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i've spent the last few weeks dealing with
1) a bunch of things that run in containers in kubernetes on virtual machines etc.
and
2) a bunch of the genAI output that is rapidly becoming impossible to avoid engaging with while doing my job.
(1/2 or so)
and yes, that has a lot to do with 2 (the specific sort of machine output that's spraying all over the landscape), but it also just feels like that's illuminating an entire situation where so much of everything has slumped into such nearly-undifferentiated fractally stupid spaghetti-slop chaos that the overriding technical ethos of the age can only really be described as "ok, fuck it, whatever"
a vast - a truly staggering - amount of human effort is being expended every second of every day by people with really staggering amounts of specialist knowledge to keep the machinery running, but the machinery is running hot and noisy and everyone is drowning.
what a time to be alive.
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something i notice now is how the broad category of impulses that produced 1 used to be one of the chief sources of entropy / fuzz / slop in the stuff i deal with.
and it's not exactly that that's _changed_ - it's hard to convey how deliriously, maddeningly tangled and convoluted and unnecessarily difficult all of this has become, the ways that "best practices" have centered on the absurd - it's just that in a lot of ways it doesn't really seem to *matter* very much any more.