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brotato

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  • Career Advice: Principal Giving Dubious Feedback?

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  • Thank you, I wholeheartedly agree. AI for the sake of AI is just pleasing shareholders, and it just feels wrong to call that out as the solution when there are actual engineering avenues that can be explored. At the same time, I feel like it would be burning a bridge if I tried to hold my ground and disagree with the PE. The PE is not my manager (and is not the only PE), but there are also not very many engineers held to that standard in my company. I don’t want to be remembered as the guy that called the PE out on poorly conceived feedback.

  • Career Advice: Principal Giving Dubious Feedback?

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  • This is great advice, thank you so much. I do occasionally find myself on the verge of burning out. I always have to take a step away and reframe how I think about work when that happens. Maybe I’ll take this setback as a sign to allow myself to be satisfied with where I am and continue growing in my current role.

  • Career Advice: Principal Giving Dubious Feedback?

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  • You know, there is probably some salt to this. There was one part of my doc where his comment felt somewhat defensive. Thanks for your perspective!

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    Career Advice: Principal Giving Dubious Feedback?

  • Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck: Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones.

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  • Honestly it was even before the Nazi salute. Dude went down the ketamine and red pill rabbit hole years before that and lost a lot of his left-leaning fanboys. It became super obvious at that point that he was just another sociopathic nepo baby grifter.

  • “ChatGPT said this” Is Lazy

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  • I 100% agree. To me it sort of feels like that old “Let me Google that for you” website. Like I wouldn’t have asked you something if I wanted you to just prompt ChatGPT. I want your informed opinion. But I guess informed opinions are hard to come by these days.

  • might be a form of Jevons Paradox

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  • The tech debt problem will keep getting worse as product teams keep promising more in less time. Keep making developers move faster. I’m sure nothing bad will come of it.

    Capitalism truly ruins everything good and pure. I used to love writing clean code and now it’s just “prompt this AI to spit out sloppy code that mostly works so you can focus on what really matters… meetings!”

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  • Yep, take a look into GitHub actions. Basically you can make it so that a specific set of tests are run every time a PR is opened against your code repo. In the background it just spins up a container and runs any commands you define in a YAML config file.

  • Members of Congress are fleeing the job at a historically high rate

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  • Oh, a bunch of Republicans are leaving? That’s interesting, I wonder why. It sure would be a shame if their seats were replaced by people that actually want to make a difference.

  • More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds

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  • Honestly, Youtube was already pretty shit with all of the obvious monetization schemes and paid “influencer” content. Even though I never watch reaction videos I feel like they are always recommended to me. Their algorithms were already busted to prefer user-created slop. This is just another step towards complete enshittification.

  • DNC under fire for hiding autopsy report on 2024 election

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  • Charlie Kirk shooting site ‘recreation’ at TPUSA event sparks backlash

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  • I really wish that TPUSA would just fade into obscurity, but I guess Erika is getting fat checks from Republicans now. She sure has been on a media warpath.

  • Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog

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  • I think part of this is lawmakers not understanding the gravity of what they’re suggesting. Besides, most of these apps have some sort of backdoor built-in so they can decrypt messages if required in legal proceedings. Ripping E2EE out of everything is an insane assertion to make, and would make the Internet an even more dangerous place than it already is.

  • The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek

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  • It’s good to see the sentiment growing. Anecdotally, there are non-technical people in my circle that use LLMs frequently as search engine replacements or to do stupid shit like generate pictures and emojis. I hope that begins to decline with the general sentiment called out in this article.

    The sheer number of useless LLM integrations in every website, every mobile app, and hell, even smart TVs is insane. I feel like it’s causing people very real feature fatigue. And all of the Internet content and advertising slop is making the takeover seem so much worse.

    Edit: Grammar, formatting

  • Obama encourages Democrats to focus on winning back House, not "tactical differences"

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  • 100%. I think Biden’s “status quo” messaging only worked because of the chaos that was Trump’s first term and COVID. That is not a platform to run on when Trump pushed the country into full-blown fascism. The pendulum needs to swing in the other direction. The only thing I fear is that those in charge of the DNC have proven they are not interested in supporting social democrats or democratic socialists for the presidency. We sorely need a third party that is taken seriously.

  • Jake Tapper says Trump has health issue that ‘they’re not telling us’ about

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  • I really don’t understand why they always feel the need to cover up presidential health issues. I know the answer is “national security,” but how exactly is it secure to have a man in obvious mental and physical decline going around “shaking hands” with other world leaders? Just own up to it and have him die at Mar-a-lago playing golf like he probably wants. That was the whole point of having JD as a backup, right?