If you can’t tell the difference and it fits how you listen to music, I guess who cares?

AI software writing up musak doesn’t matter to me because I don’t listen to music that way.

I’ll know the bands I’m listening to are real because I will have manually downloaded their music after reading reviews, magazine articles, or things like albumoftheyear.org just like I’ve been doing for the last half decade.

Music streaming services suck and not only because they will promote low cost bands to you. If you actually give a shit about music then stop being so lazy as to have an algorithm fill your trough with slop and then being surprised that it’s AI slop.

Or just continue eating the slop if it pleases you. 🤷

It’s a bit of a contrarian take, but I think people need to start adding more intentionality to how they live their lives. If music is unimportant to you, that’s fine. But nowadays everyone just watches the shows they’re recommended, listens to the music that is picked out by the algorithm, and reads what is fed to them in their feeds…figure out what’s important to you and curate it for yourself.

It’s a fine idea, but it’d be best implemented as an escrow account used to leverage the federal government into following the law.

It’s great at bullshitting that it did what you wanted, even if it obviously didn’t, which I guess is what counts for results at Microsoft.

It would be much better if they treated it as the slightly better (yeah, I said it) auto complete that it is instead of the beginning of fucking sky net – which was supposed to be a bad thing anyway, remember?

But that wouldn’t move the needle on all of the share prices, so instead we have to pretend it can do people’s jobs when it fucking obviously cannot.

So, instead they keep pushing this AI (auto-complete insanity), and keep burning more and more cash. Imagine if we just put a portion of these billions (approaching trillions) into anything that could actually help anyone. Or don’t, because it’s pretty fucking depressing to think about.

But I’ve never had sympathy for engineers who think all the process around them is net negative, because nothings ever stopped engineers from striking out on their own, without all that, and making great businesses.

Not all process is pointless, but needless process by definition is. There are also a shit ton of things that stop engineers from “striking out on their own”.

If your PM and VPs are bringing you down, go it alone. If you can’t pull that together into a paycheck then maybe it’s not all as useless as some say.

The whole talk of “go[ing] it alone” kinda strikes me as “bootstrapping”, libertarian non-sense.

I don’t want to do marketing, sales, finance, legal, and product bullshit myself. That’s why I’m an employee.

Two things can be true at the same time, for instance, a company can have a lot of bloated, needless process that stifles people and still pull in enough money to be able to pay for their employees to live a life.

With the amount of market concentration there is in every sector as far as the eye can see, nearly every software-producing company has a cash cow of some sort, and then has a bunch of complete money losers that are subsidized by that cash cow.

So, it’s completely possible that the company overall fully sucks and hasn’t developed anything new of value to someone in decades, but the legacy business keeps the miserable employees from the bread line.

To return to the point, AI doesn’t solve any of this or even help with it.

I agree AI could easily take on the role of the biggest dork in the company, which is largely what the CEO is.

The problems in software still remain the same though:

(1) Bureaucracy

(2) Needless process

(3) Pointy headed managers

(4) Siloed teams

(5) Product people who have no idea what they want to build

(6) Shitty, poorly performing legacy code nobody wants to touch

Honestly, AI is just the latest thing that can boost your productivity at starting up some random app. But that was never the difficult part anyway.

Jordan Peterson would not approve…of the cleanliness of his living quarters.

(The rest of it he’d probably give a 👍)

Cost of living goes 📈 while the average salary goes 📉 in relative spending power.

Framework laptops are about as upgradable as you’re ever going to get. The 16 now even has a video card upgrade.

Break up with her

Umm, I kinda understand but still: ick.

If only I were born somewhere sane. 🙄

Too young at this point, but eventually I agree

Billie is the fucking shit

🎶 Peter Thiel knows about the anti-christ 🎶

No

Dude the switch 2 is $500. Having a general purpose computer that hooks just as easily to your TV as a gaming console for double that price is perfectly fine IMO.

Anything to distract from the Epstein files.

All the talk about Arnold Palmer’s dick size would suddenly make a lot more sense.

💯

Outside of some very, very expensive areas (where you aren’t required to live) six figures is still very adequate to live, especially if it’s got a little distance from 100k exactly.

This is what I’m thinking about daily. What change did you make?