we are fucked.
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@peter To paraphrase, "Intelligence was a ZIR phenomenon"
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#enshittification ouroboros : public relations version -
@peter “I will just go to a forest and meditate until this bubble pops” totally resonates right now.
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@peter I’m reminded of all of the crappy multi-million dollar iOS apps people built so some executive could brag that they were in the App Store, and then quietly dropped a few years later because nobody used them.
IIRC at Museums & the Web a decade ago a bunch of people shared stats informally and basically everyone saw <1% of their web activity because those apps started with “we need an app!” rather than “what can someone do that the web site doesn’t already do?”
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@peter “I will just go to a forest and meditate until this bubble pops” totally resonates right now.
@nycmonkey @peter bad news, the orange one just sold the forest
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@peter i'm doing just that - taking singing lessons and gardening
I refuse to be part of this mentally sick system
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@peter can confirm. Going through the same at $employer. Wild
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@peter #Alt4You
Screen capture image from reddit's BetterOffline forum with heading and body text.Heading: WTF is going on
Body text: I am the tech lead in my company and I am seeing PR reviews from my team members. Person A makes a PR and add AI slop description in the PR. Person B reviews the PR and all of the changes are AI generated out of which 90% don't make any sense. Person A responds back to these messages with AI with false confidence.
No one understands the codebase and how it works. Bugs and half assed features are popping off everywhere.
I am also forced by my managers to keep using AI for everything.
Where the hell are all of the humans and proper cognitive intelligence?
I will just go to a forest and meditate until this bubble pops.
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@peter my boss just mentioned giving ssh access to agents, and that in 9mo we'll be making AI PRs, AI reviews and AI merges.
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@peter I'm a consultant. The good news (for me at least) is that I'm constantly rejecting this nonsense, and being vocal and extremely critical of the AI slop that I see.
This has two effects.
It let's folks around me see that subject matter experts can see through the crap, and point out all the ways in which AI is tragically wrong about damn near everything.
It means I'll probably never be able to retire, as one of the few people left who has a deep understanding of the software I specialize in, PLUS all of the supporting software (database, storage mangement, OS, etc.)
The only advice I have for people is to keep learning everything you can, and curating a deep understanding of how everything you use works.
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