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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
Talk with PM went nowhere. Very nice guy, but was insistent on giving the reviewer the benefit of the doubt. I just wanna die.
oof, Iām sorry. itās so hard to get capitalists to understand the nature of what theyāre enabling, especially if it seems to be working in the short term. itās the most frustrating thing during a bubble ā it taints every decision the executive class makes, and enables grifters to get away with obvious shit even over objections from people who know better.
That fucking sucks, esp as you put a lot of time into it.
oof :x
whatās the next step on that?
Ugh, from me as well: sorry to hear that.
I can relate to how you feel about the AI stuff. I also work for GenAI-pilled upper management, and the forced introduction of github copilot is coming soon. It will make us all super extra productive! ā¦they say. Dreading it already. I wonāt use it at all, Iāve already made that clear to my superior. But my colleagues might use it, and then I will have to review the AI slopā¦ uggghhā¦
Maybe a small silver lining to raise the mood here, recent article from Monday: Gartner sounds alarm on AI cost, data challenges
If even freaking Gartner is now saying āwell, maybe AI is too expensive and not actually so usefulāā¦ then maybe the world of management will wisen up as well, soon, hopefully, maybe?
an idea I just had (which would need some work but talking hypothetical): wouldnāt it be lovely if
IDEsVS Code[0] automatically inserted āCopilot Used Hereā start/end markers around all generated shit. could even make it a styleguide/editorconfig so itās universally set across projects[1][0] - because lol ofc itās mainly vscode rn
[1] - and then when you find colleagues who lie about whether theyāre using it you wrap all their desk shit in foil
I like the idea. Or maybe marking such changes in the commit messageā¦ I might try to bring that up when the time comes.
in the current most-typical mode of engagement, commit messages are too disconnected from the actual contents. it requires someone who gives a shit to go looking
conversely, what I mean is something like āa hook that guarantees that the moment the plugin is engaged and output from it is scribed in source, metadata about that event is simultaneously co-writtenā
itās already generating a pile of other things, it may as well generate timestamps and callsig and callhash and shit tooā¦
the number one problem with this, of course, is that itās going to be extremely unpopular with a Vocal Set Of People who rely on this shit to make themselves look good
Iām really sorry. I know how frustrating all of this bullshit is. Here for you. <3