I would like to replace the front door - hopefully it's a revolving door, so the aesthetics don't change so much - of the YCombinator offices with an enormous 10-stacked-blades MixMaster.

It seems that the complete corruption of my industry might have been prevented if I'd done this years ago, and anyone trying to go in or out of that place is not going to be a loss to society anyways.

If I like the results, we can start on the others.

#YCombinator #MixMaster #SliceAndDice #LLM #AI #software #IT #programming #VultureCapital #VC #a16z #capital

I can't honestly say I have any sympathy for people who feel betrayed by #GitHub, considering that GitHub has always been a #proprietary platform.

If you are a #FOSS coder, why on Earth would you ever host your FOSS code on a non-FOSS #infrastructure system??

It's a recipe for betrayal. Andreesen Horowitz invested $100M USD in GitHub all the way back in 2012, and *now* you're upset?? #VultureCapital

https://ploum.net/2026-01-05-unteaching_github.html

If my argument on Friday that there is an AI investment bubble burst coming didn't have you convinced, perhaps this will:
#AIbubble #investment #vulturecapital

https://youtu.be/CBCujAQtdfQ?si=vtgsOKhMJ9XB3rYi

No one deserves this fate, even if they are the author of their own degradation

More, it's a cautionary tale for us all about the future of #society and #AI and its caustic effects on #mentalHealth

Even if this particular canary in the coal mine chose to place themselves into their predicament with enthusiasm, and is funding it

"A Prominent #OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a #ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say"

https://futurism.com/openai-investor-chatgpt-mental-health

#ventureCapital #vultureCapital

Oh my $DEITY, the "AI" #slop problem...

I do #hobby #electronics. I ran into a problem that I was having difficulty figuring out from the IC manufacturer's datasheet (which is terse, but does contain several example uses / circuits). It felt like I was missing something fundamental about the way it worked, so I searched the web for 3rd-party documentation, tips, tricks, examples of use, etc.

And I got pages and pages and pages of results that were nothing but slop.

Language clearly stolen from the official datasheet and reworded by #AI into not making sense.

Articles that repeat the same point in multiple sentences in multiple sequential paragraphs.

Descriptions that refer to numbered components that do not appear on the shown schematic.

Descriptions of the working of the component that are incredibly obviously incorrect, to the point that anyone who's ever measured the voltage drop across a resistor would say "That can't be right".

Confident declarations of the function of many of the device's (numerous) control pins, which are not only wrong, but sometimes completely the opposite of reality. To the point that if you followed the given instructions, you would very quickly release the #magic #smoke and become sad.

Out of the first ~60 #search results, I saw 2 that were actual humans communicating. And neither of them had a solution, they were only semi-related.

The #web is #broken. Thanks, #SiliconValley #techbros.

#MagicSmoke #VultureCapital #a16z #human