Yes, I’ve heard about that theory. The boot example is good because everyone can relate.

Unfortunately, like many jobs in the past, ours is changing.

I don’t have a crystal ball, so I don’t know what the future hold.

All we can do is be informed about LLMs and futur techs, produce the best outputs with the constraints we have and hope for the best.

Keep your skills up to date, and hopefully find a job where LLMs aren’t shoved down your throat. Or pivot towards something else.

Coachmen had to learn a new job, and it might be our turn.

I don’t hold a lot of hope for the next few years. It’s gonna be rough. All we can be is ready to the best of our abilities.

One caveat I would note: lots of people can’t afford expensive, durable appliances.

It’s expensive to be poor.

And for the rich that fucks other rich people.

You know why the code is wrong because you have the experience to see where the issue is and what it is.

If you’ve learned coding with LLMs from the start, you won’t acquire the experience needed to be able to tell what is wrong.

I’ve worked with a client that tried to generate code for a HCI bluetooth device, trying to recreate the full Bluetooth stack, instead of picking the right product from the start, with a working stack.

And that was a client that had technical knowledge, just not for Bluetooth and HCI.

And if you try to tell the AI what’s wrong, it will create bullshit code until it kinda works, adding more issues along the way.

I’m sure that AI will replace coders one day, but LLMs aren’t AI and they are neat ready to write decent, complex code.

I think that the cultural barriers can be overcome with a pricing strategy. If the bug nuggets can be a lot cheaper than normal nuggets for example, people would be more willing to try it and adopt it.

It’s a mega corpo. Laws don’t apply to them silly you.

There is certainly a big part that can be attributed to imperialism, but my (uneducated) pet theory is that technocrats were able to harness the accessibility of big data after the great recession to siphon wealth from working class a lot more efficiently, by radicalizing people.

There had been a big leap from 2005 to 2015-2016 on computing power that enabled the widespread of big data and the corpos with the means to get in on it used it to further enrich their corporation and themselves and created this extremely toxic environment where everything is polarized and monetized.

And with big data, populists can change in real time their message so that they get more money and influence. And tribalism seems to work pretty fucking well. So they finetuned their message to radicalize people and achieve that goal.

People can isolate themselves into online communities that will echo and amplify their views of the world. And now they are pouring on the streets because they’ve became enough of a big group to do so.

Technocrats created this big machine to get rich, and the machine feed itself, giving more power to the ultra rich, which grab more power and influence by radicalizing people.

To be fair, far-right ideologies have been ramping up worldwide since a decade or two.

The current political context just embolden the far right actors to go mask off.

When there is Jesus, little kids get fondled. Fucking disgusting.

Cities would rather pollute a new parcel of land than fix the contamined ones.

There is a city nearby that has an abandoned industrial district and they plan on building a new industrial district instead of razing the old one and decontaminate it.

And shocker, they want to make the new district on farm land.

GDP growth doesn’t help the average person. GDP shrink hurt the average person. Let’s get rid of that dumb metric.

I give you 10$, you give that 10$ to JimBob and Jimbob give it back to me. Same 10$, 30$ in value created. A fucking farce.

Depends on what access you have on your PC.

My two steps are always the same

1. debloater
2. i install chocolatey and use that to manage my applications if possible.

Then, depending on your work requirements, I would deactivate OneDrive if not used.

Modern Web has spoiled the average user. You never have to choose a server.

Need an account? Link your gmail/meta/whatever.

If there is a little bit of friction, the average user won’t use it because corpos made sure that everything is a one click setup. And Lemmy is different in that regard, a bit old school.

This is mental that we sell arable land to build expensive, low quality condos or big buildings like a data center.

The typical customer service is 45 mins ++ of waiting on the line, to be greeted by an agent with a heavy Indian accent that will go through the script before having any chances to have a shot at maybe fixing your issue.

It’s a productivity miracle for manager because they can bullshit their job faster and easier.

It’s a holdover from retail where had to physically hold your product and had limited space.

Now, the shareholders demand even more money and Apple has complete control on the OS and they are signaling that you can’t do shit and they will take whatever they want.

They can fight anyone in courts, and as long as the laws have no teeth, they will get away with it.

I guess the rich friends need more money. Time to manipulate the market again.

No worries, no offense taken.

Hopefully people will see discussions like ours and learn a little something about how things work.