The older I get, the less and less appealing owning a home is. Or maybe I'm just getting better at bullying landlords into fixing stuff. Either way, it's getting harder for me to feel like owning a home is the "smart money move" here.

Just read some conversations on reddit about spotting AI writing. We are fully cooked.

People say “writers using the rule of 3” is a sign of AI. Like when you provide 3 examples to set a pattern, and no more. This is just what people learn in school, though, because it’s effective writing.

And em-dashes? Well several people have said that that’s a surefire sign of AI, because they don’t even know how to type them. Which is amazing because on most devices you just hit hyphen 2x — — —

Kinda embarrassing that so many people are still into AI

I made my mind up on this shit years ago when I realized no one has made positive cashflow on this. Who cares how much it’s being deployed? The users aren’t making more money. The orgs that adopt it aren’t making more money. And the AI companies themselves aren’t making any money at all.

No one has ever made a dime off of AI/LLMs, and no one has a plan that will lead them to profitability. This is all hype

Why do people give two weeks’ notice when they quit even though jobs usually don’t give two weeks notice of firing/layoffs

Anyone who has any faith in the US police/court system to do anything positive is... far more optimistic than I have ever been.

Every software developer in 5 years is going to have this interaction:

Interviewer: So can you explain this gap in your resume?

Dev: Yes, that's when the industry laid everyone off because of AI before scrambling to hire everyone back a couple years later when the global economy fell apart because they pushed AI slopware to production one too many times.

Just got the first/only job I applied for out of trade school. Wooo

I knew this AI shit was gonna be bad for the tech industry and made moves to avoid it like two years ago. Sucks to be right.

I’m going to start a publisher/printer/bookbinder/bookstore that only sells shit written by humans. I will make a mint because this AI shit has gone several thousand miles too far

Whoever came up with the system “if you don’t allocate all of your yearly budget, your budget will be smaller next year” is responsible for so much human misery and wasted money