imagine how fucking terrible it must be to be in this room
(and I won't lie: there's definitely a moment that Inglorious Basterds briefly flashed to mind)
froztbyte
joined 2 years ago
ADQ any% speedruns
(A = assholes)
has to? sigh
it makes me so deeply fucking depressed knowing how much near-abandon infrastructure spending is happening. minor win is that power plants can work for other things too, but it still runs headlong into a pile of other issues (transmission network, generation method side effects, etc etc)
holy shit, across 3 comments you did a full distributed darvo
stellar example of shitheadery so early on a sunday!
oh my dearie me, I shall have to clutch my motherfuckin pearls
so it's been observed by many that github's been getting worse for a while as they keep shoving copilot into every corner
with the upgrade diff review, I wanted to quickly fold closed the 485 files in the diff. I could've sworn github's diff view used[0] to have a button for this, and I know bitbucket does[1], but nope. so of course I open browser inspector to dig at elements (then quickly iterate over them with .click() in the js console)
which is when I noticed that even the elements are renamed for copilot:
<copilot-diff-entry data-file-path=".cargo/config.toml">
which both makes me wonder my memory is right and this did used to have a button that was just overlooked in the rush for terrible chatbot shit, and makes me boggle at how astoundingly far the org is deepthroating this nonsense
[0] it's been a few years of no longer actively using github
[1] fairly recently for client work
could go either way tbh
I didn't dig into the post/username at all so I can't guesstimate likelihood of this! get where you're coming from
(......I really need to finish my blog relaunch (this thought brought to you by the explication I was about to embark on in this context))
(((it's soon.gif tho!)))
got sent this image
wonder how many more of these things we'll see before people start having a real bileful response to this (over and above the fact that a number of people have been warning about exactly this outcome for a while now)
(transcript below)
transcript
title: I gave my mom's company an Al automation and now she and her coworkers are unemployed
body: So this is eating me alive and I don't really know where else to put it. I run this little agency that builds these Al agents for staffing firms. Basically the agent pre-screens candidates, pulls the info into a neat report, and sends it back so recruiters don't waste hours on screening calls. It's supposed to be a tool, not a replacement.
My mom works at this mid sized recruiting company. She's always complained about how long it takes to qualify candidates, so I set them up with one of my agents just to test it. It crushed it. Way faster, way cheaper, and honestly more consistent than most of their team.
Fast forward two months and they've quietly laid off almost her whole department. Including my mom. I feel sick. Like I built something that was supposed to help people, and instead it wiped out my mom's job and her team. I keep replaying it in my head like I basically automated my own family out of work.
yep exactly - the plant alone is only part of the infra spend, and there's so much else that matters too
it's just such a fucking terrible way of doing this, and it sucks