Post B6EGOAJGgtTHbtwtxQ by ilmari@social.treehouse.systems
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 (DIR) Post #B6EFcxzafX9XnYEs3U by ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
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       i want to make cool shit, not babysit a bunch of AI agents making cool shit for me
       
 (DIR) Post #B6EGOAJGgtTHbtwtxQ by ilmari@social.treehouse.systems
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       @ariadne s/making/excreting something that bears a passing semblance to/
       
 (DIR) Post #B6EIRuXdSUtBlxaCvI by Tubemeister@mstdn.social
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       @ariadne Babysitting a bunch of so-called-intelligences trying to make cool shit for you...Sounds like a product manager.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6ELICFp333TfrJJce by tknarr@mstdn.social
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       @ariadne They can call me when the AI agent can ping me with "Hey, I have an idea, tell me what you think." and then go back and forth with me like a human can.I hate the term "artificial intelligence". I want a synthetic or cybernetic intelligence that's as real a person as me, just running on different hardware.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6ENSQP7UfHMMbfFUu by vathpela@infosec.exchange
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       @ariadne If I wanted to be a driver of simulated slaves that cost a lot, ... well, I don't know what I'd do but I really don't want any part of that.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6EOnIwmVv7BGsvgIa by ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
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       @dysfun yes but that is what is being sold
       
 (DIR) Post #B6EREkhtbwa75uBNku by syn_rst@norden.social
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       @ariadneIf I had wanted to become a babysitter, today I'd be working in colleague's kindergarten. Not in IT, thank you very much.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6EVh7BQ2Qv6jBltZI by ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
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       @Tubemeister yes not really attractive to me as a profession honestly
       
 (DIR) Post #B6EVlrJOTVzMx3lPoe by ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
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       @nuintari ok
       
 (DIR) Post #B6EVwTw7ixwPdiwdXM by nuintari@bsd.cafe
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       @ariadne Just saying, please, go make cool shit. We need more people making cool shit.We do not need anymore people babysitting machines while they spew crap.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6Eb3uOGGdxbTzSzfE by ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
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       @lisamelton @inthehands I'm good
       
 (DIR) Post #B6EjjGEGm7kgil1RVg by winocm@social.treehouse.systems
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       @ariadne I really wonder whether even getting into this career was worth it at this point.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6EogUscLa0z3sOcvQ by bigiain@aus.social
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       @ariadne I am currently focusing on projects that fundamentally rely on soldering irons and hot glue, instead of just code. (Although I fear the day that ChatGPT’s $1,000 per month “Pro Real World” plan includes a pair of six fingered robot arms.)
       
 (DIR) Post #B6FAGtwKkZqUFJKnrs by xameer@mathstodon.xyz
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       @ariadne very trueBut here s another brutal factI went to arguably best tech college in my country and decided to build cool shit Nobody gives a shit about you trying to build shit , till it booms profitI built an ml infra thing recently and used ai to stabelize my model quicklyAnd asked about the meaning of some of the things in the fix , which lead me to manifold hypothesisSurfing tonns of wiki , quota, reddit yeda yeda yeda didn't Consulting my seniors decades ago and trying to consult profs about it didn't , yes I could have skimmed a tonn of books as well , when nobody was paying a dime for building anything and #venturcapital was dumping tons of capital in to clones called startups leading to #gigeconomy which was a fancy name for a courier service .But .... But library asks for fee , my tabs don't pick themselves , I am flesh and blood , I didn't even have a PC till I was 23 ,  my school never had it, but it educated me better than the so called best tech college of my countrySo yes I do use ai to skim faster than I can .Because economics
       
 (DIR) Post #B6FAjsCOInqFFCezFA by Tubemeister@mstdn.social
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       @ariadne Yeah, I didn’t have “devs voluntarily and aggressively going for project management roles” on my bingo card either but here we are. It’s a strange world.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6FE6OYMzP0vp6N5MG by Iveyline@mastodon.nz
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       @ariadne Me too. But it seems there are a lot of lazy people happy to let AI turn their brains into mush.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6FXF1sMZUbjE2YOEi by bigiain@aus.social
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       @ariadne Relevant:https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/05/speaking-of-robot-bartenders/This from the comments hit me hard: "Yeah, the age of that idea actually being fun seems to have passed."h/t to @jwz