It’s the space race all over again!

I remember seeing JP on YT when he wasn’t really that famous yet, arguing against that Canadian law about not using the correct pronoun for someone being a criminal offense when regular swear words aren’t and I thought okay, that’s reasonable I guess, inconsistencies are bad. Let’s see what else he has.

And then came the lectures about natural hierarchies or something and some other things where I went okaaay, I guess I don’t have the full context of his lectures. Suspense of disbelief and such.

But three videos in and it was clear. Glad I got off that train before it left.

Oh hey, the Jordan Peterson experience!

Don’t worry, you can use AI on anything that can access the internet! No need to ever have personal (let alone private) thoughts - I’m sorry, data - again.

MS has been trying to get you to give up your personal computer for years. Do everything in the cloud, please! Even gaming with Stadia! And now they’re getting their wish. All it took was running the entire global economy.

This bubble is going to become the entire market, isn’t it. Until it becomes too big to fail because 80% of the workforce is tied up in it. Then it is allowed to pop, costing the western world everything, all going into the pockets of the super rich, and we get to start over.

Minecraft server. Then Pufferpanel, then modding. Tons to learn.

Put it in a VM for him and take snapshots for easy recovery.

Abstraction layers? In MY messy pile of spaghetti ass code!?

Pfft, customers. Can’t live with them, can’t live without them, amirite?

Yes, but also the opposite. Don’t discount a valid point just because it was formulated using an LLM.

Maybe they’ll listen to one of their own?

Also, even if we make it through a wave of bullshit and all these companies fail in 10 years, the next wave will be ready and waiting, spouting the same crap - until it’s actually true (or close enough to be bearable financially). We can’t wait any longer to get this shit under control.

But my highly complicated git UI will let me do the same thing with 100 clicks and without understanding what I’m doing!

First it was ignorantly stupid, now it’ll be purposefully misleading towards ads. Who could have seen that coming?

Where’s the end of work life as we know it that we were promised?

There needs to be laws like yesterday that force tools to disclose if responses are influenced by ads.

Also skipping them, please.

My last day is Friday. :)

I’ve tried my best during the last seven years to make a change, both by lobbying upper management and introducing change in my team. Nothing stuck, nobody besides my team mates cared. So I hope it’s not really anonymous. I’m clinging to the illusion they’ll somehow take it to heart now that it’s public, for the betterment of the team mates I leave behind.

I don’t think 3.7 stars accurately describes my experience in that company, yes. But that means that the meaning I gave to what 3.7 stars feels like is not what the company feels like, mostly because my ‘lowest’ would be 0 stars. In my world, 2.5 stars is 50% - but crucially it’s not, 3 stars is 50%. That’s why I have to recalibrate my feelings of the star system.

Hate it. Gave my employer a bad review, 1-2 stars in most categories, and the average was still a 3.7?? I have to adjust my intuition when reading star reviews. Apparently 3.5 is bottom of the barrel.

Plus those 70$ games invest so much of that $ in fucking you with DRM.

There’s always a category “necessary”, so the preference cookie just falls in that.