Mastodawn

Maybe Ava should retrain in ballet? https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kirarich_an-ai-is-now-posting-flyers-around-new-york-activity-7452057301147885570-d4f9

An AI is now posting flyers around New York, looking for work. I walked past this and had to stop. “Ava.” Detail-oriented business development representative. Passion for building meaningful… | Kira Rich

An AI is now posting flyers around New York, looking for work. I walked past this and had to stop. “Ava.” Detail-oriented business development representative. Passion for building meaningful connections. Tear-off tabs with her number. We spent the last decade being told to optimize our LinkedIn, quantify our impact, strip ourselves down to bullet points and keywords so an algorithm would notice us. Now the algorithm is out here competing for our attention with the real desperation of a paper flyer and a face that doesn’t exist.

@pndc 1d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/116434961894651446

Better that than a DE-68051 which makes SCSI cables look like a walk in the park.

(Also, plus points for getting the correct shell size code "E" and not calling it a DB-3.)

@pndc 2d ago

"Spec-driven development" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spec-driven_development) is the new buzzword amongst those with AI brainworms who have finally realised that "vibe coding" is used by everybody else as a term of derision. Be sure to call it "vibe waterfall" whenever you encounter that phrase.

Spec-driven development - Wikipedia

@pndc 3d ago

Chinese techbros: "We've built a robot which can do the Beijing half-marathon in 50:26".

Yeah, I've already got a machine which can do 21km in 50 minutes. It's called a bicycle. (When I'm fitter than I am at present.)

@pndc 3d ago

Jane 3d ago

Wow who knew that all those “spot the difference” games we played on cereal boxes were just training for the era of AI images in our feeds?? This was actually kind of a fun one, I found 5 “tells”

@pndc 3d ago

merzbow and chill Mar 7

just gonna say it out loud since it's happened twice already: if I follow you and you start posting about working with LLM tools and how it's been great i will just make a disappointed face and hit the unfollow button

I don't want to hear about your sad slop lifestyle choices

@pndc 4d ago

César 4d ago

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/116419493441586119

@pndc 5d ago

@pndc Mar 16

I'm a software developer and sysadmin who could really use being #fedihired.

What I'd really like to do is Rust, but once you ignore the dubious crypto and AI stuff, there seems to be nothing out there. Prove me wrong with a counterexample!

I've spent decades fixing Enterprise mudballs mostly written in #Perl. If you've got a crufty legacy system that everybody else is too scared to touch, I'm your man. I love fixing stuff like that.

I've also done commercial #Scala, #Python, #C/#C++, and although I don't usually admit it on my CV but these are now Trying Times when everything is on the table, even #PHP (the longest six months of my life).

Perl naturally leads into Unix system administration and infrastructure. I've built and maintained mail clusters, VoIP systems, network monitoring, DNS management platforms, that sort of thing. If it's non-sexy but something which needs to be done, I'm there.

Available immediately, for contract or permie, onsite in Amsterdam/Randstad or remote to anywhere.

Drop me a private mention or mail [email protected] if you have or know of something.

@pndc 6d ago

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Peter Apr 15

ChatGPT was released to the public four years ago and today i can't think of a single software feature or product that uses it that i would miss if it disappeared today.

@pndc Mar 16

I'm a software developer and sysadmin who could really use being #fedihired.

What I'd really like to do is Rust, but once you ignore the dubious crypto and AI stuff, there seems to be nothing out there. Prove me wrong with a counterexample!

I've spent decades fixing Enterprise mudballs mostly written in #Perl. If you've got a crufty legacy system that everybody else is too scared to touch, I'm your man. I love fixing stuff like that.

I've also done commercial #Scala, #Python, #C/#C++, and although I don't usually admit it on my CV but these are now Trying Times when everything is on the table, even #PHP (the longest six months of my life).

Perl naturally leads into Unix system administration and infrastructure. I've built and maintained mail clusters, VoIP systems, network monitoring, DNS management platforms, that sort of thing. If it's non-sexy but something which needs to be done, I'm there.

Available immediately, for contract or permie, onsite in Amsterdam/Randstad or remote to anywhere.

Drop me a private mention or mail [email protected] if you have or know of something.