100% My firm caters to a very niche segment and that segment requires highly reliable and optimized operations. We are beyond booked. We literally have three environment upgrades and a go live tomorrow (simultaneously) for three different clients. We clean after the vibe coders and get paid very well for our services.

My advice remains the same. There just isn’t a great future in software dev. Yes, to this day we still value custome tailored clothes and hand made, expertly crafted shoes. That doesn’t change the fact that almost all of our clothes and shoes are low quality, quasi- disposable, and 100% machine made.

Will they collapse? I don’t think you are taking into consideration the rampant corruption in the government. We’re going to end up footing the bill…I guarantee it.

What does this remimd me of? Oh yeah.

If you interpret “their expectations” as “better”, then let me correct that assumption. Their expectations are to crank out more with less. More what? Yes.

The future is slop code everywhere because profit driven execs will no longer be limited by quality conscious engineers.

Called it.

I’m a tech exec. My friends and colleagues of 25+ years include CEOs and other C level execs of very recognizable companies. Etc, etc, blah, blah. I can, with absolute certainty, say that software dev as we know it todayis a dead field.

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/jack-dorsey-block-layoffs-21944033.php

☝️ This is the mindset out there, and it is spreading. More scary than that is that the technologies are starting to keep up or exceed their expectations.

Do I think that knowing code will be useful? Absolutely. If you are good enough to tear it apart, break it, and fix it better than before, you will be useful. Will you be able to make a good living off of it? Only if you are exceptional, but how do you become exceptional at a job if nobody gives you a job?

I have a Pixel 9 and I had no idea this slop generator was a thing until now. I checked my phone and, sure enough, the app is there. That must be the most ignorable icon ever made.

Larry Ellison

Remember the fucking name. He owns vast amounts of the media that influences our lives and how we think. TikTok, CBS, Paramount pictures and television, soon CNN, Warner Brothers, and more. He also owns many of the datacenters that host a good amount of your data.

Before Trump, I sweated buying my first electric guitar in decades. Now my weekly groceries cost more than what I paid for it.

Like how fucking cooked is this place?

What we are going to do is build thousands of more datacenters while all that fresh galcier water changes the salinity of the oceans and raises sea levels.

Can we do something? Yes. Should we do something? Obviously. Will we? Doubt. Will the majority of humans currently alive today have to contend with the impact of climate change at ever increasing severities for the rest of our lives, regardless of what actions we take today? Almost assuredly. Any environmental work we do (and should do) today is for the benefit of future generations, not our own. We are so fucked.

This isn’t doomerism. It is realism that goes counter to blind optimism. It also doesn’t change the fact that we’ve got to get to work.

We’re so fucked.

I think step one is to put John on a PIP. He seems highly disruptive to the team.

Federal prosecutors:

https://archive.li/3gzQ1

Watching Bad Bunny through MyBunny. Heh.

It was the COVID lockdown that killed it for me. I haven’t been terrible since, but I also have not found the motivation to go hard core again.

After some health issues I did a whole food plant based, SOS, Keto diet. My cholesterol ratio went to 1.08 without meds, I lost a ton of weight, was full of energy and got fit as fuck, and apparently I was “full of color” because I was now eating a ton of vitamins and nutrients. Great diet but viciously difficult to keep up with unless you have a peraonal chef.

Needless to say, I am no longer that strict.

It depends on the shape of your ears. I use the medium silicone tips (most normally ship with S, M, and L) and they fit comfortably. I can wear them for hours without issue. On the other hand, no size will fit my wife’s ears. They either pop out or hurt her ears. Regardless, they are uncomfortable for her.