I have to return to my home planet.
December 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I have to return to my home planet.
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As we near the new year I'm still on the look out for a new position and I'd really appreciate anyone's help or reference for any QA Automation positions you know of. I've hit the point where I've run out of unemployment benefits and also it would be great just to have some work to do!
December 29, 2025 at 9:59 PM
As we near the new year I'm still on the look out for a new position and I'd really appreciate anyone's help or reference for any QA Automation positions you know of. I've hit the point where I've run out of unemployment benefits and also it would be great just to have some work to do!
Obviously people enjoy all kinds of things for all kinds of reasons, but nothing makes me feel like an alien quite like hearing programmers say they have a blast working with LLM coding tools. I find it miserable, and it’s hard for me to imagine a mind that liked 2021-ass programming and also LLMs.
December 29, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Obviously people enjoy all kinds of things for all kinds of reasons, but nothing makes me feel like an alien quite like hearing programmers say they have a blast working with LLM coding tools. I find it miserable, and it’s hard for me to imagine a mind that liked 2021-ass programming and also LLMs.
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Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its…
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December 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.
Been thinking a lot about how I want to move forward in 2026. In 2025, I spent a huge amount of time borderline incapacitated by fury. There was a lot to be furious about, and it was the correct emotional response. However I let it lock me up instead of driving me to action.
December 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Been thinking a lot about how I want to move forward in 2026. In 2025, I spent a huge amount of time borderline incapacitated by fury. There was a lot to be furious about, and it was the correct emotional response. However I let it lock me up instead of driving me to action.
Oh hey you're welcome, I democratized an activity, by which I mean I took something that anyone with a computer and a little curiosity could already learn to do and am charging a subscription to a centralized service for it.
December 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Oh hey you're welcome, I democratized an activity, by which I mean I took something that anyone with a computer and a little curiosity could already learn to do and am charging a subscription to a centralized service for it.
Hey y'all sorry for using one of my monkey paw wishes on getting people to write longer READMEs, that's my bad.
December 24, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Hey y'all sorry for using one of my monkey paw wishes on getting people to write longer READMEs, that's my bad.
Just finished this and it was great the whole way through! Highly recommend Complete CSS by @bell.bz for anybody who is fair-to-decent at CSS but wants to step it up to a truly professional level. Excited to try out these ideas in the context of my own projects soon. piccalil.li/complete-css/
December 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Just finished this and it was great the whole way through! Highly recommend Complete CSS by @bell.bz for anybody who is fair-to-decent at CSS but wants to step it up to a truly professional level. Excited to try out these ideas in the context of my own projects soon. piccalil.li/complete-css/
Read the whole thread. On top of this, at least for now, the programmers deskilling themselves in this way are offloading the duty of paying attention to whoever gets stuck with the code review and maintenance, meanwhile collecting the kudos from management for "being so productive with AI".
It's funny that everyone who has *ever* programmed, knows how important attention to detail is. Hours wasted because you made a typo, forgot to add a character, etc.
The tiniest thing you literally don't notice is wrong, and your program screams at you and dies.
This is a universal experience.
The tiniest thing you literally don't notice is wrong, and your program screams at you and dies.
This is a universal experience.
December 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Read the whole thread. On top of this, at least for now, the programmers deskilling themselves in this way are offloading the duty of paying attention to whoever gets stuck with the code review and maintenance, meanwhile collecting the kudos from management for "being so productive with AI".
As of late December 2025:
- count of programmers whose skills I respect saying LLMs are a big boost for them: ~10 (a notable increase)
- count of demos I've seen where using the LLM was clearly faster than fluent use of POSIX + 1990s-era IDE features: 1 (and not for lack of searching)
- count of programmers whose skills I respect saying LLMs are a big boost for them: ~10 (a notable increase)
- count of demos I've seen where using the LLM was clearly faster than fluent use of POSIX + 1990s-era IDE features: 1 (and not for lack of searching)
December 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
As of late December 2025:
- count of programmers whose skills I respect saying LLMs are a big boost for them: ~10 (a notable increase)
- count of demos I've seen where using the LLM was clearly faster than fluent use of POSIX + 1990s-era IDE features: 1 (and not for lack of searching)
- count of programmers whose skills I respect saying LLMs are a big boost for them: ~10 (a notable increase)
- count of demos I've seen where using the LLM was clearly faster than fluent use of POSIX + 1990s-era IDE features: 1 (and not for lack of searching)
I always knew that software developers were the dumbest motherfuckers on planet earth when it comes to class consciousness, but I did not realize the true depths of that dumb motherfuckitude until this year. Truly astounding.
December 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I always knew that software developers were the dumbest motherfuckers on planet earth when it comes to class consciousness, but I did not realize the true depths of that dumb motherfuckitude until this year. Truly astounding.
The whole deal with "rubber duck debugging" is that the duck *does not talk back*, so definitionally you can't use an LLM as a rubber duck. This isn't even a comment about whether or not I think it's good to talk through ideas with LLMs, I'm just Once Again Cranky About Vocabulary.
December 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The whole deal with "rubber duck debugging" is that the duck *does not talk back*, so definitionally you can't use an LLM as a rubber duck. This isn't even a comment about whether or not I think it's good to talk through ideas with LLMs, I'm just Once Again Cranky About Vocabulary.
I've said it before and it's never been more true: software engineering should be a licensed profession and I should be the one who decides if you get a license or not. Retesting for renewal every 5 years. Capped at 450,000 total licenses globally.
December 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I've said it before and it's never been more true: software engineering should be a licensed profession and I should be the one who decides if you get a license or not. Retesting for renewal every 5 years. Capped at 450,000 total licenses globally.
