It’s so odd that our software and applications used to have more features, be faster, and work better 20 years ago than they do now.

What an enormous waste of vast resources. And all the while shit-for-brains assclowns claim it couldn’t be any other way.

Even though it used to be another way.

Microsoft is planning job cuts and focusing more on underperforming employees.

Do read the comments. If you were planning to go into tech, I’d advise against. It’s probably only going to get worse. MBAs are convinced they can replace people with AI so they are going to try that. It won’t work because they are clueless (whether we’re talking about AI or MBAs), but that doesn’t matter.

If it is enough to get a bonus, an MBA type will do it. And are in fact doing it.

The decline of tech as a career has happened slowly but is now unstoppable. It doesn’t affect me as much luckily because no AI, H-1B, fleet of underpaid Indians nor any combination thereof can replace me, but tech used to be a good path — one of the few remaining. Now that’s changed and junior people should avoid it unless it is a true passion.

Did you get used to the changes that comes with managing / directing?

I’ve been doing it for a long time and I’m still not accustomed to it. The very hardest part of management is willingly handing off something to someone junior that you know you can do in 15 minutes only to have it take them two entire weeks to implement. Even then, typically the task or project still inevitably has to be revised seven times before it’s ready to release to production.

Delegating like this is hard but necessary. Otherwise, the junior team members never learn anything and never advance in capability or project leadership competence.

But I still am not great at handing off. Not as much as I should.

Most of what I do in the tech space these days are absurd and ridiculous hacks to attempt to get applications and services to work like they should and that they formerly did, rather than as their authoritarian makers are attempting to herd me to into.

I don’t herd well.

I realize that most of it is about ability to steal data and personal info, but that’s not any kind of excuse. I miss the days when I was in control of my own machine and what it did. They were far better.

Siri “unintentionally” recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M.

Remember when this was a “conspiracy theory?” I do — I recall when you were laughed at and mocked by the “smart” people for saying that your phone listened to conversations, even though it was obvious that it was happening if you had more than one brain cell.

As it turns out, both Apple and Android devices were doing it.

Fuck all y’all. Not so smart it turns out. Corporate shills are beyond contemptible.