Seems that your transformation from BB to Cornpop has led you to becoming a full-fledged misanthrope!

mediocrity drift is universal.

That's a new term I haven't heard. I'm guessing that this is similar to "tall poppy syndrome" and the nail that sticks out ends up being hammered down?

Technical people are profoundly, particularly incurious and clueless about human nature.

True. It probably doesn't help that they spend too much time playing video games, or in front of the computer.

Thanks for what I take to be a kudo.

I've grown out of the BB mentality because in the intervening time I've experienced exactly the same basic human shittiness in almost every walk of life and business. Plus 20 years ago I never paid attention to politics. Now that I pay some attention to politics I find the same lack of character and meanness I used to complain about to be evenly distributed across humanity.

That was really the antidote to being BB - understanding that human evil and mediocrity drift is universal. Technical people are profoundly, particularly incurious and clueless about human nature.

If this administration doesn't crack down on H1Bs, and I don't think it will, it'll never happen.

The drugs I take are older brand name drugs. The generics give me nasty side effects so they're not an option. I wish I was able to take them because they're so much cheaper.

I don't have a small local pharmacy close to where I live, so that isn't an option for me. Plus, a couple of the pills I take are hard to get. I'm not sure a small pharmacy would have the ability to get them like Walgreens can.

What I realized I had to do was switch to a small local pharmacy.

Still, companies are okay with their mediocre work product. They don't care about the customer experience.

So vibe coding is basically AI coding slop.

The current batch of LLM AIs just fail for tasks that require precise thinking. For example, these LLMs just fail when they try to play chess, hallucinating illegal moves. Now imagine that same chatbot trying to write code.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_ZuO1fHefo&list=PLBRObSmbZluRddpWxbM_r-vOQjVegIQJC&index=1

I guess a lot of software engineers really are so bad that a buggy AI is actually an improvement.

I'll wait while you stop laughing hysterically.

(seriously, rsync.net is sweet. But being based on, uh, "rsync" it's strictly a Unix world thing.)

Citigroup credit card website has gotten worse over the years. They took away features I used. It takes a minute to load each page.

My cable box software is worse than it was 20 years ago. It's got some memory leak somewhere and needs to crash/reboot every few weeks.

Walgreen's customer support "AI" is buggy garbage. I always have to speak with a representative.

At work they're forcing us to use OneDrive. It's buggy garbage that doesn't sync properly.

I'm pretty sure all of the above software was written by H1bs or offshore teams. They deliver worse software, at greater expense, than a team of competent citizens. The US Citizens just can't get jobs, period, because the hiring process is run by Indians who only hire other Indians and only H1bs.

You had some real doozies for co-workers. People you work with are always a mixed bag. I worked with a lot of back-stabbers in my last job. It was a sad ending to an otherwise decent IT career. Its bitter, yeah, something I'll always remember.

After NAFTA and Y2k, it was the beginning of the end for IT jobs for Americans. Outsourcing and offshoring were cheaper options for US companies and it was okay for them to do. Our government never stood up for the American worker and 25 years later its still the same situation. The writing is on the wall when it it comes to working in the IT field.

There is nothing more discouraging than going on a job interview and the entire floor, 100% of the people, are Indian. What a complete waste of time! I'm more annoyed that they made me waste half a day than not getting hired. A lot of times the hiring manager contact has a normal-sounding name, so you don't realize he's an Indian until you get there.

It makes me angry (just as liberals do all of the time) because it's purified, distilled injustice and evil.

I have real bitterness about my IT career and it's because of the personality profile of the standard IT geek.

After about 2000 I lost most of my feeling of camaraderie and fellowship with developers. Almost everyone I worked with at a peer level was either a coward, a weak quisling, a supercilious prick, or abjectly clueless about actual life and people. The forums I used to run like OpenIT were for me like walking through a prison yard waiting to be shanked if I wrote anything someone didn't like.

Anyone in IT I would mention in real life to about this (outsourcing) stuff back in the early 2000s treated me like a whining retard.

Schadenfreude is mine - people I once supported who generally stabbed me in the back have been blown out of the employment system.