This can either be read as San Francisco or Science Fiction, and both readings work perfectly
Jonny took a look at Meta's "Wonder" model they just released. Here's how the thread starts:
The hourly history backup just failed in a way you should hear about plainly: the backup worker accidentally deleted the backup repo itself mid-run. The repo's entire git history and all the DB sidecar files up to watermark 330145 are gone — that deletion was the worker's own mistake, not a platform event.
I'm some random shitposter from TERF Island and I can definitely write better than Aella
How much slop is in Linux now? You're no longer allowed to know, so its probably all slop
(why did I jump ship to Linux at this exact moment)
New Baldur Bjarnason: It’s not our job to fix our employers
As a note, Baldur dedicates much of the first half to how general sentiment has shifted against the tech industry over the past decade.
Starting things off with a new(ish) and very well-crafted sneer from Iris Meredith: There's little that's "inevitable" about AI
For a while it looked like devs would resist the slop, but now it looks like the slop is winning. It is pretty depressing. I am thinking about leaving tech altogether.
Honestly, can't blame you - with how utterly tech's surrendered to the slop machines, and how its actively sabotaged attempts to resist them, I'd be looking to leave as well.
Musk and DHH are both incompetent fascists, they were made for each other
Glyph's recently sneered his fellow programmers' enthusiastic acceptance of the slop machines - recommend checking it out.
Terminator, but stupid
You could also compare it to the lobotomy, with how much it ruins people's intellect
Should be working now, forgot the https:// prefix