Help! I've made a horrible mistake! I focused my career on things that help humans, like UI/UX and accessibility. No one's hiring for that anymore.

Alright, which tech companies are actively anti-AI now? Surely not everyone has brain rot, right? Right!?

Why does Job hunting feel like, "the evil you know vs the evil you don't"?

Congratulations to LLMs for destroying every single pillar of the "motivation MAP" Mastery - don't learn, just prompt Autonomy - there is no alternative, leadership demands AI use Purpose - ship. more. ai. Users be damned

Features 📈 LOC 📈 Tickets closed 📈 Comprehension 📉 Job satisfaction 📉

GenAI is useful* and surprisingly effective** in exactly 2 cases: 1. I don't know anything about what I asked it to do 2. I don't give a shit about what I asked it to do * 🤢 ** 🤮

Capitalist hellscape employment precarity makes me go :vomit:

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

Anyway fuck AI and fuck data centers

Most farmers in the US are millionaires with a six figure income. Median household income: $116,493 Median household net worth: $1,244,229 www.ers.usda.gov/media/5698/u...

I realize this is a niche complaint, but the new hearing aid battery packs are impossible to open. A new law requires that the packaging is child-proof but I'm sure they're everyone-proof now.

Stop saying "AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used." I'm tired. I'm so tired of reading, hearing, and seeing this phrase/argument. It doesn't only matter how a tool is used, but how it is made, governed, and the impact it has on our world. We must shape tools before they shape us.

Why does everything beep and blink!? I bought a "whisper quiet" treadmill to use after the kids go to sleep but the 45db beep for every button press kinda defeats the purpose

To make things clearer, replace "AI" and "LLM" with "stolen labor" and replace "VC funds" with "stolen capital." "Investment banks prepare to give $400b of stolen capital to firms specializing in stolen labor." Much more accurate.

Oh great, AI CEO said a thing. In 2 weeks my CEO will say the same thing somehow. Gotta tech harder to show how AI our company is.

There is a notion that "productivity" is fungible — if AI makes people "more productive" then it will somehow result in more & better work. But individual productivity is only the limit on throughput of assembly lines. YOUR blocker is that your org uses the "garbage can model" to make decisions.

After a 2 day AI hackathon (mandatory) I got to spend all day reviewing generated code. It was exhausting. Not because it was all bad but because you just couldn't know where it would veer into nonsense.

Just realized that by mandating AI use in daily coding work, our leadership is telling us, "don't care about the product so much!"

Coining a new phrase: "data driven dumbassery." You know what it means.

The autism community has been quietly revolutionizing workplace communication for years — turns out clear expectations, sensory awareness, and direct feedback work magic for neurotypical brains too. Your son's teaching you management gold.

Worth your time: leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/0...

I once heard that the original GitHub (pre-M$) had an engineering maxim "write JavaScript like it's 2015." This is clearly not the case anymore, as I suffer from their React-focused AI-slop interface. Not to mention whatever tomfoolery is happening on the backend causing such constant instability

"speed ≠ quality output ≠ thinking fidelity ≠ usefulness" 👏👏👏

Are there any job boards that allow you to filter out AI companies? I'm getting real sick of having to research companies and job positions to see if they're gonna force me to use AI.

I built a visual explainer of the CSS Cascade, the algorithm that determines the "winning value" from a list of competing declarations. It's built on work by @bram.us and @miriam.codes. cascade.arpit.codes I wrote about how it came together on my blog: arpit.blog/notes/2026/0...

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I don't have words for the disgust, anger, and shame I feel about this.

I'm stuck trying to make AI crap features work with AI slop code in React version-whatever-with-breaking-changes, and some people get to actually make the web better.

Instead of introspection, this fucker wakes up and thinks, "how can I maximize my sociopathy?"

"Autism will never fit in the disease model, because it is not a disease; it is part of the human condition."

“These tools, and the companies that manufacture them, have tremendous costs — to our labor, to our environment, to our futures. And as we’ve been seeing, those costs also include actual human lives.” Good and important read by @ethanmarcotte.com. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/propel...

Bank of America’s big credit investors are now most worried about the threat of an AI bubble, specifically unsustainable investments and over-valuations. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I was disappointed to read Cory Doctorow's post where he got weirdly defensive about his LLM use and started arguing with an imaginary foe. @tante.cc has a very thoughtful reply here: tante.cc/2026/02/20/a... A few further comments, 🧵>>

"We need new models of professionalism that do not center novelty, but consequence." blog.ronbronson.com/design-as-re...

The legitimately innovative thing about AI is that it is a completely bottomless pit. It's swallowed up: - all energy sources - all our data - all investment dollars - all new jobs - all capex - all attention - and now, all hardware components with absolutely no end in sight. Nothing will satisfy.

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the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

I fully believe companies should be punished with "death sentences," not just fines. Every executive fired with no severance, all stock set to $0 and its listing pulled from markets. Let's see these CEOs be unable to get a new job

I'm so angry and so tired of being angry. Please, world, stop doing such bad things, I need a rest

For anyone who pays attention to high contrast / forced colors mode styles: I wrote up an explanation of why forced-color-adjust: none is nearly unavoidable and how it sets up your codebase for downstream bugs: sarahmhigley.com/writing/forc...

“You don’t need your wheelchair. We have wheelchairs.” Note to airline carriers, terminals, transportation providers, hospitals, medical providers and all others who need to hear this: Wheelchairs are not interchangeable. Wheelchairs are not one size fits all.

Published a new interactive blog post on tab roving, a nice little technique for making grids and other element groups more accessible for keyboard navigation! Check it out: https://nik.digital/posts/tab-roving

but all of this is about finding messages that reach people who don't have a lot of context *to help them understand why they shouldn't use it* harm reduction, in this context, is *use reduction*

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Prime video service has the worst UX I've ever fought. Searching for a title might return what you're looking for or it might not, regardless of whether that exact title is available on the service.

Happy Labor Day! Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) and illustrated by Skutch (@skutchdraws.bsky.social) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work... Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

Sometimes it's more comfortable to believe the people in charge are competent but evil than the reality that the American economy is in the hands of clowns that couldn't manage a convenience store.

"'That’s the equivalent of basically taking out a credit card with a $20,000 credit limit, canceling it and then saying, 'I’ve just saved $20,000.' Anything that’s been said publicly about [DOGE’s] savings is meaningless.'”