https://developers.slashdot.or... pretty much covered my thought about job satisfaction. If all you're doing each day, hour after hour, is "code reviews", that seems to me a really shitty job.

One reason vibe-coding is catching on with smaller firms is that, well, AI is "free" to them right now. I can go download Visual Studio Code, and get CoPilot for free...or maybe I ditch that and put Claude on it. Doesn't matter. I could still use it to generate code and hey, I'm not paying a thing.

They're getting "inexperienced junior developers" for free.

But 2 problems with that. The obvious one is noted above several times: how do you get senior, experienced developers when you haven't trained any junior developers (and don't think you're REALLY training the AI on your business model and real use cases - at any moment the engine host can just toss out a bunch of institutionalized memory for cost reasons and you're fake junior developers are as dumb as when you first started.

At some point, unless they just want the job and that's that, a code *editor* is going to get sick of editing. Maybe they won't, I don't know for sure...but I sure as hell know *I* would get sick of editing junk code day after day after day. There's no joy in it. There's no satisfaction. It is just the job, nothing more.

Now the second problem: when will they stop making it free?

This crap is expensive (as anybody following news headlines goes). And small firms and individual developers aren't paying for it. The big companies are by taking out loans against their stock values (case in point, Oracle, which took a huge 1/3rd of a drop in value for doing so).

So at some point, like with every free service that gets enshitified so that it can be somehow paid for, AI code generation will be no different. They're going to have to do SOMETHING to turn this free service into something that makes money. Licenses for improvements, a limit on number of prompts per day, advertisements showing up in the comments that the code generator generates, maybe even they'll start creating code that requires you to have a commercial library license and they won't generate 'clean' (zero derivative) code unless you pay separately, and then throw in all the vendor lock-in that goes with that.

All those things that already happen for "free" AI services online like photo cleanups. They'll have to start doing it here to recoup the huge investments.

We'll see how that changes the way this stuff is seen.

I am about to switch from Linux to FreeBSD. I have used FreeBSD before, and I really liked their package management, among other things.

Seems like a rebrand of the Obama-era United States Digital Service.

That's a ridiculous amount to spend on phone service. There are prepaid plans with unlimited data for a fraction of the cost. And unless you're tethering or streaming, you probably don't need unlimited.

They are "ideological qualified", which is what DEI was always about anyway.

Sounds like psychological projection to me.

I care, and I wasn't "slapped in the face". You care -- were you "slapped in the face"?

Your problem is with "tribal knowledge", not with "face slapping". And tribal knowledge is a universal problem -- at least, that's what the science says. As stupid as MAGA is -- AND IT IS STUPID -- every tribe is equally stupid. If your particular tribe is correct on some issue, it's mostly likely because of lady fortuna.

Alas, thus it is, has been, and always will be.

This is too black and white. Nobody wants the government wasting money. And maybe the government shouldn't be doing some of the things that it does. For example, every state has a dept of education, and the federal dept merely serves as a way to strong-arm states of political issues, like ruining the lives of college men on hearsay because politicized moral panic from epistemologically challenged feminists.

Thankfully the US government is relatively efficient -- as these things go.

And you're factually incorrect as well. Trump cannot "take it all away". Congress has to do that. Trump is an ineffectual blow hard would-be dictator. It seems his only true talents are as a cult leader, and a kleptocrat.

I don't think people wanted Trump to do "terrible things". The American public chose "getting into a car with a drunk driver" over reifying grievance politics. Trump1 was relatively benign compared to the sh*tshow of the last year. Turns out the American public see that they made a mistake.

Harris was a weak candidate. Trump is graded on a curve. The Dems were corrupt. MAGA has created a world where corruption doesn't exist. It's plausible that Hunter Biden got millions to gain access to his dad. Trump's crypto scheme allows billions in corrupt donations with no paper trail. The Dems ran ashore on the ship of grievance politics. And now we're being punished for our sins. The punishment is, of course, way out of proportion to the crime.

This is all true -- for some loose definition of "Nazi". Oh how I wish more people knew what National Socialism was about. For fscks sake.

The left is a rather large coalition. The centrist part of it is fine. That's where I am. The branding belongs to the grievance industry, which is why Trump won. Talk about throwing away a winning hand. Mind you, the GOP threw themselves under the bus by sticking with Trump. It'll just take them another 2-4 years for many to realize it.

The problem of racism in "America First" is real. It's woke politics applied to stupid white people. The woke right is a problem. Woke is a problem. Woke is racist. I don't know what the race hustlers expected to happen.

You make a good point; however, some people really do believe in state's rights.