I talked a lot of shit in the past about macOS Tahoe and avoided installing it on my personal machines. Having been forced to spend a week on it on a work machine, I absolutely hate it.
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Kernel engineer, software architect, time traveler (forward only)
The great open source AI schism is happening. The only thing missing is an anti-AI license.
I need to clarify something:
AI psychosis is when someone forms a disturbing social relationship with an AI, which encourages and enhances their crazy ideas until they become detached from reality.
AI psychosis is not when your CEO fires 20% of the company to pay for AI. That’s just being an asshole.
Maximizing my browser on an ultrawide monitor so when I present on a video conference everyone has to stretch their window to have a chance to see my content.
Guy I was talking to on Slack clearly switched to an AI responder during our conversation. I am very displeased about this.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@appleinsider/116669750494330029
I scheduled an appointment to try out the Apple Vision Pro back when that was a thing. At the Apple Store the employee scanned my glasses to find a matching set of lenses. She failed to do this. She got someone else to assist who else failed. Then a more senior employee. After about 15 minutes of trying they told me that they don’t know what to do and I will have to reschedule.
There’s nothing unusual about my glasses, other than being a strong prescription, so the experience makes me less than confident about Apple’s glasses plans. I never did get to try an AVP.
Alternate headline: Eric Schmidt Continues Long Streak of Being an Asshole
Dare ObasanjoThe software industry as we know it is dying and CEOs realized it months ago.
An industry that decides it will no longer hire entry level workers nor that middle managers are needed to coach workers, assign projects and advocate for promotions is one that doesn’t believe there’s career growth here.
I don’t have any secret inside knowledge. This is simply applying Occam’s Razor on what seems like an incomprehensible set of moves across the industry.
There’s a concept that I struggle to explain to people, which is that doing a quick hack that adds a constraint to software has a cost. That cost is hurting future use of that code because its behavior is more complex, has special exceptions that must be understood, dependent on unexpected things. It compounds over multiple hacks until the software is so constrained that making changes is painful or impossible.
Is there a formal name for this? It’s not just technical debt. It’s layers of poorly-conceived hacks that constrain the direction of development in increasingly narrow paths.