I feel like a lot of companies don’t do things the good way not because the good way is hard, or the bad way is cheaper, but because management is stupid. Stupid or sometimes apathetic.

This follows from my assumptions.

• the American South is generally governed by conservatives
• conservatives have bad ideas on everything
• public transit is a good idea
• conservatives oppose public transit

I think it’s like that dunning-kruger idea. People who are bad at things don’t know they’re bad, and are poor judges of quality.

So someone who’s kind of bad at coding isn’t going to know or understand what the LLM puts out, so they won’t fix as many issues.

Also humans are lazy, and when presented with something that looks good at a glance, we don’t really want to dive deeper.

I saw a PR from someone today at work. Guy’s nice but I don’t think he’s much of a programmer. He asked copilot to fix a warning. It did, and generated a linter error. So he asked it to fix that. It did, but for whatever reason decided to delete an entire function call.

Unfortunately that part of the code has no unit tests, so he just pushed it up for review. I look at it and I’m like if that call is important, don’t delete it. If it can be deleted, remove the now-unused code around it. We’ll see what he says.

He probably spent more time fussing with copilot than it would have taken to do it right in the first place.

This is a horrible idea and everyone involved in its conception and implementation should be barred from working in technology ever again.

I’ve been saying that for years. Now I have about 250 albums drm-free on Bandcamp. A good chunk of that money went to the people making the music, too.

I know there are people out there paying a subscription to Spotify who listen to the same dozen albums over and over, too.

We know. The problem is a lot of idiots want trump as a dictator.

People assume it’s all terminal all the time. I haven’t needed to open the terminal for months. It starts up. With the GUI I open the browser. Maybe steam, too. Do stuff. Shut down.

How did this get normalized?

The average user doesn’t know or understand technical details, and don’t believe they have any power to change anything

Also capitalism means a small number of assholes make most of the decisions for reasons that benefit them

Well, when you put it like that then my hypothesis doesn’t sound very plausible. But maybe racism just Trump’s everything else.

My hypothesis is people are easily frightened idiots. They don’t like change of any sort. It frightens them and then they can’t reason about if the change is good or bad long term.

If a place had bike lanes for years the same people who bike-lash would probably oppose removing them.

I don’t understand why you’d want an AI browser to begin with. Most web tasks aren’t hard.

If someone parks illegally it should become public property. It’s yours now. Do what you want to it.

GitHub and similar tools show PR diffs in the browser.

Failures of justice systems like this encourage people taking matters into their own hands

There need to be harsher penalties for anti union actions from employers. Like, the business should be seized and given to the workers if they fire someone for trying to unionize.

All tools are not equally safe nor should they all be publicly available.

A chainsaw is a tool that you might cause harm with if you use it in stupid ways. We don’t give chainsaws out to children. We don’t use chainsaws for cutting dinner.

There are human elements to the problem but that’s not a big reveal.

Cool. Safe bike lanes are a higher priority for me but I’m not mad about this.

You guys fell for the ragebait embarrassingly easily

Microsoft should maybe evaluate why so many people read about the alleged horrible AI+Subscription model and went “yeah that sounds like something microsoft would do.” Their brand is in the shitter.

Pretty much every decision Microsoft has made for years has been bad. Why not one more?

If someone posted that Valve is moving to a subscription model, much of the response would probably contain “This seems out of character for them”

Seems fair. Was a pretty big fuck up. Might deter others from making similar fuck ups.

That was always a bad idea and feeds my mild Cassandra complex.

No government should be relying on private platforms like that.