jtrek

Most coding challenges are stupid. You'll have a job that's just working on a basic ass API in front of the database, and they'll be like "can you solve the traveling salesman problem?". You don't need to know if I can pull fancy algorithms out of my ass. You need to know if I can cover the basics and take feedback.

Though the last code challenge I had was "can you remove duplicates from this list of integers?". I was like, "can I just convert it to a set?' and they were like "...ok". Didn't get the role, but the pay was bad, it was in office, the company is surprisingly politically conservative, and they're rewriting their codebase "to support AI development". So maybe that sas for the best.

There was a job I applied to that wanted the exact thing I had done at my last job. Same tech tech. Same early startup. Same kind of project. They rejected me without even a phone screen for "someone more in line with their needs".

There's no incentive for them to do a better job.

I feel like one possible future where I go to jail is when a conversation goes like

Me: "That thing you're doing is unnecessary, bad for the environment, and bad for society."

Them: "But I like it"

Me, screaming "BUT I LIKE IT" while I punch them in the face over and over and over and over.

Liking something is not a trump card that supersedes all other concerns, and yet some galaxy brains act like it is. Much more respect for people who can admit "I don't care about the environment or society" out loud.

Go on? Are you splitting the hair on not owning the music, since the artist retains copyright? Please elaborate.

You could perhaps still have enshittification in a worker owned organization. It seems more likely to happen when the decisions are being made by rich ghouls and absent shareholders, rather than the people who actually made the product.

A big problem is often lack of competition.

I pretty much only have drm free music

All these people at work are so eager to devalue themselves. They're rushing to have AI do their work and accepting the same pay.

Anyone who knew how anything relevant worked could have predicted this. Unfortunately, most people don't know shit about fuck, but they vote trump anyway.

No one needs that much money. The people who could deserve it don't get it. We've got teachers in poverty and this fucker has more money than he'd ever need. Fuck him. Fuck his enablers.

I'm pretty sure local models still induce pyschosis and hallucinate. Maybe the cat's out of the bag, but they still suck.

I wouldn't really characterize many things in life as the same kind of random. Throwing a dart at a dart board isn't a random action in the same way as rolling dice

Furthermore, dnd's randomization produces flat probability, which is often jarring.

My job told us all to use AI more, as its own metric. I had it walk through how capitalism is unjust. Not exactly a secret but probably the ghouls in management would probably be mad.