I can feel like an hour fall off my life every time I have to hear about an AI agent.

I am going to fully crash the fuck out if my coworkers keep using AI to generate shit, but we can’t use it directly for /reasons/ and I have to recreate it in specific branding and document standards, and then when I render their slop verbatim they leverage a bunch of critiques at me about it.

Watching the Ichiro statue unveiling on repeat and cackling when it wobbles.

There’s a part of me that’s being tickled awake like “Space! Remember that you like space! What if you experienced joy again!?” But a larger part of me I just like “CAN WE JUST HAVE FUCKING HEALTHCARE?!”

At this point I just assume that any man with any kind of power is a shitty jerk sex pest until proven otherwise. This is /moreso/ about what power does than the man part, but HOO BOY do we sure give men a lot of power and excuses and averted eyes and no accountability, none of which helps.

Also shoutout to four people being in the smallest fucking room with each other for 9 fucking days.

Spaaaaaaaace!!!

Trying to decide if my younger self would be happy or very sad to hear that my nigh-45 year old ass is sitting here listening to Savage Garden and fucking with vector drawings for work because oh boy has that come full circle.

The silver lining is that I do need this time to work on the aforementioned my job is decks, but also it's just like the barest modicum of respect to decline the 1:1 that I have to schedule with my manager to ensure it happens ,if you're just gonna no-show me again.

My job is decks

Me: “ok this might just be another one of those ‘oh no you were just abused as a child’ stories, but did [country of origin] have a tradition that on your birthday you got spanked one time for every year you just turned?” A, eyebrows so low I can only see half of his glare: “NO”

"If we're not doing spec-driven agentic development, we're going to die" I AM GOING TO FUCK OFF (possibly to die) INTO THE WOODS AND RAISE GOATS

A: Is it the end of the world yet? Me: No? Is there a new end of the world happening? A: Not yet, just checking.

Talking with a coworker about how much US health insurance SUCKS, and they say they've never really experienced much of it, as their spouse works for the federal government, and went on a little bit of how they haven't had to worry about it, etc. 1/X

Second day in a row of a coworker telling me my response to “how are you?” was a shrug. In my defense, I didn’t actually hear it, I was dealing with some weird zoom shit. In my prosecution, I probably would have literally just shrugged again on purpose.

You canNOT fucking make me like the Catholic Church but they sure are giving it a go.

Me: *sneezes* Teams: your microphone is muted Me: GOOD

The specific kind of west coast rage that when your ass has to be routed for an ungodly early meeting and your stupid fucking collab tools give you little warnings like "Outside of working hours - it's 7:52am CDT" READ THE ROOM IT IS FIVE FUCKING AM YOU CAN'T TELL ME THAT WHEN IT'S EARLIER FOR ME

Partner is on book 13 of wheel of time. He’s so much closer to when I can ramp up my efforts to get him on the cosmere.

"We can use AI to generate the requirements for the AI tools that AI will write and then we can use AI to validate the tools and generate the documentation so we can release faster." *runs to an Iranian power plant*

The silver lining is that I had to hear the work "nuke" today before I had to hear about fucking AI again the first time today.

I AM CRASHING OUT TODAY and I was just gonna try to not say anything, but I got called out specifically for not answering "How are you this morning" on a team call. I unmuted to respond, and I just could not fucking find anything to say, especially in from of my Z*onist coworker, so I shrugged.

Iranians are lining up across their bridges and around their power plants, but I'm supposed to give a shit about a test automation demo.

How am I supposed to care about mad kings, in this the time of my LucidChart annual renewal period.

Imagine going to the moon, and while you're gone nuclear war breaks out. "So uh, we gonna land, or...."

Having the kind of day, and it's JUST NOW 8am, where I take a moment to repeat "I have a mortgage and need healthcare" to myself a few times.

A: Home Depot is selling 5 gallon 250 year buckets Me: America buckets?! Do you need an America bucket?! A: no thank you Me: what if you piss in the America bucket?! A: What if I shit in it?

My partner and I discussed this, with a lot of gestures and like tilting hands, before realizing the earth is also moving around the sun. Then we gave up and thought about how we have other skills, and we’ll take people’s word on this one.

There’s now a group of humans that are farther from the earth than ever before. Which is an accomplishment on two fronts, really.

Me, yelling about transit again: “I hope Everett enjoys their shit! I’m gonna drive a car, to the last light rail station, so I can get up there and throw eggs at their house!”

A, scrolling through streaming service: “We could watch Passion of the Christ” Me: “Nah I’m good.” A: “10 commandments? What about Clint Eastwood?” Me: “No, I’m SO good.” A: “Harry Potter?” Me: “Tell me more about the 10 commandments?”

A: “Pay with your Karma? What the fuck? Oh. Karna.”

Also 3-3-3 seat arrangements are demonstrably worse than 2-4-2 arrangements. It’s the same amount of seats and aisle but you just made more middle seats out of it. I’ve flown an 11 hour flight in one of the extra-middle seats from the 4 set. It’s exactly like a 3-middle seat.

Why do we have to also pay extra for any seat in the airplane. Any seat. Is there a standing section? No? So why is the seat extra?

A discussion in my household has lead me to realize that there are two types of people: People who think 12 tons of KitKats were stolen From Italy, because the shipment was coming FROM Italy, and people who think 12 tons of KitKats were stolen from Poland, because the shipment was going TO Poland.

“One could argue—because I’m about to—“ - me, shouting about transit and equity again.

My collection of internet misfits and I will boop around from one platform to another until the last data center is bombed.

Who bullied OpalAppartion?! It’s time to square up. I’m coming to your house.

My trying to gently say YOU HAVE FUCKING SLACKERS WHO DON'T DO SHIT so if you send a team dressing down with how we "ALL" did something wrong, you're only hurting the people who tried in the first place: "I think there’s a very disparate ways people engage with accountability in our organization."

A: “I saw that yesterday but it’s very hard to believe anything on the first.” Me: “Reuters is not a big “April Fools” source.”

I know we’re like 4 months into this but I just want to say that Shane is NOT a hot name #heatedrivalry

Me and a coworker making fun of something in a slack DM: Coworker: "I say this lovingly" Me: "I say this exhaustedly"

Honestly shout out to my past self for this iconic first skeet.

I feel a little less like walking into a thresher after having a chat with my one other confirmed AI-skeptical coworker. We’re still all fucked but we had a little vent sesh on the bridge of the titanic so there was a molecule of serotonin involved.

Ao3 did April Fool's correctly. - Hilarious - Knows its audience - Subtle - NO ONE WAS HARMED BY IT

If I had a nickel for every day I haven't heard something about needing to find a way to use AI tools, I'd have zero nickels, which isn't a lot, and it's weird that IT'S NEVER FUCKING HAPPENED.

Books I read in March: - Heated Rivalry (again, book club) - Song of Achilles - The Shots You Take - Time to Shine - Star Shipped - Captive Prince I’m halfway+ through Jade Legacy (audio) and Prince’s Gambit. Honorable mention to the dozen or more HR fics on ao3.

HTG, this is a real thing that my brain did today. Me: Lets coworker into a zoom Coworker: "Howdy." Me, thinking: Riff on that, be clever, don't sound like to want to die My brain: I SAID SADDLE UP, COWBOY Me: NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT Me, after it's been too long to be normal: "Hey."

So glad that EverNote made me update my app in the middle of meeting, so that I could shove an AI helper in my face.