Microslop is a tiny scrappy start-up company, give them some slack and patience, they can’t just throw virtually unlimited money at the problem to solve it…
I once got into an argument with someone about how AI PRs are terrible and overwhelm FOSS projects which are already notoriously understaffed and burned out. Eventually I just started having Claude generate the most verbose responses it could, prefaced with “to make my point, from now on to continue this argument you’ll need to read a mountain of AI slop I probably didn’t read myself, and all I have to do is copy and paste into Claude and hit generate”
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Whoever has that job also very likely has blood on their hands from being involved in facilitating (or remaining silent about) the Palestinian Genocide with Microslop products like Azure and other computing services, so FUCK them, pile the misery on to them until they crumble into dust as a person for all I care.
You can’t just pretend having some arbitrary connection to Kevin Bacon is the same as being all the way at the top of the power structure of one of the most powerful entities on earth that is actively seeking profit from an ongoing Genocide.
I mean it’s a job homie, I mean there are some jobs you can’t be forgiven for doing like death camp guard, or gas chamber operator, or whatever Kathleen Kennedy’s job title is. But I don’t think network engineer is on that list
There’s an image going around showing a bar chart of GitHub uptimes over the last several years. It was steady as a rock until Microsoft took over, then it started dipping like crazy and never recovered.
Man, remember when three nines was the standard uptime guarantee?
“but what if we keep using the first digit as all of the nines 🤔” Microslop thought as they pushed 10 000 more LoC shat out by AI to production without reading it.
Microslop is a tiny scrappy start-up company, give them some slack and patience, they can’t just throw virtually unlimited money at the problem to solve it…
They don’t want slack, they use Microsoft Teams over there
So it was a communication issue then
I wouldn’t want to have the job of managing GitHub infrastructure right now. The sheer volume of AI slop being uploaded must be unimaginable
I once got into an argument with someone about how AI PRs are terrible and overwhelm FOSS projects which are already notoriously understaffed and burned out. Eventually I just started having Claude generate the most verbose responses it could, prefaced with “to make my point, from now on to continue this argument you’ll need to read a mountain of AI slop I probably didn’t read myself, and all I have to do is copy and paste into Claude and hit generate”
Wait… were you arguing for or against AI slop?
Just use AI to filter, ez
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They should migrate their code to use some technology that scales well… Like web servers and git.
Whoever has that job also very likely has blood on their hands from being involved in facilitating (or remaining silent about) the Palestinian Genocide with Microslop products like Azure and other computing services, so FUCK them, pile the misery on to them until they crumble into dust as a person for all I care.
You can’t just seven degrees of Kevin Bacon everyone into being involved in the genocide of Palestine.
You can’t just pretend having some arbitrary connection to Kevin Bacon is the same as being all the way at the top of the power structure of one of the most powerful entities on earth that is actively seeking profit from an ongoing Genocide.
I mean it’s a job homie, I mean there are some jobs you can’t be forgiven for doing like death camp guard, or gas chamber operator, or whatever Kathleen Kennedy’s job title is. But I don’t think network engineer is on that list
and I mean it is a job that gets blood on your hands, homie.
If they don’t want that baggage, they can deploy their golden parachute and go head another company/organization.
Stop carrying water for these people.
There’s an image going around showing a bar chart of GitHub uptimes over the last several years. It was steady as a rock until Microsoft took over, then it started dipping like crazy and never recovered.
Man, remember when three nines was the standard uptime guarantee?
“but what if we keep using the first digit as all of the nines 🤔” Microslop thought as they pushed 10 000 more LoC shat out by AI to production without reading it.
I do. I was there when we hosted everything internally and everyone moved to the cloud for “reliability”.
Oh how the turntables…
If anyone is interested in heading back toward hosting your own infra, lmk and I may come back to tech.