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  • This was discussed here recently, with many people directly affected and working in tech weighing in. The impression I took away:

    “We’re using more AI” is a guarantee to make the stock go up. So on some shareholder meeting they decided that company policy is to use more AI. Whatever you do, just use more AI. And that gets handed down to the actual coders - those that didn’t get fired.

    I heard ridiculous shit like using one of the big LLMs to make web searches or read your mail, just to fill the quota.

    Next question: why is “more AI” a guaranteed stock raiser even though there’s no usable product? Because the US government is in cahoots with Big Tech to the point they become indistinguishible.







  • yes and yes and yes, except:

    Cron jobs are nice and simple to create.

    So are systemd timers. Seriously. I understood this sort of argument in the years when systemd was relatively new, but nowadays … c’mon, it’s 2 config files in a very simple (the simplest form is just 2 headings with one variable definition each) and common format and (optionally) one command to reload the daemon.

    Maybe adding a line to your list of cron jobs is slightly quicker, but you have none of the things systemd offers on top.

    OK, tbf I don’t know how much (ana)cron provides. Cleaning up the process tree? Restart conditions? Avoiding service duplicates? Advanced starting & repeating like “5min after boot” or “only after this other service has succeeded”? Can it read abbreviations like ‘daily’ or does it all need to be in that cryptic cron syntax?