mildmojo

@mildmojo.bsky.social

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software developer, llm hater used to make games, will again one day he/him

Quote from the post's section for people just trying to survive: "If you’re being asked to review huge volumes of terrible AI code, just assume that the organisation is going to burn you out and fire you. You will not convince the person drowning you in 2000 line PRs to stop. Start looking for a new job as if you have already been fired. I have seen this happen many times now, and it always plays out the same way – do the job search while you have energy. Don’t worry if your speed drops or management gets annoyed at you. There is no way to avoid that, you can simply choose whether it happens now because of your job search, or later because you are too depressed to work anymore."
Wikipedia paragraph about how Justin Lin's film, Better Luck Tomorrow, is the origin story for Han from the Fast 'n' Furious movies.
Pixel art doomguy face with a grey pixel art artist beret hastily pasted on
Screenshot of paragraphs from the link in the quoted post: Every self-respecting software engineer knows that writing code is easier than reviewing or auditing existing code. That's one reason why getting a professional audit done is so bloody expensive. But somehow, "generated code is fine, you just need to review it carefully" is painted as time-saving. Wat? Every self-respecting software engineer knows that deleting code is better than adding code. But somehow, "I can write more code faster with this" is a perk now. The fuck? Every self-respecting software engineer resents iterations times that aren't instant and dreads systems that only offer indirect control. But apparently guiding an unreliable chatbot via responses counted in seconds is a good workflow. What's wrong with you?
Movie still from the Moonrise trailer. Several people in the foreground point flashlights at the disused shuttle Endeavor. Graffiti on the side says "SCREW THE MOON", which is probably a censored version of the more common phrase, "fuck the moon"
Photo of an OUYA console. A rounded silver cube, shiny black face on top with a circular blue power button.
Iago the parrot, from Aladdin, in the middle of his rant: "Oh there's a big surprise. That's incredible—I think I'm gonna have a heart attack and DIE of not-surprised"
Screenshot from the upper corner of a Netflix menu. The show title is "The Four Seasons", and below that, it says "2 Seasons".
Intro from Out of This World, showing lightning striking the building next to the protagonist's Porsche at night, travelling thru the particle accelerator tunnel, and finishing by zapping the scientist at his desk, leaving only a gaping crater where he once sat.
Movie still from Ghostbusters. In the firehouse basement, the EPA suit is pointing a finger at a professorial Egon, telling him the containment grid must be shut down. Janine looks over her glasses at Egon in the background, while a disheveled Rick Moranis points back at the EPA guy in the foreground.
Screenshot from the article: "Iris Muis, a data-ethics expert at Utrecht University’s Data School, framed the trap plainly: a user cannot picture how their data might be used later. Maybe in five years there is an application with effects you fundamentally disagree with. British game designer Adrian Hon has gone further, advising Pokémon Go players to stop making scans and consider smaller games less likely to resell data. De Hingh, who quit the game over a year ago because he was tired of the updates rather than the data terms, called the news an enormous eye-opener. “A game should stay a game,” he said."
Graph from steamdb.info showing annual releases from Steam's inception in 2006 thru 2025. The first decade was moderate, from a few hundred games a year to around 4K, but it's been climbing since, topping out at 21K releases last year.
Long rows of white gacha capsule machines, stacked 3 high.
Street corner with a fence around a small, mostly-empty lot. Remnants of signage are framed above the fence. Facing one street, it says, "FREE COVID TESTING". Facing another street (and the camera), the weathered sign says, "FREE CAR INSPECTION"
Star Trek TNG episode title card. The Enterprise against the black. Blue episode title text says: "The one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism... SPACE!"
Screenshot of searching "no more" at Google. The genAI overview fills the entire viewport, saying it's stopping, cleared everything, and will not send any more messages or information.
Still from the movie Leave the World Behind. A woman stands on a sunny road between two lanes filled with dead white self-driving cars that have each plowed into the one ahead of them. The shoulder is sandy, and there's a body of water nearby.
Image of Bo Burnham from his "Welcome to the Internet" song ("a little bit of everything, all of the time"). Sitting at a piano, grinning into a mic, dark blue lighting, sunglasses and mustache. A speech bubble at the bottom of the frame as if he's singing the quoted post.
Meme from The Matrix when Agent Smith is interviewing Neo and melts his mouth shut. Two panels, showing Smith and Neo. Caption: "What good is Citizens United / If you are unable to spend"
Screenshot of the entry for "STRING GAMES (1974)", which used a very early Bell Canada videoconferencing system to play Cat's Cradle with people representing one hand in each of 2 cities.
Photo of half a dozen grilled red hot dogs sitting next to half a dozen toasted soft-sided hot dog buns. Throw 'em all in the bin.
