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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • I’m not sure. I feel like I’d have stuck with my parents’ political leanings if I didn’t have a catalyst to know any better. I really don’t know though. Maybe I’m selling myself short.

    My biggest awakening stems from meeting my wife years before we got together. She grew up in a more religious family than I did and experienced a lot of issues with that. She was hip to the atheism and science scene and opened my eyes to it. I can credit her almost exclusively for being that catalyst to show me that the ability to use reason and logic is a foundational skill that all humans should value and that you shouldn’t hold values that you haven’t reasoned yourself into. She’s amazing.


  • Developers all love to preen about code. They worry LLMs lower the “ceiling” for quality. Maybe. But they also raise the “floor”.

    And this is how the human element of this industry dies. This dev is the last of a dying breed, the senior dev. He’s also loading more bullets into the gun that’s pointed at the heart of the role that got him to where he is in the first place.

    You don’t get to become a junior dev if that role is occupied by AI and you don’t get to ever ascend to senior dev unless you start as a junior dev.

    For as analytical this person seems to be, he has a massive blindspot related to the path he himself treaded to get where he is. He’s pulling the ladder up behind him and condemning the people on the path behind to finding another way or giving up entirely.

    AI is brain rot. It’s actively and aggressively atrophying humanity’s ability to reason and problem solve.