Programming memes from a multi-decade ✝️ dev on a relaxing side quest before the final boss.

Moonbase Alpha
That’s a lot of zeroes
BREAKING: Anthropic’s IPO prospectus reveals a staggering $42,000,000,000.00 net loss in 2025.
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Today is the day the first train traversed the modern day transcontinental railroad. Invest accordingly $SPCX
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A for loop? More of a while loop.
Dear x engineering team, I understand that Elon Musk is breathing down your neck at this very moment. I understand that you're extremely stressed out. The truth is that you should be. Your app is garbage. Spaces never f****** works. Computers literally code themselves. The data center that your boss owns has a AI inside of it. Literally lives in your boss's data center. It's free. It's actually free. Here's what you should do. I'm going to only say this once. Ask the AI to fix the bugs. Set up a for loop which runs every day that asks the AI to fix the bugs. Give the AI a literal f****** phone. Ask her to use the website. And tell it if it finds any bugs to fix them
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10. How Anthropic explains AI to octogenarian senators who think the internet is made of “pipes” 11. “Every AI company is run but liars except for us” 12. In the post money future our company has a $30 trillion valuation 13. If unit test are green then nothing can go wrong 14. Rewrite it all in ASM 15. N rewrite it all in LISP 16. Uptime is the enemy of velocity
next week on SNL: 1. sam altman and wang roommate adventures 2. aella safety ai party which is totally not an orgy 3. rationalist tries to explain how saving insects is better than human lives 4. yud naked reading his fanfic 5. cuddlepuddle 6. shrimp warfare 7. how inside trading is not really inside trading if we explain it rationally 8. letting sandboxes open and telling the model to hack a website then acting as if we didn’t do it 9. SV circular economy and ARR trading
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Europe is going to dominate the future of single person software companies simply because the bureaucracy makes it impossible to hire a coworker.
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Normies really really hate AI. So much so that somebody like me who is pragmatically middle of the road on AI is worried. Normies hate AI for 4 reasons: 1. Misanthropic AI CEOs promising to overturn all of the economy (which impoverishes people long before you get any systemic benefits) 2. Their primary interaction is with the slop content that AI produces. YT is full of half hour slop content videos. 3. Dramatically increased compute and energy prices. 4. Datacenter Psyop FUD usually promoted by octogenarian politicians.
one of my irl friends who is an electrician made the mistake of saying he now works at a data center (making 300k btw) and his closest friends are now turning into demons and ostracizing him for working for an data center avg sf nerd has no idea how much normies hate ai
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Everyone knows that root passwords are best stored in Confluence because nobody will look there and if they do they cannot find them.
>be senior devops engineer in Germany >master's degree, 10 years experience, five interview rounds >72,000€ before tax >C2 German required >All team members based in Asia speaking English >mandatory office attendance to sit on Teams with people at another mandatory office >"we have a startup mindset" >company founded in 1894, CEO is the founder's great-grandson >"we have flat hierarchies" >eight people can veto your decision, none can approve it >hired to "drive digital transformation" >need department head's signature to install Docker >service account request rejected because "accounts must belong to a person" >CI/CD pipeline ends with a ticket for Jürgen >Jürgen on holiday until the 23rd >AI tools forbidden because Datenschutz >database password in an encrypted Excel file called Passwörter_final_NEU.xlsx >root password in Confluence >on-call every weekend >company phone listed under benefits >ask for a raise >unfortunately the salary band is exhausted >no budget for a second monitor >external consultant gets 1,400€ a day to ask you how the code works >take banana from company fruit basket >office manager says those are for the upcoming customer visit >Fachkräftemangel
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“I’m so glad you bought that handgun we really needed one in that caliber”
Choose carefully guys
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I drive a lot in CA and I have seen more (literal) nuclear weapons being shipped on CA freeways than I have seen Tesla Semis.
That’s a good point that I forgot, the regen braking and using little to now power in stop/start traffic. My mind was thinking always moving scenarios. I want to see one on the road. I’m hoping they can roll them out quickly but it’ll take time.
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How it starts vs how it ends
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In this house we IWYU
Clang-format: a code formatter that can break the build by just formatting. It sorts the includes and breaks the build if the includes are order dependent.
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Optimizing compilers be like
I think it's you that fail to understand. What does the compiler optimize?
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BASIC on my Vic-20 was technically first but I credit Logo Writer more. I’d spend hours coding in it back before programming was considered to be a money making profession.
My first code editor was Notepad and then Code::Blocks I was already hosting a Minecraft server and that taught me about batch scripts but I didn't know how to actually write batch scripts until I visited my older cousin who taught me. Then I wrote C++ for a while when I was about 11 and didn't really understand anything. Then I got a job at 20 as a programmer. Thank you Code::Blocks
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Well not his AI which has unending SSL issues that render it unusable
🚨 Bill Gates predicts that AI could “drive events that cause a billion deaths”
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At a certain point in time, I actually don’t want to call Europeans Europoor but then they go and do this.
BREAKING: the UK government publishes official rules on how to use AI: 1. Ask first if you really need to use AI 2. Check if a spreadsheet can do the job before using AI 3. Choose the worst model possible so it uses less energy 4. Keep prompts short to reduce the environmental impact 5. In general, use AI only when necessary, as a climate-saving measure With a mindset like this, we should accept the UK back into the European Union
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🇨🇦 Deaths from assisted dying: 16499 🇺🇸 Deaths from firearm homicaide: 15364 More people died through Canada’s assisted dying program than were killed with guns in the United States. Make it make sense...
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Out: Shopify In: Slopify
In April he said AI was a multiplier and everyone has to use it. If they're now facing a slop problem, that start's at the top. AI is a multiplier. If it's being used to create slop grenades it's multiplying the things the leadership rewards.
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I’m sure a company that would run a AI security psyop would never lie about borrowing a mathematician’s chat history to solve Navier Stokes.
JUST IN: OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly exaggerated AI security threats to push the government to protect their market position
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“Accenture will save humanity from the AI apocalypse” isn’t something I ever expected to see somebody say
We’re partnering with Accenture on independent evaluation of frontier AI—part of our recent commitment to embed evaluators at Anthropic. Both we and Accenture expect to invest at least $1 billion to build capacity in this area over the next five years. anthropic.com/news/accenture…
Community note
Anthropic presents this as an "independent evaluation" but will directly fund Accenture's work and has a prior commercial partnership deploying its models, including training ~30,000 Accenture professionals on Claude. anthropic.com/news/accenture… anthropic.com/news/anthropic…
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Laziest psyop I’ve seen in my life
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