Actually thinking about it, it makes even less sense!

OK, so sure if you are identified by your real name and use chat GPT to write posts then OpenAI will know and could filter them out (in theory), but if you use Claude or Gemini or XAI or Deepseek or ... etc... to write them then OpenAI won't know, so they can't filter it. And likewise for everyone else.

So even if somehow the 'bros are all in on this it still doesn't work as a conspiracy because it's a ton of effort for a tiny payoff.

Oh yeah I forgot about reverse (and N), I rarely drive automatics these days. That's insane! What's weird is it seems to be the higher end cars which lean more heavily into worse (i.e. screen based) controls. I get semi-regular sampling via hire cars of what's going on, and I've started to kind of prefer when I get the model I hired, rather than the more expensive sub (which is the majority of the time if you pick the cheapest, it seems). Also currently less of that shit with vans.

Buying software is already dumb when we have open source. And now paying for a host of software is also going to be obsolete.

All extreme views are wrong.

Why would I pay for github or slack clones when it's been my experience that AI can craft a MVP in an hour long session and iterate on a more complete service as needed later.

Same reason one might pay for github. It's not that expensive, and you're doing more than just paying for software (gitlab exists, after all). Github are providing a useful service and in many cases it's way cheaper than vibe coding and then maintaining an alternative.

For $50/year/person I'm less buying the software than buying the service. They deal with the hosting, security updates, hosting a CI fleet on a variety of platforms, etc etc. It would be hard to vibe code that up for under $500 worth of time and tokens (small company!), and that ignores the hosting costs and the maintenance costs.

Github do a reasonable job and to me it's worth the money to make it someone else's problem.

Don't get me wrong, none of it's hard. I've built and maintained a multi-arch build fleet in the past. I can vibe code webapps. I've make fleets with load balancing and failover. But for under $500 per year, which is frankly peanuts, I save a ton of work even with Claude. Low to mid end contractors will charge that per DAY. It's more than a day's work.

Other software, it depends. Someone in the company vibe coded a different webapp which would have cost tens of thousands per year per seat for something deeply shitty and much less well polished than github, and less tuned to our usecase than the vibe coded one. That was 100% worth building. I know Oracle make software like that. They, their lizard-men salesfuckers and their execrable software can go die in a fire as far as I care. Fuck them, I hope AI completely destroys them, salts the earth and fires their ashes into the sun.

Other things, there's a right banging OSS package out there which is GPL'd and we tested it, liked it and forked out a quite reasonable price for the commercial version because we wanted to use it commercially and it's not the kind of thing Claude does remotely well. Plus even if it did, it's likely a false saving.

I don't entirely agree.

I'd say a fair amount of the stress is the stop go traffic, but a fair amount of the stress is the uncertainty of the amount of traffic and how long the journey will take. That stress can kick in in a taxi too when someone else is driving.

It's one of the things I especially dislike about city driving is the variance in how long journeys take.

Unfortunately you're talking about America, so you probably don't have low stress options.

Never driven a Tesla (or Indeed any electric car), so would you care to elaborate? I assumed electric cars don't have gears!

This conspiracy is even more bonkers than the original one.

There's a bunch of stuff going on. Social media companies are raking in huge profits while causing harm and many people reckon this is not OK and want them to not profit off kids while harming them. There is no conspiracy there.

There are also authoritarians who want everything ID'd, and they're not going to be unhappy about ID requirements, but that doesn't mean the former are in cahoots with the latter.

The AI bros... that sounds like an unusually well organised, long term plan.

Every single law requiring age verification can be traced back to one of those two.

That's complete fucking bullshit. Just because people you don't like (for perfectly sound reasons) might want something doesn't mean everyone pushing for that is doing it for those reasons.

And so easy to shatter when you look at the far left and see them calling the very idea of impartial fact "a tool of white supremacy".

It's also so easy to shatter when you look at the sky and it's bright green. Fortunately neither of those things happens.

And so easy to shatter when you look at the far left and see them calling the very idea of impartial fact "a tool of white supremacy".

