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Cap Ybarra
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Apr 10, 2026
@Strandjunker oh i know this one. there's no rule of law in america, only people who do and do not have the favor of the king
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Apr 09, 2026
@mhoye but then how will they crush the non-USA programmer working class? gotta step on us all simultaneously or else some of us might escape
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Apr 07, 2026
"a whole civilization will die tonight" ?!?!?
what in the goddamn motherfucking fuck america
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Apr 05, 2026
@dreid at the risk of repeating myself, software has had a ton of influx from people who would have been in finance or mba programs before, seeking "easier" money
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Apr 05, 2026
@jonn_blanchard it's onlyfans for software except no one buys me anything off my wish list
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Apr 04, 2026
@jonny @theropologist i think this dude saying racist bs is on our server too
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Apr 04, 2026
@jonny i'd say this was sad but sad was in our rear view an hour ago
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Apr 01, 2026
llmbois think that this is engineering and the person who did this should be called a programmer
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Apr 01, 2026
@LordCaramac @tante this llm project is primarily about getting you used to paying the same price for worse service. they're selling you two chips in a king size bag and telling you it's inevitable
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Apr 01, 2026
april fools day is for cultures who aren't already a cruel prank
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Mar 31, 2026
zig is the only language i've seen with an anti-llm contribution requirement, so it seems that's something i can learn that might still work in a few months
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Mar 31, 2026
@ironicbadger as a post msft acquisition survivor this tracks
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Mar 31, 2026
another one bites the dust, slop spotted in #crystal
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Mar 31, 2026
@lechimp @tante i hope so but this might be wishful thinking, there is no evidence to dissuade True Believers anymore because they have bet their skills and careers on slop. their ships have been burned
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Mar 31, 2026
@jonny @sushee
dingus: let's use some regex to check if people are mad
agent: great idea boss! it's not just shipping fast -- it's also the best way to do that
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Mar 31, 2026
@jonny "velocity for shipping is insane"
it turns out you can ship very fast if nothing has to work!
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Mar 31, 2026
ZEITGEIST.md
- do thing good
- do not thing bad
- if you thing bad, do not have done it
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Mar 28, 2026
saw this over on /r/seattle with some folks excited about the 2 line opening. me too. no notes.
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Mar 28, 2026
it is truly difficult to find any part of the polycrisis that wouldn't be helped by holding some powerful men accountable to their many crimes
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Mar 28, 2026
every chapter of american history:
1. some evil men get too much power
2. evil ensues
3. a terrible price is paid in removing them
4. accountability is hard and uncomfortable, let's not do it
5. evil men are emboldened
6. some evil men get too much power
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Mar 28, 2026
@forster @MartinEscardo you have to tell it to pretend it is a really good senior calculator with 20 years of experience
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Mar 28, 2026
everyone does everyone else's job! engineers do all the design now! designers roll out code! product managers vibe new features! cats and dogs, living together!
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Mar 28, 2026
unc is seein levels of cooked previously thought impossible
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Mar 28, 2026
look on my works, ye mighty, and leave me a review on yelp
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Mar 24, 2026
i have spent decades honing skills that could be charitably described as "not broadly useful"
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Mar 23, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop if nothing else it's a reminder that the self immolation of the software industry is cyclical. could set your clocks to it
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Mar 23, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop i heard of some ballmer pep rallys at msft that went similarly
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Mar 23, 2026
nearly thirty years ago i saw a guy stand up in an all hands staff meeting, declare "this is stupid", walk out and never come back, and friends, there's not a single day of 2026 I haven't thought of him
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Mar 22, 2026
DID YOU KNOW
before language models could extrude code, there was no way to
* automate things
* make things simpler
* reduce boilerplate
* write unit tests
* learn how things work
fortunately you can now send all your money to an oligarch to do these things poorly
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Mar 18, 2026
@indutny my name would have (Just Some Fuckin Guy, You Don't Know Him) after it
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Mar 18, 2026
@indutny considering it. my name won't mean anything, i am no one important or illustrious, i retired my github after 19 years because i was tired of these slopmongers stealing from me and giving nothing, and it might puncture my pseudoanonymity
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party
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Mar 18, 2026
@indutny jfc 19k lines. are there any real programmers working on this project if this is even considered. what fuckin ninny is ok merging 19k lines
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