I straight up deleted LinkedIn. It’s too much information thats made publically available, it’s a constant pipeline to the black market for compromising info (and it’s already too late), and it’s just literally the most straight up annoying thing I’ve ever used. The people are fake (I mean they are real but they are straight up annoying), the jobs are mostly fake, and it’s a constant stream of scams, recruiters trying to mine your info and mislead you, salespeople peddling their crap constantly.

No thanks. Seriously give it a try, because that shit is toxic

Use it. Fuck it. You are cooked either way. It’s not going to replace you, it’s like basically the next evolution of basically an excel formula for tasks (claudes referencing tasks like matching actually does work pretty well), and it’s like an evolution of a search engine. I am unaware of any successful companies that are solely staffed by fancy search engines and next gen excel formulas. You still need a human in the middle. This whole wave is like when they tried to offshore everyone a decade ago. Their customers left in droves because you couldn’t understand the guy on the other side of the conversation, and someone being paid like 30 cents an hour or whatever crap those poor people are exposed to, they aren’t going to have any sort of due care or attention to the details.

Execs continue to funnel money and burn everything to the ground. This whole AI thing might actually be a good thing in the long run, in a round about way, in that it’s going to cause a financial catastrophe, and everyone is going to get so burned by all this overhype and promising that they’ll both be terrified to spend money on stuff like this for quite some time+ it’ll maybe force a day of reckoning where the world maybe finally wakes up as to what the value of a modern executive is (near zero).

I cannot understand people who just slap that shit in without even bothering to check it.

Really? Because that’s exactly what I do. I’m metered by my spend, so I produce just absolutely wholesale volumes of slop, don’t review it or even look at it and just am like fine here you go, this is what you want. No one else reviews it, it gets piled on top of other slop, shits going to really start piling up and breaking. Execs won’t care, they’ll start firing people anyways, it’ll continue to pile up, problems will multiply…

I mean the alternative is do nothing, get fired. Or contribute to a downfall, survive a little longer maybe, still get fired. Or fix it, produce really good work at antagonizing levels of fixing everything, and still get fired. So what’s not to understand here?

Make sure it’s not stolen. This price range can be real territory for the junkie looking to make a quick flip.

I actually think it’s quite normal. LLMs are basically the next wave of social media, where they suck you in, learn quickly to feed you something you are interested in, make you feel like you are the smartest person in the world and just basically grenade endorphins while also speaking misinformation, spew all sorts of half truths and all sorts of other statistically induced algorithmic slop. It’s worse than Heroin, no lies, and is far more dangerous than social media.

What in the Sweet Jesus mother of fuck is this? An AI post?

I’m starting to believe the same.

No this one guy certainly isn’t. But it’s shit like this that’s feeding the beast. In a way it’s almost like the AI version of greenwashing.

Also I wouldn’t trust AI with tough time stuff. There’s already several documented cases where it’s led to people committing suicide and whatever else.

It’s definitely gotten pretty weird. I’m on my last warning for inciting violence over saying I’m surprised no one has gotten killed yet, in a poorly designed traffic intersection that results in near-daily collisions near my house. Seriously. Someone reported it for inciting violence, the mods on the thread removed it and Reddit warned me and banned my account for a period. I’ve had a few other ones that were pretty random too.

Maybe I’m a dying breed, but I don’t feel like own something if I can’t put my hands on it physically. I view Steam as leasing and not ownership. I’ve bought a fair amount of stuff on it over the years, but I don’t feel like I actually own it.

Oh I think the backlash is warranted. This whole thing is just running on a doom spiral of debt. That never ends well. Wait until the rug pull, where those token costs go from a few thousand a month, to suddenly putting companies in jeopardy because they had to charge what they actually should be to generate revenue, and someone ends up with a million dollar bill at the end of the month. Can’t wait for that part. Also can’t wait for the brainless execs to quit sounding like robots, and foaming at the mouth as they are doing just about the next thing to jacking off while thinking of firing us all. No, the rage is definitely warranted.

The payoff is for the executives.

My advice to literally everyone, is cut your output to zero. If you are at one of the AI vision shit shacks, play the game. Absolute garbage slop output. Call in sick lots. Take your vacation. And check the fuck out. Push buttons with no thought or foresight. If someone asks you to show them how you do your job, mislead them at every turn, and don’t show them how to actually do it. Pretend to. I have one of these AI consultants coming in next week to “help me” by having me show them all my tasks so they can “automate” some of my mundane tasks. I’m going to smile and show them 5% of what I actually need to do 🖕🏼

That will maybe happen, but it’ll be at suppressed wages. That’s what happens every economic downturn, if you are at the top, you benefit. Everyone else gets another layer of prosperity chopped off underneath them. You’ll have precarious employment for a couple years and then gladly accept a job you wouldn’t even look at right now.

The problem is, it’s going to leave atomic waste behind it. It’s like an executive detonated nuclear bomb. There’s going to be companies that have millions to billions sunk on non-functional assets and programming. The people who led them into this are going to skip off with a big golden parachute, and there’s going to be no debt available and no assets available left behind to do anything with. There will be zombie companies that just kind of tread into irrelevancy, if you are lucky enough to be employed by one, then you’ll be fine. Everyone else is fucked.

Just play the game. And start squirrelling money away like you never have before.

I’ve got a new Thinkpad for work, and it’s actually been pretty good so far, I’m pleasantly surprised. The battery lasts the entire day, it’s consistent…

I’ve also had elitebooks, and with HP when you get a good one it’s generally good. But it sometimes took a couple attempts to get a good one. Never got one to go the distance either. I’m not necessarily hard on my work laptops either, they get used, but it’s not like I’m throwing them around like frisbees or anything.

Both actually look pretty awesome. I’ll have to check them out!

I think Tampa and Buffalo are going to be the real matchup for the east. If nothing gets upset.

West is a tougher call. I think Edmontons always a perennial threat, it’s been a rocky year for them though so I dunno. Colorado for sure will be in the mix.

It’s time to transfer our focus over to the other stress case.

Hey, I’m a leafs fan. I’ll tell you what though, I’ve come to the conclusion it’s good for the ticker. That things a rusty old bucket of regret at this point, but I’ve got a saying, “Just once before I die.” It’s what’s keeping me going at the ripe old age of 45: the perpetual hope that it’ll happen once before I die. I’m going to live to be 200 at the time of my medically assisted suicide from boredom!

I think we are already one-too-many RIF and cost of living increases past the point where employees are incentivized.