<p>someone sent me the video of a cat eating a paper towel so i immediately did the same thing</p><p>instant regret</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.cafe/@reconbot" class="u-url mention">@<span>reconbot</span></a></span> and to be honest, back then CEOs were just the same looking for silver bullets that would rid them of those pesky independent thinking engineers.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> I think that&#39;s an increasingly stark divide...</p>

<p>Is anyone manufacturing custom slide rules?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kevinbowen" class="u-url mention">@<span>kevinbowen</span></a></span> I&#39;ll show it to her for educational purposes, but hers piano is an electric one, so it&#39;s safe :-)</p>

<p>Holy shit, Carole Cadwalladr’s TED appearance is incredible. *Unbelievably* brave to stand up in person in front of the people enabling tyranny, call it out directly, and call THEM out by name. </p><p>“You are not gods. You are men; and you are careless.” Phenomenal. </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>

<p>Look, programming is my thing. Actually using computers, &quot;tech&quot; more generally, or VCs? Not so much.</p>

<p>We have CEOs telling junior developers to not bother learning how to code, try to vibe code. That’s scary! You don’t learn much with vibe coding. Learning is the best part of the job!</p><p>I tell my junior engineers to not outsource their learning. AI can’t do the modeling, the architecture, the understanding. Can it do boilerplate? Sorta! But the job isn’t writing boiler plate.</p><p>We knew this way back with the no silver bullets essay on incidental vs necessary complexity.</p><p><a href="https://toot.cafe/tags/workersrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>workersrights</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cafe/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ai</span></a></p>

<p>When this bubble bursts, and the fraction of software that was created during it that remains useful will need stabilization. At some point the infrastructure that hasn’t been maintained will need rebuilding. Many engineers will be hired back again. But the people with the skills will be fewer and older.</p><p><a href="https://toot.cafe/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cafe/tags/workersrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>workersrights</span></a></p>