if i have to start wearing a gas mask in the office im just gonna go all in and dress like a tech priest
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Hang on. They had to ship three major updates in a single morning? How the hell is their workflow so bad that they have to- Oh yeah. Vibecoding.
If you see anyone wearing this shit, remember that you can laugh at how stupid they look as much as you want, and their weak copium that it’s a “skill issue” will be swallowed by their copium mask. So you’re free to laugh until they cry.
Hey - they can whisper entire codebases with it
()[]{}:!-_@#%*/;.
imagine trying to whisper these
I was wondering about this
Waka Waka Waka!
They just ask the llm to make regex
On the one hand, each and every one of those has at least one pronounceable name, but on the other, I think these masks are for natural language, conversational AI prompt generation, so there’d be little to no need for any of them.
You’ve got to remember that this is being marketed towards bosses and C-levels who haven’t written a line of code in their lives, or have completely forgotten how, much preferring to tell people what they want and then expecting it to magically appear in front of them as soon as possible.
open parentheses close parentheses open square bracket close square bracket open curly bracket close curly bracket colon exclamation point hyphen underscore at sign pound sign percent symbol asterisk forwardsl slash semicolon period
Wow I’m so efficient!
sorry, I didnt get that
“open square bracket”
1 🖊️ ⬜ 🎾
super aside, the text to speech in R.e.p.o doesn’t pronounce parentheses but it does for square and curly brackets, which you can type really fast and then annoy your friends with minute long voice lines.
pound signOctothorpe, ftfy
- Pound sign: £
- Hash: #
- Octothorpe: Thorpe, Thorpe, Thorpe, Thorpe, Thorpe, Thorpe, Thorpe, Thorpe
£ is pound sterling sign, not pound sign. # is pound sign.
Not over here it isn’t.
(I’m assuming you’re from over there of course)
Hash:
Hash:
And all without a single junior dev in the open office hearing their genius. Aside from the junior dev who bought the fucking thing in the vain hope they could roleplay as a more competent employee. That junior dev can hear themself going “no, fuck, delete, how do I- no, stop typing, you stupid fucking thing”, which I assume counts as “genius”.
also what asinine dev team manager is “optimizing for output”??? that’s like the worst idea. it’s like judging carpenters by “most nails used”.
The obvious outcome of this is an army of juniors making the cut solely because their tasks were to update package.lock.
asinine dev team manager
Elon Musk
Input speed is basically never an issue for development work, as long as you have basic proficiency …
Though this dipshit might be right that his coworkers who don’t go all-in on LLM bullshit might get “automated” away, most managers literally don’t care about the quality of their product, and most ethical issues are probably a bonus instead of a detriment to them.
Except that you’re not entering code. You’re not even mapping out algorithms or data structures or reasoning about tradeoffs, as that’s for dirty-handed peasants. You’re constantly supervising and arguing with an army of industrious yet dim-witted sorcerers’ apprentices. Your voice is a lump hammer that you’re trying to hammer a large structure you’re above needing to understand into the shape it’s meant to be in, with each blow moving a lump randomly, and your mental capacity is fully occupied with forming and refining folk theories about how the mechanised idiots you command actually think.
I don’t want to wear the gimp mask.
I would rather wear a gimp mask. Less embarrassing.
Okay, hear me out. Actually use it as a gimp mask, for BDSM stuff. Put on big headphones and play your own voice back into your ears full volume while someone edges you and slaps you around a bit, forcing you to moan into your own ears super loud if you can’t keep your mouth shut and stop complaining, while also muffling your cries so nobody but you has to hear it.
Anyone know the brand?
You joke, but I read a LinkedIn post the other day where someone said that they had “fully switched to voice prompted AI work” and asked “are you still typing in 2026?”
Speaking instead of typing can be nice but not suited for offices.
Heh, still living in the stone age? That’s why I use my Superwhisper™.
All of LinkedIn is just LinkedIn lunatics, satire is obsolete
Programming seems like a uniquely awful use case for this.
Saying “function open bracket close bracket open brace carriage return tab print open bracket quote hello quote close bracket semicolon carriage return space space space space print open bracket quote world quote close bracket carriage return return carriage return close brace” seems much more cumbersome than just pressing the buttons and typing it manually.
