RE: https://mastodon.social/@pedrojdoc/116659016235068486

Estamos todos lixados. Queimados. À beira do abismo. Ainda nem começou o Verão.

40,3ºC em maio é inferno antes do apocalipse dos meses de verão 🥵

Portugal breaks hottest May day record as Europe swelters in heatwave https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3v2yv5207xo

#TIL in #KDE if you tile two windows f.i. side by side, and then you drag the border between these windows, one will shrink while the other expands!

I mean, it's probably pretty obvious for someone using a "real" tiling window manager, but for me a simple user of a "window manager as that thing that makes rectangular container for applications" this is new :)

Thanks #kwin people!

I'm not super afraid of "being left behind", nor do I think LLMs can do my job for the same cost/quality ratio. What is making me seriously consider leaving tech however is just how fucking toxic the culture is, like, I like designing systems, I like writing software, hell, once in a blue moon, I even like devoopsing (pun intended). And I also like the planning, and the communication, and all that that come with it.

What I don't like, and like is a serious understatement here, is how my branch goes into super hype mode, induced by people who don't actually care about society, people, quality, their craft, or even their self respect. I'm sick of having to be on the defensive all the time, especially when it's defending things I've learned over decades from people who just read the blurb in exploitation-dot-com about how the latest trend makes fucking people over so much easier and cheaper than just doing the thing that was already insanely profitable before. And who cares that quality will plummet?

The thing is, this attitude didn't start with LLMs, tech always has been one of the most capitalist sectors around, it is where "move fast and break things" comes from after all. The only reason people creating software were treated so well is because there has been a huge shortage of them, which is why there were all these corporate coding "bootcamps" around. But don't mistake being treated well with actual respect, no matter the benefits, you'll always be seen as "OpEx" to the people giving you those, and you'll be gladly be let go at the earliest opportunity. And if you wanted an example of that attitude that predates the LLM craze, just look at how they treat the non-tech workers in tech companies (Amazon's warehouse workers come to mind). LLMs and the accompanying hype are both an accelerator of the attitude that's been in tech for decades, and the logical next step. Yes, it is a huge step forward, but not in what they market it as, but it's a huge step forward in an attempt to exploit and extract from a class of worker that was more resistant to that.

The tech industry is broken, and I think it needs to crash hard before we can even attempt to fix it.