It’d be minimal since I’m doing all the hard work initially and feeding it logic to follow. I find open vibe coding does rip tokens and usually ends up with an overcomplicate mess. Many rabbit holes the AI creates and sends itself down, so a lot more unnecessary lines and often entire redundant blocks.

If someone’s going to do that, at the least break it up into sections to save tokens and time. But ideally, just get some coding experience under the belt of have a crack at it yourself first so it’s easy to identify the pitfalls and where clear instructions is needed.

Same. I also code up about 50% of stuff so all the structure is there, effectively as guardrails, before using AI. Then prompting it instructions that are effectively the solution, so it doesn’t come up with its own.

Then, read through it all, replace things that could’ve been done better, and test.

On average it’s maybe 15-20% quicker than manually coding the whole lot. Try skip any of those steps and the chances of it blowing out increase to the point I just end up doing it all anyway and it’s taken twice as long because of it.

It’s alarming when people don’t even check.

Not even. A lot of the time the sources are laughable.

No, they’re found in a kitchen. That’s a ship’s rudder.

You see them on SmarTube. But I imagine, like most voting on the internet, it snowballs from whatever tilt it initially showed. People be herds like that. They’ll dislike or disagree with something, but change that opinion once they see what “most” others think at that time. Even if it’s 2 Likes and 1 Dislike.

And that is a fantastic pathway for engagement and ad revenue. “Markets” or market segmentation, are just our fancy terms for herds.

Same as last year and the one before that. I assume we’ll get the same articles in 2027 as well.

Watchu gon do about it Americans?

Like posts and leave comments that regurgitate their feed’s content or assumptions at the time. And that’s about it until their feeds move onto another topic in the next 48 hours.

It’s a really easy country to get away with shit which is why so many take advantage of that. The population is toothless and part of the ongoing indoctrination is that they’re free and the best, so there’s really no threat from them at all.

Just watching people with underpaid hospitality staff argue about the definition of a word they spell with a z…

the 30-49 year olds and the 50-and-up brackets are more closely aligned, at 39 percent and 37 percent respectively viewing it as negative.

I’m really surprised at the 30–49 bracket being at 39%. But, keep in mind there’s a huge gap in tech savviness and tech lifestyle between someone born in 1977 to someone born in 1996. Their impressionable years kicked off literally at opposite ends of the Digital/Tech revolution, so I guess that makes sense that way…

Then you don’t want to work there and they deserve what they get.

I’m the same. I still read the opening sentences of them, but if it’s the usual “cover letter template” shit, it’s pointless and I go straight to the CV.

We’ve hired plenty of people with lacking CVs that had genuine cover letters, though. It’s clear when someone is trying to say they’re really into their shit, but all they got on the CV is McDonald’s.

But as you become more advanced in your field, they’re useless. At the end of the day, you don’t want to be stuck working for someone that ignores all the skill and experience, declining an interview because no cover letter.

Yeah, that’s the usual. It just regurgitated the job description and none of the experience matches up.

Had one linking two years as a florist to advance skills in SQL databases and project leading. Look, it could be true, but there’s dozens of applicants with resumes with data science qualifications or over a half decade experience, so the florist won’t be winning if all they say is what the ad said.

I imagine if any of them get an interview, it’s sorted out within seconds. “So, we’re hiring a mechanic. We’re an auto shop. You seem to be someone that owns a car and that’s the extent of it…”

I deal with job applications. It’s incredibly obvious when a CV and cover letter is just AI. There’s no need to even confirm it with software. Everyone bins them straight away.

It’s not so much a surge in using AI on genuine job applications—and honestly, that wouldn’t even be an issue—its the sheer amount of slop spam coming in. They’ll apply for half a dozen jobs with different resumes catered for them, from anything from entry level data analyst to director of marketing, not realising it’s the same company.

A friend won tickets to a local one and it was a lot of fun. It was like a huge group of LARPers and everyone got to participate in the spectacle in their own way. Definitely not a gender thing, either.

I guess it was like one of those themed restaurants with actors and events through the evening, where the whole point is everyone can get into it and have fun on a pirate ship or in Dracula’s castle or whatever the theme is.

But, I struggle to see how it could go to the scale and detail of what’s in the US. Watching it on TV seems more concerning than entertaining too. I had a housemate that played a White Mage in FFXI, and Pineapple Juice was how the class restored mana points. Dude started drinking nothing but pineapple juice IRL. That’s probably the only way I can explain “Pro Wrestling” in the US. It must be targeted at that guy.

That’s what I do. Solar to batteries. Though friends with EVs use their’s for power outages all the time, which is useful because the region has volatile weather much of the year.

It’s like someone made a bot only with the instructions to say sexual stuff about every post. None of it needs to make sense, it’s just got to be sex sex sex and nothing’s off limits.

Gee, thanks, USA. Can’t wait to see what you fuck up next.

I like to think, despite the title, someone’s gonna read this like"Yeah! Fuck EVs!" and post it on their Facebook. It’ll be the exact person portrayed by the writer too.

Ugh. I found 4 to be the worst of the first-person SPs.

They don’t make them up. They only do that with absolute power or desparation.

Imagine you have no political influence or are directly involved in politics. But you want to ultimately be in a position of authority for personal boon. What’s your first move? What moves do you continue to make to get there?

Would making shit up work for you prior to established influence? Or would you pull out the historical playbook and chip away like it’s always worked?

At this phase, you’re already in sociopolitical influence. You got there by exploiting failed defences of the people already. Murder went from 1 to 2 in your town and you used that for your campaign. You’re a mayornow; do whatever you want so long as murder goes back to 1.

Everyone’s unhappy with the governor ignoring a single on-topic issue. You hyperfocus on that in your campaign, get the spot. Job done; do whatever again.

You now have influence over topics and the feed people see. Shape that for you by creating issues that aren’t really there—just like the murders—but now you can make them issues. Boom, you’re in the next phase.

So how to influence next and how to control next? Well, a kid did this horrendous one-off thing, or education performances are falling for many reasons, but the two can be linked through social media and poor parenting of it. Done. Push that one…

At this point you’re already so deep in there by just using the same tactic. “Where is there turmoil that I can use to my advantage?” You’ve beaten democracy, you’ve beaten narrative, you need to control the next frontier, and there’s an in. Hell, in 2026 you’re also using the same tactics to get richer and widen the class gap.

So now go back to being a normal person again, how do you make sure that foothold doesn’t exist? You just do be better at it to ensure it can’t be exploited by the instances of one-off.

You don’t have to be a sociopath to beat one, a community and a society just needs to be aware of how they work. They don’t have to work hard either, they just need to close up like a herd and do things better to close the gaps. Done long enough, they win through fatiguing those imposing authority AND there’s no downside. But it shouldn’t need to be said that better parenting shouldy be something that only happens when the parent is unhappy with a state exploiting it.

Yes, that’s a long message, but I’m trying to—very simply—makenaware of the much bigger picture of the play and variables. Just saying “This isn’t right!” never works and they know that attrition of foot holds at a controlled pace would never result in immediate violence or revolution. History is just available to you as it is to them. Use it.