Patrick McConnell

If you were yearning for the days of Apple laptops with 8gb of ram there is a new machine just for you.

I’m seeing the same tech job listings for months on end when we have something like 97% unemployment for developers.

I’m thinking perhaps these people aren’t really serious about hiring.

Perhaps Apple should waste some of the time/budget currently being used for AI projects to build a bot that updates Feedback tickets.

Just have the bot post an add for the F1 movie to your ticket or something. Anything would be better than the current system of submitting bugs into the void.

Or perhaps once a bug report reaches a milestone like 5 years without an update you get 10% off one of those fancy cleaning cloths?

I’ve become very good at muting things in my timeline (thanks #tapestryapp)

I also very quickly scroll past things I don't want to read (mostly AI nonsense) from people I don't want to mute entirely.

Recently, I've started just deleting all my coding newsletters unread as they've also reached a tipping point of AI crap vs useful info.

I can't wait for this bubble to pop. I pray the next techo-scam is something outside my sphere so I am spared the firehose of bullshit.

Before I was a developer, I was an Architect. I designed custom homes for many, many people. I was good at it.

I got tired of telling a builder what to do. I wanted to be more hands on with my craft so I changed careers to actually create the end product.

This AI nonsense feels just like telling someone else what to build when I would rather do it myself. I enjoy the process.

I’ll write code as a hobby and farm goats but I'm not giving up something I enjoy.

I just spent a week with older relatives that are lost so deep in the Fox News alternate reality that most of the time you don’t even know what they are talking about.

If you engage, most of your time is wasted saying “that’s not true”, “you’ve omitted about 90% of the information” or “what are you even talking about”…

This is a post about AI true believers and grifters.

So if I understand this correctly the indie app dev who currently makes no money should be excited to pay to use these new AI tools to make no money faster.