
GrumpyBalkanSoftwareEngineer
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GrumpyBalkanSoftwareEngineer
@TheBalkanHacker
Sr. Staff post loop engineer at HTMX! Post soviet era, grupmy sofware engineer mostly unhappy with the technical decisions you are making!








ngl "i am a programming god" isn't really a compelling argument to move other people away from AI the next one is inevitably: "it isn't that hard"


@justalexoki Yeah and still faster at making better software than everyone who isn’t


humans are really not built for first principles analytical thinking. even smart people find it incredibly exhausting. what we consider analysis is usually anxious panicking and avoiding something or the other. it is clear we are going to be massively outclassed in this soon



JUST IN: Elon Musk's SpaceX $SPCX to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60,000,000,000.



A VS Code fork got acquired for $60 billion. $60B???????


Bro I'm so fucking sick of pretending this is normal. AI was trained on Stack Overflow answers written by developers who got zero dollars and zero credit, and now those same developers are losing their jobs to the thing their free labor built. We built the rope. They just used it.




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