Like another poster said, it’s truly a microcosm of the MAGA/Republican governing style. Pay a buddy way too much pretending that the problem is easy to solve. The buddy grifts by cheaping out on everything. They fuck up the system so badly it becomes a cesspool. And result is that it gets worse and becomes even more expensive to fix.

Hit the nail on the head.

No! Snark and condescension only!

I mean, I feel you, but also I feel like not enough people will vote when we get a chance because they didn’t last time. And if people won’t do something like walk into a building and mark a piece of paper, I have doubts they’ll do more than that. So yeah, plaster that fuckers face on everything. Have everyone look at his stupid ugly face until they do something about it.

Not in my experience from what I’ve seen. Republicans are more than happy to punch down and send money up to the top. While that may have been like half the GOP reps 40 years ago, now it’s almost all of them. They spend tons of money on handouts to corporations and the wealthy.

While there’s no shortage of Dems doing the same, they have more often done good things for the population.

Example, Clinton balanced the budget and handed a surplus to Bush part II. Bush II took that, and cut taxes for big corporations and the wealthy, and increased spending the the military of course, but also in things to help out the big corporations. Cut things like education and safety nets. Handouts for the wealthy but not those that need it to live.

Also, both don’t end up spending the same, the GOP has always spent more (at least since the 60s). The national debt nearly doubled every time a Republican was president, and either stagnates or is reduced when a Democrat is president. We have the data on that.

Claude can do some medium complicated sites from scratch relatively quickly. The problem is I’ve seen so many of these at work, not just from non-engineers, but from peers too, that they’re easy to spot. AI sites/apps are going to be the new geocities.

But when you want to move beyond the basic thing that impresses the c suites for some reason, it hits a pretty big wall in speed to output and needs a lot more hand holding.

I fear that the c suites don’t really care about quality, just speed and saving money. So while I’m a much better developer than Claude (which is imo the best at the moment), I don’t think that makes my job secure. I have to use the AI, and it’s getting silly/scary religious here about it. We have to talk about how we used AI and how it’s making things better. And to make things worse, I don’t see a company that’s not drinking the Flavor Aid.

It can be useful, and used right, you can do a lot of things faster. But the expectations from the top don’t align with the reality of the product, and us developers are being blamed for the gap.

Same Kind of shit my mom said, before blaming Democrats for their spending. Now Dems are not wholly innocent, but for the last like 80 years, it’s been the GoP that’s been increasing the national debt, and it’s not because they’re expanding spending on safety nets and education

In my mind, an argument isn’t about proving myself right and the other wrong. I long ago changed my goals of arguing to learning something in the process. This works for me and it tends to encourage the right people and infuriate the people who deserve it. Though I still tend to be mean from time to time if I feel like the other person/people are being disingenuous. I still have work to do on myself.

Thousand Island Atheist

I hadn’t heard, I’m sad now

He’s WiFi material

Real answer is probably AI slop. Several companies have the idea that if code is only going to be done by AI, then it doesn’t matter if it’s human readable. I imagine this is something like that but for cables.

This is the same shit they’ve always done. They’re testing the waters to see what they can get away with. They’ll get there, but this was a little too soon. Give it a few more months.

He didn’t resist, the little fuckers emptied a can of mace into him then started hitting him with the can. They were pulling him all over the place while he was getting beat on by a swarm of fuckers angry at him for daring to try and protect an innocent woman from getting abused. One of the best of us was killed by two of the worst of us.

It’s always kind of funny when he bullshits himself into a corner like this when we know what’s coming. Sometimes he just ignores the new stuff though and that’s less fun.

It’s paid for by our taxes. The bribes and backdoor deals go straight into his pocket.

I ate five more that day…

We could just skip to the end, but a bunch of assholes are fighting us every tiny step of the way.

That’s one of the problems with you absolutist weirdos. I’m not locking anyone into anything, including any one of the many standards that you lot keep creating. Maybe the next one will finally be it. Hasn’t worked for decades and decades, but maybe the next one will be it.

I’ve worked with getting shipping working with a few a different companies. I find it a little silly to try to use shipping as an example of a non bespoke system. They can’t even agree whether to do HxWxD or HxDxW. They agreed on one thing, great, that doesn’t do much for the systems.

I don’t think it’s necessary to completely unbespoke the systems, we’ve wasted decades and decades on trying that and only ended up creating more and more different standards.

I also don’t think that everything needs needs to remain as disjointed and insanely different as it currently is. But whenever I hear a person say, “don’t reinvent the wheel.” They, so far, have always tended to lack the understanding of how things actually work in the real world.