xantronix

I am of a particular disposition that makes it difficult for me to do lie about my work, especially if I were in a firm where people are reading my chat transcripts. As much as I want to stick it to The Man, it feels a lot better for me to just say "no" and burn through my 401k until this blows over.

I'm not too proud to admit that this whole thing scares me though. I fail to see how anything will get better.

It wasn't meant to be a literal statement, more just a reflection that the situation is so bleak that I cannot imagine a better future; anybody expressing even a little bit of it seems to me like a somebody who has not been crushed into compliance through force.

Quoting the host of the recurring Quiz Broadcast sketch from That Mitchell and Webb Look: "Books mention 'hope'. What was 'hope'?"

The wisdom to understand that velocity is not equal to value; and the optimism that this will all end at some point.

You seem like a person who works at a place that doesn't have an AI mandate. That sounds nice. I miss when we had nice things in the world like that. I will never take that for granted again.

I'm happy to endure HN if it means I get to see hopeful, reasonable observations like yours.

It's an old NeXTism!

A lot of responses pointing out various flaws with this question, including the fact that it can be used as a proxy for ageism, the fact that the grading scale has not been consistent over time, or that most foreigners will not have gone through the US education system. However, is it really that uncommon for Americans to never have had reason to take the SAT/ACT, such as, simply not going to uni, or going straight to work after graduating high school?

Did the entire history of computing prior to 2023 disappear? Are we really that boned?

GitHub is so close to becoming SourceForge. In order to become the scum-infested cesspool it truly longs to be, Microsoft needs to relentlessly serve ads on GitHub. Then, the cycle will once again be complete.

I can't wait to discover the next thing to be disappointed by in a decade's time.

Would you work in such a facility?

I don't really see the problem of proliferating a message one finds sufficiently important to as many places as one has reach.

One thing I've noticed is that LLMs have allowed middle managers trapped inside the role of a developer to finally self actualise.

Generative AI has and their providers have become an implicitly political subject. It shouldn't come as a surprise.

What makes an appeal to experience, subjective or otherwise, an expression of Main Character Syndrome? Just because somebody pushes back against the tides doesn't mean they fancy themself more important than others. Further, they're not saying "we should all stop using LLMs". The title of the article is literally "Leave Me Behind", an expressed desire to no longer participate in a system they believe to be harmful.

They explicitly state a position they take for themself, whereas you make an implicit value judgement of all practitioners who feel similarly. This could be read in a way as an assumption that everyone else should be as miserable as you.