It turns out you can just buy psychological validation at the store

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I think so? I'm not an expert on the setup or agreement, just worked under that situation. I assume there's a privacy agreement and some level of uptime commitment

Lots of startups. At least that's been my experience. Github org with private repos

One day I realized I had been hearing it at least hourly on the radio while driving delivery and some switch in my head flipped. Can't stand it. I want to never hear it again. I've heard Black Hole Sun more times in my life than I want to and that amount needs to stop getting higher

Wrapped my 4yo in a big towel on the way back from the hotel pool and shortly after challenged him to a race to our room. He immediately tripped on the towel and hit his head because his arms were under the towel. Fortunately just got a bump and some rug burn on his forehead

It's vomit all the way down

Because he's 4 and has been rioting all day long

Watched a junior dev present some data operations recently. Instead of just showing the sql that worked they copy pasted a prompt into the data platform's assistant chat. The SQL it generated was invalid so the dev simply told it "fix" and it made the query valid, much to everyone's amusement.

The actual column names did not reflect the output they were mapped to, there's no way the nicely formatted results were accurate. Average duration column populated the total count output. Junior dev was cheerfully oblivious. It produced output shaped like the goal so it must have been right

They believe in infinite growth. They think LLMs are going to get reliable fast. LLMs have probably played a direct role in convincing them of that

Snitties

Here's my shitty drawing of something AI can't draw