approaching levels that imply none of us will ever be able to afford a stick of RAM again, let alone an entire computer. the fall will be spectacular.

“trillion dollar valuations” and they’re just now figuring out how LLMs work. it’s enough to drive you insane.

in light of Cloudflare’s clearly AI-washed layoffs this week, gonna try out @dnsimple.com this weekend and potentially move tarpey.io over. blog post soon if it goes well. =]

this is turning into one of the more fascinating developments that I wasn’t thinking about. hearing in my circles of former colleagues that cloud services are straight up degrading (pre-emptible VMs becoming totally unreliable, for example, presumably because they’re now being reserved for AI 24/7).

obviously this is an incredible answer, but the bar is so low right now that she could have just said “healthcare” to every question and I’d still be voting for her.

dug up this old Nintendo poster from the 90s when going through some very old totes a while back. finally got it framed and on the wall.

There was a time when the ultra-wealthy in this country at least pretended to acknowledge their privilege and their luck. It helped fuel a sense of civil obligation. These days, however: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/n...

no kings.

my god. the music makes me SHIVER www.youtube.com/live/ePZeyh5... thank you Miyamoto-san. 🐐 what a sick surprise out of nowhere. Star Fox 64 remake. we’re so back.

looks good for my very stable, very diverse, will-definitely-be-there-when-I-hit-retirement-age 401k.

Here’s how the AI Boom, such as it is, has impacted my life: it has been used as an excuse to lay off my friends for bot equivalents that never came. It has made mass culture and art immeasurably worse. I have a stalker with AI psychosis. So, no, I don’t more data centers. I want less of all that.

don't recommend gmail but if you still use it, this has to be one of the most useful new buttons they've added in a while. www.wired.com/story/gmail-...

I wrote my pinned blog post almost a year ago, and things have gotten so much worse since. damn. truly enough to make anyone go crazy.

like, are we just doing #$CAR for all the chipmakers now?

starting to make me physically ill to see markets continue to celebrate the idea of obliterating the middle class at all costs (and by "all costs" I mean AI capex). like...at least dot-com gave us the internet. when this one ends all we're walking away with is psychosis bots. raw deal.

nice. we just need to do this another ~40x and we’ll cover this year’s deficit.

same energy

is it good when an Admiral’s words have no meaning anymore?

every doofy person going for a “recession” joke is playing into the exact “when you are doing well, you eat meat” problem that keeps us stuck

not financial advice, but this is why I’ve ripped any $$$ I had out of index funds (including retirement accounts). going forward I won’t accept anything less than 100% agency in what my money is invested in, and it’s definitely not going into SpaceX.

genius work by everyone involved.

still waiting for that healthcare plan too.

Why Claude is a greater cognitive hazard than the rest

this good?

Bring back the ancient knowledge

small rebrand. tarpey.dev -> tarpey.io. five years ago I really did want dev to be my primary identity, but in reality I was never neatly contained in that box during my entire time in tech. no better time to switch now that the passion has faded and the industry is Dancing Mad. moving on.

"Bracing"? I think I'd use "salivating" there www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/o...

On balance Powell did a fine job as Fed Chair and deserves flowers for how he's handled the Trump nonsense.

gen AI has emboldened them all to say things like this. it was inevitable once they got even the slightest, sweet taste of being able to destroy the knowledge working class for good and reclaim that revenue. they are the worst of us.

the irony of the executive class letting things get so far that they’re now destroying and replacing a huge chunk of US consumers with…computers that waste resources and don’t purchase anything. let’s see how that works out for them and their precious economy. we deserve better.

no I will not turn off the Castlevania GBA soundtrack, thank you for understanding www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA0v...

I’ll be honest: I don’t click them. AI art signals low effort to me, and that makes me expect that the rest of the associated work will also be low effort

“Given A.I. and robotics are going to impact every man, woman and child in this country, one might think that there’d be a massive debate in the US Congress: What does it mean? Where do we go? How do we deal with it?” Mr. Sanders said...“There has been minimal, minimal discussion.”

Indeed. A person rushed at POTUS's security perimeter and was stopped there. A person whose plan is to do a one-man charge through POTUS's security perimeter is, ipso facto, irrational. To the extent anything can be done to prevent this, it's universal free healthcare including mental healthcare.

perfectly said. I quit tech 7 months ago and I feel all of this. no closer to returning; the gen AI mania has only accelerated. (even considering a temporary return to my first career as an actuary in insurance. yes, it’s that bad.) we deserve to work with other people that care as much as we do.

incredible design. every time I open my 3DS it rotates between one of the 20+ sick paid themes I bought…I wonder why Nintendo is slacking here.

“More than three years into the breathless hype cycle kicked off by the launch of ChatGPT, it’s clear that generative AI can do a lot for a very specific kind of worker — namely, those who code — and it can lead to an embarrassing boondoggle for others.”

damn, I made the list too. nice dopamine hit to get me through another day.

between this and the "no new Copilot signups for now!" thing...the cost-cutting is starting to hit breakneck pace.

The post-AI-bubble regulation should start by making it illegal to do circular deals - money invested cannot be used to pay for services, money invested cannot be used for buying hardware, etc, etc. Hell, I'm game for making it illegal to invest in customers at all.

The people who use AI on Github are losing their entire minds, swearing they'll all just move to Claude without realizing that's just going to force Anthropic to increase costs even faster. None of them seem to comprehend that this shit doesn't scale.

societal decay. no chance of progress while this rot continues to spread.

Where were you when…?

healthcare plan coming soon, I’m sure.

it’s driving me mad how anyone keeps overlooking this necessary fact of any AI bull case. like, if we thought the Biden-era “soft landing” was difficult…what exactly is the sweet spot between “capex grows to infinity and AI takes everyone’s jobs” vs. “capex plummets and we’re all out of ideas”?

sorry for giving them ideas but I would pay $20+ a month to get a massive follow-up notification on my phone each time cases like this resolve and it’s confirmed that the defendant has been annihilated. the psychological healing it would do might be better value for me than therapy.

Dammit it’s already happening

Reading the phrase “pivoting from shoes to AI” definitely inflicted some amount of irreparable brain damage

i’ve basically been Calvin for months now after coming to this realization, and i’m completely exhausted.

no this is amazing. in their own analogy it’s “step 1: you get something that probably doesn’t work and is likely to kill someone. Step 2: do the same amount of work you would anyway without having endangering people. Step 3: step 1 added nothing to the end result.”