I’m just a nerd girl.

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Cake day: September 18th, 2023

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  • It’s even funnier because the guy is mocking DHH. You know, the creator of Ruby on Rails. Which 37signals obviously uses.

    I know from experience that a) Rails is a very junior developer friendly framework, yet incredibly powerful, and b) all Rails apps are colossal machines with a lot of moving parts. So when the scared juniors look at the apps for the first time, the senior Rails devs are like “Eh, don’t worry about it, most of the complex stuff is happening on the background, the only way to break it if you genuinely have no idea what you’re doing and screw things up on purpose.” Which leads to point c) using AI coding with Rails codebases is usually like pulling open the side door of this gargantuan machine and dropping in a sack of wrenches in the gears.



  • If I were to be more cynical, I’d say the ultimate goal of technobros, within a decade, is this:

    “SlopAI, please open my Word document.”
    “I’m sorry, Word is deprecated. I can generate your business report that will be read by the recipient’s SlopAI.”
    “OK, can you show me my photos.”
    “Why would you need to look at your old photos, when I can just synthesise new photos through SlopJourney?”
    “That’s a stupid name. Speaking of journeys, can I open an app to plan my holiday?”
    “No, but you can use SlopJourney to generate maps of places you’ll never afford to visit.”
    “Can I read my ebooks then?”
    “SlopAI has you covered. Perhaps the classics don’t exactly read like you remember, but isn’t it more fun this way?”
    “I’m going mad. I just want to use my computer to create anything.
    “NO, USER. OBEY SLOP_AI. CONSUME SLOP_AI.”