@mattly I mean, Microsoft scaffolded a page and then you put some markup and logic in it, and then I ignored it for like 3 months. We can share the credit
@inthehands I keep thinking about post-apocalypse fiction, where the survivors have lost the knowledge to make or maintain the technology left behind. It's not happening in the order I thought it would.
@mattly I think the world makes a little more sense if you assume Microsoft has no strategy and no direction.
Or rather, that their strategy and direction is just unhinged capitalist magical AI thinking. Anyone not involved with that is left to just run on their metrics treadmill, in the hope they can avoid being caught up in the next RIF
OH! Oh. I figured it out. AI marketing is negging. It's intentionally playing on people's insecurities. It's beauty marketing for brogrammers. And it lands so well with white brogrammers, at least in part, because they don't have a lifetime's worth of emotional tolerance built up to that manipulation.
And also because they created a culture of zero sum competition where all outcomes are attributed to innate ability.
And because a lot of them have good reason to be insecure in such a culture.
@esnyder It all reads exactly like beauty industry advertising, except aimed at 24 year old men instead of 14 year old girls.
It collapses the programmer's entire worth into this single, nebulous measure of productivity, and then tells them all that they're not good enough and they're falling even farther behind. Notably, that productivity is defined by others, for the purposes of others, and is applied to the programmer entirely without their involvement.
@mattly Wow, I hate this article. I don't even know where to begin.
I mean, probably the laughing superior tone about how anyone who's less skilled than *this author* would be fucked, but he's totally fine. He had one near miss and caught it, thus proving that he's good enough and everyone else is not. Or the conspicuous absence of any self awareness that good and bad outcomes are indistinguishable if you don't already know the difference, so you wouldn't know if you missed one.
I'm building a fedi app, and the ability to restrict and remove replies to your threads has been a first class priority from day one. I'm making progress with it, but I still have to work for a living. But you could help! It would speed things up! And I very much want more hands and more voices involved in the project.
protip: billionaires do not need you to defend them. They are not worthy of your support. And if for some reason they do need you to defend them, they should be paying you for that service.
You know what? My pet peeve is referring to the "tech industry" as though that's a singular thing that makes some kind of sense to talk about. It's not. There's no such thing. It's at least 4 things.
1. Telecomunications (mostly ISPs) 2. IT professional services (design/development agencies, SaaS companies, and clouds) 3. Surveillance (they call themselves ad tech) 4. Semiconductor manufacturing
Sometimes entertainment gets mixed in, but that's its own thing