Good catch, this could be a little piece of a much more credible larger body of water, we just can’t see the connection from this angle.

Yeah, this too, “Need someone very familiar with…” HR translates to “10+ years experience” without even a thought.

Pallative care suggests the thing is going to die. The stuff that is still mainframe or still DOS at this point is going to be that way to the end of time and is immortal.

Meh, I found that being good at competitive games felt more like work than fun. I play the fun way and get trounced before it could really get fun, so I switch to advance in leaderboards and maybe I could, but it just sucked because the fun stuff tended to be the less strategically wise way to go.

Even non-competitive gaming “hey, let’s all get together at 7 pm to do something on the game”, now I have “meetings” to worry about.

Single player is there when I want it, for however long or short as I want it, and can play in a fun style rather than an effective/efficient style.

Unless it’s Transformers, where every movie has Prime.

Though pre-DVR TV and especially a household too poor for cable the television was… a bit less continuously interesting. Having even a VCR was just amazing and that was a royal pain meaning you really had to pick and choose what to record. Most of the time you didn’t even have anything you wanted to watch that happened to be playing right then. Even when you did want to watch, good chance it is a rerun and you only half paid attention if you bothered at all.

The on-demand nature of it and the volume of it are really what makes it just constant.

Exactly, my generation grew up with the good brain rot, we all knew the same marketing jingles and all made our parents spend their money on the same toys the cartoons told us to get.

Which brings us to why Ford doesn’t want to do cars, because the standards give them a break if it is a “truck”.

Ugh, another one that I hate that I’m supposed to downvote… A truly fantastic game.

Hated downvoting Micro Mages, but rules are rules…

As the recepient of those responses, they are unwelcome. If I wanted an LLM response, I would ask the LLM myself.

If you want to have your interactions more concise, then you can steer things that way. Don’t meet unwelcome verbosity with more unwelcome verbosity.

Funny thing is that I have noticed for some folks deep in the LLM chat, conversationally they are a lot more obnoxiously verbose than they used to be.

Complication is, broadly speaking, much of the decision making only thinks to when their current bonus stock vests. So long term thinking is not well rewarded. If you think long term, then your short term thinking competitor screws you up long enough anyway.

I strongly suspect the next step is for a dramatic reduction in the compensation for software development. If it’s not really significantly any more profitable than another trade, then you won’t see as many people who seem to actively hate it trying to do it anyway.

Reminds me of a conversation I overhead, a guy trying to impress a girl with how much money he was going to get back in college. He was going into software development to make big money. Girl asks “but I thought you were majoring in communications, why do that if you want to do software?”. “Oh, well, I tried but I couldn’t understand the course work, so dropped it, figured I’d just get some degree, and then just get some certification and do software development for the money without the dumb coursework”. Basically since the late 90s we’ve had a flood of those types, and this phenomenon just exacerbates the problem.

To the extent they “suffer”, maybe some of them go from billionaire to merely hundreds of millions.

Provlem being is that it is not an equal amplifier.

Good engineer spends a morning going back and forth and maybe gets something done that wild have taken them all day.

Bad engineer puts first draft slop in production in a couple of minutes.

Bad engineer gets to put out something every few minutes, good engineer works too make it actually right instead of merely looking specifically right.

The front grill isn’t a problem for Ferrari design language. The 296 “grill” is mostly the haunches. An electric 296 would just flatten that out.

Similar story on drag, once you get rid of the mid engine air intake, drag would probably be within respectable drag for EV.

Questions would be about if they want a lot of battery range. This would screw up weight and ride height.

Even as we work with the whole AI ecosystem as best as possible, we are bombarded by people who think AI has made them way more competent. Management that has never done the technical work and still hasn’t telling us we must be doing it wrong if the AI isn’t perfect or if we use up too many tokens. Arguing with people who have an AI generated report of a misbehavior, the AI was incorrect but everyone says the AI should be right, so rather than let us debug the issue, they keep insisting we didn’t need that, just merge Claude’s changes because Claiude obviously knows more than us, look at that verbose writeup it made, that can’t just be wrong!

Project proposals that are someones bad idea and expecting a big bonus for a half baked idea vaguely realized by a single prompt. The same people that “had a great app idea” behalf recognized as terrible now can vaguely manifest their bad ideas. A demonstration that was full of incorrect results and failed to implement any security get praise for “looking impressive”.

The new ways have utility, but the environment based on how the most obnoxious people are using it is intolerable. These same people have always been there and always been a bit insufferable, but now they are slopping out like never before, and alignment with the hot thing gives them more authority than ever.

I totally understand bailing on this clusterfuck for those that can afford it.

I’ll say that it is only one thing.

So if I just sat around burning tokens without anyone seeming to have any idea what I actually do around here I’d be out. If I just did my job but didn’t appear to use tokens, management would ding me for being some luddite.

To show the juxtaposition of two stories in his feed

When the bubble bursts I’m guessing at least a couple of the companies Micron signed SCAs with will fold and Micron won’t get anything.

This is the key. The plan for a lot of these companies is that only two outcomes exist, unimaginable success where being gouged hardly matters or just utter failure and the obligations go away in bankruptcy.

Alternatively, they just break the SCA and maybe pay some penalty less than their obligation otherwise would have been. I have seen companies sign agreements knowing up front they will break the agreements, but the contract penalties still make business sense.

I’m still waiting to see what happens when OpenAI decides to back out of some of their purchasing obligations. It’s bound to happen, even if OpenAI does great. If folks think the tech sector is a bit wobbly the past few days, it pales in comparison to what such an announcement would do to the industry.