“This leash demeans us both”

thicc (derogatory)

Jesus… more like sun scream, amirite?

Wait, are you seriously asking?

Money. The answer is shitloads of money.

financial motivation desperation

I worked in a traditional office environment for the full decade before the pandemic, and I was constantly being distracted by “undisciplined” people. There was always someone having a loud conversation in a quiet workspace or coming to my cubical to interrupt me with pointless bullshit.

Going full remote has finally isolated me from the lack of discipline in office environments.

But also people who can work remotely would always have situations where they’d prefer not to.

[citation needed]

If you look at his record, Massie is basically just a baby Rand Paul. Once Paul eventually retires, I fully expect Massie to run for (and win) his Kentucky Senate seat.

Hear hear.

I never really had any interest in “personal projects” until AI came along. Not because AI finally gave me the tools to work on those projects, but because it completely changed my perspective on the craft of writing code and made me appreciate the value in actually creating things by myself, for myself.

If you’re someone who cares at all about the quality and consistency of your craft, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with manually writing code.

If you’re a misanthropic “techno-feudalist” who thinks of code as nothing more than an asset to sell, then pumping out as much code as quickly as possible without any human intervention is a very attractive proposition.

Tech, sadly, is absolutely infested with these people at all levels.

It says “ai generated” right below the image.

Their “European” stack also includes Anthropic, so… not a lot of conviction behind this switch, apparently.

Preach.

The AI “revolution” is the thing that finally killed my imposter syndrome as a software engineer. Not because I can write better code than AI (that’s a very low bar), but from listening to all these breathless idiots talk about how they’re “10x-ing my productivity!” or how “AI has replaced search for me!” or how “In 6 months no one will have to manually write code anymore!”