I cannot describe how deeply gratifying this was to read. The unemployment is real.
this post was submitted on 26 May 2025
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Replacing programmers with AI coding isn’t working out so well. I’m hearing stories of consultant programmers being called in to quietly rewrite vibe code disasters that were the CEO’s personal pet project, because the code cannot be fixed in place.
"AI" removes the people who stood between the CEO and the code. It's the perfect anti-productivity tool.
quietly
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They don't want to tell to the CEO face that they sucks so instead of fixing it themselves they pay an external programmer to fix it
But the manager is still not fixed, thinks he can have less people do more programming in the future.
yep!
Precisely this.
I'm sure your keyboard has more input controls than just that, want to try some of them?
If you get the call, charge as much as you can. Then charge more.
Words to live by.
This somehow reminds me of a bunch of senior managers in corporate communications on LinkedIn who got all excited over the fact that with GenAI, you can replace the background of an image with something else! That's never been seen before, of course! I'm assuming that in the past, these guys could never be bothered to look into tools as widespread as Canva, where a similar feature had been present for many years (before the current GenAI hype, I believe, even if the feature may use some kind of AI technology - I honestly don't know). Such tools are only for the lowly peasants, I guess - and quite soon, AI is going to replace all the people who know where to click to access a feature like "background remover", anyway!
Since basically all graphics processing algorithms are linear algebra and all of ML is linear algebra but with a twist, I think fuzzy background removal is definitely AI.
This term is so meaningless you could call A* an "AI algorithm" at this fucking point
This term is so meaningless you could call A* an “AI algorithm” at this fucking point
We did at one point I think, or at least the computer-learnin' school I went to back in the day thought that graph search algorithms should be part of that curriculum.
I'm not surprised that this feature (which was apparently introduced by Canva in 2019) is AI-based in some way. It was just never marketed as such, probably because in 2019, AI hadn't become a common buzzword yet. It was simply called “background remover” because that's what it does. What I find so irritating is that these guys on LinkedIn not only think this feature is new and believe it's only possible in the context of GenAI, but apparently also believe that this is basically just the final stepping stone to AI world domination.
why is robot lady in queue with springy legs so darn sexy
seriously though, good piece. Hopefully the fever breaks soon (yeah right)
Robot lady? What about the round robot. I asked for robot bears, and I got them.
i knew you ~~robopervs~~ ~~clunkies~~ bot appreciators would only have eyes for the hot springs