Pro tip: if you own your mistakes and never try to hide or diminish your responsibility, it’s like a secret weapon to diffuse blame. People will accept that you made a mistake and just move on.

Sounds like you got a solid upgrade. I’m happy for you.

Our war in Iran certainly won’t spark a resurgence of ISIS, we can be sure of that. /s

As a language nerd and pedant, I love this.

How brave of them. /s

This dumb bullshit. It’s been clear to me for a long time that Israel was gonna drag us into war. This is fucking pathetic.

The cafe where I planned to get a to-go breakfast when I needed to be at work on time for my weekly morning of responsibilities was closed for Juneteenth and I was late as a result.

Both. The AI hype machine is overblown. OpenAI in particular is led by a lying bastard who pretends that statistical software can think.

Yeah, I remember the first time I saw a screenshot of one of his posts. I took it literally, but then the thread pointed out that it was satire. The best satire is believable. That’s what makes it great.

I’ll keep saying it: left unchecked, Israel will be the catalyst for WW3.

Glad you’re enjoying it. He sometimes has interesting interviews, too. Especially with authors and journalists.

I haven’t had a printer in maybe a decade. No, more than that. Like fifteen years.

I had a business partner. He had an idea for a website that connected parents with childcaregivers. We agreed I would code it and he would do the design. It turned out I should have probed more about his design skills. He had none. All his ideas were terrible, too. He wanted lots of animations during transitions and stuff and I tried to explain that people don’t like that and the site needed to be snappy.

I backed out when I realized he couldn’t deliver his end. I also can’t do design, but I at least knew his ideas were much worse. I’d been coding for several months at that point. Oh well.

I’m sorry you’re having such a rough time. I took a break to try to launch a startup which didn’t go anywhere. Then I spent time just honing new skills. Before I knew it, I’d depleted my savings while racking up a long period of unemployment that made me toxic to job submissions. I couldn’t get callbacks in tech as a result but I also couldn’t get labor positions because my resume had much-better-paying jobs that made it obvious that I’d leave at the first opportunity. It was a vicious cycle and that’s before the economy and tech sector went to shit.

I would switch careers, given your limited time investing in your current profession. After people found out that tech could pay a lot of money, the market got flooded with people who don’t have a passion for the work. It used to be filled with nerds and it was awesome, but that gradually changed. I seriously considered switching professions and thought about what work I might find fulfilling. I would have become a professor of history were it not for the accredidation required (I have no college degree because you can be self-taught in tech).

Do what you can to get by. I don’t know what to suggest regarding other possible employment, but I’d take whatever you can find perusing job ads in adjecent market and try to stabilize. I went from software development to IT because I needed to interact with the people I’m helping to feel rewarded. There’s less money in it, but I’m happier overall.

If you can find a government job (preferably state, not federal, for reasons I shouldn’t need to point out), that’s awesome. I landed in a state position and love it. There’s a lot of beaurocracy and it takes forever to get hired (as a friend just confirmed when he got a state job), but it’s stable.

Good luck!

There’s no rationa reason for spending billions of dollars on a technology that loses money and has no chance of delivering promises from a lying CEO.

Ok, thanks for confirming. He’s pretty good.

It’s only a matter of time until this whole facade comes crashing down. I can’t wait to see OpenAI go out of business.

Fellow AI-haters should check out the newsletter and podcast of Ed Zitron.

This made me guffaw.

This was my first out-loud laugh of the day. Great ending.

So, is this guy just a Linkedin comedian? I think I’ve seen his absurdist posts before?

I found an awesome friend through a dating app and she tried to set me up with two different friends of hers. Ultimately, I met my partner through a dating app, but I was super appreciative that she tried to set me up.