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.

Trying to be normal as I complete a millennial white woman in the fall activity.

It is interesting to me that I am expected to try to be a thought leader in order to get a job, when I have met plenty of hiring managers that barely have a social presence.

Wearing a zip-up vest every day until a company notices and decides to hire me to sell B2B SaaS.

You gather the data. You rearrange it and do some math. You tell people what it means. This is it. And we overcomplicate the hell out of it. (Security reqs are like 80% of the complexity to be fair though.)

PEOPLE THAT HAVE NEVER HAD A PROBLEM GETTING A JOB, HAVE NEVER HAD TO WORRY ABOUT MONEY, OR HAVE NEVER BEEN LAID OFF HAVE NO BUSINESS GIVING CAREER ADIVCE TO PEOPLE RIGHT NOW. OMGGGGG STOPPPPP.

The new term people keep throwing out a bunch without really knowing what it means is MCP. Your tool's AI is MCP-enabled? Yes? Excellent. Glad we both have an understanding of what this means.

Being able to voice your viewpoint and opinions in the tech world without it being used against you is a privilege. You will lose out on opportunities that you absolutely need because of people in positions of power. That is a reality that nobody wants to talk about.

Wow

And the sadness begins. I went to dbt Coalesce 2022. I presented. I won an award. 2023 I was bedridden before a surgery, did not attend. 2024 I attended again. 2025...back to sitting at home. Sigh.

Microsoft Excel is the Taylor Swift of Business Intelligence. Tableau - U2 PowerBI - Nickleback Looker - Drake Omni - Kendrick Lamar Hex - Sabrina Carpenter Thoughtspot - Lady Gaga ggplot - Skrillex How'd I do?

AI company alignment chart.

For a dog that got sprayed by a skunk and then got two baths in 24 hours, she's still pretty cute 🥹

If I worked for McKinsey I would charge thousands of dollars for this answer. My answer is also not needlessly spread out over dozens of slides and tech reports.

Nothing has tested my immediate problem solving abilities quite like my dog getting sprayed in the face by a skunk.

Even though presently unemployed, I never stop selling B2B sass.

Is your vanity Just a thinly veiled disguise For inanity?

I am trapped. Please do not help.

Fair

The rapture, but we're all stuck inside of the internet now kind of like Tron.