mastodon 4.7.2Militant vegan, cat dad. Professionally I am a build engineer and an expert in Extremely Large (Gradle) Builds. Personally I'm an unrepentant AI Hater and trying to make my way in the world. Climate change is here and I'm trying to figure out how to live with that.
I'm getting more contributions to my primary OSS project than I ever used to, and despite a clear no-LLM policy I feel pretty confident some of these contributions are laundered LLM-generated code. And the most distressing thing is the lying. Why do you feel a need to contribute to a project you don't understand? Just stop.
engineers should care about the holistic nature of systems, which includes but is not limited to the energy and carbon costs of using software
if you don't, you're not an engineer, you're just a sparkling asshole
"ai skills" are just docs written in response to someone saying "ELI5." That's it.
Kotlin updates are a fucking nightmare
I keep getting emails about musicals in Slokie, Illinois. I live in Seattle. What is happening
I get most of my news from an actual daily paper, which is, frankly, often a day late. So the news is usually two days out of date. This has materially improved my quality of life
The only exception to this is literally anything about how much AI sucks; Mastodon provides that almost faster than it can be produced
I started writing this because I thought it was funny, and then I realized I had to admit that the relentless negativity here is probably materially worsening my quality of life
watching Microsoft sully a space mission, it is a truly embarrassing moment to be a software engineer
they want you to be an interchangeable widget
https://autonomousapps.com/blog/business-geniuses-and-bus-factors/post/
until recently, I didn't expect the robot apocalypse to look this dumb. we need a remake of Terminator that is basically people eating poison because OpenAI said it was good for you
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/30/government-map-mislabels-african-countries
@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social jfc
Federal investigators in Guam believed the devices held evidence that would help prove individuals handling the island’s Covid unemployment assistance program were part of a plot to steal funds.
the only thing that would bring me hope at this point is every member of the US administration hanging from a noose (this is what everyone means when they say they want a Nuremberg style situation for the US when this is all over, if it ever is)
I really wish I could stop my brain from screaming "for a moment! it means 'for a moment'!" whenever someone uses momentarily incorrectly. It doesn't matter. Nothing matters, shut up brain
In what world does it literally take 10 days to remove someone from an email subscription list *they didn't sign up for*
@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com
They reduced dependence on others
Why is this seen as a positive? (rhetorical)
you know that tech interviews are pretty silly because they'll hire contractors without making them jump through leetcode hoops
a "keystone species" in why the US sucks so much is the utter lack of seriousness with which we treat domestic violence. Fix that, and a lot of other things get a LOT better immediately