James Rantanen

@Rantanen
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iOS Design System, Ux, and platform engineering @ Stitch Fix. he/him
Deprecated Birdsite@JARinteractive
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in which @PavelASamsonov nails it again in the commentary of block layoffs and how seniority makes you a target:

”Getting rid of the pesky experts who get paid more to slow down the process with unnecessary things like ‘checking if the code does what it’s supposed to’ is a win-win. In a race to the bottom where the value is solely blasting through to the next set of deliverables, your skill and craft and taste are maladaptive.”

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/ai-layoffs-like-block-s-are-a-race-to-the-bottom-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-productivity

"AI layoffs" like Block's are a race to the bottom that have nothing to do with productivity.

You won't be replaced by AI, nor a person using AI, because backfills aren't real.

The Product Picnic
@BritishKoalaTea Check out Fennel Cooking Studio for a class sometime, too. Great people and a communal cooking space. We’ve met a bunch of great folks there!
have just seen my favorite meme of the year so far, hands down.
In 2025 MAGA taught us that the opposite of DEI isn’t merit, it’s mediocre people running institutions into the ground.
My age: I get this joke 🤣
#humor #phones
Instead of calling it Secret Santa, can we not call it Nondisclosure Claus?
One awesome use of AI would be for Apple to continue chatting with the scammers when you mark a text/message as ‘delete and report junk’. Would even be better if it later send you a transcript.
A weird thing I've seen over and over again in AI discourse: "AI is awful at [thing I'm an expert in], but great for [thing I'm not an expert in]!"
I want to live in a world in which saying “I don't know” is considered more valuable than spewing plausible-sounding nonsense.

New Xcode beta, so that means a new Simulator icon.

Select the Simulator in the Finder, do Get Info, and drop this PNG file on the app icon in the upper-left.

It makes more sense now, huh?

https://mastodon.social/@chockenberry/115034159275902321