Laurie

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AI today is literally not capable of replacing the senior engineers they are laying off. corps are in fact getting less done, but they're banking on making an example of enough people that survivors put their heads down and help them implement AI in exchange for keeping their jobs... for now.

GONNA BE GONNA BE GOLDEN

Recently heard about a company that requires its devs use AI every day at work in a semi-specific way.

The comical part? Its interviews require candidates don’t touch AI.

Indeed 😂

I did! Though we sat in Philly for an hour while tracks ahead were flooded

😂 this is absolutely a slack message I send/receive on the regular.

Hey person with historical knowledge, why did we do this?!

Today is a real life planes, trains and automobiles.

Gotta love a storm spanning the entire northeast on the day you (attempt) to return from a work trip.

In NYC and stumbled upon Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson filming on my way out of the office.

Was excited to tell my coworkers until I realized many of them do not know what Dawson’s Creek is 😅

The funny part of remote work is that any on site visit depletes my social battery in a way that is both sprint and marathon.

Lego Pixar lamp

Didn’t do a live build of this because there are so many fun hidden details I wanted to keep secret for folks who build it themselves.

Let the build begin!

Thanks for the heads up! I launched a very MVP new site and I’m sure it’s picking up all my old stuff anew.

Will have to take a look.

For the record, the law has always trailed behind technology.

But that is particularly bad in the area of patents and copyrights.

There is fascinating case law about whether code needs to be copied or if the Apple swipe UI is protected as a look and feel interaction.

The software

Anyone remember jurtle?

Woah!

Luxo Jr LEGO set

Happy birthday to me!

I like the demon boy band songs too much 😂 my soul is for sure already stolen

I was warned about th eKPop Demon Hunters ear worms but I was not prepared!

Oh absolutely. The memes already exist. The video is everywhere. A non-insignificant portion of the world now knows who these two are.

Man. The speed of the internet and the connection of modern day society really comes into focus when you realize that two cheaters on a Jumbotron at a concert will probably be recognizable as a meme for a durable period of time.

If prompt engineering makes it allows you to moonlight as a developer in codebases/spaces you don’t know well, do you know what that requires?

Ability to break down problems. Ability to define appropriate solutions.

UX dark patterns make me so annoyed.

Putting captchas in ads with loading page placements is absurd.

Anyone who posits that AI should make any impactful decisions, like healthcare insurance reviews, need only look at Nazi xAI to understand how that ends.

Apologies if you only follow me for technology. However, newsflash, technology is political.

I’m gonna make a website called shitAIcannotdo.com

It’ll start with FDA drug approvals!

Do not take the previous post to mean I’m not paying attention to what’s happening.

Take it to mean that one can only scream into the void for so long before they need to heavily distract themselves.

Fair warning! It is not yet mobile friendly!

Tada!

Very bare bones, but laurieontech.com is live as an Astro site 🥳

At least this gives me something up-to-date to surface content from again.