Chris  May 7, 2025
Soatok Dreamseeker

Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI

It's becoming increasingly apparent that one of the reasons why tech companies are so enthusiastic about shoving AI into every product and service is that they fundamentally do not understand why people dislike AI. I will elaborate. I was recently made aware of the Jetbrains developer ecosystem survey, which included a lot of questions about AI. After I answered some of them negatively (and possibly…

http://soatok.blog/2025/05/04/tech-companies-apparently-do-not-understand-why-we-dislike-ai/

Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI - Dhole Moments

It’s becoming increasingly apparent that one of the reasons why tech companies are so enthusiastic about shoving AI into every product and service is that they fundamentally do not understand…

Dhole Moments
May 4, 2025 at 11:00pmWeb
Show threadSoatok DreamseekerMay 4, 2025
(Before anyone complains about the goatse with incorrect numbers of fingers: The other obvious parody of OpenAI's logo is a hate symbol and I didn't want to go with that.)
Show threadSoatok DreamseekerMay 4, 2025
Oops.
Show threadSoatok DreamseekerMay 5, 2025
Hacker News and its vaunted "meritocracy", folks:
Show threadSoatok DreamseekerMay 5, 2025
I finally got around to adding a JavaScript snippet to add this to the front of the page if the referrer matches Hacker News.
Show threadDevourerMay 5, 2025
@soatok based and furpilled
Show threadMaddy's cozy little spiral hidey holeMay 5, 2025
@soatok This is amazing 
Show threada fresh pup of coffee May 5, 2025
@soatok I'd make the text even larger 
Show threadSpork ✌️May 5, 2025
@soatok I learned that dhole is a single syllable today and now the title of your blog makes a lot more sense.
Show threadarcade w.May 5, 2025
@soatok how long until they add you to the exception list for referrers lol
Show threadLey (SobbVohoX)May 5, 2025
@soatok It would be funny if it not only showed this message, but also made all furry art 50% bigger
Show threadnLupo  May 5, 2025
@soatok 👌​
Show threadGallen 🔜 LIFC, EFMay 5, 2025
@soatok XD
Show threadphryk 🏴May 5, 2025
@soatok How dare you show any personality! Go and be boring like the rest of us, goddammit!
Show threadSoatok DreamseekerMay 5, 2025

@phryk This is always the funniest and dumbest cycle:

  • I write something on my furry blog.
  • Someone else submits it to Hacker news.
  • Someone complains about the furry art on my furry blog.
    • Show threadEchoMay 5, 2025
    @soatok @phryk Quickly becoming my favourite genre of hacker news post.
    Show threadtomate 🍅May 5, 2025
    @soatok @phryk I love your blog because it appeals to… well me!
    Show threadThe1goit May 5, 2025
    @soatok @phryk resolution: add more furry art
    Show threadclang-enbyMay 5, 2025

    @soatok @phryk

    > Furry blog
    > looks inside
    > Furry content

    Hmm yes, the floor here is indeed made of floor.

    Show threadGreenSkyOverMe (Monika)May 5, 2025
    @sudo200 @soatok @phryk Did they think we were kidding with the photos of a bunch of furries on a plane and the title „if this plane crashes the world IT infrastructure will collapse“?
    Show threadclang-enbyMay 5, 2025

    @GreenSkyOverMe @soatok @phryk

    I never was and never will be a HackerNews user, but using basic observability tools (e.g. my eyes) I immediately noticed some entities on said platform are - to stay polite - not the sharpest tool in the digital shed.

    Show threadOdobenMay 5, 2025
    @sudo200 @soatok @phryk a fluffy, carpeted floor
    Show threadStefen Auris 🖖​May 5, 2025
    @soatok a perpetual energy machine
    Show threadZeiros LionMay 5, 2025
    @soatok
    @phryk
    Show threadTransbian_Arsonists (Seraphine)May 8, 2025
    @ZeirosLion @soatok @phryk increase the thing fucking, or increase the fucking thing?

    - posted by Seraphine
    Show threadZeiros LionMay 8, 2025

    @Transbian_Arsonists
    @soatok @phryk

    Yes.

