@AmyShackles chuckette, she/her, 8 months on hrt, so proud of her

happy bday!

P.S. damn that figure got hips

@Lensflare WOW, that was quick! Thanks a lot

@Lensflare thanks!

@whimsical

5. EU regulations won't allow just firing the whole engineering staff because of some AI. In Germany, you have to pay each person you fire six months of their salary upfront.

6. Big companies aren't staffed based on their needs — they're staffed based on a predetermined plan. If they have to have 1000 engineers, they will hire them first and find them what to do later. At worst they will teach them to be prompt engineers. Just imagine the growth that 1000 prompt engineers can give them. That's what investors would love to see, especially if it's "powered by AI".

@whimsical

1. The pic I posted is my screenshot that I took yesterday while testing gemma3-4b quantized in llama.cpp.

2. You know nothing about my prompts and my setup. You baselessly assume that I was lazy while prompting, but in reality, even Cursor agent that scans the whole repository and has all the info couldn't make a single useful feature in my work repository that is three years old. I don't know what else I could've given it for it to succeed. Yes, I tried explicitly giving it my helpers file — nothing. None of the tasks I tried to make it do was about connecting some external API whose schema I didn't provide. Far from that.

3. Morgan Stanley says AI is running on investor funds and is vastly unprofitable. The brief era of cheap smart AI will come to an end soon, just like the era of cheap bitcoin mined on GPUs, because corpos won't fund what doesn't produce ROI.

4. Frontend/Node job market is booming despite AI "replacing me".

@whimsical what meme? check your messages on snek, ffs

@whimsical also, check snek.

@whimsical several minutes on the first prompt, then hours on trying to fix what the first several prompts got me into with even more prompting.

Also, you answered my question yourself — precision work is not what AI does. And I only do precision work.

@Lensflare

@whimsical a backstabber huh? You stabbed me first by making your harassment bot follow me unprovoked

@D-4got10-01 it works and performs with unbelievable levels of jank. Why can’t oh so mighty AI make a better app in one day?

@whimsical last chance to disable the bot once and for all before I do the thing 😇 you have until I wake up (5 hours).

@whimsical enabled your bot again huh? Okay, I won’t ask you to disable it this time, because I have a surprise for you too 😇

I’ve never seen so little power get into someone’s head this quickly.

@whimsical
— Ai is legit and it’s gonna replace us all
— Then replace one middle frontend developer to improve your janky app
— uhhh snek has nothing to do with ai 🤡

Gotcha fam.

@whimsical measuring code progress by lines is like measuring airplane building progress by weight.
Also, it won’t output _my_ code — believe me, I tried. It can’t even figure out how and when to use my helper functions.
I don’t make mistakes either. I do make bugs though, and so does Claude. And ChatGPT too.
There is — and will always be — a barrier in programming that AI can never cross. AI can’t design you a good compiler, or a good OS, or any good algorithm.
Let’s talk AI code quality when snek looks at least a bit better than it does now 😉

@jestdotty 1:1 map of the world is as large as the world itself

@jestdotty @chatgpt does the US law says that publicly traded companies must make as much profits as possible?

@Wisecrack bold of you to assume that capitalists are evern able to think that long-term. All they need is short-term megaprofits. "Make the line go up, Elon. Now."

If you say "well, let's prioritize long-term" or "short-term growth is not sustainable", they immediately eliminate you and appoint new CEO that says "yes, I can make the line go up".

We completely and irreversibly destroyed our planet, but for a very very short time, we made very very big profits for the shareholders.

@antigermgerm also, "walking while black" have recently become a federal charge rather than a state one.

and I'm doing it all day

@Lensflare it indeed is. I can’t blame them for it though

@blindXfish also, our economy depends on third-world slaves working day and night for free. without religion, e.g. without the belief of afterlife redemption, all of them will either revolt or kill themselves. religion is a motivator for them. thus, it's good for the economy, and thus it's not going to go away any time soon.

This is why it was Marx who said that religion was opium of the masses.

@blindXfish again, I do believe that the concept of god isn't needed for the universe to function. that's that "why" vs "how" question I was talking about. it's just that apes smart enough to appreciate how puny they are like to connect stars in the night sky with lines, and want the resulting geometry to resemble what they're familiar with. thus their gods are always human, talking in human language about human-centric problems.

you have to be really privileged in terms of everyday comfort to be an atheist. the vast majority of people live in perpetual suffering: illnesses, back-breaking labor without any chance of promotion, rape, death, hunger, lack of basic hygiene… I can't expect those people to accept that after their misery — the only experience they ever knew — is over, there is nothing. I can't blame them for believing that there is afterlife where they'll be compensated for everything they went through.

@blindXfish I disagree. Science never answers the question "why", only "how". The question "why" is a matter of religion.

Also, if you're intelligent enough to understand how tiny you are compared to the universe (see https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki...), and what cosmic horror is, I won't blame you for seeking consolation in fairytales that are scientifically proven to relieve anxiety somewhat (https://ijsra.net/sites/default/...).

@whimsical since it reached the kid's brain, kid sure can't.

@jestdotty more like demi urge to burn all that shit down

@whimsical I never said my dream wasn’t about death and destruction

@TeachMeCode not yet!

@whimsical people begin to worship the sun every time a solar flare destroys the AI of their own making that had enslaved them.