I have read too many marketing materials today.
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@pathunstrom @xgranade I'm curious about something.
I'm not a developer, but I have a lot of experience writing scripts, and I can 'think like a computer' and understand where things are happening and what's going wrong. I'm the person at work who gets the head-scratcher tickets and has to tactfully walk people back from 'bad ideas/bad design/tech debt'. I'm pretty sure that paired-up with something like Claude Code, I could work out a decent set of PRs to do something like "convert Basilisk II from GTK3 to GTK4, or SDL2 to SDL3".
A lot of people I interact with (not at work, thankfully) are deeply drunk on LLM Kool-Aide. They are weirdly excited about using LLMs and agents for everything they can. They tend to be the kinds of people that take joy in watching their toys 'do stuff' they never could with natural language. They do not have deep technical backgrounds, most have never written a script or taken the time to profile why something is slow or inefficient. I'm guessing that many people like this are just pointing their tools at projects and hoping to score points on GitHub like they would go for 'likes' on Instagram.
Is there a difference to the project owners between us, or are we both slop factories? I ask because I get the impression there are a LOT of the latter, and few of the former, and I'm guessing that one is giving a bad name to the other.
@hughsie I think a spinning character at the head of the progress bar makes sense (e.g. "| / — \"), but it would also be cool to see if some indication of 'what was mostly happening' was in a bracket at the head of the bar:
[=====[wait device] ]
@kim at least Otto was cool enough to get some action.
Dr Kim Foale
A salesperson trying to sell my boss 'managed services' said "nobody likes writing parsers" and I had to cut him off.
"I do."
I'm starting to wonder what the heck everyone imagines an engineer's job should be. Apparently I'm supposed to *want* to just sit back, go to meetings, shuffle reports, and ask vendors to do anything more technical than sort rows of spreadsheets?
I really hate how the algorithms on social media work.
I watch a lot of YouTube. Most of it is nerdy tech stuff or leftist content. I typically get a lot of that kind of stuff in my timeline. It's actually quite nice.
Then last week, I suddenly started getting all this weirdo 'regressive white man libertarian tech' stuff. Bald men who clearly get no pussy bitching about Xlibre or how the mainstream distros are 'too woke'. Grown men having passionate tantrums over things that no confident adult should have. That sort of thing.
What triggered this change in tone? I can't be sure, but I think it was because I watched ONE video from a right-wing political content creator, and the algorithm decided that the logical next step for me was to take my two interests and blast me with a right-wing flavored swirly of them.
@Unixbigot Is this why they won't make me a string with identical endpoint coordinates at my local spacetime improvement shop?
Many cultures since the beginning of civilization have a 'great flood' myth. In the oldest one, the gods sent the flood not because of our wickedness, but because there were too many people making too much noise...
...and I feel that.
@HollyCo26588808 Very cool. One of my first 'projects' in my IT career was to digitize several thousand rare Jazz recordings and host them on a streaming server that only allowed one user at a time to listen to any individual album (for a campus, we thought it was a good interpretation of Fair Use).