GeePawHill@GeePawHill@mastodon.social
Patsy Cline, "Crazy".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXWCaQPXE_0
GeePawHill@GeePawHill@mastodon.social
GeePawHill@GeePawHill@mastodon.social
GeePawHill@GeePawHill@mastodon.social
tfw you express a desire for a pretty significant project, and your friends and family take you seriously and want you to do it.
GeePawHill@GeePawHill@mastodon.social
I wish I believed that self-hosting things was easy.
I'd self-host my new site. Self-host a forgejo instance. Self-host the docs for my open source projects. Self-host email.
But in spite of what the fanboys say, self-hosting is neither particularly easy nor particularly cheap.
My wife sometimes suffers from the "my labor and expertise is free" delusion, but I do not.
GeePawHill@GeePawHill@mastodon.social
LLM bottom line: it's fucking corrupt, and the people who are doing it know it's corrupt.
GeePawHill@GeePawHill@mastodon.social
As I understand it, Uber & Lyft competed on price. But I, living on the road for so many years, never even considered price.
When I used Uber, I used one tool. And an Uber driver showed up. They took me where I wanted to go. The cars were clean. The drivers were courteous.
None of those things were true of the cab companies.
I know, I know, badguys. But their product cost approximately the same, and was significantly better for me.
GeePawHill@GeePawHill@mastodon.social
Dear LGBQTIA+ persons:
For the record, you're welcome here. I don't actually choose my friends based on their sexual preferences or their gender presentation.
I don't get why anyone even would.
I value kindness, silliness, intelligence, creativity, humor, courage.
Unless, as sometimes happens, I would like to get nekkid with you, I really don't care about your lust or your genitalia.
I spoze I'd say, realistically, I see you as more than that, more than your preference or presentation.
GeePawHill@GeePawHill@mastodon.social
Ya know, every time they announce that their new LLM is so much better, they re-emphasize a) how bad what they are selling has been, and b) how much they have lied about how good what they were selling was, and c) how much they are willing to continue the pattern.
It is not a pattern that inspires trust.
GeePawHill@GeePawHill@mastodon.social
In truth, I have only experienced that a handful of times in my 45 year career as a professional developer.
But I, and I'm sure many others, tho by no means even a tenth of the trade's folks, have been intrinsically driven.
Without that intrinsic drive for excellence, the sad truth is that they're right: professional excellence simply does not matter to their shareholders.
GeePawHill@GeePawHill@mastodon.social
One might wonder, I certainly have, how much longer the trade can continue like this.
I do not know.
I believe the answer is actually intimately tangled with the question of whether the people of the world will continue to desire serfdom to extractive capitalist mega-corporations.
And, I confess, naivete or optimism or stupidity, I didn't actually think the will-to-serfdom would go on this long.
GeePawHill@GeePawHill@mastodon.social
Performance, productivity, precision, none of these things matter when your organization owns a money-printing machine.
Most of these folks, and most of their seniors, and most of their managers, and most of their corporate sponsors have never experienced a situation in which excellence is rewarded at a rate particularly better than gross mediocrity is rewarded.
GeePawHill@GeePawHill@mastodon.social
In truth, I have only experienced that a handful of times in my 45 year career as a professional developer.
But I, and I'm sure many others, tho by no means even a tenth of the trade's folks, have been intrinsically driven.
Without that intrinsic drive for excellence, the sad truth is that they're right: professional excellence simply does not matter to their shareholders.
GeePawHill@GeePawHill@mastodon.social
My view is that the reason so many younger developers are making such foolish choices -- LLM usage, text editors instead of grown-up tools, and others that will likely make some of my respondents even angrier than those two -- is because they are up and coming in a trade that has been grotesquely malformed by sitting on a money-printing machine for 45 years.
GeePawHill@GeePawHill@mastodon.social
Performance, productivity, precision, none of these things matter when your organization owns a money-printing machine.
Most of these folks, and most of their seniors, and most of their managers, and most of their corporate sponsors have never experienced a situation in which excellence is rewarded at a rate particularly better than gross mediocrity is rewarded.