My team assigns both hours and points to tasks. I’ve never seen the points used for anything but they still spend time on it.

Has management known that?

A lot of problems seem to be downstream from “management are idiots and assholes”

I’m happy not using blizzard or other Microsoft products.

I bet they’ll try to buy discord soon.

No shit.

One of the problems is all the people who were fucking wrong don’t suffer any lasting consequences. They will be listened to again.

The only thing that we can say for sure is that the companies benefit from shrinkflation in some way otherwise they wouldn’t do it.

Nitpick, even though I agree with you: companies believe they will benefit. We can’t rule out how fucking stupid a lot of management types are. Like whatever company fired people for AI and then had to retire them, plus eat the lost potential from fucking around with AI for months.

And even when the individuals aren’t stupid, the incentives are fucked. Google kills products because of internal fighting for promotions and recognition, not anything that’s good for users or the companies.

A large part of code review has been preventing people from doing stupid shit. AI is making stupid shit worse. It’s not defects, it’s “adding a whole micro service to get the user name from the ID, when the name is already in the metadata” or whatever that recent meme was.

Or that time a guy wrote a whole DSL instead of using the existing framework. Technically impressive, but adds a huge burden.

Many people simply do not seek a faster way of doing things.

Right. But if you’re a soulless manager, and you set faster timelines, you PIP and fire the people who don’t make it. They’ll use the tools or be replaced.

It’s the same as an AI mandate, except less stupid. (It can still be stupid if you set the timelines impossibly fast, but management is not known for being smart or informed)

I wouldn’t do this as me because I’m not a soulless manager.

If AI actually made people faster and more productive, they could simply set faster timelines and people would use the tools.

There are AI mandates because the people in leadership are stupid and dishonest. “Return to office” has the same shape. For many people working from home is healthier and more productive, and it’s better for the environment not to commute as much, but the emotional needs of leadership are primary.

I’m sure that camera could accidentally be damaged or rendered non-functional.

Fuck em. Lots of free media out there. My local library has all sorts of stuff, and that’s not even considering what’s out on the high seas.

"Luxury” fashion is just a con to get stupid rich people to fork over their money.

One time I was on the subway and my friend motioned at a lady sitting with a handbag on her lap. Friend asked how much I thought that bag sold for. It was a pretty basic looking bag, maybe real leather, a zipper. I said maybe a few hundred. They were like no, it’s {some brand}, probably five figures.

Anyone who spends five figures on a bag that’s not like a magical bag of holding should immediately be sent to therapy and community service.

Fuck. Fuck all this AI slop.

I assume this is trying to do a racism.

Interesting. I find that where I work, often the biggest problems are non-technical. It’s the upper manager that says “we don’t have time for automated testing” and then our releases take two days of manual testing and bug fixing.

In addition to all the other ways conservatives are assholes, many of them are also this kind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro-masculinity

but take any increased productivity for themselves

Many people seem confused and this.

Worker makes charts and reports. Owner sells for profit. Worker suddenly is making double the charts. Owner makes double the profit. Worker… ???

Just like… What do they expect to happen.

I leave my PR in draft until the checks pass. I don’t want anyone reviewing it when it’s broken.

“request desktop site” usually gets rid of the app nag.

I never post there anymore but there’s a lot of useful stuff from the old days.

Imagine a context where the reader is looking at the news for the first time that day. They think they missed news in the morning, perhaps the US starting aggressions, and now China has dropped another bomb.

I’m sure you can imagine such a scenario

Because I thought China had literally bombed the US for a very tense moment before I finished reading the headline. Especially because of how the words wrapped. I didn’t need that stress.