I mean this is a shit post but like Nintendo isn’t really the “tip” type of company or microtransactions type of company.

They’re the milking the shit out of their franchises and keeping premium prices on their games type of company.

I mean, what do normal people do?

Because our King can never be truly replaced. ✊

That’s rather rude and untrue … the programming language isn’t at all nice! /s

ducks and runs away

I don’t know if Sam Bankman-Fried is a huge piece of shit. He’s definitely a liar and a scammer though. But he was like rich as anything and then lost it all. Now he’s trying to curry favour with Trump to get out of jail.

That’s crazy because there’s no way in the modern day that I’d like to demo anything that hasn’t been tested.

I would say that paying for grocery delivery and cooking it yourself is better. Like, I live in the middle of nowhere, I get it … these services are eye wateringly expensive.

Also, they squeeze their workers.

Yup, want it astroturfed to sell stuff to us and sway our opinions … not just that they also want to use our speech to trained their LLMs to take our jobs without our consent. Actually, even if you explicitly state otherwise they’ll do it all anyways.

I mean, it’s our work the result should belong to the people.

Web “Apps” are also quite bad. Lots of and lots of stuff we’re downloading and it feels clunky.

Sometimes that’s bad coding, poor optimization, third party libraries, or sometimes just including trackers/ads on the page.

I’m British, so I just call it rocket.

Oh really? That’s new (to me) I didn’t know that! Cheers!

I think it’s cronyism more but it could be nepotism too.

Here’s Louis CK’s joke on it: https://youtu.be/r6x3e8MurQY?t=72

Yes, I know he’s cancelled and all that but I don’t know I still love his comedy. Like … I cut out a lot of comics like Joe Rogan (just kidding, he’s barely a comedian) so I dunno I just remembered this joke.

The thing with jokes like these and Birds Aren’t Real and Russel’s Teapot and stuff is just that we don’t believe in them and the people that do believe in the vaccine cause autism BS is that they do fervently do.

Remember the:

Personal computers were “bicycles for the mind.”

I guess with AI and social media it’s more like melting your mind or something. I can’t find another analogy. Like a baseball bat to your leg for the mind doesn’t roll off the tongue.

I know Primeagen has turned off copilot because he said the “copilot pause” daunting and affects how he codes.

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I guess they’re all paying Trump to make sure a Lina Khan will never get there …

They want the Chinese to buy it from them! /s

I don’t understand why the response isn’t just stronger privacy laws on this.

I’m a software engineer and you got any sources for this? We use ChatGPT and Copilot and stuff and it helps but it doesn’t seem as dire as what you’re saying from what I can see? At least not yet.

Salesforce overhired during the pandemic like everyone else and is now selling AI as their efficienc boost or whatever.