Screenshot from the quoted post: "Then someone — there’s always someone — builds a leaderboard tracking how many prompts you wrote this week, how much of your code is AI-generated, your ranking versus your team, versus your org, versus the entire company. One day your company announces: stop everything, it’s AI Week. Build something with AI. Show what you’ve got. You think you’re done after the hackathon? No no no. Now you have to promote it. Daily posts: look what I built, here’s how many agents I used, here’s how many skills I shipped. Pull in teammates. Pull in strangers. Ask for feedback. “Humbly.” Your AI usage is now a KPI."
Image of a magic 8-ball with the message "OUTLOOK NOT SO GOOD" appearing in its blue window.
Captain America sitting on a backwards chair in a school hallway
Screenshot from the article: "Are Any Routers Manufactured in the US? The only routers I know of that are manufactured in the US are some Starlink Wi-Fi routers, which are primarily made in Texas. Starlink is part of Elon Musk's SpaceX company, but many of the components in these routers come from East Asia. Botezatu says what matters more than geography is the security model behind the product. "
Jake Busey plays an expert vault-cracking demolition man in Justified S6. He stands in front of a vault holding an explosive device.
Screenshot of a search result for "Shoot 'Em Up (2007)" at IMDb. "A man named Mr. Smith delivers a woman's baby during a shootout, and then is called upon to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen."
A screenshot shared from youraislopbores.me. I ask what to do if I'm having trouble focusing at work. The human reply: "The best course of action is to eliminate any distractions. You could wear noise cancelling headphones, Horse blinders, or simply make sure all of your coworkers are fired through a convoluted plan."
Bluesky post by meme calling out Proton for sharing data when their homepage says "a better internet starts with privacy and freedom"
ASCII art pig, since I couldn't immediately find a colorful ANSI art version.
Screenshot of a paragraph from the linked article, which quotes the report at the heart of the article: "Research has demonstrated that million-dollar earners and high net worth individuals tend to exhibit lower rates of migration compared to the general public," said lead report author Omar Ocampo, researcher at the Institute for Policy Studies. "This is not a surprise. Their family, business and social network deeply root them to amenity rich locales where they enjoy a high quality of life. A modest increase on their incomes does not compel the overwhelming majority of millionaires to flee to other states."
Close crop of the photo in the quoted post showing banners on the side of the Deptr. of Ed building. The font they used for numbers makes it look like they're celebrating the 230th anniversary instead of 250.
Screenshot of Visidata displaying a tabular employee dataset. One row and column are currently selected. There's some colorization on some rows.
Quote from Finji's Saltsman from the article: "What really is utterly baffling is what appears to be a profound void where common sense and business sense usually reside. Does TikTok want me to be grateful for the mistreatment of my company and our game? Based on the wild response through the weeks of customer service correspondence we have received, I think this is their stance and take on their obvious offensive and racist technology and process and how they secretly use it on the assets of their paying clients without consent or knowledge."
Screenshot of the linked website, with the Bureau of Morality seal and a partial list of names visible. "The Resistance Network These people are intelligent, organized, and highly motivated. Finding, catching, and destroying them should be a top priority."
Photo of three Jeopardy contestants at their podiums. Two men, with 0 dollars each, flank a woman with $2786 on the board. She has her head face-down on her podiium in disbelief.
Lucius Fox stands at a panoramic bank of mini-displays, a surveillance system built for Batman to spy on millions of people at once, without any oversight. The hero destroys the system by the end of the film, because it's "too much power for one person."
Paragraph from the linked article about the State Department removing any Twitter posts that were made under previous administrations. There is only one administration. There has only ever been one administration. If you believe elsewise, you are welcome to file a FOIA request. "The State Department is removing all posts on its public accounts on the social media platform X made before President Trump returned to office on Jan. 20, 2025. The posts will be internally archived but will no longer be on public view, the State Department confirmed to NPR. Staff members were told that anyone wanting to see older posts will have to file a Freedom of Information Act request, according to a State Department employee who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation by the Trump administration. That would differ from how the U.S. government typically handles archiving the public online footprint of previous administrations."
Quoted text from an Axios article about 20 Democrats voting to fund DHS for two weeks, described as "ending the government shutdown": "- Many Democrats also felt considerable apprehension about the optics of voting for even short-term DHS funding without strings attached following the fatal shootings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti. - But several members of leadership argued that it would be bad strategy to allow the government to stay shut down, with other lawmakers saying their districts need agencies like FEMA to be funded."
Screenshot of a paragraph from the quoted article. Full text: "This week in Philadelphia, Larry Krasner, the city’s district attorney, used perhaps the most aggressive language to date by an elected official towards ICE, warning the agency it would not escape justice. “This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis – that’s what they are – in a country of 350 million. We outnumber them,” he said of the federal agents, before adding: “If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities, we will find you, we will achieve justice, and we will do so under the constitution and the laws of the United States.”"
