@filmfreak75 @magicalgirlsabrina "Looks like I picked the wrong day to give up employing coders."

RE: https://mastodon.social/@magicalgirlsabrina/117606669355484262

wait i said this BEFORE it happened

#whoRemembers "...but it compiles!"

RE: https://beige.party/@amiserabilist/117616930384099333

I think this qualifies for a good long groan, and possibly an eyeroll.

@rhempel @Unlikelylass @inthehands

You can automate production, and you can even automate production of the machines that produce, but at some level you run into a thing that has to be built by a conscious being who is motivated to get it right, or else it probably won't be. (...because there are infinitely more ways to be wrong than to be right.)

The oligarchs and managers always want to believe that whatever piece they're in charge of is one that can be automated.

...and maybe it can be -- but first you need someone to make that automation, and to ensure that it works properly... and you need to keep them around to fix it when it breaks, keep it oiled properly, and presumably update it as the need changes.

(This made sense inside my head; I apologize if the sense got detached on its way out the door.)

@inthehands Mentour Pilot has been teaching me a lot about the eternal conflict between (a) the need to see failures of a system as a systemic problem which requires changes to the system versus (b) the ever-present human tendency to want to have a face to be angry at.

This seems like basically that, except complex systems in general instead of aviation in particular.

Oh! You're that @lousycanuck!

Brain slow. (I must have been distracted when you originally joined.)

I feel like I should re-welcome you...

@CA7746

@st3fan

I think you're missing @mhoye's point rather widely.

when i say something was possibly "caused by AI", i don't mean LLMs hallucinating or agents going rogue or whatever. i mean that it was caused by bad practices implemented thanks to AI psychosis in management. this can include laying off knowledgeable staff, pushing to prod without a thorough review, "build build build" etc. these are **human** problems.

@georgetakei To be quite blunt: did we ever not know this?

Also, I think the article gives too much credit to Team Tr💩mp (and especially TFG himself) as far as being capable of strategic thinking.

Latest comic: Things we should hear after the blue wave (but probably won't!)

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@Natasha_Jay @StumpyTheMutt

...there still are weird people out there who don't realize it's okay?

I kinda had to figure that out in order to survive childhood...

...though I do understand why nobody talks much about the cowardly new worlds.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/117615981799253445

This confirms my own observations.

(There is a difference between cynicism and critical thinking. We need more of the latter and less of the former.)

@servelan Don't let the door hit you...

I just want to know whatever happened to the perfectly ordinary new worlds.

#LowQualityPost

@Npars01 @newsguyusa

A Wikipedian friend informs me that K-T is also Wikipedian Jonathan.s.kt

To put it more broadly: oligarchs shouldn't have control of tech.

(Are mic-drops still a thing, or is that old fashioned now?)

@baldur It's not even spreading fear about the tech but how oligarchs are using that tech -- which seems to me like something that is automatically a legit concern.

@DanielMReck @blogdiva

My understanding is that their lawyers tell them to do it until it has been proved in court. ...or something...

...unless, perhaps, the outlet in question is the one making the claim, based on evidence they uncovered (aka "doing journalism").