TPOT as a culture is starting to crumble. The cracked and based anime PFP types are under-employed. The people telling you "you can just do things" are on year 2 of not doing anything. The pictures of IDE's open on coffee shop tables are nowhere to be found. The "you can learn anything in 2 months" crowd is on month 8-14 of not having learned a thing. The right-wing talking points became too obvious, the edgelord /pol/ jokes became too played out, and the people that followed these people got real jobs where they interacted with trans and foreign folks that... didn't fit the mold that they were told about by that high-follower anime PFP account. More than anything, people saw a culture of "talking about how fast things move" full of people going nowhere, and they got tired of it. Now, TPOT discourse is 80% critique of the dorks that formed it. The culture stagnated, and people moved on.

Before I was a dad, I'd have thought this story was fake but I swear my 10 year-old asked me who would be Dems' nominee. I said probably the governor of California. He said that seems like a bad choice because you want someone who wins where Trump isn't so unpopular.

I'm beginning to close PRs for unsolicited changes I don't want to maintain with: "Thanks, I'm not interested in the transfer of maintenance for this to us, but I'm happy to see you're maintaining this for personal use in your fork. Enjoy." 🫡

I've read wild, unverified rumours that X is no longer downranking links. Here is my most recent article, 5000 words on the pathologies of our most prestigious knowledge-producing institutions and why "alternative media" is nevertheless much, much worse: conspicuouscognition.com/p/o…

>discover git worktrees >launch 10 agents >chaos >go back to single branch, just codex high >this is the way >some bugs >guess i don't understand some of the code >oh no gall's law >recreate everything slowly step by step >mfw i am the -19% metr participant

I'm a sucker for "give me the actual source", it's one of my job-related tics. It annoys my wife to no end when I always ask her "but do you have an actual ground-truth source for this?" and I ask her more often than any healthy person should... Funny that there's a word for this in French (déformation professionelle) and in German (Berufskrankheit) but not in English! Anyways, I'm extremely happy to say that, while I'm still failing with my wife, I did at least manage to get gpt5 to adhere to this:

Me: *gasp* My wife: Genuinely after 23 years I can't tell the difference between you hearing about the sudden death of a close friend and accidentally closing a tab you were reading.

Read GPT3 generated text to experience what a CPU feels like when it makes a branch misprediction

:unblinkingly parasocially observing the orbs that live inside my computer for years: this anime one doesn't like the cat