Partner had a do-nothing, AI-pilled manager that would only suggest "AI said do this!" At best incomprehensible, sometimes illegal.
Well, he got laid off. Proving once again the best way to have AI replace your job is to use AI to do your job.
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greetings traveler
hello hacker
All this criti-hype of "the AI product we build will kill us all!"
Tell you what. Give me unfettered access to all assets in your company with a single button I can push to destroy everything and transfer all your funds to me. If you're so afraid you're a threat to humanity, I'll prevent any destruction.
(spoiler: I'd smash that button the precise moment it was hooked up and give away all money to everyone)
TED Talk:
"Imagine a printer."
"That works."
crowd: *goes fucking insane*
"Look at this ugly, complex code base. Let's rewrite it and make it clean!"
*rediscovers all of the needed corner cases, causing code base to be ugly and complex*
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@socketwench I read someone's criticism of atom/RSS was "but I can't do analytics on my viewers!"
like, yeah
I'm thinking `xioctl` is some Aztec demon, but no I'm just handling video frame capturing
Registration is open for @pluralistic@mamot.fr talking at the Hudson, Ohio library
https://engagedpatrons.org/EventsExtended.cfm?SiteID=3850&EventID=596952&PK=
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going to troll r/EDC by posting the same boring watch, phone, wallet every single day
reading cyberpunk stories about stuff like "hot RAM"
me in 2020: lol how can computer parts be illegal
me in 2026 when memory and storage is no longer sold to consumers and it might be illegal to own a computer that doesn't send your personal info to the government, when I find computer parts from the last time I built one: oh shit I need to hold on to these
whelp, tried to develop custom firmware for the Echo Mini.
I have a tiny brick now. so I guess that's one project I no longer have to do.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
We were promised a cooler dystopia.
I don't trust my computer to even copy files correctly, you're damn right I wouldn't trust a non-deterministic word-guessing program to not fuck up everything.
Is it even a serious vulnerability if it doesn't have it's own logo and website?
@Wrewdison@masto.hackers.town Thanks. It was bound to happen at some point.
I'm guessing these cheap things aren't as robust. Usually as long as I don't burn the wrong security keys I can recover from anything.
"Why is the new Cleveland WNBA team the Sirens, they aren't on an ocean!"
yeah well Cleveland also doesn't have any 17th-century English Royalist supporters of King Charles I, but you don't complain our men's team are the Cavaliers
keep those #BandcampFriday recommendations coming
It is Friday, fellow travelers, so took dogs on a hike, now crackin a cold one outside and reading The Odyssey which everyone is talking about. I see why it's good!
I feel like everywhere has a regional dish that other people that traveled there are like
"you HAVE to try this unappetizing sounding thing"
"is it good?"
"lol no. absolutely not"
well, I almost use the word "incite" instead of "insight" in this work colleague review
I can't help but keep typing it as "devlops"
"generative A.I democratizes creating art/coding/etc"
no, it democratizes stealing labor
@socketwench@masto.hackers.town @lambdacalculus@masto.hackers.town its what I use on my home server, works great for me
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