Like every well-adjusted middle-aged man, I’ve taken a recent interest in Warhammer 40k. There’s something about painting dystopian nightmares that is ever so soothing. And while it’s not a cheap hobby the price is much less than a mid-life crisis car. Much to the joy of my wife. My faction of choice is the Adeptus Mechanicus. I find it hilarious to mix technology and science with a cult like fervor. Working complex machines with the disciplines of a hardcore religion. Memorizing rituals to work machines. Burning incense to appease the machine spirit. Speaking a special language that lets them interface with the machines faster. Their depiction has changed throughout the years where they’ve been either the top scientists or they’re a cargo cult that doesn’t actually understand what they’re doing, they just pray and follow dogma and hope the machine does whats intended.

Long time lurker, first time poster. Don’t know what it’s been with my job but spurred this rant.

  • footprint@lemmy.world
    25·
    2 days ago

    The pitch is, for those that have never coded it’s a gateway into a skill they never wanted to learn

    I’m simply whelmed by it

    You never hear someone ask “how can a socket wrench help us with this problem”, why do we do it with LLMs?

    Spitting bars.

    I’m working as a TLM for a company that’s only recently become AI maximalist… I see myself in your writing 🫠

    • moto@programming.devOP
      13·
      2 days ago

      Thanks! It’s both reassuring and sad that I’m not the only one going through this at work. Shit’s crazy right now.

      • Gaetano@programming.devEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        Thanks for writing it. I’ve needed to read someone who has had similar experiences and observations. This delivered.