This platform feels werid now.

No.

The superbowl ads:

It is wild how vehemently people support the continuation and furthering of the system which only seeks to exploit them.

Just checking in - How are we feeling about AI initiatives? (And maybe more importantly, how are we feeling in general?)

Caribou Coffee hat on my calls today. IYKYK - ❤️ MN

Mood

Executives are more replaceable by AI, but they aren't ready for that conversation.

Imagine a Tableau rep speaking at a Microsoft conference and saying, "if it wasnt for us, you'd all be using Excel!"

Getting all of your information from LLM chats or AI summaries is like Temu knowledge.

When you're the first person on the call and don't have time to start anything, so you are forced to confront your finite existence in the universe for 2 minutes:

I had an abdominal surgery 3 days ago, and I am finally starting to feel more like myself today mentally. Looking forward to continued recovery.

This but they also want to know you have an "AI strategy"

Possibly the most San Francisco headline I've ever read.

Excited to announce that I am starting a new role as Director of Solutions Engineering at Coginiti. 🙂 www.coginiti.co

I have taken off work occasionally for what I call a "bad endometriosis day", and they would just act...annoyed? Like calling out for a tension headache. NO. IT IS NOT LIKE A HEADACHE.

Soon

What is 76:110 the appropriate ratio of? (I asked a few different LLMs, and they didn't know, so that won't help you) 🤭

Are your dashboards green while business results lag? KPIs can silently lose their meaning, a problem aptly called "semantic drift." towardsdatascience.com/metric-decep...

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

How Neuroinclusion Builds Organizational Capabilities Changing processes to be more inclusive of neurodiversity can improve hiring, innovation, and culture. sloanreview.mit.edu/article/how-...

New Linus Torvalds insult meme dropped.

I wonder how many social posts from people attempting to grow their accounts started with an AI prompt something like "what is some good ragebait about [topic] that also won't get me canceled".

Not every cool little idea will add value, and that is okay. Not everything needs to be made or monetized.

Snowflake acquired Select Star. As startups are getting eaten by the big companies that they often parter with (many such cases), they might as well try to get acquired by them instead. Obvious things are obvious. Corporate seduction as a strategy.

"...even though my job requires me to commit sociopathic acts of evil that directly contribute to making the world a measurably worse place from Monday through Friday, five days a week, from morning to night, outside work, I’m actually a really good person." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...

It is funny because it is often true.

Saw this "join ICE" ad on LinkedIn today.

I don't know if I can go the rest of my life asking if something is AI or not.

Construct validity is the missing dark matter in big tech research about developers. Once you see it, you never unsee it.

You know, I put effort into sounding coherent and like I have a general grasp on the societal norms of conversational etiquette when sending an email, even to people that I am more casual with. But maybe I should try less.

How do I explain to recruiters that I still have a very strong understanding of data setups from implementing a tool during proofs of concept with multiple customers' stacks, versus if I only had experience implementing one set of tools and their processes at one company at a time?

Horrible phrasing. Professionals in the filed should stop personifying AI, even subtly. It is not helping.

Endometriosis surgery number 3 is scheduled to remove the endo from and make repairs to my abdominal muscle. I am one step closer to being able to do heavy lifting again without feeling like I am being stabbed, and generally being afraid to use my core for anything, lest I receive a jolt of pain.

Well articulated.

I just want to feel the emotional release that white millennial men felt in high school while listening to "Lips of an Angel" by Hinder.

And now for a more serious post

HAPPY 5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY TO ME HAVING A STROKE AND NOT DYING.

Allowing myself whatever time I want to hopescroll on my phone today, as a treat.

Maxime Beauchemin open-sourced Agor today. It is a "Figma for AI coding", a spacial canvas where you can manage AI agents visually. He thought of all the things, too (MCP, scheduler, mobile prompting, etc). Super sick. agor.live

It is really hard to post my silly little thoughts on social media and also ignore the multitude of flaming dumpster fires.

Lots of experts in my domain (computer programming) completely fell for it—the fallacious logic goes something like “it works for some of what I’m doing, and my field is the hardest of all human endeavors, therefore it must work 100% in all those lesser fields”

People that are still completely locked in on their product and 60+ hr/week job, blathering on about this or that tech for multiple posts per day, are a reason why the lack of empathy in tech has gotten us where we are today - filled with a glut of products pushed on people that no one asked for.

The best marketing doesn't mean the best product. I have written about this more at length before when it comes to finding or learning data tooling. The same thing is true now with marketing around "agentic AI". Finding the holy grail that lives up to its promises is no easy task.

No one should be surprised by this.

Seeing printed, obvious AI art for sale at a place like Home Goods give me an ick that I cannot quite describe.

The final episode of season 16 of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia should be required viewing for any tech bro or sis that wants to found a VC-backed startup for their little product idea. (Spoilers)

How it feels.

I am glad that Mehul Shah used his privilege to call this out when others cannot be as bold. "There are some who believe never to hire laid-off employees." I can guarantee that this is true. I feel tarnished, as though I disgust others with my impefect job history because of layoff.