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  • 31% of employees are ‘sabotaging’ your corporate AI strategy!

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  • I'm quite sure a part of my last job loss was due to my open refusal to use AI, which extended to my criticism of the use of AI-generated code being added to a codebase I was expected to manage and maintain. Being careful is seen as friction now, careful is translated as slow, no matter how much time is spent fixing things broken by shitty generated code, fixing is seen as productivity more than careful production is.

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems

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  • My new video about the anti-design of the tech industry where I talk about this little passage from an ACM article that set me off when I found it a few years back.

    In short, before software started eating all the stuff "design" meant something. It described a process of finding the best way to satisfy a purpose. It was a response to the purpose.

    The tech industry takes computation as being an immutable means and finds purposes it may satisfy. The purpose is a response to the tech.

    p.s. sorry to spam. :)

    vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ollyMSWSWOY pod: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse/8ffce464/tech-as-anti-design

    threads bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/fasterandworse.com/post/3ltwles4hkk2t masto: https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/114852024025529148

  • Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it

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  • "businesses and employees"

    the business pays for it, the employees "use" it.

    the business measures the value by how many employees they can remove.

    if the business is measuring "productivity", how are they doing that? Is it jira tickets? Is it timesheets? are they measuring quality? Is it starting to seem like you're trying to pick up water with your fingers?

    if you pretend that ai ceos are actually doing marketing the trajectory is right there staring you in the face

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd June 2025

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  • Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2025! Don’t expect much — it still doesn’t work

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  • Generative AI runs on gambling addiction — just one more prompt, bro!

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  • David pulled it all together perfectly here. It's amazing how well it fits the hook model, whether they intended it or not

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025

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  • very much agree with this

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025

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  • Great piece by Jacob Silverman about the growing shittyness of the day-to-day internet experience

    https://archive.is/20250419163054/https://www.ft.com/content/5d06bbb4-0034-493b-8b0d-5c0ab74bedef#selection-2009.350-2009.663

    Can we find a way back to an internet that puts people in lucid conversation with one another, where books are published after they are written, where anger and insanity aren’t the dominant modes of thought and the defining editorial values are more meaningful than a chumbox of clickbait nonsense? I’m not sure.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd March 2025

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th March 2025

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  • aw thanks

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th March 2025

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  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    Steve @awful.systems

    Edge-case marketing

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9 March 2025

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  • how much is templated now? reckon it'll be 3hrs every time?

  • Dispatch about software being a material, really, not a product category in itself

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  • I get where you're coming from but we're talking about two completely separate layers of abstraction.

    If you define data as a material, which you can, then software is going to be a very good means for working with data. It'll be the best!

    But for that to happen you have to have decided that data is the key to whatever purpose you are aiming to satisfy. You're saying that all purposes are a matter of data manipulation.

    I don't actually say that software cannot be a product, I say that it can't be categorised as a product in itself. As in, it doesn't make sense to have "furniture products, exercise products, data products, surveillance products, and SOFTWARE products" - that doesn't mean something made out of software can't be a product.

    BTW I'm not claiming this is novel, in fact I know it's not. I'm also not taking it personal, feedback is why I post this shit.

  • Dispatch about software being a material, really, not a product category in itself

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  • I don't know what part of my post you are responding to

  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems
    Steve @awful.systems

    Dispatch about software being a material, really, not a product category in itself

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2 March 2025

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  • I hate how much firefox has been growing to this point of being the best, by a smaller and smaller margin, of a fucking shit bunch

  • 20 years working on the same software product

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  • This is great, thanks for sharing

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025

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  • It's probably more sensible for me to try writing short bits too, instead of faffing around with videos

  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems
    Steve @awful.systems

    Building his own CCD full-frame mirrorless camera

  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems
    Steve @awful.systems

    Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project

    awesomekling.github.io /Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform-browser-project/