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On the other hand I’ve never made any bones about the fact that I work to develop good products and if someone can make money on that good for them, but I fight for the best design for end users I can.

Your entire comment nailed it for me. Thank you for reading between the lines of my snarky annoyance and expressing it more eloquently.

I also love internal tooling and worked at shitty, bizarre places (General Dynamics, for one. Speaking of “places you’ve never heard of,” right?), and literally the entire reason to work there is to try make it better for the people who use the thing. Not doing that is preposterous to me!

Somehow the original author ignored the only thing I would care about. Or it’s there and I missed it.

This film has been debunked for decades. It’s funny to see how it’s debunked even harder as time goes on.

Of course this won’t stop people from still truly believing it.

If I were a better developer, would I have worked on more products people love? No

There you go, justify your shitty work.

If you were a better person, you would work on better products.

You choose where you work and what you work on. The fact that you went from Zendesk working on a shitty product to Microsoft working on a shitty product is definitely about you.

In fact, a reliable engineer ought to be comfortable working on products people hate, because engineers work for the company, not for users.

“It’s ok that I work at shitty companies! They pay me more”

One thing that’s entertaining about these “crashes” is that they frequently give failures an excuse for why they fail.

John Romero has never once individually made a game people liked. He made Quake, got fired from id, and released failure after failure. It’s insane he still has a name people talk about.

He had to downsize because no one wanted to play Gunman Taco Truck, Empire of Sin, or SIGIL II.

El queso es viejo y mohosa.

Seems like it, yeah. Free for personal use.

The text on the bottom is obviously not original.

The original looks like this.

I don’t want to dust the tops of all those pans.

And cast iron usually requires oil after use, which traps the dust even better!

People will upvote anything if it takes a shot at AI. Even when the subtitle itself is literally an ad.

Codestrap founders say we need to dial down the hype and sort through the mess

The cult mentality is really interesting to watch.

Keep replying! Maybe this is a good honeypot for stupid people. “I hate you!!” Lmao

“I only see things in black and white because I haven’t grown up”

I actually blocked you on another account because you’re such a douchebag. I wish those could be exported more easily!

Oh I remember you now!! You’re the “we should rise up against fascism” coward who months ago said

I’m willing to go to prison or die anyway

I mean I can go first, I’ve been queueing for some time already.

And here you are, pathetically typing about AI. What happened, tough boy?

This is still you:

Just a completely random un thought through thought. Maybe peace is the best thing, and it will happen if we just do nothing. What do you think?

Who needs AI when real humans are this worthless?

The popular “it looks awful” kneejerk is so telling.

I dislike AI, but the utter delusion around it reminds me of how people complained about the internet in the 90s. There was a sensible fear, and then there were essentially Luddites.

Everything repeats.

I never really figured out why they stared at me; it didn’t necessarily feel like an obvious intimidation tactic, even though it was obviously very intimidating. Maybe that’s all it is, but I sorta wish I figured out what was in their head as they stared.

Honestly, sometimes if they might be dumb as shit and they don’t necessarily know they’re staring. Or that they shouldn’t be obviously staring.

The Venn diagram of hyper-masculine men and very stupid men approaches a circle.

Not that it helps, but it might explain why it doesn’t feel like an intentional intimidation tactic. They’re just plain dumb.

Hands are also full, no? I usually need a free hand to hold an umbrella

Yale’s own article about the study:

https://news.yale.edu/2026/03/03/ais-hidden-bias-chatbots-can-influence-opinions-without-trying