I like that you called it poison because all options are bad, but I prefer the one I consider the least bad: Angular.

His main mistake is that the child in question is Eric.

React sucks. I’m sorry, I know it’s popular, but for the love of glob, can we not use a technology that results in just as much goddamn spaghetti code as its closest ancestor, jQuery? (That last bit is inflammatory. I don’t care. React components have no opinionated structure imposed on them, just like jQuery.)

I’m required to use it a little bit for my job. (I’m a software developer). I do the absolute minimum I can with it, then don’t touch it the rest of the day.

Reasons:

• It’s an ongoing environmental disaster.
• It’s a giant plagiarism machine.
• If you’re trusting its output, you’re being foolish.
• The business model for them being profitable doesn’t exist. I don’t want to depend on a technology I consider a dead end.
• They make you stupid. If you get hooked on using them, then when the bubble finally pops and most of these bullshit purveyors fold, you’ll have already forgotten how to think and research for yourself. The imaginary “convenience” of being confidently and convincingly lied to by a large language model isn’t worth it.

Ask one how to cook a turkey, it will give you convincing and unsafe instructions. Ask it if any mammals fly airplanes, it will gaslight you into thinking none do (humans are mammals). Ask it to do any task involving parsing the letters in words, and instead of honestly telling you it can’t, it will give you utterly incorrect responses.

These tools aren’t fit for purpose. They’re shiny and fast and wrong in both obvious and subtle ways.

Then once everyone subscribes to that store, change it so there is AI slop in it anyway, just in a “limited form,” and you have to raise your subscription to the “Premium Plus” model to get rid of it.

He’s in Australia. It was already the 15th there when he posted that, but the person you’re responding to isn’t in Australia and the blog they copied and pasted from probably compensated for time zones.

Edit: Or it’s a typo from a stressed and frantic person.

But it’s well in line with their other traditional focus: Bribery and corruption

A software developer found out that the failing company they’re at, which was winding down for business reasons, decided to try becoming a zombie company by replacing its software stack (and employees) with a vibe-coded SaaS piece of garbage that’s broken in dozens of ways.

mind horse blowing.

It was right there.

You do know you can use AD with Linux, don’t you?

No. Is no okay with you, USDA? How about with a side order of fuck you?

I call bullshit. A large language model does nothing until you interact with it. You set tasks for it, it does those tasks, and when it’s done, it just waits for the next task. If you don’t give it one, it can’t act autonomously - no, not even the misnamed “autonomous agents.”

The thing is, it really won’t. The context window isn’t large enough, especially for a decently-sized application, and that seems to be a fundamental limitation. Make the context window too large, and the LLM gets massively offtrack very easily, because there’s too much in it to distract it.

And LLMs don’t remember anything. The next time you interact with it and put the whole codebase into its context window again, it won’t know what it did before, even if the last session was ten minutes ago. That’s why they so frequently create bloat.

Well, if I’m not, then neither is an LLM.

But for most projects built with modern tooling, the documentation is fine, and they mostly have simple CLIs for scaffolding a new application.

Yeah, I have never spent “days” setting anything up. Anyone who can’t do it without spending “days” struggling with it is not reading the documentation.

In those countries, he wouldn’t be able to do what he’s done with our Congress. Every day, he commits impeachable acts, but the only political body that could do anything about it is compromised.

Okay, so imagine that we actually manage to have elections in 2026, and again in 2028. Also imagine that by then, Trump’s health has gotten so bad he’s no longer president, or has even died.

In that scenario, I would 100% support the use of taxpayer funds to demolish Trump’s disgusting ballroom, and restore the East Wing as it was the day Biden left office, as closely as possible.

Furthermore, I would support a long-term effort to utterly and systematically obliterate any trace of Trump, Trumpism, and Trump’s “legacy” in the government. Wipe him from history completely, except as a cautionary tale. Let nothing be named after him, or bear any of his fingerprints.

Finally, I would obviously support the absolute demolition of any and all of his businesses, to claw back everything he stole from us. Even if it costs more than we’d be able to recoup, just to ensure no one EVER fucking does this shit again. Leave no trace of his businesses standing. Let “Trump Tower” become a homeless shelter.

Sadly, there are some who don’t even know it, because they’re buying services from someone else that buys them from someone else that buys them from Amazon. So they’re currently wondering what the fuck is even going on, since they thought they weren’t using AWS.

I’m a software developer and my company is piloting the use of LLMs via Copilot right now. All of them suck to varying degrees, but everyone’s consensus is that GPT5 is the worst of them. (To be fair, no one has tested Grok, but that’s because no one in the company wants to.)

On top of that, there’s so much AI slop all over the internet now that the training for their models is going to get worse, not better.