Both. The AI hype machine is overblown. OpenAI in particular is led by a lying bastard who pretends that statistical software can think.

That’s probably my favorite typo that I’ve ever done. Fantastic. I’m not gonna correct it. It’s too good.

Glad you’re enjoying it. He sometimes has interesting interviews, too. Especially with authors and journalists.

I’ve been stealing your wifi this hole time.

I had a business partner. He had an idea for a website that connected parents with childcaregivers. We agreed I would code it and he would do the design. It turned out I should have probed more about his design skills. He had none. All his ideas were terrible, too. He wanted lots of animations during transitions and stuff and I tried to explain that people don’t like that and the site needed to be snappy.

I backed out when I realized he couldn’t deliver his end. I also can’t do design, but I at least knew his ideas were much worse. I’d been coding for several months at that point. Oh well.

I’m sorry you’re having such a rough time. I took a break to try to launch a startup which didn’t go anywhere. Then I spent time just honing new skills. Before I knew it, I’d depleted my savings while racking up a long period of unemployment that made me toxic to job submissions. I couldn’t get callbacks in tech as a result but I also couldn’t get labor positions because my resume had much-better-paying jobs that made it obvious that I’d leave at the first opportunity. It was a vicious cycle and that’s before the economy and tech sector went to shit.

I would switch careers, given your limited time investing in your current profession. After people found out that tech could pay a lot of money, the market got flooded with people who don’t have a passion for the work. It used to be filled with nerds and it was awesome, but that gradually changed. I seriously considered switching professions and thought about what work I might find fulfilling. I would have become a professor of history were it not for the accredidation required (I have no college degree because you can be self-taught in tech).

Do what you can to get by. I don’t know what to suggest regarding other possible employment, but I’d take whatever you can find perusing job ads in adjecent market and try to stabilize. I went from software development to IT because I needed to interact with the people I’m helping to feel rewarded. There’s less money in it, but I’m happier overall.

If you can find a government job (preferably state, not federal, for reasons I shouldn’t need to point out), that’s awesome. I landed in a state position and love it. There’s a lot of beaurocracy and it takes forever to get hired (as a friend just confirmed when he got a state job), but it’s stable.

Good luck!

There’s no rationa reason for spending billions of dollars on a technology that loses money and has no chance of delivering promises from a lying CEO.

It’s only a matter of time until this whole facade comes crashing down. I can’t wait to see OpenAI go out of business.

Fellow AI-haters should check out the newsletter and podcast of Ed Zitron.

I installed Llama. I’ve not found any use for it. I mean, I’ve asked it for a recipe because recipe websites suck, but that’s about it.

I found an awesome friend through a dating app and she tried to set me up with two different friends of hers. Ultimately, I met my partner through a dating app, but I was super appreciative that she tried to set me up.

It’s absurd enough that it earned my first out-loud chuckle of the day. Nice.

Sublime.

Fits what George Carlin said about why education sucks in his final HBO special.

I am food secure. I have a good job with good pay. I can ride out tariffs and shortages and the like with relative ease (I won’t be happy about it, but I won’t have to skip any meals).

A hell of a lot of maga voters live in poverty. They can’t ride this out. They will miss bills, meals, doctors, rents, etc. I generally wish only good things for all people. But I can’t feel bad for people who ignorantly voted for this because they only get their news from sources that are proven to be disreputable. All his plans for his second term were available online. All anyone had to do was look. There’s no, “This isn’t what we voted for,” here. People will suffer and I say “Let them.”

For all the impoverished people who voted against the bad man, my heart breaks.

Solid review. Just installed on my Mac. Started up very quickly. Looks nice. I’ll use it as my daily driver for a few days and see how it feels.

Fuck all.

Definite article. I can’t believe I remembered that from English classes.

It’s the law that you have to.

You should wear them at night so everyone knows how cool you are. For even extra cool points, you can smoke and do drugs.

Alias rm to a flag that makes you affirm. On my phone, can’t be bothered to look at a man page.