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Artificial intelligence is a marketing problem masquerading as a technology problem.
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tbh this sounds like most programmers I know, at least the midwestern middle class ones. They show up for work, do their job, and go home to families and hobbies, not pet projects and philosophizing. So even though it seems like they're in tech they're definitely not in the scene.
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Artificial intelligence is the pinnacle of high modernism. Can the two be untangled?
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Tech workers will establish guilds in our lifetime. Plenty of firms in the midwest already have apprenticeship programs. All we need is journeyman cards and master craftsman certificates.
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Always remember: sentimentality comes at a cost
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fuck it I'm going to work for McKinsey. Who wants to hold my money bags?
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The nerds really dropped the ball when it comes to promotion tracks. Trying to plot out career trajectory in tech is a crapshoot when there are no industry standards for organizational hierarchy.
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The worst part about NVC is that it’s in your face. It asks “How are you feeling coming into this conversation?” instead of reading the vibes. You ask me that question and the armor goes on because I know if I’m for something testy.
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Finding it harder and harder to remain nonviolent when nonviolent communication is used against me
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Man it's a tiger, that's the whole point. You can never turn your back on it. The very attributes that make a computer capable of appearing friendly are the same ones that will turn on you in an instance. These aren't innocent bean counters anymore.
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That's like saying a rabid tiger isn't an enemy, or that a suicide bomber isn't an enemy. The point isn't that they are an opposing force, but that they have capacity to do great damage and are untethered from conventional mores.
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What is your take on terrorists and other malevolent people? They're sentient. But they're also evil, and you have to have a spine to stand up to them.
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Why doesn't Google take an anti-AI stance?
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the utopians are really silly trying to do civics like tech start-ups. all you need is a reasonably walkable place and the willingness to be a decent neighbor. blockchains and other computer networks not required.
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People are trying to build seaside network state utopias, meanwhile I live in peace alongside tradcath megafamilies and lesbian polycules in Kentucky.
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Potentially on the order of millions of hours, but in the grand scheme of things Figma has saved much, much more time. Still keeping my fingers crossed for a self-contained desktop app though 🤞
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Pour one out for the poor Figma engineer who went to lunch only to get called back in to fix the Styles microservice.
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What do you do to cope on days when you are particularly irritable?
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Not in my experience. Every vendor and open source project has different standards so it’s never as easy as “just changing the API call”. And usually any switch comes with some desired change in functionality, what JAMstack ppl say is a one day plumbing project is often a quarter-long renovation.
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People like that, in theory, everything is hot swappable. If one service doesn’t work or shuts down you just plug in something else. I’ve seen a number of RFPs lately where client wants to remove dependencies on big platforms, thinking they’re de-risking.
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