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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • Developers all love to preen about code. They worry LLMs lower the “ceiling” for quality. Maybe. But they also raise the “floor”.

    And this is how the human element of this industry dies. This dev is the last of a dying breed, the senior dev. He’s also loading more bullets into the gun that’s pointed at the heart of the role that got him to where he is in the first place.

    You don’t get to become a junior dev if that role is occupied by AI and you don’t get to ever ascend to senior dev unless you start as a junior dev.

    For as analytical this person seems to be, he has a massive blindspot related to the path he himself treaded to get where he is. He’s pulling the ladder up behind him and condemning the people on the path behind to finding another way or giving up entirely.

    AI is brain rot. It’s actively and aggressively atrophying humanity’s ability to reason and problem solve.









  • Good deals that deliver fun.

    If that’s what you’re buying in a single month, I’d hate to know how much you’re buying in a year.

    The sad truth is that you’re spending this money but you’re never going to have the time to enjoy more than the upper crust of what all these games have to offer. You might dive deep on a handful of them, but you’re just lighting the rest of that money on fire and likely condemning a lot of good games to the digital equivalent of rotting on a shelf.

    Unless this is some roundabout way of supporting dev teams this screams unfettered consumerism to me.

    I’m not trying to offend you I promise. This is just very odd to me. I don’t even think I’ve played 200 games in my life and I’ve spent a fuckload of time immersed in games of all kinds for ~30 years.