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December 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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I need to start preparing my remarks now for the inevitable moment when someone shows me their Figma Make output if I don't want to get fired.
December 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I need to start preparing my remarks now for the inevitable moment when someone shows me their Figma Make output if I don't want to get fired.
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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the conversation we *should* be having with every business/institution leveraging AI to screw labor is: where's MY discount, now that you're cutting costs?
why isn't tuition coming down? why aren't products cheaper? video games? movies? doctors? lawyers?
push HARD on this, relentlessly!
why isn't tuition coming down? why aren't products cheaper? video games? movies? doctors? lawyers?
push HARD on this, relentlessly!
The Information newsletter: Can UCLA Replace Teaching Assistants with AI?
no but they're gonna anyway
what your tuition buys
no but they're gonna anyway
what your tuition buys
![Miller’s team also recently used software from startup StackAI to develop an AI-powered app that writes letters of recommendation, saving faculty members time. Faculty type basic details about a student who has requested a letter, such as their grades and accomplishments, and the app writes a draft of the full letter.
AI is “one of those things that you might worry could dehumanize the process of writing recommendation letters, but faculty also say that process [of manually writing the letters] is very labor intensive,” Miller said. “So far they’ve gotten a lot out of” the new app.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2aiipqemoobrrilfx4jbm6pb/bafkreidwkhezhxghoctd5kb7nbbqqkhfhylpmnfbyjtycjtuagzi5dodqu@jpeg)
December 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
the conversation we *should* be having with every business/institution leveraging AI to screw labor is: where's MY discount, now that you're cutting costs?
why isn't tuition coming down? why aren't products cheaper? video games? movies? doctors? lawyers?
push HARD on this, relentlessly!
why isn't tuition coming down? why aren't products cheaper? video games? movies? doctors? lawyers?
push HARD on this, relentlessly!
Good point both within the context of the thread and also in general: we're well into the "why not both?" phase of malice vs stupidity attribution.
Reading the guy's intro, sense has long left the building. But it's AI, so I have no problem presuming malice *and* stupidity.
December 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Good point both within the context of the thread and also in general: we're well into the "why not both?" phase of malice vs stupidity attribution.
There are two kinds of busy people:
- busy people, who are busy because there is just a lot on their plate right now
- Busy People, who are by their nature Busy, and will become Busy even in the absence of many meaningful tasks to do
The second kind is my mortal enemy.
- busy people, who are busy because there is just a lot on their plate right now
- Busy People, who are by their nature Busy, and will become Busy even in the absence of many meaningful tasks to do
The second kind is my mortal enemy.
December 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
There are two kinds of busy people:
- busy people, who are busy because there is just a lot on their plate right now
- Busy People, who are by their nature Busy, and will become Busy even in the absence of many meaningful tasks to do
The second kind is my mortal enemy.
- busy people, who are busy because there is just a lot on their plate right now
- Busy People, who are by their nature Busy, and will become Busy even in the absence of many meaningful tasks to do
The second kind is my mortal enemy.
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America has deindustrialized so much they can't even manufacture consent
I still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war -- that's been a slippery slope for decades -- but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.
December 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
America has deindustrialized so much they can't even manufacture consent
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“try water fox or ice weasel” try chill penguin. install flame mammoth. you just download bubble crab. literally just use boomer kuwanger. sting chameleon has a search bar, use it to find toxic seahorse.
I asked what I should use instead of firefox and someone said “floorp” and I legitimately thought it was a bit for like five minutes. tech has gone beyond making the torment nexus real to making poob real.
December 17, 2025 at 3:37 AM
“try water fox or ice weasel” try chill penguin. install flame mammoth. you just download bubble crab. literally just use boomer kuwanger. sting chameleon has a search bar, use it to find toxic seahorse.
My favorite part of every behind-the-scenes restaurant video is when the Truffle Dealer comes by because every single one of those guys looks shady as fuck and like you could not waterboard the location of where they got these truffles out of them.
December 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
My favorite part of every behind-the-scenes restaurant video is when the Truffle Dealer comes by because every single one of those guys looks shady as fuck and like you could not waterboard the location of where they got these truffles out of them.
"we just use AI for ideation and prototyping, none of the generated content actually ships" you're lying. anyone who says this is lying.
December 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"we just use AI for ideation and prototyping, none of the generated content actually ships" you're lying. anyone who says this is lying.
Not gonna link to Vox but that "we're running out of ideas so we need AI to make ideas for us" article is giving me the worst case of secondhand embarrassment I've ever felt. Kinda telling on yourself there, eh, bud?
December 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Not gonna link to Vox but that "we're running out of ideas so we need AI to make ideas for us" article is giving me the worst case of secondhand embarrassment I've ever felt. Kinda telling on yourself there, eh, bud?
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The paradox of our times: everybody in software talks about how “AI” ramps up productivity by an order of magnitude
Meanwhile the software I follow, the platforms I keep track of, and the releases I follow keep the same pace as before except buggier, less usable, and more prone to catastrophe
Meanwhile the software I follow, the platforms I keep track of, and the releases I follow keep the same pace as before except buggier, less usable, and more prone to catastrophe
December 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The paradox of our times: everybody in software talks about how “AI” ramps up productivity by an order of magnitude
Meanwhile the software I follow, the platforms I keep track of, and the releases I follow keep the same pace as before except buggier, less usable, and more prone to catastrophe
Meanwhile the software I follow, the platforms I keep track of, and the releases I follow keep the same pace as before except buggier, less usable, and more prone to catastrophe