Not only that, he destroyed the economy he inherited that was the envy of Europe 16 years ago.

How? By installing charlatans, crackpots and fools into roles they were too stupid to do, and blatant, unconscionable corruption.

Sound familiar?

We all understand why Trump likes Orbán now?

‘Kay.

Hungary = a “great ally”?

And the nations who bled with America in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam?

“Freeloaders”.

Why does Hungary’s economy need stimulus?

Why is it contingent on reelecting Orbàn?

Why is an American President intervening in foreign elections?

But then… you know why don’t you?

We all know.

Oh good another know-nothing anti AI contrarian not in contact with reality.

You guys are a dime a dozen, frankly.

AI has replaced my job, will destroy my earning capacity. I know better than most why sucks, but if you think you’re going to be able to shame it out of existence you need to wake up

Interest check: would you be interested in a new email client (an outlook replacement) that had ai integrated so you could just say: reply to this, without jumping out into an LLM chat and copy pasting back and forth?

From what I can tell you’ll never make it into the political or cultural elite in America.

Sorry to say.

I just realised I barely noticed that the FLOTUS denied knowing Epstein (when everyone knows she knew him BEFORE she met Trump)

It’s so common now you don’t even hear it anymore

Has it become normal to be required to deny you were part of a pedophile sex trafficking network?

Is that where we are?

“The media is trying to make Trump look bad”

Ummmmm… he’s doing a pretty good job of that himself

MAGA: not for nothin’ but if you find yourself turning on someone who was your ally yesterday because today they criticised Trump, you are in a cult.

You believe in nothing.

You are creedless and unmoored.

You’re also probably a bot.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Bahahahahahahaha

Brian Cox space documentaries are my favourite shit

The lightning ignites the methane creating flakes of soot (carbon) that rain down towards the planets non solid centre and, under the incredible pressure created by the dense atmosphere and incredible gravity… get compressed into diamonds

It rains diamonds on Saturn…
2/2

Today I learned that saturn, supermassive gas giant of our solar system, has an atmosphere mostly comprised of methane that, like Jupiter, organises itself into massive endless storms that generate lightning.
1/2

First Artemis 2 pictures of the dark side of the moon are coming through

It’s not just that Trump spent the last 18 months alienating and offending Americas allies that is making European leaders pause before offering support in the SoH.

Trump has insulted his allies voting populations too, so it is politically dangerous now for leaders to appear to support him.

The US as the toughest guy on the block. They think that should mean they can impose their will on the world.

But the equation of Americas strength has always included its incredible ability to forge alliances in its benefit.

We are witnessing the strange death of the US

Right.. but it’s actually worse than that. Her also doesn’t really understand… he doesn’t understand or even seem to remember what he’s done in the last.

And he doesn’t seem to have sufficient executive function to make decisions strategically.

The MAGA base suffers from this too. They think of

Trump did this to America himself

He also ensured that the Europeans have bigger fish to fry by emboldening Putin to continue his war on Ukraine by strangling support for Ukraine

This is also Trumps fault

Actions have consequences. Someone with even a shred of strategic thinking would know this

It’s not just that Trump spent the last 18 months alienating and offending Americas allies that is making European leaders pause before offering support in the SoH.

Trump has insulted his allies voting populations too, so it is politically dangerous now for leaders to appear to support him.

This is exactly my thought and it’s why I basically rewrote postman (BewareOfDog if you’re interested) I now use these tools every day in my own development and I haven’t missed the original tools at all

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It’s a combination of skill, knowledge and speed. If skill is a measure of the quality of code you output then AI is still far worse than humans, but my value was also in being fast and knowledgeable.

AI is much faster and much more “knowledgeable” and companies don’t care about quality

As an artist you are definitely with us engineers as the group who’s been stolen from the most. I’m glad though that AI is still no where near good enough at generating art to mirror a talented human

There is a piece of context that is often overlooked: being an engineer is not just about skill 1/

Unwieldy yes, riddled with errors: unfortunately not anymore

Your post would have been 100% true before December 2025, but his descriptions are no longer true

I have been writing code since 1995 (I was 11) and I am a v good programmer so believe me when I say, something fundamental has changed

I’m not 100% cynical about this view, it’s a bit hard to feel proud of that when it’s going to cause chaos and mass unemployment for a number of people and funnel trillions to 4 global megacorps

But I do see what you mean

I will say this though, once you unleash it on a codebase for long enough, the door closes behind you. Because you incur a huge amount of cognitive debt (you no longer know exactly how the code works) and combine that with exploding expectations

So ai becomes the only way to work on it

The industry has also proved it doesn’t care about bad code, we’ve been engineering by consensus for 20 years and it’s produced awful software but it didn’t matter then and it won’t matter now.

The truth is we’ve delivered working features our customers love in about a 10th of the time

Here’s the brutal truth as I see it.

It introduces bugs, yes, but it’s also very rapid at fixing them if you just describe them.

You’re right about the only metric on the graph being code churn, A.I. generates way more code than we would have but it’s also way more competent at dealing with it 1/

It now feels like a wasted life.

Because a handful of companies took everything I and all other engineers wrote and gave away for free, and fed it into the belly of a horrible machine so that it can regurgitate bits of it back to anyone on demand.