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Finally being the Luddite. I’m a software engineer and have always done well by jumping on new technology and making it work. But my company is really pushing ai and as far as I can see, most people are just taking longer to do worse. I end up cleaning up their mess and of course that’s not something LLMs can do

For example instead of taking an hour to upgrade a dependency then investigate the test results, now you can spend half a day screwing with ai to accept its 5 minute change without looking at the tests.

Ans by the metrics, they completed the task in 5 minutes instead of an hour, and no mention about whether the tests still pass. And then they escalate to me to get it working

Even worse, I’m dreading layoffs for the first time in years. Not just because of the economy and policy chaos, not just because I lost my “sponsor”, but ai ….. not quite the way you expect though. Reviews are coming up and the people who screw around with ai instead of working have developed agents to go back through all of our online systems to present huge reports on their years activity. While I’m sure no one will read it, how can I compete with that?

Sorry, ima speed runner, so I sequence broke. I used the kidney failure glitch to get a bunch of old person achievements early, but now that I got the transplant achievement (and the cancer beaten one by doing this complicated trick of avoiding a specific virus almost no one has to get cancer from said virus via transplant) I'm back on some of the young people achievement farming.

Getting pissed at the noise kids make outside, playing.

I went to my friend's kid's volleyball game. Those girls had on very short shorts that were tight and it made me feel super creepy and I didn't want to watch. I was trying to support my busy friends with kids, but I'll never do it again because "these young girls need to put on some clothes."

If I was their dad, I wouldn't let them out like that.

Last night I went to a show with my college kid. I complained that it was getting late…. The show ended at 7:30

Looking at young people and having sad thoughts about their future - feeling we owe them something I can't give them.

Telling people younger than me not to worry about things. Like even coworkers I only have like a decade on. No you sweet little child that's for us adults to deal with please wait off to the side and observe while I handle this bullshit.

A good Saturday afternoon for me is driving to a nearby beach via a chippy, and just sitting in the car watching the world go by, and remarking with my partner on all the Very Good Dogs we see while we eat chips.

It's pretty much one of my favourite things to do.

I started to pickle things and make basicly all in my kitchen myself.

Give me a double bleach neat and a shot of Draino please….

Thinking a lot of new technologies are stupid and unnecessary. Of course, at least in big tech, lot of them objectively are.

Try to identify birds and trees. How did I go through life not being able to identify my natural surroundings?

flat out rejecting modern anything. I have zero desire to buy new phones, computers, new clothes, appliances etc... it's ALL junk designed to fail so I buy again.

I just don't now. I buy nothing and I don't care. subscriptions? get fuked. replacing anything that breaks? hell no.. I'll fix it instead.

I used to like companies, but I've learned they are all criminal scum, liars and thieves and deserve very special treatment. they pushed me over the edge and I will never return and never stop voicing my distrust and dislike for all of them. even in the stores themselves when I have to go buy food... I'm very vocal about how overly priced and absurd everything is to the point where people look at me... I want that, I want others to actively think about it especially when they are in the stores too.

I'm essentially done with 'society' whatever the hell that means

Didn't think I'd be telling my kids the TV is rotting their brains. Yeah, Looney Tunes wasn't educational in the least but at least the shorts had plotlines. Stuff my kids watch (mostly on YouTube) will transition between scenes within seconds and there's no point or resolution to any of it!

I fall asleep at every holiday party. My grandpa used to do that shit. Now... I'm tired and I don't want to deal with anyone's bullshit. Wake me when it's time to say goodbye.

Not want to leave the house after 9-10 PM

Eat better

Prefer getting my clothes from Costco

Get excited about new appliances okay nevermind I actually got a blender as a teenager and loved it that doesn’t count.

But still it’s funny how much of a stereotype we all become in some small ways.

Random noises when getting up from sitting.