We’ll see more initiatives organized end-to-end by small groups of smart people, with virtual teams/coalitions forming to bypass “archaic” processes and deliver meaningful results.

What you’re describing here has always been the case. The pattern in software is always that a small, actually empowered group does the initial development and r&d, then if the product is a success the maintenance people come in and drain it of any progress via overbearing process and middle management. There’s rare exceptions, but I’ve seen this over and over again.

Small teams build good things, then they get acquired and those things are slowly or quickly destroyed.

Eh I’m sure they kinda know beforehand, but everyone chooses themselves. There might be one or two free radicals in there, but most people are going to be afraid of career implications, legal problems, or both.

Just what everyone needs, the Internet of things wired into their brain. No problems with that ever. No sir. /s

How much mega corporations and the government give a fuck about people is becoming visceral these days.

Let’s be honest it already isn’t mine

SLAM DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH LET THE BOYS BE BOYS

Wow what a circlejerk this turned into.

Oh well, I guess that’s what everything really is the whole time.

AI chatbots could dissect your children and we’d still keep them. We’re finished caring about anything but money and power.

I’d like to imagine a different world from this. One where anyone gives a shit about what happens to someone else. Maybe in the next life.

Hot take: they had no ability to code in the first place.

Goodhart’s Law states, “Once a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”

In this case, it wasn’t even a good measure to begin with and became a target because of the 💩 brained business idiots that run everything.

Now these companies are racing to see who can throw the most money into the fire to show that they’re the most zealous and deferential to the AI cultist management that have taken over all software companies.

Because they want you to be a fucking debt slave and die penniless.

(That’s why they’re bragging about how well credit card companies are doing right now.)

It shows

I tried to use it to make a simple drawing for an internal app logo the other day and wound up running out of tokens for the day trying to get it to put the rungs back into the ladder that it kept removing.

The propaganda machine includes this very article. It’s already been going since her first primary run, and it will continue churning the propaganda against her out.

For many of its uses as well, training will have to continue forever. That doesn’t seem sustainable to me but hey it is 2026 and most people’s primary concern is still fossil fuel prices. So, 🤷. Who knows how long it could go on for?

At my job it seemed like they might attempt this, but I think they realized there’s no way to extract as much labor out of people if you have them come into an office.

Practically speaking, when you work from an office you leave your work there. When you work from home, there’s 12 or 18 hour shifts with no bio — or other — breaks.

THANKS BUSH FOR THE END OF OVERTIME. /s

This thing popped up on my Android Auto the other day in the middle of a drive and I cursed at it because I was trying to get directions and then it kept responding “I don’t respond to hostile language”. Fucking annoying.

Leaving it up to the democratic president that follows to implement the dumbass plan despite it being obviously stupid, and face the fallout from the bad decisions allowing another maga president immediately afterwards. (Like Biden with the Afghanistan withdrawal.)

I’ve had Motorola phones for my past three or four phones. Latest one I’ve bought is the 2023 razr. They were a bit of an also ran kind of phone for many of those, but it’s definitely worth pointing out that their phones were basically always unlocked, and that they have remained an excellent value in comparison to shit companies that eat penis for a living like horrible ass Samsung.

When my Motorola phone had some problem, I was always able to pick up a new, unlocked one for around a hundred bucks.

IMO, Motorola continued doing what Google Nexus was doing at the exact same time that Google discontinued the Nexus line and started the Google Pixel line to try to emulate Apple and/or Samsung.

It’s treasonous to say that all of my sharts are not liquid gold!!!