"Janet", by Guy Conrad. Low-res Atari art. A white cat sits on a supine white woman's chest, paws outstretched, like it's going to lick her chin. The woman has long brown hair, and appears to be reclining in bed, eyes closed, embracing the cat. The piece is signed with an ornate "g.c." in the lower right corner.
Screenshot of the Bluesky trending topics box, which reads: "Air Force One", "Arsenal", "Donald Trump", "Mamdani"
Adult Swim bump video, white text on black background, with a pleasing jazz xylophone band tune playing over it. "A new law being proposed in the House ... would neutralize the ban on domestic propaganda ... allowing the administration to knowingly lie to the public ... because the government ... will tell you anything to keep you quiet and behaved ... [adult swim]" The "quiet and behaved" bit adds a cartoon graphic of Uncle Sam smiling and shaking his fist, leaning over a little girl in a purple dress. Air date: May 27, 2012 (per bumpworthy.com)
Triptych from The Good Place TV show, in which a Good Place committee promises to form a committee to investigate the Bad Place that should wrap up in a few hundred years. These images show Paul Scheer's character, in a plaid shirt and a blue puffer vest. Text below the three panels reads: "He's got a point. The fair thing for us to do is just keep on giving up more and more stuff we want, unilaterally, until this demon is finally happy."
Detective Benoit Blanc exclaims that the villain's actions are "so dumb!" but when Birdie pipes in with "it's so dumb, it's brilliant," Blanc replies by shouting, "No! It's just dumb!"
Screenshot of George from the "Lazarus Project" TV series. A speech balloon comes from his mouth, expanding to fill the bottom of the frame, as if he's speaking the quoted post.
Screenshot of Gallup poll results from spring 2025. Which should the government prioritize when it comes to AI? 80% said "Maintaining rules for AI safety and data security, even if it means developing AI capabilities at a slower rate" compared to 20% for "Developing AI capabilities as quickly as possible" or "Don't know".
Photo of the radio and HVAC controls from a 2000 Honda Civic. Knobs can be located by feel and operated more precisely than levers or a touchscreen. Radio buttons can likewise be operated by feel. The radio is easily replaceable with a standard-sized aftermarket unit. The extra space in the already-compact dash allows for an extra storage cubby.
Screenshot of a post on meta.stackexchange.com announcing "AI Assist" conversational search has launched, which substitutes an LLM for the Q&A that actually powers the site. It's moderated at -309, and every reply is negative. They even pushed announcement spam into people's inbox for this launch, which they haven't done for any other features.
Screenshot of a GitHub issue where thaJetzah explains they were writing an explainer on the nuances of how --no-cache still uses the cache, but some Dockerfile commands they expected to use the cache, didn't (after internalizing previous docs/discussions).
Screenshot of GitHub issue comment with 3 thumbs-ups, from user pawelwod: "I know you maybe know this and is obvious to you but I have never ever worked with Dockerfiles before, but now have a task to prepare docker image. Imagine my frustration when I say '--no-cache' and I still see "CACHED"."
Screenshot of the angel committee from TV show The Good Place. Six people sit at a desk, Paul Scheer in the middle, mouth open. The caption is a quote from his character (maybe not from this scene): "The only reasonable thing to do is keep giving up things unilaterally until this demon is happy."
Mamdani campaign sign that says "LIVE NUDE GARGOYLES"
Image in the style of Mamdani's campaign signs, saying "YOU'RE GONNA CARRY THAT WEIGHT"
Image in the style of Mamdani's campaign signs, but it says "SO SWEET AND SO COLD"
Screenshot of MakerWorld after clicking a model download link. The error message says, "You can only download up to five models in an unlogged-in state. Please log in to enjoy more benefits."
Screenshot of the linked PDF, a safety factsheet for protesters. Diagrams of affected areas, starts with primary tips: "GET OFF-AXIS FIRST, GET FAR AWAY SECOND"
LA Times headline, "Newsom warns of missiles over I-5, but freeway will remain open during live-fire Camp Pendleton event"
An officer in beige tactical gear, sunglasses, dark cap, looks over his shoulder in alarm. A person in an oversized inflatable bee costume stands on the sidewalk, eyes empty, with a bored posture. The photo is a crop of one of the photos in the OP.
Screenshot from the article in the previous quote-post. Statement from Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary at DHS, which oversees ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. "“DHS is not going to confirm our vehicles and put an even larger target on our officers’ backs,” she says. “When our heroic law enforcement officers conduct operations, they clearly identify themselves as law enforcement while wearing masks"