I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.
@mattyglesias@TVietor08 Why don’t you start by thinking about whether you believe Israelis have a right to defend themselves against terrorism, and if so, what that entails. Then, pretend in your mind that Palestinian lives are of equal value, and use transitive property.
your previous statements make it appear that you are not an anti-zionist, therefore your “condemning the genocide” is insufficient without staunch opposition to the ethno supremacist ideology and ongoing settler colonialist project that produced the genocide. additionally, you seem more preoccupied with criticizing anti zionists (who took a lot of heat in the early days post 10/7) than you are with using your voice and platform to advocate for an end to the system of domination that has violently subjugated Palestinians for decades. If you truly believe in liberation, set your personal ego and resistance to criticism aside, in order to genuinely reflect on your own beliefs and how they have been expressed online
@VerminusM@elonmusk Do you think Elon Musk created the Gigapress casting machine that makes Tesla cars? Do you think he engineered the 3D printers that make space-x engines?
Workers created these things. That bit is already done. They just want to take their property back from the billionaires.
@GoodVibePolitik What is your system for note-taking? I always just underline stuff and scribble on the pages of the book but I find it difficult to retain things or to go back and find things I'm looking for.
I have a confession.
I thought this was going to be the last thing I ever saw.
Ever.
When guns went off, I didn’t duck.
I put my hand across the table and said: I respect you.
He didn’t know where he was. He couldn’t say a word.
But I could tell it mattered to him.
The severity of the collapse was related to how relatively well distributed wealth was under the Soviets. When the oligarchs seized it all, that plunged people into poverty. The good news for the U.S. is that we are already extremely unequal, with the top 10% of earners responsible for roughly half or more of all consumption. That obviously can get much worse though. And if we are much poorer, it starts to get very ugly.
The collapse of the Soviet Union saw the greatest peace time reduction in life expectancy and standard of living of any major human population ever. Just an fyi.