So there's something there, there, and the DOJ is investigating, and the defamation suit is bullshit, but something something WSJ TDS.

You're concerned Trump's own DOJ is about to embarrass him, and it's ... the media's fault. That's how maga brain rot works, funny.

Would you care to rationally explain how Trump is involved in this story?

The lack of a pipeline for junior hires at most places predates the AI boom. The thinking we can optimize away experience and planning, that's related, and also preexisting. It's this mindset that we need only experienced developers and operators because we wing everything and it's already nearly impossible to get experienced folks up to speed, so forget recent graduates. The sink or swim culture. Hire a bunch of consultants - wing it on bigger projects, related. Same predictable results any way you slice it, but that's all predating the AI boom.

I think AI will benefit every level of experience, for sure the more you know the more you can squeeze out of them, but just "what's causing this syntax error" alone is a huge help for all levels. A real problem is people going over their skis, and I'm not sure if being asked to do so is the problem, or it's just people will be trying to contribute in ways they haven't before. Having senior developers review junior developer's commits is a great idea, why weren't they doing it before? They didn't have junior developers? What are we calling junior devs now, are they operators, sysadmins, managers, etc with some coding knowledge, on a whizzing devops team, there's nothing keeping them from contributing, and so now they are, with more complex changes than they used to. I think that would happen with or without pressure from above, to be honest.

Where do you get the idea that a government doesn't negotiate and sign terms and conditions like anyone else does?

If I want to do per-seat licensing and you don't, we're both free to walk away from the deal.

How can you possibly not see that. Are you suggesting the government should simply take people's stuff? Nationalize everything in their way because.. emergency here, emergency there, emergencies and national defense emergency powers everywhere every five minutes with this admin?

WTAF is happening to conservatives and libertarians right now. Have y'all lost your God-damned minds? OH, that's right, fuck you I got mind isn't about free markets or liberty unless it's you or your business, duh, how did I forget.

That sounds like bullshit, not even in the realm of plausibility. https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/...

You misread the stats, they said 6%, and honestly, that should be broken down into bots and browser obfuscation estimates before taking seriously.

Waves of tech layoffs have been going on way before the LLM craze when AI became a scapegoat. I've been saying it for years at this point, you can trace it all back to 2019-2022.

Everything you need to know is out there, look at hiring during the dumb money years, and look at their profits today.

Having a defined purpose is not the same as corporate doublespeak, it's just one place you can find it sometimes.

Like job titles. Having well defined job titles is great for figuring out organizational structures and responsibilities. It's also a medium for bullshit like, Solutions Engineer.

Nobody takes you seriously, you fucking windmill cancer.

It's not hard, unless you've been conditioned to think diversity means _other_ people, and other people bad.

Half of the U.S. Congress is made of representatives in proportion to the population they represent, the other half is made up of two representatives from each state regardless of population, size, economic output, etc. Not equal, but an equitable representation of the diverse states and people that make up the country. So sparse rural farmers in Virginia had a little protection from dense urban New Yorkers or Bostonians basically. And ya, there's more layers to that and it gets ugly, because we know what "farmers" in Virginia meant back then. That design persists today and is even the basis for our presidential elections, the Electoral College.

The philosophy of giving minority groups a chance to be heard above the tyranny of the majority is sound. Conservatives are set against diversity when the other is someone else, so fuck them, I got mine takes over. Now they unironically want a "diversity of viewpoints"... OK, sure and who does that represent? Oh, nobody, it's a viewpoint... of fuck other people, lol, anti-representation, anti-them.

This is exactly like saying there are two kinds of workers, those who love to work, and those who hate their job.

Fuck right off down the road with that bullshit. Don't even try to put school up on some weird pedestal like it's not exactly what it looks like. It's work. Like moving boxes is good for your muscles, hitting the books is good for your brain, but it's work. Acting like everyone is supposed to like it because it's good for them is fucking fantasy.

Most kids don't love showing up to play baseball or soccer or whatever either, but it's good for them and we motivate them to stick with it. School is no different. MOTIVATE THEM.

Hey, it's perfectly normal to not like getting up early to run too, but it's great for you. Calling people slackers for not wanting to do something that objectively sucks is stupid as fuck and guaranteed to backfire.

Imagine calling my running group a bunch of slackers because they didn't love showing up at the ass crack of dawn to get sweaty. Or saying that there are two types of runners, people who love to better themselves and people who hate running. Do you see how elitist and snobbish that sounds?

Man, go unfuck yourself, before telling someone else they're lazy because they don't love hard work.

No. They should be delegating the details to people that actually know their shit and are insulated from changing political winds to some degree. So people can do their fucking jobs, even if politicians don't like it. Like produce jobs statistics EVEN WHEN THEY'RE BAD. Because dividing up spectrum, managing water pollution, fiscal policy or countless other niches shouldn't take individual acts of Congress to achieve and shouldn't unpredictably change on the whims of every newly elected mini king.

They did do their job. They created the EPA. The problem isn't with Congress failing to codify every EPA, FTC, FCC, DOE, or what ever rule. The problem is squarely with executive branch power grabs and Congress being unable to guarantee any kind of political independence due to the Supreme Court being captured by goons that don't want the government to be able to do anything.

To the small government crowd they love it. They know congress can't effectively do those functions. They can barely pass a fucking budget, good fucking luck issuing spectrum. They don't fucking care, they don't want the government to be able to do those things. That's why we have a Supreme Court bending over backwards to take away the independence of congressionally created agencies but uhhhhh uh uhh the Federal Reserve is special, don't fuck with that one. Trying to have it both ways.

Yup. The difference was everyone had the same shitty social media feed. Word of mouth, church gossip, etc. Razor blades in your apples, vans with tinted windows, dungeons and dragons something something your art teacher is a satan worshipper, real estate only goes up, etc.

People didn't get dumber, they diversified. Now you can be part imminent disclosure fermented caveman diet, and your neighbor can be AI singularity bitcoin investor, all these different flavors of stupid bullshit.

That sounds like another spin of the white paper best practice bros we've always had. Or "the consultants said" appeals to outside authority. Nothing new there.

Like never mind reality or learned experience, or the particulars of our environment. I found this white paper that says do X, let's shoehorn everything into this one size fits all approach that is terrible, rather than using it as a reference and engineering our own approach... like where do they think baby white papers even come from? Try arguing with them and it's *points to white paper link*

Or they asked the outside consultants if we should do X and they said yes, now it's "the consultant says". MFer... I've been on the other side of the table, you could ask them anything, there's a hundred ways to solve a problem, and they'll affirm any of them if they don't totally suck. I love joining the next meeting early and getting the consultants all buttered up to my approach without explaining the disagreement on our side, then act like ... they said ... when my disagreeing coworker shows up. It's like two kids trying to trick their parents into taking a side without them knowing there were sides. I'll implement my solution anyway when that coworker is on vacation, and anyone deserves that response if they can't explain their position without leaning on some higher authority bs, myself included. Just don't do it, internalize outside advice and own it, with understanding.

I can see how AI might be used for that affirmation seeking appeal to authority bullshit because it pushes the same buttons, but I haven't seen it myself yet. Someday I'm going to give someone the look, the why did you do that look, and they're going to say "the AI said", and whoooo boy are they going to get some clever "the AI said" right back. It's the only way people learn.

Dude I pull up to a four way stop and fully expect one of the other three people to not completely grasp how this thing works. Some advice is worth repeating because there's another moron born every minute.

But yah it's right there in TFS too, so ruling on the field stands, everyone gets a car analogy.

I love the poorly educated