Any connection to The Office?

Probably Chapo trap house

Or AI usage might become too expensive as energy costs rise, datacenter equipment becomes more expensive, monopolies emerge, investor funding dries up.

Putting all ethical concerns aside, the bad code written by ClaudeGPT could also finally cause a software quality decrease and explode in the faces of the companies using them, making any velocity gains dubious. Services may also start enshittifying.

There’s also the legal aspect which is not fully settled. The dependence on US companies which might not remain OK forever in the rest of the world.

It is to be noted that, while programmers and executives are claiming they see gains, the science is not settled. Studies so far seem to indicate the contrary is observed in practice, although it remains to be seen if it stays that way in the future because, apparently, results got way better with Claude Whatever 4.6.

I’m not predicting a collapse, just saying these are plausible scenarios. And if any of them comes true, even if there’s no collapse, there will be a spot for actual software engineers that refused to use it all along and remained sharp, and they won’t be “left in the dust”.

It sure is a bad time to get into webdev though as a LLM-skeptic. You really have to choose your jobs to avoid writing code millions of developers wrote before, because there’s a good chance you’re working on something nobody needs and/or that slop machines can do it faster than you.

AI sucks in my domain. One of our competitors uses it and they say they get amazing results when senior people use the tools but can’t give them to juniors because they keep messing up.

I’m glad it doesn’t work in my niche to be honest. I’m in the frontlines debugging broken code and the last thing I need is bloat. This would actually slow me down a lot. I find it pretty shitty at diagnosing even small pieces of code, and I can’t try stuff like Claude Code because I’m not allowed to transfer some of the code we use to the cloud because it’s under NDAs. But if it can’t get the simple stuff right, I can’t trust it with the keys to our Lambo.

I stay informed about it all to know when/if I should quit software engineering and do something else, but it seems fine so far. It looks like I won’t be able to take it easy in the future and go back to pissing webapp code, which means less opportunities, but oh well.

Oh and I do know two companies that mandate LLM usage. Somebody from my current company left for one of those and hates it.

Wilbur is very pronouncable!

Nazi. I think they were going for Nazi. Nazi.

Ouch, for something as sensitive, I don’t trust code reviews to catch vulnerabilities. They probably won’t happen overnight, but I don’t want to risk being a victim to the gradual laziness that comes with backseating programming over time.

Time to jump ship.

Who the fuck is Ernest P. fucking Worrell?

As a matter of fact, there can still be pollution from things such as volcanoes.

We just make it worse by sheer volume.

That’s not what happened though. If you want to be protected by electoral rules, you have to abide by them. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.

It’ll happen at the same time as the mythical collapse of China, which never comes.

I’d welcome the end of imperialism as well, mind you.

Imagine being on the wrong side of reality

Must be nice living in that bubble of yours: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-growing-concerned-by-russias-economy-trump-mulls-more-sanctions-2025-01-23/

Or do you know the Russian economy better than its dictator?

I don’t expect the economy to fully collapse, no. It rarely actually happens. But standards of living deteriorate. It already started btw, the inflation being reported in the media is not something I invented.

Well at least things are accelerating down there, hopefully the madness will end soon enough, so the image they’re trying to project won’t hold for long.

It’ll be interesting to see how an already aging population will fare with so many of the active population dead.

Last time it happened in the West, it took imperialist pigs in the West a few notches down. Let’s hope for Russians and the neighbouring countries they bully the story will be similar with the pigs in the Kremlin this time.

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-economy-entering-year-of-pain-2025-putin-inflation-sanctions-2024-12?op=1

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/18/economy/russia-inflation-new-heights-intl-analysis/index.html

All is well.

It does, according to the rumors

Oh I want him to be allowed to speak his mind. I just don’t want to give a Trumpet any money, and especially not after their annoucement of a crypto wallet and ventures into AI crap.

Free speech doesn’t mean I should spend my money there.

You need to be careful with this. Depending on your location, there might be laws imposing that you use the land, otherwise you might lose it. I don’t know the exact conditions, and I suppose they vary.

Also, 10000 USD doesn’t buy you a lot of land, depending on location.