I really don’t think enough is being made of the fact that it’s a three supposedly do-nothing toothless scholarly organizations—the AHA, the MLA, and the ACLS— who are directly responsible for one of the clearest and most damning exposures of this administration’s stupidity and malfeasance.
Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out Of Touch With Her Generation https://theonion.com/cool-dad-raising-daughter-on-media-that-will-put-her-en-1819572981/
Remember guys, you can’t afford a gas rig, or a coal mine, or a nuclear power station, but you can afford to put some cheap solar panels on your roof.
That’s why the fossil fuel industry has spent billions trying to kill renewable energy.
The dealer needs to keep you addicted.
*looks at calendar full of unskippable meetings* lol oops.
Yeah, I guess you could say i'm a pretty impressive AI user!! I've got ten agents working on two projects every day which go into a folder on my computer called STUFF I MADE!! i never even have to open the folder, they do it automatically! my hard work is finally paying off with whatever's in there
People tell me that AI code is fine, because you can run automatic tests. But tests can only tell you if code is doing the thing you want it to do.
To know what it SHOULD do, we used to have requirements. But now requirements are themselves vibe-coded slopotypes.
The result: waste and risk.
"—more accurately called artificial artificial intelligence, as it simulates or attempts to present the impression of having interacted with an artificial intelligence rather than being an artificial intelligence itself—"
The Golden skill set has nothing to do with any specific technology, it is the ability to understand the flow of value and deliver something that solves the users’ problems. The further I get into my career the more I realize this is a rare skill set.
"Developers won't need to understand syntax anymore, just as long as they can <goes on to describe things that will require understanding of syntax>"
Vendors are desperately slapping AI labels onto their tools to keep the hype cycle going, but AI is absolutely not the end of DevOps.
An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar tools.
Software is not a commodity, although some are closer or farther.
To see why, imagine me forcing you to swap out your email client, or your IDE, or your spreadsheet or docs app, and tell me you won't care at all.
UX isn't fungible, even if you argue "features" are.
We are training undergrads (18-22) to digitize vcr tapes, cassettes, and vinyl. We introduce phrases like "rewind" into their vocab and made diagrams of what a tape looks like from 6 angles. And we get questions like "how do I rewind a record" which is understandable but turns my bones to dust.
Bear with me on this. What if owning stuff isn't a skill, and people shouldn't get paid for it?
I learn so much about business from The Apprentice.
You design a product following the direction of the loudest person in the room.
And then, after the product can't be changed, you do market research.
In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.
To echo the sentiments of G.K. Chesterton, fairy tales do not tell children that monsters exist — because they know that already. But rather more importantly, fairy tales tell them (and us) that the monster can be killed. And such stories must never ever go out of fashion.
The quest for fully autonomous "agentic" software development's increasingly starting to look like alchemy.
"If a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced it are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves"
Hallucinations compound:
1) A worker uses an LLM to generate a report.
2) A manager uses an LLM to extract insights from the report.
3) An exec uses an LLM to turn the insights into a memo.
4) Another manager uses an LLM to summarize the memo.
Each person human-washes the text for the next person.
Don’t worry if those result look questionable, I meta science analysed this study using PLS-SEM and found two major clusters: “people who think I’m right” and “a bunch of whiny losers”
So ✨ empirically ✨ I can conclude, therefore, definitively, with experimental evidence, that I am very smart
Experience has taught me that the busier a dev team looks, typically the less they're actually getting done.
Society: *sobbing* you can’t just make everyone a knowledge worker
Me: *points at anyone using metacognition and cognitive scaffolding* knowledge worker
not to say they are doing this on purpose but the ram shortage & price spike is certainly playing into the hands of people investing billions into tech aimed at first stealing and then selling every bit of information and knowledge ever created by mankind because they hate open source and open data
BREAKING: We reached a settlement that requires the Trump administration to permanently maintain medical research that had been erased on a government website.
The government doesn't get to censor science.
I’ve noticed that some teams have to “hit the bottom” and realize that what they’re doing is never going to work, and face that hopelessness, before they’re open to change. The whole thing has so many parallels with therapy. 😆
A government that actually understands computing technology would consider this an emergency
My life got so much better when I adopted this as my personal code.
