mattgreenrocks

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by mattgreenrocks 9mo ago
My post was meant to underscore the parent’s post, not argue with it.
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by mattgreenrocks 9mo ago
Underscoring the parent comment and adding to it: watching technologists on a site called Hacker News cheer on the centralization of power is really something.
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by mattgreenrocks 9mo ago
Something’s wrong when a key piece of foundational web tech is staring down unsustainability. Tailwind is almost ubiquitous these days. It needs to continue to exist. Small businesses being eaten by AI is a net negative, because they’re in
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by mattgreenrocks 10mo ago
Thank you. This thread is extremely unhinged. Maybe I’ve outgrown this place. :/
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by mattgreenrocks 10mo ago
Sure. And they have to accept the consequences of considering that a need.
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by mattgreenrocks 10mo ago
The purpose of a system is what it does. If the org truly cared about under-leveled employees, it would get fixed rapidly. But they don’t. I’ve seen enough people glossed over repeatedly and then when enough people leave and the org is in a
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by mattgreenrocks 10mo ago
The article is about the temptation to define yourself through your productivity. It isn’t anti-work. With all due respect, this reads like you had an axe to grind about social media’s anti work slant and this just reminded you of that.
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by mattgreenrocks 10mo ago
Many people are terrible judges of character. They either undervalue it, see it as weakness, or just aren’t able to discern the potential for malevolence.
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by mattgreenrocks 10mo ago
The party line will be: “we always advised using it if it as long as it helps productivity.” Pointing out that it wasn’t always that will make you seem “negative.”
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by mattgreenrocks 10mo ago
All ages benefit from time-limited exposure to social media. We have a term for it now: brainrot. Fully convinced it is the cigarettes of our generation: ubiquitous enough to be pervasive despite negative externalities.
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by mattgreenrocks 10mo ago
Definitely. There’s pluses and minuses to that shift.
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by mattgreenrocks 10mo ago
Yep. Software construction was branded a team sport. Hence, social coding, tool quality being considered more important (good thing for sure), and, arguably, less emphasis on individual skill and agency. This was in service of a time when t
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by mattgreenrocks 10mo ago
I’m sure it is. Though I can never tell if it is astroturfing or extremely weird AI maximalists just reminding us that they’re in a cult.
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by mattgreenrocks 10mo ago
Yup. The big AI companies are scared to death of LLMs being seen as commodities. But in the long term, they are. See also: the big deepseek smear campaign.
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by mattgreenrocks 10mo ago
Haven’t tried the latter, will give it a shot. Thank you!
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by mattgreenrocks 10mo ago
My stomach hates coffee at the moment :(. Too acidic. Not sure I’m ever going to be able to have it regularly.
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by mattgreenrocks 11mo ago
I suspect AI appeals very strongly to a certain personality type who revels in all the details in getting a proper agentic coding environment bootstrapped for AI to run amok in, and then supervises/guides the results. Then there’s peop
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by mattgreenrocks 11mo ago
I’m an AI skeptic. I like seeing what UIs it spits out, though, which defeats the blank page staring into my soul fear nicely. I don’t even use the code, just take inspiration from the layouts.
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by mattgreenrocks 11mo ago
Oh I know, I’m just sowing doubt in the OP’s claims. Note the lack of response to this. AI is not a value neutral tech.
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by mattgreenrocks 11mo ago
> The real solution is for people to upskill and learn new abilities AI is being touted as extremely intelligent and, thus, capable of taking over almost any white collar job. What would I upskill to?
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by mattgreenrocks 11mo ago
Aka, which vanity is one most vulnerable to. Makes sense that they’d segment out like this, since the space tends to be winner take all.
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by mattgreenrocks 11mo ago
Yep. They’re just happy to light any sense of QC on fire. Such overt contempt for pretty much everyone directly involved in the economic transaction. But not the investors, of course.
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by mattgreenrocks 11mo ago
I discovered I had PEM this year from working out. Found a trainer that is teaching me to stay in a non hyper mobile range + pacing and that is generally more manageable. Good luck with the GLP-1. Hit me up via email if you’d like to chat m
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by mattgreenrocks 11mo ago
Wow. Glad it panned out for you.
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by mattgreenrocks 11mo ago
GLP-1s seem to induce/mimic gastroparesis, which also can occur with hEDS. Has that been an issue? Also, do you have MCAS? (Also have hEDS.)
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by mattgreenrocks 11mo ago
Ideological purity is a crutch for those that can't hack it. :) I love it when the .NET threads show up here, people twist themselves in knots when they read about how the runtime is fantastic and ASP.NET is world class, and you can re
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by mattgreenrocks 11mo ago
> This is the culture that replaced hacker culture. Somewhere along the lines of "everybody can code," we threw out the values and aesthetics that attracted people in the first place. What began as a rejection of externally imp
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by mattgreenrocks 11mo ago
Beautiful, and by that, I mean completely and utterly horrific.
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by mattgreenrocks 11mo ago
I always love the articles that end up holding mirrors to some of the commenters. :)
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by mattgreenrocks 11mo ago
What you worship owns you, and everyone worships something . The modern world makes a lot of money off psychological vulnerabilities. Better to know yours than be unaware and played.

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