Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Pavan Davuluri is apparently the āpresident of windows and devicesā at microsoft. I, for one, am glad that I moved to linux when windows 10 got the axe, before anything tried to agenticify my pc.
Also, when did āfrontierā become āfirst in lines to drink whatever it is the cult leader is serving upā?
https://xcancel.com/pavandavuluri/status/1987942909635854336#m
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āAgenticā is meant to seem sci-fi, but I canāt help but think itās terminal business-speak. Itās the clearest statement yet of the attempted redesign of the computer from a personal device to a distinct entity separate from oneself. One is no longer a user or administrator, one is instead passively waiting for āagentsā to complete a task on oneās behalf. This model is imposed from the top down, to be the strongest reinforcement yet of the all-important moat around the big vendorsā cloud businesses. Once youāre in deep with āagents,ā your workflows will probably be so hopelessly tangled, vendor-specific, and non-debuggable/non-reimplementable that migrating them to another vendor would be a nightmare task orders of magnitude beyond any database or CRM migration. If your workflows even get any work done anymore at all.
Itās worth noting how much the whole āagenticā marketing scheme is the opposite of this reality, too. Because after all the dream theyāre selling is being able to do the Star Trek thing and just tell your computer to do it in plain English. But if that was what these companies were actually doing it would be very easy to migrate away if you wanted to, since you could just say āsend me all our data in a format that $Competitor can easily onboard. Iām done with this shitā and then give the competitorās system the same plain English prompt. The reality is that they donāt actually want to build the thing theyāre as advertising even if they could because their whole business model is to make interacting with the computer as high-friction as possible so youāll pay them to do it for you.
@rook
#AngryGoose Agentic, mister Davuluri? Agent for whom, motherfucker?