Look I don’t have a degree in anything and I never studied brainology but I’m pretty sure your brain is one of those “use it or lose it” things
this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2026
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@gornk is this true?
No I don't think I will go back.
You called me unc and chopped because I didn't trust the robot.
I hate to say this comrade but maybe you just are unc and chopped for unrelated reasons
I actually told my wife this exact analogy a couple of months ago and she told me to stfu nerd.
It's actually the biggest worry of mine, I opened a networking book a while back and there were pages upon pages of truncations.
In the event of like a solar flare we'd be astronomically screwed since all the people who knew how shit worked will be gone by then.
Light some incense and recite 3 hymns to the machine gods and your network will be fine
Making a bios that just runs an LLM to imitate a BIOS on which a different LLM pretending to be on operating system rests and is used to run other LLMs pretending to be programs. Debugging will just be asking it nicely to figure out what's wrong over and over until it looks like it's started working, and normal operation is remembering which phrasing of the question makes it work right-ish and which doesn't and being sure to praise it frequently because that makes it more likely to be correct (or else why would it be getting praised?).
It takes a supercomputer to run a command line interface and it can't render a spreadsheet, it has to write it on paper using a robotic hand controlled by an LLM designed to mimic handwriting.
Imagine 40K predicting the world MicroSlop wants to build decades ahead of time.
I thought all of this 40k stuff was hammy until you said "LLM pretending to be a program" and now I'm met with dread about how real that 40k concept of appeasing the machine spirits now seems. The machine spirit is an LLM.
I've my paper copy of Andrew Tanenbaum's Distributed Systems just in case. Of course it's only a drop in the bucket and by many metrics decades out of date but it's something.
Wives will do this and then wonder why we're playing Face Raiders on 3DS with their face on the propeller guys we shoot.
I mean I can't blame her for being cool
Incoming dark age of technology.
We are living in an Asimov novel
Hell I can't find anyone younger than elder millennial who knows how networks actually work
If you grew up with wifi and online game matchmaking your brain was already ruined
Phones and tablets, forget about it
no one has ever truly understood how networks work, it's just varying degrees of shamanism
Yeah, going to Lan parties with friends back in the day was always an exercise in frustration.
Yeah so put this number into hamachi...
Nah there's probably some arpanet guy enjoying his tech-free retirement in the woods who keeps having nightmares about oscilloscopes and vacuum tubes
I'm not saying everybody over 40 knows, but some people over 40 know
just keep entering "shut" "no shut" over and over until it works
I can do layer 2 and up. If we need to deal with PHY we're still fuct.
I've noticed this in applications. I graduated in 2018 and have a lot of experience from before 2021. I get callbacks way more frequently than my younger peers. Even got halfway through an interview with Canonical on a whim.
That being said I also don't use AI at all in my day to day because I find it as more of a hindrance.
Yea I'm in my senior year right now and a Stem major and literally everything is AI. CS and any engineers that are going to be coding frequently are cooked. At best people just code with AI and then pick at the code to understand it but most students just plug it in and submit it.
Even the lab director is making jokes about online classes being AI classes, there was even a prof that gave an AI made test with an AI answer key lmao. American education is so cooked
Edit I forgot to include the funniest part, one of my classmates asked for a letter of recommendation and the prof gave her a chat GPT letter and didn't even bother to change the part that said " Student name here" 
Damn. When I was in school I was messing with the very early stages of nltk and machine learning frameworks to try and categorize poetry as a side project. Most classes were still in java and submission was literally printing it off and handing it over to the professor who would mark it up with pen lol.
I wasn't in a big school, but it was a Red Hat feeder. Some of the kids who came up after my have been popping up as applicants in my current workplace and it's pretty bleak.
I do the coding interviews and make sure they're in person and I let them choose what they want to do. Only rule is no AI, only me (I make it clear they can ask any questions and I'll help them if they get stuck). So far, out of 10 or so interviewees I've only had one that could write a fizz buzz in Python...
This is hilarious because I've spent 2 weeks jerry rigging a proctoring solution for an engineering professor, because my university is too poor to afford proctor software.
No big deal on the letter of recommendation, I think? They'd surely understand an overworked professor who uses a template, regardless of whether it's AI.
Jesus fucking christ. We don't need climate change to make us extinct; we'll just stupify our way to it first.
Oh yeah my career's about to get dredged up and scrapped
Как осквернять Сталь - How steel was defiled.
Wait, that's not the book my grandma had to read in school /j
You know what's really a shame? I'm not the only person I know who was raised by that book, despite the union falling apart.
Unfortunately if you cling onto those ideals in out society you will be systematically eliminated. You will also be viewed upon as a demon who must have ulterior motives, if I had to guess that's probably why I keep failing in life, people look at me and think I'm bad at pretending because I could at least be more realistic about it and add some character flaws to make it more, believable. At the same time this is impossible because if I really was a good person I'd figure out how to make a party even without any resources. I'm probably just mentally ill and shouldn't be taken seriously that's the more logical explanation.
I- I don't know how to respond to this properly 🫂🫂
You shouldn't I overshared. It's my fault for dumping so much info on people unannounced. I'll try to do a CW in the future and keep it to a minimum. Don't feel sorry for me please.
No DW! /gen
I don't feel sorry (in the negative "pity"-way) for you, just empathy BTW. ~w~
:hug
lol. lmao.