Last time I went to Denver (downtown) a homeless lady 10 feet from my niece said she had a gun and reached into her jacket. I tackled her, immobilized her, and then me and my family waited 90 minutes for the police to show up after many 911 calls.
The difference is that in the past that information had to come from what people wrote and are writing about, and now it can come from a derivative of an archive of what people once wrote, upon a time. So if they just stop doing that — whether because they must, or because they no longer have any reason to, or because they are now drowned out in a massive ocean of slop, or simply because they themselves have turned into slopslaves — no new information will be generated, only derivative slop, milled from derivative slop.
I think we all understand that at this point, so I question deeply why anyone acts like they don’t.
Most people will continue to become dumber. Some people will try to embrace and adapt. They will become the power-stupids. Others will develop a sort of immune reaction to AI and develop into a separate evolutionary family.
I'm not sure but I thought it was funny that the "buy me a coffee" banner is the most prominent visual on the page, dwarfing the (typo'd) example text. At least that's how it appears to me on mobile.
oh okay so i had chatgpt generate the readme for me... and thats just how it came out... i dont really know how to shrink the size of the buymeacoffee banner... i didnt mean for it to be so big... i just have never done anything like this... ive never gotten so much flack from releasing a free font before... sheesh
Once upon a time a clever software engineer realized that engineering talent is the fuel which the business relies on to support its revenue growth, and management is for facilitating this process, while the CEO’s purpose is to be blamed when it doesn’t work out. He wrote a small bash script which replaced corporate leadership with a “quote of the day” generator and everyone lived happily ever after.
I think that we are currently undergoing a sort of Cambrian explosion of awful slop that will inevitably starve itself of resources and die off.
After that process completes, a small core of human-only, anti-“social”, resilient software will remain efficient and usable.
This software will serve as the foundation for a future that prioritizes efficiency (both of hardware and financial resources), maintainability, extensibility, etc.
Much of what we imagine as futuristic software features today will be tomorrow’s corny yesteryear. Tomorrow’s software will be much more utilitarian.
Unfortunately, most users will still probably be trapped in dark-patterned software like Facebook, but the ever-increasing abusiveness of such platforms for the sake of extracting profit growth from a stable or shrinking userbase will drive more and more people to the new world.
Not to worry! Microslop probably has a product in the works to replace disgruntled open-source maintainers with agreeable, high-review-throughput agentic systems.
