rozodru @ rozodru @lemmy.world

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primarily medium to large companies. the smaller startups seem to know better. the former laid off a bunch of staff and in most cases offshored the work to people who ONLY use AI to build things. A few rare cases it's been a Project Manager who paid for a Claude.ai subscription and had it build things from start to finish then push to production. If I see something that has a gradient background I know they had Claude build it.

essentially, from what I've been dealing with, most if it is their offshore people using the AI to completely do the job from start to finish and no one is verifying anything. So it's not even vibe coding, it's "here's a prompt, build it, i'm pushing it to production" coding.

As someone who has been a consultant/freelance dev for over 20 years now this is true. Lately I've been getting offers and contacts from places to essentially clean up the mess from LLMs/AI.

A lot of is pretty bad. It's a mess. But like I said I've been at it for awhile and I've seen this before when companies were offshoring anything and everything to India and surprise, surprise, they didn't learn anything. It's literally the exact same thing. Instead of an Indian guy that claims they know everything and will work for peanuts, it's AI pretty much stating the same shit.

I've been getting so many requests for gigs I've been hitting up random out of work devs on linkedin in my city and referring the jobs to them. I've burned through all my contacts that now I'm just reaching out to absolute strangers to get them work.

yes it's that bad (well bad for companies, it's fantastic for developers.)

EDIT: Since my comment has gained a lot of traction I've marked down peoples user names and portfolios/emails to my dev list. If something more comes up (and trust me, it will) I'll shoot you an email or msg on here. Currently I've already shoved off a bunch of stuff to others and have nothing as of now but I imagine that will change by next week so if more stuff comes up I'll shoot you an email or DM.

naturalized are next "on the list" after they finish dealing with birthright citizens.

My parents moved to the US from Canada back in '98, became US citizens, and I've been hounding them almost daily at this point to come back home to Canada. At this point I don't care if I go into massive debt providing for them or if I have to get a second job just to be able to afford a place to rent with more than 2 bed rooms.

I'm just so terrified every day that ICE is going to detain one of them or both. I just can't get through to them that they need to leave the US and come back to Canada right now.

just call it Alligator Auschwitz.

Of course they're going to send children and pregnant women. Do they think the Nazi Germans were all "you know what? the jew kids and pregnant jew women are too much for this. lets leave them alone." no. You don't gear up for a genocide by picking and choosing those within the group you plan on genociding.

he's just so bad with names. Surprised he didn't call it the X Party. wouldn't that have been more "cool"? surprised he didn't ask Grok to come up with party names, I mean hell I use chatgpt to come up with names for videogame characters and it works well.

This is going to fizzle out when he inevitably gets distracted by something else.

ensures a third term for your glorious leader and solidifies a dictatorship. Democrats will win the midterms or rather be "allowed" to win the midterms to which Republicans will blame all this that they literally just did on the Dems and the morons that we call the American People will believe it. Power will then at that point be solidified.

oh boy the UN sends another strongly worded letter.

the UN is just a dog and pony show, they have no power at all, anywhere.

hey don't rope the rest of the world in with your fuck up. Humanity hasn't failed, you failed. Americans failed. Just because I live above a Nazi Bar doesn't mean I go down there to have a pint. Fuck at this point if I did your SS would probably arrest me.

So stop being a bunch of Nazi's that you claim you aren't and go start rebelling.

why wait? I was hoping you americans would have acted by now but...psh I'm not holding my breathe anymore. almost any other country would be rioting, violently, right now but you guys have zero leaders to rally anything. and any thing close to an opposition leader you have is saying "just wait for the midterms!" yeah...ok buddy either you'll be lucky if your dear leader allows midterms to happen OR they do, dems win across the board, but most of this shit goes into effect AFTER said midterms thus the nazi's blame the dems for everything and ensure glorious leader wins a 3rd term.

shit I'll be surprised if most of you guys are still working, eating, not in a camp, or hell even alive by that point.

that's a loaded and optimistic question. With the way the world is going currently being taken out by climate change and only climate change is awfully optimistic. I think that would be the best case scenario at this point.

a dumb population is easier to control than an educated one. They don't plan on reducing the number of children, no they need more to produce for the wealthy. What they need are dumb kids that will grow into dumb adults. uneducated adults are more likely to have A LOT of kids. So you strip education, you strip healthcare, you make abortions illegal across the board, thus you force the population to keep pumping out new workers. many will die, the strong idiots will survive.

They're turning the country into cattle.

Mullvad is great, only VPN i'll ever use. I'm just a random number to them. no emails, no names, nothing. Hell I can even just pay them in cash if I wanted. Their service has improved too. on some wifi networks it would take me a couple minutes to connect but now it's instant. Soon as I boot into my WM just "mullvad connect" in the terminal and I'm good to go.

They never try to lure me into buying more/bigger/better like pretty much every company does now.

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Biggest mistake I ever made was signing up for them. just the constant daily emails trying to be "funny" to get me to return.

What's funny about this whole thing is it's almost like PirateSoftwares days in EVE Online when he invited everyone to Pochven space cause he thought he was hot shit and then proceeded to get his ass handed to him and he rage quit the game. He brought attention to something that ended up having the opposite effect of what he wanted.

Granted he was absolutely shit at EVE regardless of what he's told his audience. couldn't fit a ship to save his life, ran for CSM and no one voted for him, then rage quit when everyone and even his own corp proceeded to kick his teeth in.

give it a few months, they're working up to it.

I believe it was Switch that originally supposed to be Trans in the movie. They would be a man in the "Real World" and in the Matrix they would be a woman. But it was 1999 and Warner Bros nixed it.

I can't find the story for the life of me right now but I'm pretty sure there was one a few months back where someone was talking with an LLM about their depression and suicide and the LLM essentially said "yeah you should probably do it." because to the LLM, that was the best solution to the problem.

so if I say "death to Nazi's" by your logic, you'd have issues with that. Saying "Death to Nazi's" could easily expand target to all Germans, All white people, or hell at this point All Americans.

see how flawed your logic is?

to sum up in one word "hopeful". Things were getting good. it was still the fairly early days of the internet and while speeds for the majority of people weren't great honestly unless you were in college on a T1 line you didn't know any better. you had IRC, ICQ, AOL IM, Forums, etc so you met and talked to interesting people and friends from the world over. you expressed yourself and found people with similar interests via geocities, livejournal and/or myspace.

Technology was progressing rapidly and new opportunities were opening up. Suddenly you could make a living building said Geocities sites or designing things on your computer. It was a fun time, a lot of cool and interesting things were happening and it felt like things could only go up from there. So yeah, we were hopeful for the future.