Conning its clownish sunk case customers - government departments, NMPBs, local government, university & schools sector- into moronic uses of beta failing LLMs... #microserfs

There’s a lot of terrible jobs out there so yeah people should be a bit buzzed a lot of the time. #microserfs

I think someone needs to write the equivalent of Douglas Coupland's Microserfs but in an Elon Musk's venture.

#microserfs #douglascoupland #musk #elonmusk #stupid

Reading a book and cracked on this (the year 1993):

" <...> Perhaps you could make a video game out of it, like that Pong game that was so much fun that Christmas years ago."

Mom, like most people her age, will know Pong as their sole video game experience. It's tragic. "

#games #microserfs

Photo of a page with the following copy: Bug said, "For designing games, Lego makes a great quickie simulator for figuring out mazes for gaming levels." "You've designed _games_ before?" I asked. "I've done _every_thing you can do on computers. I'm 31." Maybe we underestimate Bug. When I stop and think about him, he's so...

I've been re-reading Douglas Coupland's 1995 novel "Microserfs" for the first time in 20+ years, and it's a joy 🤣

#novel #programming #microserfs

Photo of a page with the following copy: Bug said, "For designing games, Lego makes a great quickie simulator for figuring out mazes for gaming levels." "You've designed _games_ before?" I asked. "I've done _every_thing you can do on computers. I'm 31." Maybe we underestimate Bug. When I stop and think about him, he's so...

I've been re-reading Douglas Coupland's 1995 novel "Microserfs" for the first time in 20+ years, and it's a joy 🤣

#novel #programming #microserfs

#Microsiervos, the Spanish title for #Microserfs, a novel by Douglas Coupland, was published in 1996 (in Spain) and talks about a bunch of software developers working at #Microsoft at the end of the 90s.

For me It's funny to remember those old days, when the only clouds available were in the sky.