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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)

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    Ugh, from me as well: sorry to hear that.

    I can relate to how you feel about the AI stuff. I also work for GenAI-pilled upper management, and the forced introduction of github copilot is coming soon. It will make us all super extra productive! ā€¦they say. Dreading it already. I wonā€™t use it at all, Iā€™ve already made that clear to my superior. But my colleagues might use it, and then I will have to review the AI slopā€¦ uggghhā€¦

    Maybe a small silver lining to raise the mood here, recent article from Monday: Gartner sounds alarm on AI cost, data challenges

    If even freaking Gartner is now saying ā€œwell, maybe AI is too expensive and not actually so usefulā€ā€¦ then maybe the world of management will wisen up as well, soon, hopefully, maybe?

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      an idea I just had (which would need some work but talking hypothetical): wouldnā€™t it be lovely if IDEs VS Code[0] automatically inserted ā€œCopilot Used Hereā€ start/end markers around all generated shit. could even make it a styleguide/editorconfig so itā€™s universally set across projects[1]

      [0] - because lol ofc itā€™s mainly vscode rn

      [1] - and then when you find colleagues who lie about whether theyā€™re using it you wrap all their desk shit in foil

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        I like the idea. Or maybe marking such changes in the commit messageā€¦ I might try to bring that up when the time comes.

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          in the current most-typical mode of engagement, commit messages are too disconnected from the actual contents. it requires someone who gives a shit to go looking

          conversely, what I mean is something like ā€œa hook that guarantees that the moment the plugin is engaged and output from it is scribed in source, metadata about that event is simultaneously co-writtenā€

          itā€™s already generating a pile of other things, it may as well generate timestamps and callsig and callhash and shit tooā€¦

          the number one problem with this, of course, is that itā€™s going to be extremely unpopular with a Vocal Set Of People who rely on this shit to make themselves look good