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I have a visceral “AI” sensor that triggers when I see these:

“Rust Implementation (v2)”

“Performance Benchmarks (Validated)”

Human beings don’t self-validate explicitly like that. AI loves doing it.

You generate code, there’s a bug, you ask for a fix, your AI of choice will always output with:

*** Fix build issue ***

*** End fix ***

and then call it “Version 2 (Validated)”.

Sometimes it’s more subtle, but you can feel it, it loves adding “confirmed”, “working”, “validated”.

AI writing tools — improve, summarize, translate, and more (Anthropic / OpenAI)

why though

wait you have to verify your grades…from high school!?

Yep. More than once.

There’s an opening for a position you’re interested in, so you fill one of these long “everything is in your CV, but you need to retype on our formulary again” registrations.

A week later, they contact you via email. A very enthusiastic person, signing by their own name and no automated HR shenanigans claims to have enjoyed what they saw and you’re through to the next step. There’s some corporate “we are an amazing workplace for excepcional people” fluff, but nothing terrible, so let’s proceed.

You now have a week to type and send a document that is got nothing to do with the position or your technical skills. You need to type a biography, you need to describe how you were in high school, were you social? You need to show proof of your high school grades, then college, you need to give a biographical memoir of your life. But sure, it’s Canonical right, great for your career so you proceed.

So then a technical interview comes up. You have a time limit to fill it out, but the questions won’t be actually deep enough to test your skills - they would just veto somebody with zero idea of what’s going on, so it becomes tedious. A child with an AI Chatbot can probably score enough.

So then you move on to an IQ test, with baffling things such as tests of reaction time (if I ever needed fast reaction times in my field of study, ring the bell because a zombie apocalypse just ruptured our office building).

You’re tired of the bs, but they email you three times in a row telling you about the deadlines for completion. Now somebody wants to speak with you, and guess what, they haven’t checked your CV, or your biography, or your results from the tests, so get used to explaining everything again.

You’ll have quite a few meetings like this, always moving up to the “higher ups” that are equally unaware of who you are, until you reach a VP. And then they put you on hold… so hope things work out, because they actually can leave you in hold forever, answer that the position is actually no longer available, or finally hire you. They have KPIs that incentivize having “candidates being evaluated” which means keeping you on limbo at the end of the process is a great result on their dashboards. Oh, and don’t trust the “oh we loved you, you’re in, let’s sign next week” because the probability of not signing is still high.

After experiencing Canonical’s recruitment process, which they claim to be extremely proud of, I can only imagine that if the other departments operate with a similar mindset the entire company is a non-sensical hell.

Oh yikes, yeah, not touching this one

Sounds good, but I’ll need somebody else to audit Traur itself first ;)

Kate is a thousand times better than Notepad and Notepad++

Thunderbird is ready to welcome you back. It never left. Email belongs in a dedicated apllication, not a web frontend

Your comment mentions NVIDIA. I’d like to invest $500000 into your comment. I only request that you immediately also invest the same exact quantity into my comment.

I guess the practical idea is that if your AI generated code is so good and you’ve reviewed it so well that it fools the reviewer, the rule did it’s job and then it doesn’t matter.

But most of the time the AI code jumps out immediately to any experienced reviewer, and usually for bad reasons.

I really want one. But I’m not buying any tech product until my existing one turns to dust and no amount of solder can put it back together. So maybe in five or six years?

The only thing that feels like missing now is afterburner-like overlay in games.

There are a thousand applications that provide such an overlay, one is already built into Windows, do you really need yet another?

Everyone manages something.

Most workers manage something and create value. Managers are only managing, remove them and nothing changes - usually things get more optimized, actually.

GIMP isn’t a bacronym, it is an acronym.

Doesn’t matter for the point at hand.

my understanding of BDSM

Gimp is a very pejorative term for a person with a limp.

I mean one of the most important pieces of software we always mention when converting users from Windows is called GIMP, I think “ricing” isn’t nearly the most concerning term in the libre software world.

Kate is $0 for life and you don’t even have to pay it and they have zero ai slop :)

Cool - so you agree they’re not clicking Copilot and therefore it’s not converting?