I'm so tired of every job posting frothing at the mouth over AI. "We're ai native" , "we want employees who are excited about ai tools", "agenic workflows"
Just fuck off.
Even if all of this stuff was a real productivity increase, who is keeping that extra production? Not the workers!
Because the current process means constant merge conflicts that I have to deal with, and constant bugs I have to deal with.
But, on the other hand, maybe you're right and I should just check out and spend a day "fixing git problems" too
I'm working at a mega Corp now (not one you've probably heard of) and it's a fucking farce.
We had a meeting last week about some problems with the current process. People kind of nodded along. Meeting was drawing to a close. No concrete tasks or assignments.
I say, "great. Who's taking lead on this? Can we have a proposal by Monday and make a decision by Wednesday?"
Suddenly management people are like "whoa whoa whoa stay in your lane"
Okay then why don't you fucking manage?
This happens all the time. We have long ass meetings with the whole team, talk about problems, but then no one is assigned to do anything and nothing changes.
There's just so much incompetence and ineptitude. Some of it is probably coming from hidden, bad, incentives
Another way I'm a little insufferable but like... yeah the pandemic and quarantine sucked, but I read a lot of books, played a lot of video games, had a great online DND game.
Some people just seem so helpless and inept. They'd be like "I just need to see other people" and I'm like please develop some discipline.
Stop making people commute when they could work from home. That's hours wasted on top of climate crime.
Fuck Spotify. I'll buy albums (drm free, mostly from Bandcamp), pirate, or go without.
Today is bandcamp Friday, too. Bandcamp passes their cut on to the band.
It's kind of funny that because most of us are nice, no one just beat the shit out of trump or worse. Assholes are kind of like parasites taking advantage of kindness.
Sometimes I make a conscious effort to think about what I would say to someone else in my situation. It's helpful.
Meanwhile, the sheep and the goats part just gets ignored
34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
I'm sure they'll do some backflips to say "the brothers only mean people I like", but then there's the "who is my neighbor?" part.
29 But wanting to vindicate himself, he said to Yeshua, “Then who is my neighbor?”
30 Yeshua replied, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho. He was attacked by robbers, who stripped him and beat him. Then they left, abandoning him as half dead. 31 And by chance, a kohen was going down that road; but when he saw the man, he passed by on the opposite side. 32 Likewise a Levite also, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the opposite side. 33 But a Samaritan who was traveling came upon him; and when he noticed the man, he felt compassion. 34 He went up to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on olive oil and wine. Then setting him on his own animal, he brought him to a lodge for travelers and took care of him. 35 The next day he took out two denarii[b] and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take care of him. And whatever else you spend, upon my return I will repay you myself.’ 36 Which of these three seems to you a neighbor to the one attacked by robbers?”
37 And he said, “The one who showed mercy to him.”
Then Yeshua said to him, “Go, and you do the same.”
But they're not sincere, so the text doesn't matter.
I miss my pandemic D&D^1^ group. It was an 18 year old that just finished high school, two people in their mid 20s in grad school, me in my mid 30s, and one person in their mid 40s. Every once in a while we'd get some interesting generation-gap moments.
^1^ I don't even like D&D specifically, but that group really made it work.
People are lazy and don't think very much. Spotify is right there.
Also enshittification: it was better to draw people in, and then they made it shittier and people stay
That manager should be removed
I'm so tired of this shit. Break up Microsoft.