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Lies you were told as a kid?

My parents told me they put our cat up for adoption (it was a feral cat that only liked me) after I left home for university. My brother later accidentally let it slip they had the cat put down. I’ve never really forgiven them for that.

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"I built this"... No, you didn't!

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As much as parts of the FOSS community has been toxic, especially to minority devs, it’s still one of my favourite creations of humanity. It’s a Library of Alexandria moment that LLMs have been trained on pretty much every line of FOSS code written and accessible on the internet, commodified it for billionaires, and is now being used to attack those projects it stole from in an avalanche of slop. It’s what makes Linus‘ recent statements such a betrayal to me and makes me wonder why Linux & git were ever open source if that’s his attitude to all this.

fuck_ai

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Slop Alert! Obtanium has been slopified startinh with Version 1.7.0

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* in a thoughtful way (which most devs are terrible at)

* in the short/medium term (because they atrophy reasoning skills and cut off upskilling opportunities for more junior staff)

* while still having to maintain your skills to catch out the many inevitable issues

* while trying to maintain the morale doing the least enjoyable thing about programming every day - reading someone else’s code

* while managers press you to review more code, more quickly beyond what is possible to actually review

* with dubiously evaluated productivity gains, ignoring tech debt and dangerous lack of whole codebase knowledge

* with uncertain future financial burden as key business pipelines are hurriedly sloppified with no real purpose or plan

* living with the moral burden of funneling money directly into the pockets of deranged American technofeudalists and a Taiwanese fuckboy in a bad leather jacket

Does that cover all the caveats?