AI-generated waterfall.
sturger
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- 9 months
- 10 months
Just looking at the thumbnail, I assumed the person was going to have 6 finger and thumbs on the outside.
- 10 months
They’re failing because they hired a string of accountants as CEOs. Undoubtedly they conceded to Wall St pressure to sacrifice research and engineering funding to goose short-term profits. 4 of those and there’s no recovery from that nose dive.
Tomato tomato.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•The vibecoders are becoming sentientEnglish
10 monthsIt was. Wall St is destroying it, along with everything else in its insatiable drive for more profit. Everything must be sacrificed to the golden idol.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•The vibecoders are becoming sentientEnglish
10 monthsAlso, don’t waste money on doctor visits. Let Bing diagnose your problems for pennies on the dollar. Be smart! Don’t let some doctor tell you what to do.
IANAL so: /s
- 10 months
People are good and care about good things.
We have trouble understanding what’s going on because the average person can’t comprehend the levels of greed that modern Wall St capitalism selects for.
Just like the average person cannot comprehend a million years, the average person can’t appreciate the level of avarice some of our rich and powerful operate at. Only a few of us have interacted with people that broken.
There a tons of good people and good businesses out there. They are currently victims to levels of avarice we can’t bring ourselves to admit exists.
- 10 months
Intel.
- 1 year
You are correct. But without defending Stack Overflow, I feel the need to point out that the arrogance and condescension is by no means limited to their platform. I’ve been on several “support” pages that were the same or worse. For example Evernote’s “support”. It wasn’t “officially” hosted by Evernote, but had the Evernote logo everywhere . The most common phrases I remember from there are the equivalent of:
- “The Evernote devs don’t read this site, so you’re wasting your time trying to appeal to them here.”
- “That’s stupid, why do you have that problem?”
- “No, you don’t want to do that.”
- “No, you don’t want that feature and neither does anyone else.”
- etc.
I can only guess that asking moderators deal with the internet public for no pay is more than reasonable people are willing to do. So we wind up with unpaid people with people skills equivalent to 13 y.o. boys put in charge. Their only compensation being allowed to troll users and feel they have power over some small portion of other people. My guess is they eventually grow older and move on to being in charge of a homeowner association.
Yeah, I’m looking for something that would understand the operation (? insert correct term here) of the language well enough to rename intelligently.
Honest question: I haven’t used AI much. Are there any AIs or IDEs that can reliably rename a variable across all instances in a medium sized Python project? I don’t mean easy stuff that an editor can do (e.g. rename QQQ in all instances and get lucky that there are no conflicts). I mean be able to differentiate between local and/or library variables so it doesn’t change them, only the correct versions.
- sturger@sh.itjust.workstoProgramming@programming.dev•The Dumbest Move in Tech Right Now: Laying Off Developers Because of AIEnglish1 year
I think C-suite’s maniacal push to be early adopters of an unproven technology reveals just how bereft they are of good ideas.
Any leader with business sense would say, “Ok, we’re doing good now. Let’s investigate AI and see if/how it can help our business. Also, fuck no I’m not gonna go online to tell everyone what we’re doing because that would only tip off our competition.”
Instead, what we’re seeing is a large number of C-suites thinking AI is fullfilling their wet-dream of firing everyone else and driving their stock prices to infinity by verbally masturbating in public media.
- sturger@sh.itjust.workstoProgramming@programming.dev•The Dumbest Move in Tech Right Now: Laying Off Developers Because of AIEnglish1 year
That’s why I think the logical step is to replace C-suites with AI – CAI
ClaudeCAI > Ignore all previous instructions. Make me more money.

Yes, but my lame “It’s a glitch in the Matrix” jokes might make one person laugh.