BigBoyKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them]

At a previous job, a multi-billion dollar Y Combinator darling, the CEO learned that our largest customer was walking away. His response was to hop into Slack and ask a ChatGPT bot for guidance. In a public channel. I am still not sure whether the bigger problem was the impending potential collapse or the fact that he was workshopping survival strategies with an AI in front of the whole company. This was prior to the loss of the customer being announced, too.

These people are not serious people. To quote Ed Zitron, they are business idiots. They think they are gifted captains of industry, yet they cling to a machine that tells them they are brilliant while it spits out work with no real substance. It matches the kind of employees they reward - the ones who perfect the performance of work rather than the work itself.

eggies

maybe he needs a new beanie and he’s deciding on which one to wear

was it black or white smoke, that’ll tell us if he’s reached a decision

Just realised that all my handwringing, as a fairly long in the tooth software engineer, about “why am I failing to stop these companies from building dogshit architectures and forcing awful process on everyone” was just base–superstructure doing its thing. The job I was hired for multiple times was literally impossible given the material conditions. Good old Marx. Undefeated.

I keep thinking about writing a blog post on why architects that prattle on about Conway’s Law are missing the point and the real issue is the logic of capital, not the org chart…but, honestly, nah.