Steve Yegge is a renowned software developer. He’s done this for thirty-odd years. Senior engineer at Amazon then Google, blogger on the art of programming. Yegge was highly regarded. Then he got h…
  • blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
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    1 day ago

    “Gas Town”?

    “Gas Town?!”

    He unironically made the postapocalyptic wasteland from the cautionary tale, Mad Max: Do Not Make the Postapocalyptic Wasteland

    This is the same pre-emptive irony as naming your brand of New Age crap “Goop”, only now with voluntarily plugging yourself into the machine that statistically simulates the ravings of a schizophrenic when it’s not generating child pornography, while setting up direct deposit to your dealer of meth, jimsonweed and Substance D

    • CinnasVerses@awful.systemsEnglish
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      9 hours ago

      And its a fable about having to petition a mercurial and brutal authority for resources you need to live! A lesson that anyone who wants to make their living vibe-coding should ponder.