Guess I’ll need a new host for some of my recent repos. Oh well. Nothing that I haven’t dealt with for other reasons (with GitHub and Bitbucket).

I’m not sure if these tools will stick around, but if they do I’m not sure you’ll be able to find anyone that isn’t using them in a couple of years. I hate it but it does turn out that dropping a trillion dollars on automating writing software has yielded results.

Edit: Update: Moved my personal slopjects over to gitlab which is fully embracing the slop.

I get that some people are completely against LLM assisted coding. I’m still with you guys in spirit, but if these things stick around in their current quality (which is honestly a load bearing if) I just don’t see a way to continue working in the software industry and meeting expectations without using them.

The funnier one of these that I’ve done a handful of times is leaving the drive thru without purchasing anything.

I wanted breakfast or nothing, McDonald’s.

Well you see I’m a Virgo, and as a Virgo…

The analogy you picked really doesn’t match your point at the end, unless you somehow think astrology is nuanced (it isn’t, it’s bullshit).

It’s kinda insane to frame OpenAI as remotely equal to Apple with “two of the world’s biggest tech companies”.

This is kinda like how Tesla is a bigger company than other car companies combined by market cap but has a paltry market percentage and amount of cars sold.

Market caps and valuations run purely on vibes and have for some time now.

We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas

If only the founding fathers had written the right to bear apps shall not be infringed in an amendment.

Oh well can’t change the ancient text now, just have to be governed by it forever. 🤷 (It’s a shame the ancient powder-wigged wizards that wrote the constitution weren’t clairvoyant.)

please just make an android alternative

I want a phone that isn’t a closed ecosystem race to the bottom shit phone

All of that wannabe AGI horseshit is preventing these things from specialization and becoming more efficient and useful IMO.

In my recent usage of LLMs I’ve come to think of them as a type of eye-poppingly expensive, inefficient interpreter.

Losing a lot of the bullshit could make them efficient and inexpensive. To an extent, that’s what Anthropic has already been doing by making models that are mostly code focused.

Haha

Nobody deserves it more

Mark Cuckerberg

I switched to caveman on Claude Code. It cuts the token count; it’s the same output, and it appears to me to be faster as well.

My boss was talking about using AI agents for CI/CD processes. Like, I get using them to build CI/CD processes, but involving AI agents in the actual build process is ridiculously stupid. A representative from Microsoft specifically said in a training session to not use them that way so it’s obviously not only my stupid ass boss.

The computer did that auto layoff thing again!

Before he described the noise I was assuming he lived by a highway, because that’s exactly what it sounds like in the video.

Nah, I wrote that and this sober dude, just as I spend the vast majority of my waking time.

The point is that these very real problems have no solutions but somehow the only thing we can do in these threads is handwring and concern troll people coping with them.

There is lots of online encouragement to live a long, sober life in an unaffordable, polluted hellscape.

I’m not attached to a bottle, but having a beer at the end of a long day provides a lot more relief than podcast bro pseudoscientific bullshit about meditation and wellness which is the only alternative on offer. (Because we live in a country where everything is purposely broken and the only way sold to fix it is for each of us individually to be perfect.)

We have locked everything anyone needs to live a decent life behind a massive paywall, make a habit of eliminating any way besides debt to make it over the massive paywall, and then scientists do research on people’s coping mechanisms so that others can use that as a way to feel righteous condemning a stranger’s habits.

Notice how you didn’t spend a moment discussing where relief for any of the very real problems I mentioned is coming from because you likely know it isn’t.

Yep, it sucks. But it turns out there’s a non-stop drip of terrible fucking news, the planet continues to get hotter with more wildfires every year, my well-paying career in software might be soon over due to the advent of AI coding, I’m working for the worst company I have ever worked for and with one of the worst bosses I’ve ever seen, the president is getting shows critical of him cancelled in order to approve sales of all major media platforms to his fascist friends (and fail sons), the cost of everything is skyrocketing, social security looks likely to collapse before I can ever collect it, and there does not appear to be any relief in sight for any of this.

Maybe I don’t need to go old and healthy at 80+.

It’s obvious that drinking isn’t good for you, but it was just as obvious that smoking isn’t good for you and that didn’t keep my grandparents from doing it until it killed them — and nicotine barely gives you any buzz at all. We all gotta go some time.

Jesus fucking Christ is Vonnegut’s Player Piano actually becoming a thing?