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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

Last weekā€™s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

  • David Gerard@awful.systemsM
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    from someone on Mastodon:

    Google has a gigantic code generation culture, because the engineers there strongly prefer complexity to drudgery.

    If you asked them to write fizzbuzz and left them in a room for twelve hours they would deliver a new programming language that generalized repetitive string printing, with an extension language for potential non-string-printing actions.

    I left in ā€˜22 but feel fairly confident that ā€œ25% of code generated by AIā€ is going to be more of the same.

      • bitofhope@awful.systems
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        God knows I like a good DSL, but ā€œcomplexity over drudgeryā€ just sounds miserable. I also wonder what kind of stuff theyā€™re coding thatā€™s supposedly trivial enough to be generated by AI.

          • bitofhope@awful.systems
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            Here ya go boss, a 80% prototype solution.

            /* TODO: support other element types */
            unsigned int * maxsumsubarr(unsigned int arr[], size_t len, size_t * sublen) {
                    *sublen = len;
                    return arr;
            }
            
    • froztbyte@awful.systems
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      I half want to jest ā€œPDD strikes againā€ but honestly it feels like only half the explanation

      (promotion driven dev)

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        Man now Iā€™m thinking about AI written PIPs. God if I got an AI PIP Iā€™d self immolate on company grounds.

        • self@awful.systems
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          oh this is almost definitely real, given that the regular PIP process was already designed to get you to quit