Thank you for these words, Salma.
I'm sad about this literally every day. I rage some days. I'm depressed others. I worry on either type of day...
"Abusive relationship" really does give it the words for how it feels to just try to exist and work in the industry now.
1/4 for me. Always bet on Chris Coyier for CSS... that was my only win
Things I've said in the past few weeks:
"I used to hate for work email, but then I used Slack."
"Social media was probably a mistake"
That's rough, y'all! Email is terrible. Here's to an even bigger launch when you get it squared away!
I know it's not unique to AI companies, but it's worth saying: who you give your money and attention to really says something about your priorities.
The AI companies have proven they don't care about individuals. Now they're active in warzones. Maybe think about not giving them money and attention
Complex RPGs end up being the worst here, too... what are everyone's skills? which buttons do I need to hit? Oh what's this random mechanic that I don't even remember?!
@dcbradshaw.com Nice to see @polygon.com giving you some love for the kickstarter
www.polygon.com/little-but-f...
Because this is the internet, and we can't all actually agree, I'll be the hot take and say that that's the perfect brown. Totally, and 100% the accurate brown. No mistakes there. It's perfect and should never be questioned. In fact, how dare you question it. And you call yourself a web developer!/s
This doesn't even get into things like polymarket which is a truly insane thing for a society to allow. Tired of just gambling on sports? Need more ways to gamble? Want to "win big" (read: lose money)?
How do we not see capitalism careening wildly toward burnout and not try to stop it?
The fact that gambling ads are everywhere is so deeply disturbing.
I've had a weekly poker game. I've played the lotto some. I'm not totally morally against gambling
But the prevalence of this... it doesn't end well.
The fact that the ads often even play up the fact that it's addictive is wild...
True! Though I feel like from what I've heard of Windows 12, it's much more hostile to use their monopoly vs. hostile by being bad at UX
I feel like someone could make a legal case against Windows 12 being anti-consumer.
Propping up their failed AI business model by creating a hostile, ai-focused OS seems like using their monopoly in a way that could be actionable…
If we didn't seek exponential growth, we'd make more resilient products. We wouldn't be dealing with "enshittification." We wouldn't go through boom/bust hiring cycles.
We'd be slower, sure, but we'd be more stable.
"What happens when other devs move faster than you?"
The obsession with speed of delivery is concerning. The obsession with speed is an obsession with exponential growth.
If there's anything we should have learned in the past 20+ years is that exponential growth leads to rot. The rot we feel now.
My 20-something self picked up every new technology that was shiny without thinking too deeply.
I know too much now.
If I (and all other seniors) just give in... who are we helping?
Things will get worse. We see it every day. This is just an extension.
Don't give in.
I can't get behind the fact that it's a call for 40-somethings to give in.
I know the industry will spit me out eventually, but at 41, I'm at a point where I also know I can afford to be spit out.
GenAI is bad for us and bad for society.
Never not applicable
I feel that speed thing.
For me, the more machine I have, the more comfortable with speed.
In most cases, speed in a car doesn't bother me (around curves is another story).
Riding a bike, a gentle downhill is great, but steep is scary.
On skates, skis, blades, sled... please god no!
It honestly boggles the mind...
This is on my reading backlog. Got it recommended to me at a conference last year
And there's no consent. If there were a disclosure button, that would be one thing.
Like "Do you want us to summarize the results?"
But no. It's in your face. Every search. Wasting who knows how much energy and being wrong probably 20% of the time
A future where a slightly tweaked question gets you polar opposite answers.
A future where "trusted" sources don't matter.
A future where empirical data doesn't matter.
I trust neither of these answers.
I don't use Summaries for anything.
I scroll past. Always.
This is the future none of us wanted that's being forced upon us.
I don't use them, but Google's AI summaries are garbage.
Looking for something that results aren't coming for "Does Y work on external site or just in Y?"
Summaries first says "it doesn't work on external...".
I change the search: "Here's how to do it"
What a joke of a technology...
I just found the YouTube app setting that disables videos auto playing in the feed and my stress level dropped noticeably. I literally breathed a sigh of relief
Sleep + Clear roadmap will probably help morale and that's like an exponential, hockey-stick growth in the making!
Pedantry, thy name is E2E Testings
If the plagiarism machine gives you plagiarized materials and you use—knowing full well the machine has scraped content with no consent—then you are plagiarizing. You are saying "It's ok that they plagiarized because it made my life easier or cheaper."
If you buy a smart phone out of the back of some dude's van and it costs $50, you probably think "oh this is probably stolen."
If you think "oh this is probably stolen" and you buy it anyway, you are complicit in the theft.
The "pro-AI" side basically said "You didn't steal that. Since you personally didn't go rip them off, you didn't commit the crime."
My response was: "OF COURSE YOU STOLE IT!"
I followed up with more nuance of course
