Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

@slightlyoff In my experience, it's less because "they don't want to try very hard" and more because they set their budgets way below reality and then are shocked that nobody wants to work for peanuts.

Can we please pass a law that anyone who got their driver's license before the pandemic has to take a road test to keep it?

Because we need it.

Every good comedy movie should follow the Jackass tradition of having a "half" movie following it that's just outtakes and bloopers.

@freemo A bit while loading media during peak US hours last night, but it wasn't too bad. Just took like 5-10 seconds or so.

@taz Of course it's derivative... But so are most low-level coding jobs. There's a reason the Stack Overflow Ctrl-V peripheral exists.

@taz I wouldn't be so sure. Have you tried #GithubCopilot? It's pretty striking how much code is just simple patterns being slightly adapted. And if there's one thing AI is good at, it's pattern recognition.

@taz Right. My point is that #AI will be able to automate that away by filling those recipes with medium-quality code for a cheaper price.

I don't think #programming is any more immune to #automation of the workforce than any other industry.

@chrishudsonjr You haven't heard of the Foo Fighters?
The fact that he was in an iconic nineties band and left it to found an iconic 2000s band that is still playing today is pretty modern.

@gpowerf Very true, but his petulant nature and childish tantrums make me really worried that he might someday hold a NASA launch until the President accept his demands to re-open a Twitter account or something.

@taz Seems unlikely. "Blue collar" implies a common job that can be done by anyone.
We're already fast-approaching the point where coding jobs that meet those requirements can be completed by AI (and, arguably, AI can already do it better than the lowest rung of current software developers).

The blue collar job of the future, imo, will be making informed decisions for mostly automated systems, on the occasions when they run into input anomalies.

@chrishudsonjr Dave Grohl. Hands down.

@mmasnick Wait, do you want the algorithm for discoverability, or to dechaff your feed?