Words I have to resist typing every time I’m called-upon to defend a one-off comment I’m un-pleasently-surprised I can remember making, but all-too-often, not the why.

I really should charge more for attempting to channel me-from-twelve-hours-ago. Oh, and polishing that ass-hole’s non-sense into something I’ll be even more confused-about tomorrow. I want to say “Stop asking me to iterate, it only gets worse”, but then I see the gibberish posing as a counter-point and realize, yes, we can make eachother worse.

… now all we need is the save-file for the PS3 Minecraft tutorial world.

I’m guessing they mean mostly un-currated/un-modderated? … “features” I don’t desire in such a site anyways.

What of it? My nipples get cold too!

I would treat it like a baby. From what I gather, that wouldn’t end-well for me, but the scarier part is that last bit is going to change, at least in-so-far as whether it is capable of intending to manipulate me towards an early grave, and its being “educated” by fools who buy the hype in the mean-time.

Smarter, saner people than I or the hype-machine, I hope you’re not letting the chance to even attempt to handle this correctly pass you by. For all our sakes.

I agree that the things they are saying are non-optional aren’t, and that teams can get too large, resource allocations so large they become a hindrace, etc … but calling being intentional about such things “cheap” just invites Elon-stans and their ilk to give their teams, suppliers, and vendors shit over not magically pulling off the unicorn-trifecta,; Without (paid)overtime, no-less.

Do NOT let people re-define the necessities and trade-offs of price(raw materials, equipment, comforts, safety), pay, team-size, or (excessive)managerial/administrative overhead. In the end, they will have you feeling like you owe them for the opportunity to do the work of five people for peanuts.

If you care to check my comment history, I recently got-into-it for trying to redefine “en-shitification” to include things like tech-debt and planned-obselescence. Really, what irks me is that the one has all-but shut-down conversations about the other two. “That’s just enshittification” or “that’s not enshittification” will get trotted-out whenever needed to bring the conversation away from them, or keep it from moving towards the two, because no-one gets promoted by mentioning any of the three, but enshittification is almost-acceptable water-cooler talk, for the moment, with the bonus that it shames the speaker for cussing.

Wrong take on cheap, and addressed to the wrong party in the system. Efficiency and simplicity are already mandatory for being good, particularly in software.

This is why so many techbros should stick to software, or even better, sales. You are not the user.