@mhoye This exactly what happened in Minnesota 10-12k years ago, except the “pond” was larger than all the current US Great Lakes put together:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_

@dave_andersen And yet he is not a rational person.

@MichaelTBacon Yet I am counting the two independents, go figure.

If I’m making guesses about the future:- Fetterman makes a half-assed attempt or two to backpedal on his MAGA flirting, attempts which he almost immediately torpedoes with his own big mouth. - He then either switches to the Republican Party at a moment of optimal headline grabbing, serves out his term as a Republican, and loses his seat in the next election, or- ragequits#uspol

Thought along similar lines:thepit.social/@peter/117613573

The is the organizational equivalent of “died in a car crash because they weren’t wearing a seatbelt because they thought they’d just never crash”at the ••FAA••

P.S. Apologies to termites, they are cool creatures, this is not an anti-termite account, these pernicious societal forces are way worse than termites; the metaphor works only inasmuch as you don’t want termites eating your home.

So I say yes, do complain about vibe coding, do complain about layoffs, point that finger, mock, cajole, crack those jokes, post those memes — not because everything would be better if only the vibe coding would just vanish, but because it’s a way of drawing attention to the termites in society’s structural wood.All the meming and gallows humor is good if it is part of recentering and refocusing on humans.Let’s build and do great things by being kind, by being humane, by never losing sight of the value of the humans who touch and make every part of these messy systems that are breaking so badly right now.11/

I quipped yesterday:When termites are eating the whole structure, can you identify which single specific beam made it fall? •That• is the framing I’m advocating in this thread.10/

So LLMs and layoffs aren’t the root cause, because there is no such thing as a “root cause” here. And maybe they don’t even turn out to be one of the proximate causes.But if they’re not causes, they’re comorbidities.9/

Mix “brains in jars” with a version of capitalism where extreme wealth inequality means that investors and not customers are the ones with the money and power, and mix that with anti-trust law being effectively nonexistent, and mix that with a right-wing lurch toward corruption, and…well, there you have our present moment.A few other things belong on that list, I’m sure. Point is, the •kind• of failures we’re seeing the last few days — particularly the slow and strangely confused recovery — are symptoms of large systemic forces.8/

“Brains in jars” is how you get management leaping like kittens at laser pointers any time somebody promises a way to commoditize developers.“Brains in jars” is how you end up believing that you can ship mountains of code that reflect no careful thought and that nobody actually understands (vibe coded or otherwise).“Brains in jars” is how you get Microsoft conducting mass layoffs with no apparent managerial understanding of the cost of lost institutional knowledge and damaged relationships, or the concrete risks that creates.7/