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I feel we've reached a point where many if not most of the organizations we rely on are being overrun by toddlers.

We're constantly bring sold the belief that a chatbot is a viable substitute for thinking, skill, and hard work, of expertise and competence.

I've had conversations with people about AI agents and coding, how people want to have made something they've imagined without having to do the work of actually learning, designing and building. It's like a toddler demanding to be allowed to drive the fire truck without knowing how to drive, not being able to reach the pedals, and not knowing anything about fighting fires.

The want to be what they imagine a firefighter is from the perspective of a toddler. They don't know, they don't care, they just want to be in that truck and make the lights and sirens go.

That outlook is fine for a toddler, it's not acceptable for a grown adult drawing a paycheck.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@danfuzz/116234066104631892

No-one could've predicted this. Absolutely no-one. This comes as a great, massive, honking, stark surprise to everybody. And I really do mean everybody.

So, despite Discord clearly knowing that I am an adult, they have not deemed me verified as an adult 🤔

me: notices that Servo has received "many notable improvements" according to Phoronix.

me: installs it again, and tries scrolling in a page.

me: notices there are still no scrollbars to tell you visually where you are in the page.

me: brew rm --zap servo

listening to Autechre's Perlence Suns from Quaristice.Quadrange.ep.ae on some planar magnetic headphones, and I'm hearing something that sounds like vocalisations in the extreme high end, very quiet in the mix. Hadn't noticed that before!

Just found out that there are casks in Homebrew for Ableton Live. Just be careful if you use them, due to the "brew remove —zap" command being set to remove certain directories that could be problematic if you don't have a backup of the stuff in your User Library

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/HEAD/Casks/a/ableton-live-suite.rb

Worth repeating: Claims of "AI" democratizing anything (coding, creative endeavors, etc) are always BS. The thing locking out people from doing that is not having the time/resources.

You want to democratize coding/art/creativity? Give people paid time off to do it and access to infrastructure. Easy.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gwynnion/116116025141791667

I'm dismayed that not enough people see this as the only logical conclusion to what's happening right now. If you tolerate this…