As long as they dont shove it down our throats, and then expand and expand and expand the features that are in their paid tier, and make you feel lesser for choosing their local only unpaid mode, and dont make the unpaid mode inconvenient with dark patterns.
Its happened too much, I've asked my friends to hop through so many different platforms over the years and decades
It always starts with something thats reasonable, and every time thus far, it expands into something I hate.
As much as I agree, it was reddit going mainstream that brought all the bots and trolls and psyops and marketers and ai scrapers. Lemmy staying a low profile but active minority of social media will keep it truer and less attractive to manipulators in my opinion.
Reddit was great back when the normies were on Facebook, Facebook was great when the Normie's were all scattered across MySpace, digg, tumbler, etc or just plainly not online yet.
Lemmy is great right now, I don't want it to be mainstream, and when it does I'll know to start looking elsewhere or at least to an instance that's defederated from the mainstream network
In good faith, that's how it'd work - but the system has set the bar for removal from office so high as to have never been completed - even by terrible presidents including trump.
We should change that so that citizens have a more direct way to force an election or vote of no confidence or recall or otherwise remove elected officials that have lost the backing of the people, despite still having the backing of the president's cabinet and Congress.
As it stands there is no legitimate path for this action. Should we act illegitimately? To be determined, but we'd all have to get real comfortable that it'd be a textbook unconstitutional coup.
We dont live in a democracy we do not live in tyranny. I'd like to live in a true democracy. America is a republic, and that comes with all of its downsides and historical rationale.
But I get what you're trying to say, the meme
I don't think I think that way, and I have plenty of concerns with parties and establishment. I think the American constitution is fundamentally flawed, and I've said that both under Obama and biden as well as, of course trump.
We must acknowledge that trump is an elected president, he is not a king, and despite everything we dont like and that which makes me anxious and defensive, the system is working as designed, just no longer in good faith.
They are executive orders by the president of our republic.
Are we comfortable that our system can operate this way with bad faith actors? I know I'm not.
I think justice should catch trump and his enablers, and good faith returned to the system, and then likewise, the system updated to be more resistance and resilient against bad faith actors like trump and the maga movement.
If we just call trump king, we'll blind ourselves to the structural problems and likely ignore them once he's gone, leaving the door open for the next group.
I agree with on where the difficult part is, I think a book would be better served on educating product teams about development and vice versa, of which its a populated field - I think the dichotomy develops from the two different perspectives required for each skill
Product teams most abstract goal is to identify a solvable problem
Development teams most abstract goal is to solve an identified problem
And the communication failures and difficulties appear when product teams are not able to communicate their problem, or the development teams do not believe the problem is solvable as is.
^ not to mention to internal team issues such as different product stakeholders not internally agreeing on what the problem is or how its described - or development teams not internally agreeing on their solution and architecture
In this style, there is a natural antagonism which between the two mindsets
There is plenty of literature about how product teams should define problems and determine if they're solvable
There is plenty of literature about how development teams can solve problems and designs
But yet the tensions and difficulties and slowdowns still occur - even on teams where product owners and developers are closely collaborating
I don't think ai will help - even if the dev teams were all regretfully wiped out and it was just product stake holders describing identified problems to an ai hoping for valid solutions, they would be just as slow if not more since those product stakeholders lack the solving perspective and intuition and they lose their collaboration partners who can fill and interpret gaps gracefully.
I do believe that creating things, identifying and solving problems, will always be fundamentally hard and time consuming
People discover this themselves when they try to pick up a side project and realize identifying and describing the problem just to themselves is quite hard, and then transcribing that problem into a solution - with code or not - is equally as hard even if they have a good grasp of whatever technology they're employing
A person armed with ai but no experience in identifying and describing a problem, nor with solving problems - will struggle to inform the ai, will likely identity an unsolvable problem, and will not be able to distinguish an acceptable solution from an invalid one
Coding is not the complex part, code is basic logic applied and becoming familiar with documentation - the hard parts of a coding project are not the code but everything surrounding it - collaboration, budget, trust, policies, acceptance criteria, etc
All of those are distinctly human problems and are inherent to any project - coding or not.
In my opinion, as an experienced software engineer who has delivered many projects on both simple and complicated code bases, is that the code is always the easy part, almost the reward to be able to do - once completing/advancing all the other parts of the human problems of a project.
There is no ai that can or should tell you what is acceptable, or how you should collaborate with your friends or partners, or who and how to trust, etc
I've thought about this to, I'm doing quite well financially, not rich, but rich enough where I could buy a humble couple acres in the countryside and do sustenance farming/gardening while following my hobbies and doing small work to sustain myself slowly rather than working my big corporate job and paying a mortgage and running the capitalist treadmill
I haven't made the decision yet, but I'm building towards it
I have a nice, but small, garden in my backyard with a hammock, and I find myself escaping to it whenever I have a spare moment because its one of the very few places I feel calm and happy and meaningful - and eating veggies, herbs, and flowers strait from the garden, from your soil and labor, is something that truly is special and not reproducible at any store or restaurant - no matter how fancy
I think I'd rather live slowly and simply and humbly with my garden and hobbies, than how I'm living now rushed, complexly, hollowly in the city with my corporate job
I need America to not fall to the current fascists literally in power right now, who are making lists of people with genetic traits, who are kidnapping residents and citizens off the streets and putting them in black sites, and who are arresting judges, while they stiffle Congress, supreme courts, and state and city governments.
I have one enemy who wants to kill me, and another who wears a colored shirt. I know who my enemy is and who I need to protest against.
I see this picture going back to 2019 - i think commissioned by natgeo.
I dont think its ai slop