Anyway, I digress, it would be great to connect and exchange ideas if you have the time? I really like the idea of fading connections.

The reality is that the term democracy in western society has essentially become meaningless due to the swathes of algorithmic manipulation which occurs every second of everyday through every possible digital medium.

I could be connecting unrelated dots here, but it sure as hell seems quite coincidental to me.

Think of roads. It’s one of few things that humans have managed to agree on across the planet and there’s a good reason for that. The system (regardless of which side you drive on) works. Signs, markings and materials are all pretty much identical wherever you go.

In other countries the do have a lot of additional meals which are specific to their local taste (rice/fried chicken/different sauces) but the core burgers like a Big Mac, mcChicken and sides such as fries are there.

The only way something like this would be remotely plausible as a concept would be for enough data providers with overlapping authority on given topics to implement it.

Sadly SMEs have no choice but to go with the flow and allow AI scrapers in. If they don’t, they won’t be as visible in AI generations at the top of the SERPs and they won’t get the visits, which will mean they don’t make the money required to stay afloat.

The fish that attempts to swim against the current ultimately dies and has its corpse carried where the current was going, anyway. Without the sway which comes with size your only option is to go with the flow and drop a little dirty protest every now and then.

I’ve seen a lot of comments and posts where people have stated they ‘literally’ never write a line of code anymore and was curious as to what people mean when they state this.

I say this as a daily user of Claude code with a max plan, so I’m not bashing LLMs or people who use them. I just find it quite hard to understand how it can be productive to offload _all_ coding, especially on brownfield projects.

My reason for saying this is that I often have to debug and triage issues. Often my triage and diagnosis leads me to a point where I can see that the issue is a simple fix with a couple lines of code.

Of course, Claude could fix the issue but the time taken to prompt, wait for it to spit out a plan, evaluate said plan, wait for it to finish implementing said plan, and then evaluate the work would be considerably longer than just making the change quickly and making a PR myself.

Obviously is also possible to just offload the triage and diagnosis to Claude as well but I personally find it unproductive as it essentially ends up with a higher chance of the LLM going rogue and changing unrelated areas of the codebase.

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So many people are just shouting ‘I wanna go fast’ and completely forgetting the lessons learned over the past few decades. Something is going to crash and burn, eventually.

I say this as a daily LLM user, albeit a user with a very skeptical view of anything the LLM puts in front of me.

If the LLM conducted the interview on your behalf you did not ‘hear from’ them. The LLM did.

Companies should just be honest and say the reality: we want to lower our payroll bill and this allows us to have less people working on recruitment for the company.

Nor do I even know how to begin to grasp the enablement displayed by Europe as a whole. People constantly cite China’s “human rights abuses” (which seem to pale in comparison to all this) and rightly so, but continue to enable this blood thirsty and power hungry tag team to indulge in flagrant abuses of international law and general morality.

This is a sad day for level headed and empathetic humans across the globe. At which point do we accept that WW3 began quite a while ago? Because it sure as shit did.

Edit: fully expect this to be downvoted to oblivion but it’s my truth.