Joel’s no longer associated with SO, though, right? He’s not even a chairman at this point.

The fall from grace of StackOverflow is something both mesmerising and horrifying.

An invaluable repository of programming knowledge ground into dust as the last tokens of good will are cashed in for stinky money. It was a unique place, where self-moderation by the community actually worked to a large extent.

How the fuck did we get here? First the AI debacle, now this. Joel Spolsky always appeared as a reasonable guy, I wonder how much him stepping down is intertwined with SO making some of the worst possible calls in the past few years.

So you run a normal query but then run the results through an enshittifier to make sure nothing useful is actually returned to the user.

RAG

The fuck’s a rag in an AI context

Jesus fucking christ…

So where do I switch now? Is this the moment I build my own email server and handle this shit myself? I really don’t wanna…

“Step One: We kill God

I’m in for that. He can do with the corpse whatever he wants after, as long as I don’t have to see it.

Roko: I’m in.

Bill Gates

Just a reminder that he’s not associated with M$FT dealings in any way anymore.

It’s all mask-off for Satya though, he used to at least play a reasonable persona.

From my experience, most software corpo employees are just tired parents with mortgages. Like the vast, vast majority. The higher up the pyramid you look the more cultish the vibes, though.

vaguely libertarian computer programming intern to radicalized full-stack anarchist

I just have to ask, is full-stack here referring to the programmer path, or is it “full-stack anarchist”? If the latter, I need an explainer of which part of anarchism is the back-end and which the front, and also where can I find the job postings.