Work from home is the best, having a office with a door is second, but cube life wasn’t that bad, I had fabric walls I could pin stuff to, a little rear view mirror on my monitor, and my own set of file drawers that I didn’t have to share with anyone.

Caveats: I work in software development, its a small company and I am the head of our development dept. I was the one who championed AI use at my company. I trained our (Gen X aged) engineering team on how to use Claude code. I set up the Claude code guardrails for our internal systems.

It’s a force multiplier, not a replacement for a person. If you already know the stuff you are using it for, and you already have a structure in place for QA and deployments, it can help you complete tasks much faster. The log analysis and code building alone has completely changed my job. We did not lay anyone off due to our AI adoption at our company and we are completing jobs much faster and we are accepting jobs we could not have worked on previously due to programming language limitations, by using it as a tool in an already existing workflow. And most importantly, we are not accumulating more tech debt by using AI, because we already have structure in place to prevent the build up of tech debt. We have actually started chipping away at some of the super old debt we’ve been putting off.

We only use AI in the development and IT depts of our company, we don’t use AI for design or use it customer service which is one of the things I personally hate AI being used for.

That being said, since we adopted AI use, my workload has increased, because its a force multiplier the expectation is that we can deliver faster, which is not always the case, but now its a bit harder to argue it, especially with sales guys who don’t even understand the product they are selling let alone how the development cycle works.

Personally, I used AI to help me do some painful long data migrations I have been putting off because they were going to be so long and painful. I also used it to build some reference quick reference tools for games I play. I don’t use it for anything other than code work.

Politically, I think it needs to be rained in and regulations put in place for both the hardware for building data centers shitting up the environment and the software and its sycophantic behavior that twists people in to AI psychosis. I think exposure to AI is making people stupid and kids today are at risk of not developing the critical thinking skills they need due to outsourcing all thought to AI. Although, we cannot close Pandora’s box now, but I like to see us do something to prevent the monsters in it from running amok. I understand the hypocrisy in my AI use and my stance on AI and the environment.

EDIT: Downvoting me isn’t going to change how I feel about AI.

Yea, I got to agree, I am a paying Proton customer and I really like the product, I like the privacy first, all encryption, I like that they aren’t using ads to monetize and I don’t mind having a paid account if it supports them having free accounts. Honestly, there is a lot of good things they could be putting out there as great PR for Proton but between this and that French Youtuber this year, this marketing team is striking out left and right.

I remember driving my dad’s mid 90’s extended cab ranger and it felt huge. I have a core memory of trying to do a U-turn on a mildly busy street in it and how stressful that was for teenage me.

Yea I my eye on the Slate, I’ll wait to see the rollout on that one.

Great another monster sized truck that needs to do a 3 point turn to get on to my street because they can’t corner worth a shit. Even Maverick - which might be the smallest pick up I can get in the US right now is the size of a large to mid sized pick up.

Man I’d love to have an EV truck that is the size of one of the old Toyota pick-ups from the 90s. Make me a truck that I can see over the roof of and I am sold.

So, how will this be enforce or is this just an excuse to for the idiotic general public beat people up?

You can take you cats out for walks, lots of them like it. But yes I am talking personally about my dog saving my life.

Just the reminder that you have to get up and take them outside every day is sometimes the life saver, even if it doesn’t feel like it at the time.

MySpace and Neopets is why I work in web development today. Learned HTML to build profile pages and never looked back.

I love your doodles

I rebuilt my personal website and finally took all my stuff off WP. This was long time coming, I almost never visit my own website so it was just lingering and not being updated. Which as we all know in WP land is a death sentence.

To avoid bringing shame to my domain, I converted it to a simple HTML site with no DB and a smidge of JS flare, and now I can just forget about it. I also learned how Cloudflare Pages and Workers work in the process, making this a win win.

are you still giving out invites? I DM’d a couple days ago

My grandfather bought a plot with 5 spaces next to each other in a graveyard you can no longer get plots for, thinking him his wife and his 3 boys would be buried there. His did this when the boys were under 10 years old. The ones for him and my grandma are used now, but the three boys are grown, moved away from that small town and with grandkids of their own now and they will not be using the plot.

Let him do what he wants with his money, but he is delusional if he thinks his children will be buried there too.

Duck duck go for personal, Bing and Google for work.

Duck duck go isn’t bad, I can usually find what I need from them.

Lots of AI platforms use Brave search and lots of people use AI instead of search engines now, if your looking for something else you can try that.