This was not AI’s fault.

That was sheer incompetence up to the very top levels of the US army.

That’s a fair concern, usually I only vibe the UI.

I’m not a front end guy, so as long as I know the backends is good I’m fine with it.

The reality is many people don’t have the privilege to be “apolitical”, because politics is the oppression of them by someone else.

Maybe you can keep quiet and “stay in your lane” or whatever, but that is privilege, and eventually politics might come for you, and then what?

Ed screwed this up, definitely was too blind to see how bad you look when someone directly adjacent to you gets strung out over “politics” and you just keep going with it like nothing happened.

I don’t think he deserves his career ended, but he definitely deserves this tour to sink until he can really understand and acknowledge what happened here. It’s not okay to just capitulate every time a rich person wields their power like that. We’ve seen it 1000 times, it’s how Weinstein got away with it, it’s how so much toxicity is enforced.

Mine accumulated several public indecency charges.

But being able to ship small, mildly broken, internal tools for my non-technical coworkers quickly is actually amazing.

Nobody cares if the internal tool code is nice, but when it shaves 50% of the work off of sales the sales team gets excited. So if I vibe up a shitty UI it’s still a net gain.

I’ve probably automated away like 60% of the ad hoc work I used to get into internal tools, and that has helped a ton with workload and budget.

Wow, you can see ev-ry-thing.

I guess this is why they used dark suits in the earlier shows.

It is heavily normalized in industry now.

I quit a job that added AI use to performance reviews super early. That was pure bureaucratic cancer and most of my good coworkers burned out and left. I don’t think I’ll ever work for a big corp again, I actually like my work so much more now.

At work I’m expected to use it, our clients want it, my boss likes that he can feel technical when writing tickets (they’re mostly wrong though, and the tickets solution instead of report and request). It genuinely can do some useful tasks that make sense to use it for.

There are real pros and cons, but there’s no putting this back in the bottle. Philosophically I do hate it and everything it stands for, but practically it has allowed me to do a lot that I couldn’t (and wouldn’t) before.

The only good solution I’ve found is that you have to get your hands dirty and stay in the weeds. You cannot let it run off and do what it wants, you have to drive and then tag it in. When you vibe code something you’ll find yourself in three weeks resolving an issue and going “wait, it does what?!”, and of course, arguing with the gibberish Claude or GPT claims is English but is actually the first stage of model collapse as the models reinforcement train on ever more distilled data. Plus, skill atrophy is real. Decide which skills to allow to atrophy carefully.

AI code review is good and useful. I used to use it as a first wave for obvious stuff, but it is actually decent and high trust now. Saves me some time on that.

It’s good at finding bugs and security issues, and one thing I actually really like is having it model a system as a state machine and enumerate all the possible states to find bugs — especially concurrency bugs. I don’t work in a provable language, so this is hugely helpful.

I would be very hesitant to take a role where they push vibe coding or “agentic fleets” or loops or whatever. If you’re babysitting 6 Claude code sessions you aren’t working and you’re not in the loop on any of them. That will accumulate as tech debt and bog you down over time. It’ll suck your soul dry. It’s miserable.

Reading the slop and reviewing it “software factory” style is a very bad sign to me.

Some code is throwaway or disposable, vibing that makes sense to me. But the core work is more important than ever. Maybe the disposable code is the new part, I look at it like installing an IKEA kitchen, it’s slop, but it looks nice, the important part is the foundation and level flooring that enables the slop to stand up.

gestures aggressively at Enterprise

All I ask is for variety

~I preface the following images with the fact that I am a heterosexual male, and so I have no idea if these are actually relevant to those with tastes different than mine, but I think they’re suitable.~

I wonder if someone is going to go around chucking solar enabled pi’s onto the roofs of fast food joints and set them up with wireguard or headscale and sell it as proxy network.

I use those to train my AI though. It’s not piracy if there’s money.

AI is the borg.

It is inherently evil in its creation and uses.

It doesn’t have to be, but it largely is.

Lurks?! lurks??