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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

Last week’s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

  • David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish
    18·
    2 months ago

    from someone on Mastodon:

    Google has a gigantic code generation culture, because the engineers there strongly prefer complexity to drudgery.

    If you asked them to write fizzbuzz and left them in a room for twelve hours they would deliver a new programming language that generalized repetitive string printing, with an extension language for potential non-string-printing actions.

    I left in ‘22 but feel fairly confident that “25% of code generated by AI” is going to be more of the same.

    • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      I half want to jest “PDD strikes again” but honestly it feels like only half the explanation

      (promotion driven dev)

      • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
        10·
        2 months ago

        Man now I’m thinking about AI written PIPs. God if I got an AI PIP I’d self immolate on company grounds.

        • self@awful.systemsEnglish
          9·
          2 months ago

          oh this is almost definitely real, given that the regular PIP process was already designed to get you to quit

      • bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish
        10·
        2 months ago

        God knows I like a good DSL, but “complexity over drudgery” just sounds miserable. I also wonder what kind of stuff they’re coding that’s supposedly trivial enough to be generated by AI.

          • bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish
            10·
            2 months ago

            Here ya go boss, a 80% prototype solution.

            /* TODO: support other element types */
unsigned int * maxsumsubarr(unsigned int arr[], size_t len, size_t * sublen) {
        *sublen = len;
        return arr;
}