No link, cool. This is probably good, you'd have probably linked to a loony website with a sort of grain of half truth among a bunch of post truth bullshit then I'd have to go down the rabbit hole finding a reputable source. You saved me the work, so thanks.

- Wikipedia, which has an official stance of ideological filtering

In these post-truth days, impartial facts are considered left wing ideology.

I got a couple temp bans back to back for pointing out to the moderators that the spirit of liberalism and free speech means protecting speech you disagree with.

Translation: I told liberals they should give me a platform to be racist because that's liberal

Once I got off the site I found the real, actual liberalism was being supported more by the right than the left now.

Translation: I found a safe space to be racist

You didn't give any indication you actually enjoy them.

Are you completely fucking stupid naturally or are you actively trying to be a moron? To pick some things I said:

"I like C++, it's fun"

"I love AWK"

"BASH is my homeboy"

"I quite like PIC asm"

"Shader graphs are just fun"

"Oh yeah and scripting complex actions etc in BOOM compatible engines is let us say, barrels of fun."

If you think that's not giving "any indication" that I "actually enjoy them", then you need your head examined because it ain't working right.

  Again, I don't think you enjoy programming.

Of course you think that, you're a raging moron who can't tell that me saying "I love AWK" is some sort of positive preference.

You are the platonic ideal of the C fanatic. You are so blindly loyal to the language that somehow you read "I love AWK" and come to the conclusion I didn't express enjoyment of it because I don't express loving programming in C anymore.

World's moving on, bucko. The new generation and the security community both are aware that a 1970s language is a little bit long in the tooth for 2026.

That's why you became a manager.

Naw I became a manager because it kind of happened via successive promotions. I think quit something like 3 years ago because I hated not building stuff. Now I make things.

You think using a complex language in FOSS has no strong effects on the community?

What's that got to do with the price of fish? By all means continue slinging nonsequiteurs, I can keep it up all day.

Nope.

Yep.

But I usually know what I am talking about

The evidence suggests otherwise.

I have done real work in > 10 different languages and know a few more.

You seem like a 1 year's experience repeated 10 times rather than 10 years experience sort of chap.

You seem incapable of understanding that language complexity is not the important thing here but overall complexity. Optimizing the former and ignoring the latter makes the overall problem more complex. But you seem to be unable to avoid hyperfocusing on the language at the expense of the problem.

So sure you might know 10 languges, but you're a bad engineer in all of them.

Case in point, I bought a bunch of metric bolts and nuts at Amazon, and they wouldn't screw onto each other. They would get to some random point and the nuts would stop turning. Sometimes it was half an inch up,

There's your problem!

But seriously, this doesn't generally match my experience. I haven't bought nuts and bolts there because they're cheaply and readily available locally, though China is obviously more than capable of making screws at scale. So much consumer electronics is made there, they can certainly do that.

It is strictly a market place, so YMMV, but honestly... it's pretty good.

If I respond in a NON LEFTEST way, I usually get banned for 1-2 days.

Oh they only ban for 1-2 days for really racist posts?

They are NOT a free speech place.

Free speech does not mean any particular person is obligated to give you a platform for racism. If you want to be racist in company head on over to X or Truth Social.

I was there for the beginning and in the end they went way overboard on the SJW.

Translation: people did not appreciate my racist comments.

but if you don't know what the compiler is going to do with your code you should have used another language.

I would say this rules out about 99.99% of C programmers from using C then.

The problem is that the areas where the evangelists want Rust to save the world,

Eh? I'm just making an argument about what the compiler is doing.

you're usually going to be doing that.

This is exceptionally doubtful.

It's a mirage.

It is not. Even if we wildly overestimate the amount of raw pointer fuckage you actually need to, say, 50% of kernel code you've still got the compiler eliminating certain bug classes in the remaining 50% of code. That is no mirage.

Most of the time when you can have all the protections, why are you even trying to use a compiled language?

At this point I don't know if you're asking a rhetorical question or if you genuinely don't know why one would want to use a compiled language.