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   Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Friday, 02-Jan-2026 23:19:40 JST Hoss Delgado

   • Peter
   This is why we need H-1Bs, chud. Ranjesh from Bangalore would have approximately zero moral reservations about any of this. That's much better for shareholder value.
   
   RT: https://thepit.social/users/peter/statuses/115824339431975101
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     7666 (7666@comp.lain.la)'s status on Saturday, 03-Jan-2026 00:48:02 JST 7666

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     • Peter
     @Hoss @peter the thing i wrote about the human element of engineering in 2022 wasn't meant to be prophetic
     
     "Now, in the most dehumanized scenario, users can be viewed as replaceable, amorphous entities, slotted into a planned role hierarchy if all they do is repeatable, low skill tasks in this proposed system (e.g. move this box over there). It's a very capitalistic way of thinking about it, but this can happen at scale.
     
     Look at warehouse workers tasked on moving things around for a giant company such as Amazon. Workers are treated as if were components of a machine, and if that component performs under established baselines, it is replaced. The metrics drive the workers, no matter how inhuman they are, or what the worker has to do to stay afloat. Perform, or die. The programmers that make these things may never think about the ramifications of their little baselining system. They are not actually the ones doing the work that their system is interacting with. And what's worse - they may adjust the targets based on the data they're getting. Remember - when a metric becomes a baseline, it stops being a good metric."
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     Tygg Biddies (tyggbiddies@clew.lol)'s status on Saturday, 03-Jan-2026 00:55:23 JST Tygg Biddies

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     • Peter
     @Hoss @peter Product Managers are a pest and deserve the rope or a place in a secluded convent (yes, most of them are retarded spinsters who are bitter and desperate for caress)
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     Agartha_Noble (agartha_noble@shortstacksran.ch)'s status on Saturday, 03-Jan-2026 01:17:37 JST Agartha_Noble

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     • Peter
     @Hoss @peter In reality, Ranjesh from Bangalore would find a way to accept and mark the food delivered without actually getting the food to the user's front door. Everyone scams each other, no one wins.
     
     X-as-a-service really does just mine out the last tiny wisps of high-trust social norms, and everyone who participates probably deserves to get peeled like a banana.