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Henry Jacobs-Foyles

Someone posted their first AI-generated image yesterday. It wasn't perfect. The hands were weird. The lighting was off. They were proud of it.

And the comments were exactly what you'd expect. "Slop." "This isn't art." "You didn't make anything."

You know what that person did? They showed up. They tried a new tool. They shared something they made with strangers on the internet knowing full well someone might tear it apart. That takes more guts than most of the critics will ever have.

Every creative you admire was once the person posting something imperfect. The ones tearing people down for learning in public were never brave enough to start.

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@yassie_j 🔧 is also a new tool

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@alice @yassie_j half life crowbar noises

Korma Chameleon Mar 18

@yassie_j clanker

@yassie_j this might be the best ragebait account on fedi

Hannah (With a snake problem 🐍)Mar 18

@yassie_j Henry. This is for you: 🔧

BAD~1.txt Mar 18

@yassie_j 11 wrenches in four minutes is great work

genuine generator generating gender Mar 18

@yassie_j this might be the best one yet, 12 wrenches in this short span of time? incredible.

genuine generator generating gender Mar 18

@yassie_j run this through kagi's LinkedIn translater though, it'd be funnier

@gen I actually got this from Threads LOL 💀

genuine generator generating gender Mar 18

@[email protected] LMAOOOO

@gen no editing. Verbatim. I didn’t have to alter anything. Just the act of saying it through Henry’s voice makes it satirical lmao

@[email protected] @gen no fucking way, please post a screenshot

[Yaseenist] CauseOfBSOD Mar 18

@yassie_j @gen how

its like 100% in-character for henry

@CauseOfBSOD @gen @frawst

I’ll do you one better.

The dude wrote a BLOG POST about how his feelings got hurt lmao because people were dunking on him in the replies

He is legitimately whining about it

https://www.thedaringcreatives.com/toxic-threads-someone-posted-their-first-image-the-internet-killed-them/

Toxic @Threads: Someone posted their first image, the internet killed them for it.

Nobody argued with what I said. They argued with what they assumed I meant.

The Daring Creatives

@[email protected] @gen @CauseOfBSOD the link to his original post doesnt work, i think he deleted them lmao

@frawst @gen @CauseOfBSOD that explains why I couldn’t find it again lollllllll

Starlight ✨Mar 19

@gen @[email protected] Wait, it's your account? I thought it was just some zany guy you had an amicable relation with.

@starlight @gen looool

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@yassie_j @gen golden

@[email protected] @gen this was originally genuine????

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@piku @gen YES!!!

He got so bullied that he wrong a blog post whining about it

https://www.thedaringcreatives.com/toxic-threads-someone-posted-their-first-image-the-internet-killed-them/

Toxic @Threads: Someone posted their first image, the internet killed them for it.

Nobody argued with what I said. They argued with what they assumed I meant.

The Daring Creatives

@[email protected] @gen

If you're curious about my workflow for creating my social media content, you can read about it here on the site. wtfwtfwtf why do u have a a workflow for this

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Here’s my workflow

I think of something > my fingers take the wheel > I hit post without proofreading

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@piku @yassie_j @gen
.github/workflows/slop_it_up.yaml

ToweroftheArchmage Antifascist Mar 18

@yassie_j slop supporters are almost as bad as slop 'creators'

Henry Jacobs-Foyles Mar 18

@ToweroftheArchmage No one leading with an insult has ever changed anyone’s mind. The term 'slop' is offensive and problematic language.

ToweroftheArchmage Antifascist Mar 18

@yassie_j slop is offensive!! And the people slopping it are making terrible choices!
#AIisSlop #aiisascam

Latte macchiato

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@yassie_j platinum level post

Flouride Stettheimer 🦫🏴Mar 18

@yassie_j you fucking got my blood pressure up Yaseen Jesus christ

@yassie_j If your concept of art is to describe an image to an stochastic algorithm in a machine and have it generate an image for you, then you should probably try writing by yourself instead of wasting your time with genAI.

gabboman the wafrn dev Mar 18

I cant rewoot your posts because i have new followers and are not gona get the joke and think im an ai bro

gabboman the wafrn dev Mar 18

What i mean is this is too good please keep it up

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@yassie_j I read "they showered" and was totally prepared to think this was intentional

[Yaseenist] CauseOfBSOD Mar 18

@yassie_j ah yes the rent-lowering yaseen

@yassie_j yassie what drugs are you using. i need to know

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@GrokAI, put a bra on this slop toot.

@yassie_j oh my fucking miku henry you did it again

Inga stands with 🇺🇦 🇵🇸Mar 19

@yassie_j I got another one for you, stolen from the internet:

If you started your career more than ~2-3 years ago, you were trained on a completely different game. Clear abstractions, ownership, careful iteration, all that. That muscle memory is actively hindering you; preventing you from succeeding.

The people coming up now don't have that baggage. They never internalized "write the code yourself" as the default. They think in terms of spawning systems, letting things run, checking outcomes. It's way closer to managing a process than engineering in the traditional sense. And yeah, that shows up in what gets shipped. A 21-year-old will brute force 20 directions in parallel with agents and just pick what works. Someone more "experienced" will spend that same time trying to design the "right" approach up front. By the time they're done thinking, the other person has already iterated past them.

It's kind of unsettling is how basically all of these "senior instincts" are now liabilities. Caring about perfect structure, being allergic to randomness, needing to understand every layer before moving forward, etc. used to be strengths. Now they just slow you down.

You can already feel the split forming. Younger builders are comfortable letting systems do things they don't fully understand. Senior engineers keep trying to pull everything back into something legible and controlled, kneecapping themselves. That gap is not small.

What I'm seeing in my circle of founders and CEOs is that they're slowly laying off these older devs (cutoff age is around 24yrs) and replacing them with fresh, young talent, better suited for this new agentic era. From their reports the velocity gains are insane; and it compounds. Basically, these older folks are still doing polynomial thinking in an exponential landscape. They are dinosaurs slated for extinction.

@IngaLovinde @yassie_j that’s a beautiful copypasta