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@kgourlay@tech.lgbt @impermanen_@zirk.us remember July is winter down there so presumably not a large A/C drag on their grid. Still, anytime someone incentives making good choices, I'm all for it.

I'm sorry. I'm afraid we don't live in the society that can hear a good solution to an existential problem and think, "yes, let's spend more and work slower so that someone else can do this when we retire." Instead, the idea will, at best, be given quiet lip-service and ignored during the next 5 quarters of layoffs by which time the books will look good enough to hand the whole thing over to someone else.

@shanselman@hachyderm.io hey Scott, very good analysis and solution to a problem that might work well in a different society. In fact, that's the society I would prefer to live in. I would love to help the EiCs along, as I already try to do, but there are very few in our society. I know you are the academics in this discussion but we have to address the real-world problem that the EiCs face. It's not the lack of support from the experienced, it's the lack of support from employers.

[Please note, I don't think I'm the kind of person who usually walks in and shits on everyone else's fun. I just feel really strongly that as good as your ideas are, they have to be sold to a small number of people who likely don't care about the problem you are trying to solve. I think you have to add a crazy amount of economic result for the powers to take it seriously. Without their buy-in, ... well, I've got to tell the AI to hit the backlog now, there's no one below me to do it.]

@MarkHoltom Sam Obisanya?

Our bosses tell us they would love to hire more help, but they don't have the money. They want us to use AI *instead* of hiring less efficient EiCs and mentoring them. Mentoring may be a requirement for long-term success and stability but the Venture and Equity owners of just about everything are not concerned about anything long-term. Make it big and brash so that some other poor slob or maybe wallst will buy the company and then if the products die, fine. Get us to IPO or sale, and no further

@kbsez @mdiluz I think I've given up on that battle. "AI" is such a mainstream, catch-all term that don't expect it has any proper meaning anymore. I still agree with calling LLMs what they are, but I also have to recognize that language is fluid and has passed by the accuracy point here.

@mariyadelano try this: You don't have to boycott everything, but the more you cut out, the better. And it doesn't all have to be right away. Start small, hit a local shop instead of Target, whatever it takes. https://psychopete1.substack.com/p/psycho-petes-printable-boycott-list

@rmblaber1956 @mdiluz not sure if that was Turing's plan though. I assume that he was thinking about an honest comparison and not that the deceit was part of the algorithm.

@albinokid@nerdculture.de 😿💔

Sure, a small company without the VC/PE overlords could build infrastructure to support the future of Software Engineering but they would be smashed, stolen, or bought out long before they could be helpful. I weirdly long for the days before automated trading (that I cut my teeth on) and back to the before times, when you invested in a company for more that a few hundred microseconds.

When the requirements were for solid return, rather than constant growth, and the owners at least appeared to care about customers. We live in a society that gets stuck every few Tuesdays because of a vibe coding aesthetic that allows big companies to rush updates and not test for the wide swath they take up in the landscape.

@mdiluz https://bsky.app/profile/kdacar.com/post/3lvoke5hbks2k AI is not giving advice.

@ignaloidas@not.acu.lt @wolf480pl@mstdn.io @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange Lets go back to > 1 second, just as a try...