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32 posts tagged with #opinion.
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KidDOS: A Computer Small Enough for a Kid to Explore
I learned to program because I was bored in front of a 486DX4 with 8 megs of RAM and a 160 MB drive. Kids today can't have that. So I want to build it.
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Token — a Unit of Irresponsibility
What a token really measures: how irresponsible a person is. Why you can't patch a field of irresponsibility with more irresponsibility — and what to do instead of dropping an AI agent on a broken process.
#AI #responsibility #hiring #opinion -
Google Wakes Up
Google is launching the Googlebook. But the real story is why — while everyone watched the AI race, Apple quietly rewrote the laptop market with a cheap MacBook.
#Apple #Google #opinion #industry -
Code has always been worthless
For forty years we pretended software was the product. SaaS moved the price to the service. AI moved it past zero. The artefact is free now — what's worth paying for is knowing which code to write.
#AI #programming #career #industry #opinion -
A lost computer
We had this amazing thing called a computer — precise, predictable, trustworthy. Then came AI, and the real danger isn't stolen jobs. It's erosion of responsibility.
#AI #philosophy #opinion -
Artificial whatteligence?
An entire field of human knowledge goes stale because of one misunderstood word. Nobody can define intelligence — so what exactly is this 'Artificial Intelligence'?
#AI #philosophy #opinion -
Leadership to insanity
Insanity is taking anything to the extreme. A manager's job is to keep the balance — let AI in, watch the people who worship it, and watch the ones who ban it.
#leadership #management #AI #opinion -
Do you wanna embarrass the hell out of yourself?
Reading AI-generated slop at a birthday or a ceremony is the fastest way to ruin the room. People remember you by what you've done — not by a Wikipedia page.
#AI #opinion #philosophy -
How does we support?
AI-powered support and overseas outsourcing are a great way to lose your customers. Help is supposed to mean something — and a real US-based voice is easy money.
#AI #support #opinion -
Tax The Which?
Tax every billionaire in the US and each person gets $8,700 — one time. Then nothing. So maybe the real problem isn't billionaires. Maybe it's your education.
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A Distinct Taste of Life in Your Mouth
Humans have way more than five senses. One of them — the sense of life — usually sits dormant. And then LLMs arrive and suddenly wake it up.
#AI #philosophy #opinion #creativity -
From VHS Magic to Big Data Blockbusters: Why Modern Movies Have Lost Their Soul
A 212-tape childhood VHS collection, Requiem for a Dream at 13, and then Star Wars VII. How movies turned from a filmmaker's vision into Big Data slurry.
#movies #opinion #creativity #AI -
Why I Still Don't Believe in AI
A programmer's take on the AI hype: a system that needs constant babysitting isn't a working system. And 'AI everywhere' is just another kind of stupidity.
#AI #programming #opinion -
It's Impossible to Be Average, and AI Can't Help You
Out of 3,863 women, none matched the 'average.' Yet ChatGPT is designed to produce exactly that — the most average answer possible. Here's why that's a problem.
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The Code Writes Itself Now — Just Don't Ask Why It Works
Nobody's actually writing their code anymore — the LLM is. And that's perfectly fine. Let it handle the boilerplate and stop pretending we're improving JavaScript.
#AI #programming #LLM #opinion -
Don't Even Think About Rewriting the Code? Seriously?
LinkedIn is clutching pearls over the idea of rewriting the U.S. Social Security codebase. In 2025? With LLMs? Let's wake up — rewriting business logic costs pennies now.
#AI #programming #industry #opinion -
The Infinite Joke: Math, AI, and the Minds That Mock the Universe
A waitress served me infinite coffee. Which got me thinking: the universe doesn't accept infinity — but we do. That's the real joke, and AI isn't in on it.
#AI #philosophy #mathematics #opinion -
The Illusion of Stability: What Disney's Decline Teaches Us About Creativity and Growth
Disney can't animate anymore. They ran out of ideas. Here's what that tells us about stability, creativity, and why standing still is the scariest place to be.
#creativity #career #opinion #personal growth -
Will AI Really Steal Your Job? Let's Talk Reality.
People keep sending me doom videos about AI taking every job. Let's cut through the hype and look at what's actually happening with the money, the market, and reality.
#AI #career #opinion #industry -
Let's Prove to Your Laptop That It's a Bad Laptop
Yelling at inanimate objects changes nothing — and neither does yelling at your AI. If the output is wrong, you have only yourself to blame.
#AI #opinion #productivity #mindset -
Ever wonder when life will finally get easier? Spoiler alert: it never does — and that's the beauty of it.
Life never gets easier — the better it gets, the more work comes with it. A take on resistance, cat poop, and why the path up is always more work, not less.
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Let's Conduct an Experiment and Create the Principle of Quantum Uncertainty Right Here, Right Now
Think of a cat. Congratulations — you just created a state of uncertainty nothing in the universe can read. A short take on thought, AI hype, and creation.
#AI #philosophy #creativity #opinion -
How to Become a Bland Nobody with AI
Shove everything into Big Data and AI and you end up with gray average nothing. Hollywood, Nokia, and why instinct still beats dataset polish.
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Are your ideas worth anything? And what about the age of AI?
Ideas are worthless — execution and selling are what make money. A blunt take on AI, startups, and why hiding in your little hole will get you nowhere.
#AI #entrepreneurship #ideas #opinion #career -
Fast Fashion of UI and UX
UI and UX have turned into fast fashion — glossy effects that burn through GPUs, batteries and millions of dollars in power every day, only to be replaced next year.
#UI #UX #Apple #Android #opinion -
LinkedIn — your best partner in scam
An open letter to LinkedIn's 'security' team: every report comes back 'Everything is fine' while obvious scam bots and real harassment are quietly left untouched.
#opinion #industry #IT -
An Abysmal State of Modern UI
Modern UI is an unpredictable mess — swipes do different things in every app, buttons jump around the screen, and SEO bros churn out '101 tips' to make it worse.
#UI #UX #opinion #programming -
Problems in the IT Industry
A solution to a problem is something that makes the problem go away. In IT, we skip that step — we pile on tools and processes while nobody learns the trade.
#IT #programming #HR #opinion -
The Grand Circus of IT Hiring
IT hiring has become a circus where common sense takes a holiday and absurdity is the norm. A short tour of the acts — from Facebook to Netflix to Jonny the junior.
#hiring #IT #HR #opinion -
Stop Making Excuses: A Rant on Developer Ownership
A blunt rant on programmers who blame everyone but themselves: responsibility, professionalism, and why excuses are a one-way ticket to burnout.
#career #programming #mindset #opinion -
Don't Be Cringe
Tips and personal stories on not being a clueless bore on an international team: accents, dictionaries, idioms, jokes, emails, names, and the little things that bite.
#writing #language #communication #opinion -
Qualiflation: How Quality Decay Erodes the Economy
What happens when the result of your work is effectively nothing? How quality degradation — 'qualiflation' — quietly corrodes our economy and our lives.
#economics #quality #opinion