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I'm not pretending there isn't a class war. That would be silly of me.

When people start acting like the class war is happening right here between their fellow fedi citizens, that's when it becomes a bit unhinged.

Take it easy. artyom might just be mistaken you don't need to turn it into a class war.

The next billion dollar company will be a wrapper around Claude that strips out the em dashes.

I got an email from a client last week asking me to install an AI-generated list of containers onto a server. The key container, the database at the center of the whole system, has commits from Claude in it's git repository. Great start guys.

They outsouced the software architect job to a chatbot and then had a veteran of the industry who has been around since the internet equivalent of the big bang install a handful of docker containers. Reverse centaur to the max.

It's going to hurt in 12 months time if they realise the reason why everything sucks is because they built on sand. But they probably won't even realise why the project failed because their chatbot won't be able to tell them why.

It really makes a big difference.

I've greatly reduced my Mastodon usage because of the daily "oh shit this link goes to AI slop again, sigh, close tab" experience. It's such a drag.

Also you are using piefed.social which aggressively filters out AI content, the topic of the article.

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Months of work to redo one super basic dialog box.

It blows my mind how slow large companies are.

Yep. Assume the worst, imo

Yep. Everything on that site is AI generated. Another one for the block list!

If you've ever spent 10 minutes using an AI agent, you'd know that there's no way to predict how many tokens it's going to use before you give it a task. It can be $0.20 worth sometimes or $20 other times. Or anything, really.

It's only after watching it churn away for a few minutes that you can assume it's gotten stuck and have the option of pulling the plug before the bill gets run up too high. But you need to watch it like a hawk and you need to be the one paying the bill otherwise you're not going to care (e.g. workers using AI at work aren't paying for it, their company is).

Taken in aggregate across a month, that unpredictability might average out or it might explode.

I think so. He meant the capitalists, who are his customers, want to own their means of production. Not rent it from their competitors or suppliers.

First time I've seen that phrase used that way but it works.