Given that the role of the modern senator is basically just to accept donations from monied interest groups and then do exactly as they say, one could argue that Fetterman is an extremely good senator.

I use AI every day to do the typing for me, but not the thinking.

It’s probably going to take a few years, but eventually I think devs will finally realize that the typing is the thinking.

There are projects I worked on 5+ years ago that I can still describe in intimate detail. I remember the design decisions, I remember the concessions I had to make for technical or business reasons, I remember they connect to other systems, etc. Then by contrast I have code I wrote with Claude ~2 months ago and I can barely remember a single fucking thing about it… I did all the same planning and made all the same kinds of decisions, the only difference is that I didn’t write the actual code.

And that makes sense. When you physically engage with the code by manually typing, you’re creating connections in your brain that you don’t get just from reviewing it. It’s exactly the same reinforcement mechanism you get from taking physical notes during a lecture versus just passively listening. Physical engagement builds memory and sharpens understanding.

Two or three years from now, when all of the projects minted in the '23-'26 era have aged into ‘legacy’ status and the AI-generated technical debt has been left to proliferate unchecked, things are going to start breaking in ways that the LLMs won’t be able to reason their way out of. Maybe they’ll be able to ‘fix’ bugs as they pop up, but in slopified code fixing something in component A is inevitably going to break something in component B, and fixing something in component B will break component C, etc. Eventually you’ll end up with a disgusting, agentic ouroboros of regressions, and the only devs left in the industry will be wishing they hadn’t mortgaged all of their intelligence on short-term productivity gains — most of which only benefited the shitty tech companies that were so desperate to replace them.

Right? 2016 would like a word.

Jesus Christ… these really are the stupidest people of all time…

Imagine telling someone in 1960 that the ultimate destiny of the Kennedy dynasty would be “eating stuff they find in the street”.

Get a job as a software engineer and you’ll spend most days feeling like both simultaneously

Geez… they’ll really do anything to distract from Mitch being dead

Man, be careful… that’s exactly the kind of thinking that got us Trump.

Remember how many Democrats were saying “I hope we wins the primary because we’ll get annihilated in the general?”

Alito is basically a cartoon character at this point.

Shouldn’t be long now before he rules that it’s constitutional to tie young women to train tracks, so long as corporate profits are involved somehow.

Rand Paul is an unrepentant piece of shit, but he has always been pretty consistent about opposing the US’s military adventurism.

Found the vandals

Why?

Just Cos.

At this point it’s basically impossible to interpret the Democrats’ overall strategy as anything other than intentional sabotage.

Vegan for Everyone

Even before going vegan, America’s Test Kitchen was always my go-to when learning about a new dish/recipe. Their vegan cookbook is great.

I’m not saying they’re wrong, but geez… “Biden administration insiders” has to be one of the most unlikeable cohorts of people on earth.

You’re talking shit about one of your own as if you have no culpability, but if he was really so ineffective then why didn’t Biden replace him with someone else? He ran HHS for 4 fucking years. At that point, any failure of Becerra’s was willful incompetence on the part of the larger administration.

Also Biden’s peeps should be thrilled with this. Politically, Becerra is one of the most milquetoast establishment Democrats there is. He’s exactly the kind of guy they normally root for…

Those monkeys would kill the shit out of the hoarder long before scientists got a hold of it.

Weird they can’t even spare a colon when there are so many assholes to go around…

You’re right, Cory. So drop out of your fucking primary and endorse a real leader.

I don’t get it. Why would Mexican drug cartels give even a single shit about the US attorney general?

I mean, of course she is. She didn’t convince Waltz to retire just for fun.