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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 5 points 10 hours ago

Baldur Bjarnason gives his thoughts on the software job market, predicting a collapse regardless of how AI shakes out:

If you model the impact of working LLM coding tools (big increase in productivity, little downside) where the bottlenecks are largely outside of coding, increases in coding automation mostly just reduce the need for labour. I.e. 10x increase means you need 10x fewer coders, collapsing the job market

If you model the impact of working LLM coding tools with no bottlenecks, then the increase in productivity massively increases the supply of undifferentiated software and the prices you can charge for any software drops through the floor, collapsing the job market

If the models increase output but are flawed, as in they produce too many defects or have major quality issues, Akerlof's market for lemons kicks in, bad products drive out good, value of software in the market heads south, collapsing the job market

If the model impact is largely fictitious, meaning this is all a scam and the perceived benefit is just a clusterfuck of cognitive hazards, then the financial bubble pop will be devastating, tech as an industry will largely be destroyed, and trust in software will be zero, collapsing the job market

I can only think of a few major offsetting forces:

  • If the EU invests in replacing US software, bolstering the EU job market.
  • China might have substantial unfulfilled domestic demand for software, propping up their job market
  • Companies might find that declining software quality harms their bottom-line, leading to a Y2K-style investment in fixing their software stacks

But those don't seem likely to do more than partially offset the decline. Kind of hoping I'm missing something

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 3 points 12 hours ago

The phrase "ambient AI listening in our hospital" makes me hear the "Dies Irae" in my head.

I'm personally hearing "Morceaux" myself.

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Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot [Phoronix] (www.phoronix.com)
 

GitHub's having another major departure - Linux distro Gentoo is starting its migration to Codeberg, with code theft from Microsoft's Copilot as a major reason why.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 6 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

That slopped-out "diagram" plagiarised Vincent Driessen’s “A successful Git branching model”, BTW.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Claudio Nastruzzi of The Reg chimes in on the inherent shittiness of AI writing, coining the term "semantic ablation" to describe its capacity to destroy whatever unique voice a text has.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Look at the fresh garbage LinkedIn served to me today: https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/managing-ai-is-the-next-gen-skill-7655601/

(Why am I still on that godforsaken hellsite)

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 10 points 2 days ago

I wish we could finally agree that tech bros (and MBAs!) are greedy, full of shit and ruining the planet. And then remove both groups from any place of influence.

Prohibiting the teaching of MBAs and/or massively funding the humanities would be a good start. Hell, you could fund the humanities with the cash that currently goes toward MBAs and kill two birds with one stone.

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026 (awful.systems)
 

Want to wade into the snowy 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 you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Also, hope you had a wonderful Valentine's Day!)

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

New post from Iris Meredith (titled "Carbon Dysphoria"), comparing the large-scale dysfunction of the tech industry to gender dysphoria - "definitely one of my weirder ones", by her own admission

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 12 points 2 days ago

Former Reddit CEO

wants humanity to "perish with dignity"

The fuck does a former Reddit CEO know about dignity

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Stumbled across a stray blogpost that piqued my interest: A programmer's loss of identity

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Rat-adjacent coder Scott Shambaugh has continued blogging on the PR disaster turned AI-generated pissy blog post.

TL;DR: Ars Technica AI-generated an article with fabricated quotes (which got taken down after backlash), and Scott has reported a quarter of the comments he read taking the clanker's side in the entire debacle.

Personally, I'm willing to take Scott at his word on that last part - between being a programmer and being a rat/rat-adjacent, chances are his circles are (were?) highly vulnerable to being hit by the LLM rot.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 3 points 4 days ago

So AI is a parasite that takes from Wikipedia, contributes nothing in return, and in fact actively chokes it out? And you think the solution is for Wikipedia to just surrender and implement AI features?

Given how thoroughly tech bought into the AI hype, that is probably the exact "solution" he's thinking of.

(Exactly why tech fell for the slop machines so hard, I'll probably never know.)

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 4 points 6 days ago

some nimrod suggested skilled machinists be outfitted with pressure sensing gloves and cameras and patiently explain eahc machining step so the LLMs could take their jobs

I expected a willingness from HN users to backstab the working class, but I didn't expect something this blatantly half-baked.

10x developers, 0.1x proletariat.

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026 (awful.systems)
 

Want to wade into the snowy 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 you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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Pavel Samsonov: You can't "AI-proof your career" with a project mindset (productpicnic.beehiiv.com)
 

(This essay is based off of Iris Meredith’s "Becoming an AI-proof software engineer" - recommend reading that first.)

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th February 2026 (awful.systems)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
224 comments fedilink
 

Want to wade into the snowy 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 you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. A lot of people didn't survive January, but at least we did. This also ended up going up on my account's cake day, too, so that's cool.)

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Iris Meredith: Becoming an AI-proof software engineer (deadsimpletech.com)
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st February 2026 (awful.systems)
 

Want to wade into the snowy 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 you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. What a year, huh?)

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The problem is culture - Iris on tech's LLM obsession (deadsimpletech.com)
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 2026 (awful.systems)
 

Want to wade into the snowy 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 you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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Open Slopware revived via fork (codeberg.org)
 

The original's been taken down thanks to the creator being harassed into silence by promptfondlers, but a fork was thankfully made, and taking contributions.

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th January 2026 (awful.systems)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
167 comments fedilink
 

Want to wade into the snowy 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 you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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Open Slopware - a list of AI-tainted FOSS software, plus alternatives (codeberg.org)
 

Currently in its very early stages, but it'll be a useful resource to identify slopified garbage and get it out of your life.

Credit to Kat Marchin for starting this.

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