I like reading those actually. Its always interesting to see people leave and why they do it. And many of the reasons can be summed up with how its not worth it anymore.

Since i left tech myself after 25 years also. :)

Techno fascism is a thing. But thats not why I left. I just didnt like AI being forced into the culture. Changed the entire profession from creating solutions to asking for solutions.

Copilot made improvements to the infrastructure.

They have nothing consumers want.

Yeah it is but I guess there is nothing anyone can do about it now. People wont admit it but they know thats how most or all programmers will work in the future.

Yeah but foss has its own problems. Mainly financing. People are expected to work for free on most open source projects, and some do because they enjoy it. I do that myself too. Its fun.

But foss doesnt create products that require a lot of funding to get off the ground.

Its nice with chat bots like chat gpt but companies who bet on their own Ai… Or who believe they will be the next billion dollar Ai startup… I dont believe in any of that.

I think we pretty much have seen what is going to come from Ai. Chat bots. People will pay for those, specially programmers. But also other people. Outside of that… I cant see much value to pay for. Nothing in fact.

I stopped enjoying writing code completely, but its been interesting to watch everyone else who started to enjoy it MORE with Ai.

It seems to be a certain group of programmers who always were more motivated by getting the result out the door than the experience of putting code together in a certain way.

I suspect the era of high salaries as a programmer is over, since companies now feel they can replace people even easier.

Nostalgia for final destination movies. But I think I only liked them when growing up with them. I tried rewatching and they are pretty bad actually… Hehe.

You were the only person here who double checked if this is even real, or AI slop.

I think we are going to see so much popular content not even be real. And people will defend it, thinking you are weird for wanting only real stuff, using terms as “who cares”. Its funny. :)

How many users here are bots, to begin with…

It may be time to walk outside. Cant fake real people. Yet.

Strange. I can definently not agree. I think men look awesome. And im a heterosexual attracted to women, of course. But still, I think men look good.

I mean, not the men who let themselves go completely. But just ordinary men. Looks fine!

And honestly, when men get to 35 or so, they look better than women. At least my opinion.

Thanks copie.

Copilot created this patch with pride.

True freedom to live outside the matrix.

Its basically living in a city that makes everyone so completely dependent on the matrix to survive.

And it changes your mindset too. All the pressure of work and then watch Netflix until you pass out, and you have to buy all these coping mechanisms like gym card, nice car, nice house…

Someone who lives outside can just say no to all of that, and they get plenty of exercise just moving around more and fixing things than the ordinary city dweller.

I really hate apartments. They are like prison cells.

The complexity of everything is just ridiculous now.

And its a moving target with constant new things to try and learn, as quickly as possible, while doing your already full time job.

I dont know. I think working in tech is definently mostly for 20-30 year olds now. When you have that desire to prove how smart you are, and the energy to learn everything.

The endless meetings and the return to office has also really killed a lot of good things about the job.

This seems like a battle he cant win.

None of us can win it. I already see tons of Ai channels on YouTube where machines are taking on the voices of celebrities and saying things from a script… And those channels actually get followers and make money.

So my conclusion is, these services will become more and more filled with ai bullshit and most users wont even care.

I predict, due to market forces, more than half of YouTube videos will be Ai generated in 2030. And most users will not mind it.

Yeah stuff like that. Or “where is bennet? He is letting off some steam”. :)

They are going to use Ai to moderate, lol… That will be fun to watch.

I also dont know what that means. They are all epic.

Ive seen people have their partner or their kids but no, not themselves.

I mean, also look at how windows installs programs. Its like a 100 step process taking several minutes, because just putting the files where they need to be is just too simple.

Or the uninstall program, cant just remove the files, no… Need to run full installer backwards to remove all the registry entries and even reboot the system to get rid of it all.