Good lord those paragraphs give me a headache, this may be one of the few cases where an LLM can provide value.

SA has its history but the people who are left grew the fuck up and are by and large decent people. Seriously.

When I was in college I really admired Slashdot's anonymous posting / dedication to free speech, but at some point you learn the ironic Nazis are just real Nazis always feeling around to see how far they can push their limits.

With age and wisdom I'm convinced a paywall + relative freedom to ban paying users is the way to go. At least if people want to burn their venture capital money (or their personal money) to run bot or humans with an agenda on your site, they are paying handsomely for the privilege.

This is actually the answer though. SomethingAwful (for whatever you think of it) charges $10 since forever and its provided money for the site and for the most part kept out spam and bots. Combine that with human moderators who have the authority to ban people (or robots) if they pay that and start acting like a piece of shit anyway, and you walk away with a decent online community.

I rode a few while on a trip to Phoenix and it was way better than the average Lyft or Uber ride I've taken.

It drove defensively, I got to choose my own music and climate control, I didn't have an driver tapping on their phone to plan out new rides, or high, or bragging about how they've been driving since 5am, or complaining about how they've been driving since 5am.

This is coming from someone who is typically pretty skeptical of big tech bullshit and a fan of labor. I still use the cashier when there is a self checkout, etc. But the tech here is so good that its going to destroy all of those uber drivers (assuming it can sort of handle weather -- I can't speak to that)

Less stressed? Since this shit came out our management has lost their minds and every clarifying question/pushback has been met with "Ask ChatGPT".

They've gotten really lazy about specifying what they want and one slipped up and used the language that he was going "prompt" another engineer.

Sounds like you just need to bake "Hey i have a thing on my mind that's really been stressing my Mental Health" in front of every query

Lets not jump to conclusions, sometimes is was for the purposes of their own sexual gratification

I've made a career out of being this guy. (and the inverse of talking to the users so the developers don't have to) It's absolutely useful and despite a lot of other bullshit I'm glad my company sees it this way (until they replace me with a chatbot)

Nano works fine though

I'm legitimately "Steve" at a much smaller tech company. I also do product management (lol) and QA (a cursory check before the customers really QA it for us).

I will never get any help, the only answer is to build out a magical LLM automation at the same time as responding to a flood of emails/tickets/meetings/calls.

I've learned not to ask for help as that turns into a homework assignment with due dates.

At least I still have a well paying tech job in 2025, until the house of cards collapses.

It's this, 100%. This shit is not intelligent, it's just really good at saying yes to every request with a smile, then offering to do more. This is why C Suite loves it so much.

oh your company didn't just shove Jira administration at the engineering team resulting in executives pinging them to do drop everything and add a new field or troubleshoot why their client couldn't see a ticket?

The language in the statute is "exceeding authorized access"

I don't think there needs to be any legally binding contract?

This is basically the "just because the door is unlocked doesn't mean you can help yourself to my toolshed" that they hit people who access systems with all the time.

Pretty sure they just talked to an LLM to shit out that description and didn't read the output (who wants to).

Given my experience in the industry in 2025 they probably would have been reprimanded if someone in management caught wind that they were making blog entries without an LLM writing them.