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www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/... after reading this through it does not appear to me AI is to blame for this

oh i did not even notice that lol

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while that may be true never underestimate the value/usefulness of random data to interested parties (speaking as ur friend, not an interested party) (thank the spaghettis i’m generally trustworthy and get to say stupid shit)

it sounds like a nice idea until it starts giving some interested party a nice little json of your electricity consumption over x amount of time to showcase ur house occupancy load over-time so that an interested bad party could better plan house break-in times and optimize for empty house

see,i still haven't seen reliable answers from any model about infra stuff involving capacity planning, finops,vendor software selection. not even like "should we self-host this thing or buy saas option",granted teams need research to do too but danger is LLMs pretend to be good at answering these

if someone tries to sell me a smart fridge or a washingmachine i think i might pop a vein

i couldn’t pull that dress off they look very glamorous :0

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i guess what i'm trying to say is, we must find ground in the petit récits amidst the grand narratives.

it seems like there are two kinds of ppl in the world, those that do this👇and those that start lamenting/gloating about gold ETFs and oil stock prices and complaining about air flight prices with what seems like no regard for human life whatsoever so it’s interesting

I'm not quite ready to announce this on LinkedIn yet because it's terrible timing with the book, but I was impacted in the rolling layoffs leading up to The Big One today at Block.

I have been taking the time as a sabbatical to finish edits and get my health in order before my next adventure.

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hi bud, hope you are doing well!

years ago i took on a writing project that involved reading primary resources like personal diaries throughout the sino-japanese war. when bombs were falling all around shanghai the author of the journal maintained regular life. those embroiled in it find moments of life and so must we.

i’m just not sure that’s the healthiest thing to do (even though i also engage in this pattern). somehow our homework becomes: finding personal and microcosmic meaning in our private sufferings and joy, taking brief moments of solace, when empires are falling and people are dying.

living through history-defining moments humbles those w less of an ego, personal strifes and struggles seem insignificant by comparison. im seeing kind ppl reduce their own needs & support for themselves in face of global despair:”what do i have to be sad about when ppl r facing war &destruction”

oh ffs not the US doing bs again come the fuck on

the whole anthropic thing is like, bad guy can be bad for always bad guy does a lot of bad things and bad guy does one good thing then that’s redemption arc and everyone cheers classic storytelling device sucks for irl tho

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it’s not always that rich, sometimes it’s about shareholders getting their dividends rich

i am slowly running out of steam on trying to convince ppl who buy into “we don’t need human collaboration agentic workflows can replace human teamwork” at all levels of seniority/decision making power but i think i’ll keep trying for a while longer, cuz most things worth doing are difficult

not gonna lie my hairline is suffering from talking to younger engs who cant debug or send a work update without LLMs.i’m not saying u shouldn’t use LLMs, but even in the age of calculators in every device mental math is helpful,and doing work without relying on LLM will always be critical

if u deeply care about the future industry and the safety of the internet, u would be concerned like me because we are seeing a rapture in mentorship. we worry in another decade there will be fewer or even no staff/principle engs like us,bc companies aren’t investing in building talent

for eng like me who have had the privilege of doing complex system macro work before AI tore a rift and we stepped back in workplace culture and quality delivery by about 13 yrs, we don’t worry about future prospects there’ll be plenty of work fixing the stuff done by“AI replacing programmers” BUT

if i rolled my eyes the way i wish i still could without hurting my own brain every time i heard “programmers will be obsolete from the workplace cuz AI could do the work of a whole team in a month in three days” im gonna end up walking around with eye whites only

if u’ve been around long enough and have been in money-moving convos u could read between the lines but more often than not the whole “we are laying ppl off cuz of AI” tears a new wave of panic and storytelling by traditional media and its audience and employees who buy more into surface narratives

it’s been how many years since we started hearing the rhetoric “we are laying ppl off bc AI has rendered these human employees useless” when the actual reasons are a myriad of “we over hired” “we are making decisions based on some new trendy stats””all my frds r doing it” etc