initiatives organized end-to-end by small groups of smart people, with virtual teams/coalitions forming to bypass “archaic” processes and deliver meaningful results.

What you’re describing here has always been the case. The pattern in software is always that a small, actually empowered group does the initial development and r&d, then if the product is a success the maintenance people come in and drain it of any progress via overbearing process and middle management. There’s rare exceptions, but I’ve seen this over and over again.

Small teams build good things, then they get acquired and those things are slowly or quickly destroyed.

Eh I’m sure they kinda know beforehand, but everyone chooses themselves. There might be one or two free radicals in there, but most people are going to be afraid of career implications, legal problems, or both.

Just what everyone needs, the Internet of things wired into their brain. No problems with that ever. No sir. /s

How much mega corporations and the government give a fuck about people is becoming visceral these days.

Let’s be honest it already isn’t mine

Wow what a circlejerk this turned into.

Oh well, I guess that’s what everything really is the whole time.

Same

AI chatbots could dissect your children and we’d still keep them. We’re finished caring about anything but money and power.

I’d like to imagine a different world from this. One where anyone gives a shit about what happens to someone else. Maybe in the next life.

FPTP primaries can be implemented in most places without any need to win elections or hold seats first. Of course though the Democrats aren’t doing this already because then every one of their geriatric do nothings in blue areas would be replaced by mamdani-esque candidates.

Yeah no way his dick still works.

Hot take: they had no ability to code in the first place.

Goodhart’s Law states, “Once a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”

In this case, it wasn’t even a good measure to begin with and became a target because of the 💩 brained business idiots that run everything.

Now these companies are racing to see who can throw the most money into the fire to show that they’re the most zealous and deferential to the AI cultist management that have taken over all software companies.

Because they want you to be a fucking debt slave and die penniless.

(That’s why they’re bragging about how well credit card companies are doing right now.)

I tried to use it to make a simple drawing for an internal app logo the other day and wound up running out of tokens for the day trying to get it to put the rungs back into the ladder that it kept removing.

For many of its uses as well, training will have to continue forever. That doesn’t seem sustainable to me but hey it is 2026 and most people’s primary concern is still fossil fuel prices. So, 🤷. Who knows how long it could go on for?