If only there was a better way…

I was gonna say. With a crater that large, we all lose.

“AI e-girl” you say? I know a contractor that might have what you’re looking for.

Yup. They’re called “Whole Paycheck” for a reason.

This moment calls for more beans.

The collective man-hours this would have saved people, if we had it back in 1999, would be staggering.

people love over engineering the fuck out of technology

Exhibit A: 2.85 Million packages, as of mid-2023

What we want: OS updates that make the system more performant, more accessible, easier to use, smarter at using battery power, and more secure.

Apple: Let’s make everything an unreadable mess and tax the GPU to shit just for fucking UI elements, because we’re out of ideas.

Rust is still in the locker room having an argument with their coach (borrow checker).

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War boys from Fury Road?

Don’t forget SCSI termination. There was always some extra piece of junk you needed to make it all work. No wonder we all have “the box” in the basement/attic with all the extra cables squirreled away.

Now you take a tiny board a little bigger than a stick of gum, and press it onto the motherboard. Smaller footprint than a DIMM, mind-blowing amounts of solid-state storage. Drives? Naw, we just have chips where the "1"s stick around after you turn it off.

This describes how most people have it deployed, yes.

It gets real fun when you have custom Java plugins, Groovy script, BASH script, Windows runners, and Linux runners, all in play at the same time. Much of which is held together with hopes, dreams, and unicorn farts, willed into existence by wizards that haven’t worked there in over seven years. If upper management could even comprehend the level of deferred maintenance and haphazard software hackery that birthed this electronic Gordian knot, this unholy union of decrepit software and company policy, they wouldn’t sleep. Ever.

It really should be “parlay.txt”.

Or more subtly, when the command uses BSD (nowadays Go) style single-dash args, so it wants -help and not --help.

That’s $400k worth of house and $500k worth of windows. Lotta big custom glass in there.

FROM Software: Fuck that, we’re doing fog-walls.

They’ve been trying to bring back online walled-garden systems ever since. Just look at Facebook, or Twitter.

It’s outstanding at bridging the gap between “I need to mash these two concepts/technologies together” and “the answer is spread across six different StackOverflow threads.” Hunting that stuff down using Google has been a delicate operation even at the best of times in the last 25 years, but it always took a lot of time. With an LLM and each such query, I’ve saved hours, maybe even whole workdays. Fact-checking an AI takes far less effort.

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