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I recently had a conversation with an engineer where I asked if he was concerned about building production code with AI when it appears genAI creations can’t be copyrighted. He hadn’t considered it nor had he heard anything about possible copyright issues. In the tech world it doesn’t even come up.

I think this is pretty much bang on. My day job is in tech and I also work and mix mostly with the art community outside my usual work. Many people in tech seem truly surprised at my resistance to AI tools and are very unaware of many of the reasons that people feel opposed to it.

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

tell everyone you know

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Equities. My position hasn't changed much since I began investing meaningfully in '23 (rotated a bit more into ex-US, still underweight though). I do find market movement interesting enough though to regularly peep the TradingView from time to time despite that.

I'm holding, but man it's going to be a bloody monday if nothing changes.

i may not be able to bring about furry renaissance (the amounts of money required are a level i do not care to obtain) but i will certainly try

commissioning artists is such a cool process

i get cool shit, people make cool shit (at least i hope they think it's cool shit), people get paid

I did that last year for a few banks, but this year the taxes on my income are way too high to make it worth it.

One coffee in the morning is basically enough sustenance for the day...right?

[Exit Murderer.]

Aaaaaa

Jesus

I suspect many developers will come to a fork in the road on what this means for their career. Some will retire early. Others will survive, maybe even thrive in this environment. Still others will leave, in search of something closer to the work they loved.

What you are doing in that new environment is no longer coding as craft, but software design as almost an architect would. In the push to do more, you must understand less; you simply do not have the time to "go deep" at the same rate if your output (and it is!) double, if not more.

I'll +1. I work at a big tech (not mentioned above, DMs if curious). Similar directive.

It's an interesting shift. I don't necessarily *hate* it now that I'm getting into it (and huge props to our internal teams for supporting the effort), but it is a fundamentally different skill set.

Ayyy 生日快乐！

お誕生日おめでとう!

Perfect for my lizard-derived body ^_^

Happy birthday!

We are making major breakthroughs. I only hope that I live long enough to see it come to fruition.

Also, W chise

Interesting name for an Isekai, but I've heard weirder.

/shrug

I'm not even sure about the adversely affected part. It seems very nebulous.

That's absurd.

Everyone knows that a Hot Pocket is a Wellington.

Sushi and ice cream could fix me too

IME, it's a productivity multiplier (if you are in a situation where many independent items need to be completed), though a devil's bargain for losing out on the learning usually associated by doing.

I'm not a fan, personally (I think the ROI is negative long term).

Floppy ear supremacy

Plus bidets! It's a tragedy that they're such a rarity.

Author's note: I forgot how good it feels to cook something nice for myself

:)

A spread of scran, mostly prepared by myself. There is a bowl of lobster noodles and a ribeye steak, along with a box of assorted cakes. A protogen bean is placed looking at the cakes.

Another year older, unfortunately not a year wiser.