Its for vibe coding ten volume length instructions and then walking away after pressing enter
“pressing enter” so a keyboard is still needed?
How could they lie like this?
you tell the AI to press enter ofc
This picture must be fake… there’s no way a developer has only one external monitor.
That’s not a developer, that’s a “minimalist” “digital nomad”. He’s 💊 AI-pilled and vibemaxxing💪. He doesn’t actually even need one monitor - that’s purely for aesthetic purposes.
We need to start aggressively bullying and mocking adults that act like this openly and publicly. I was a skinny nerdy kid that got picked on constantly in high school. And even I think pricks like this need to have their self esteem and confidence shattered
Guys like this are probably the ones who did the bullying in school anyway
I’m with you 100%. Watch out though, guys like that always fight dirty lol
I cringed so hard that I now require medical attention.
I genuinely can’t distinguish between satire and reality anymore.
Yes, and it makes me tired
Pretty sure it’s satire especially with the hashtags.
Maybe I could code masterpieces by singing to it.
Can someone, anyone, tell me where it is that you work where input speed is the bottleneck in software development?
Because I have genuinely never worked at any company where the main thing holding up development was that developers weren’t typing fast enough.
Once I was basically the only programmer on a huge project (“superstar”). One day I injured my hands from working too hard, and had to use assistive technologies.
The entire project ground to a halt, and management was on my ass all day every day about productivity. I even got a write-up and my bonus cancelled because I went from 3x output to 1.2x output (compared to my coworkers). Obviously I didn’t stay long after that…
So yeah, if you’re in that extremely niche type of situation, it probably matters. Creating an entire project by yourself kind of jobs. Actually, that tool looks extremely good for people who cannot use a mouse and keyboard for any reason. I would have used it. I didn’t like speaking to my computer to write out code in an open plan office.
That sounds horrible af. Hypercapitalism is so sad. You are treated like stock
It’ easy to convince management it is
Unless they’re aware of The Mythical Man-Month
God how i wish anyone I worked with understood throwing bodies at every problem doesn’t mean it gets fixed faster. On the the other end of problems, they don’t understand a developer can’t just start developing on immediately on complex application.
God being in project orient work is a pain.
When you’re vibe coding, you need to narrate long prompts, including things like “And remember not to hallucinate or make any errors.” All that is a lot faster to say than type.
Clearly, you’re not vibe coding, and your job will be (checks notes) automated away by someone with a #grindset.
/s, in case that wasn’t obvious.
Actually the tooling is such that you have that written in some kind of a rules file that will then more or less append the rules to the prompt so you wouldn’t have to repeat it over and over.
At least I think that’s how it works, I was only half listening to the mandatory AI training.
Wondering if those AI trainers know every character you put in that file is another token they’re paying for
If youre not using a custom instruction that brute forces different ways to try to get the other model not to fuck uo youre doing it wrong. If that doesn’t work, add another llm into the pipe
Edit what is a token and why is my boss sending me angry emails
I was talking to an acquaintance and she was taking AI course.
She was taught to “validate” LLM infos by asking the same question in a different model.
This is an actual university course.
I was baffled. There is no guarantee that both models aren’t wrong. But speaking to people that use LLMs, this is a common strategy.
I’ve definitely had coworkers with injuries for whom typing was absolutely not a speedy input.
Assuming this is a real post and not satire, my best guess is that they don’t think it’s a bottleneck, but still believe a way to talk to the computer without disturbing others in the office is useful. Like if Tide detergent said it would save your marriage – they don’t think it really will, but the ad is humourous and likely to gain attention because of it.
Companies (garbage ones) where they measure “productivity” by AI token use, number of code commits, or lines of code written.
Definitely not a cult though guys!
When playing with prompts before I realized how stupid this whole thing was (in 2023 lol), I found myself also copying and pasting a lot so… it’s probably not even going to speed things up in prompting, even ignoring the whole thinking part that we’ll omit here since, well, they probably aren’t.
You merely adopted being an incel. I was born in it!