    Show threadFellwing🇪🇺May 5, 2025
    @soatok @phryk Add more furry art, do it!
    Show threadAndrew ZonenbergMay 5, 2025
    @Lingondraken @soatok @phryk If it's good enough for NIST it's good enough for me
    Show threadAndrewMay 5, 2025
    @azonenberg @Lingondraken @soatok @phryk NIST standard furry blog
    Show threadAliCat Tomskit’s Rawrrr Side 🐾May 5, 2025
    @soatok “INCREASE THE FUCKING THING” springs to mind 👀🐾✨😼
    Show threadMatilda LoveMay 5, 2025
    @soatok an appeal to engineers who want to be taken seriously: quit gatekeeping workers based on how they present as a person
    Show threadRootWyrm 🇺🇦May 5, 2025
    @soatok of course, what they really mean is:
    `s/stop mixing.*/be a cishet white guy who worships Thiel/g`
    Show threadSkunkcrimesMay 5, 2025
    @soatok "An appeal to engineers who want to be taken seriously: Stop hanging around on 'hacker' 'news'."
    Show threadrowan ΘΔ 🎨🖌May 5, 2025
    @soatok ppl when the furry blog has furries:
    Show threadMaeMay 5, 2025
    @soatok An appeal to engineers who want to be taken seriously: get a fursona
    Show threadMaeMay 5, 2025
    @soatok why did hackernews change the title on the post lol
    Show threadSoatok DreamseekerMay 5, 2025
    @Mae They do weird shit like that
    Show threadthe Stripey GoodnessMay 5, 2025
    @Mae @soatok
    corollary: those insufficiently-creative to imagine themselves as a funny animal are insufficiently creative to be serious engineers.
    Show threadFazal MajidMay 5, 2025
    @Mae @soatok I don’t have a fursona, but if I did, it would be a porcupine.
    Show threadJonlyMay 5, 2025
    @soatok if the blog has a fursona i know im getting quality
    Show threadNiniMay 5, 2025
    @soatok I don't trust an engineer without a fursona. See, it tells me they're not some weird crypto nerd gushing over whatever vacuous deadeyed techbro he (because it's always 'he') worships, they have a spirit and dare I say more humanity than the critics. But that's Hacker News for you, vibe coding as a spirit animal.
    Show threadtichoMay 5, 2025
    @nini @soatok Look who's gatekeeping now. Sincerely, a boring cishet guy who has hobbies and passions which happen to be unrelated to how I identify as a person.
    Show threadOlivier M.May 5, 2025
    @soatok please keep mixing whatever you like with very good content.
    And if I may, the images aren't rendered in Firefox reader mode (it used to work). I suppose something change in your markup
    Show threadMx. Eddie RMay 5, 2025
    @soatok
    The folks who keep taking your articles seriously enough to link to them sure do have a lot of advice on how you could be taken seriously.
    Show threadtekheddMay 5, 2025
    @soatok Also you don't elect a doge, you go down to your nearest no-kill shelter and see which one seems to like you.
    Show threadtekheddMay 5, 2025
    @soatok Take Back The Memes
    Show threadTom BortelsMay 5, 2025

    @soatok

    Ha ha you're popular and write good blog posts.

    It's a double-edged sword.

    Show threadIrenes (many)May 5, 2025
    @soatok so sorry
    Show threadDan BallardMay 5, 2025
    @soatok it appears to have not just been shadowbanned off the front but deleted entirely this time? or i'm blind. lol.
    Show threadsocMay 5, 2025
    @dan_ballard @soatok It seems to have been heavily down-ranked.
    Show threadSoatok DreamseekerMay 5, 2025
    @soc @dan_ballard Everything I write will eventually get downranked, usually 2-3 hours after it hits the front page. Sometimes it's a small mercy, because I get the dumbest emails when a post goes popular.
    Show threadsocMay 5, 2025
    @soatok @dan_ballard You could check the referrer and send them a special message, if you want. 🙂
    Show threadSoatok DreamseekerMay 5, 2025
    @soc @dan_ballard Just added
    Show threadsocMay 5, 2025

    @soatok @dan_ballard Thought of something like ...

    A group of fish is called 'a school',
    and a horde of micro-penises is called 'a HackerNews'

    ... but this is fine too. 😉

    Show threadlesbian propaganda (211695-343)May 5, 2025

    @soatok just checking the last posts in HN, a big part of them are just AI and LLM related and HN is also sponsoring AI startup school now.

    no wonder why x3

    Show threadPhil M0OFXMay 4, 2025
    @soatok A little part of me suspects the similarity might have been deliberate (on their part).
    Show threadSoatok DreamseekerMay 4, 2025
    @philpem I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case.
    Show threadLiquidParasyteMay 4, 2025

    For anyone else skeptical of the AI — butthole synthesis:

    https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes

    Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

    A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence tells us about branding in tech.

    VelvetShark
    Show threadAbyssal RookMay 4, 2025
    @soatok I thought the incorrect number of fingers was part of the joke. Y'know, cause...AI? Hands?
    Show threadSoatok DreamseekerMay 4, 2025
    @AbyssalRook Yep, that's the joke :D
    Show threadWulfy—Speaker to the machinesMay 5, 2025

    @AbyssalRook @soatok

    Modern AI models don't do the fingers thing for at least 9 months now, likely longer. That's multiple releases ago
    Got any good windows 3.11 jokes? 😁