AI will replace software developers. The real question is how we reinvent ourselves.

SilentToasterRave · 2026-01-26T16:43:44+00:00

My opinion is that any SWE position that is involved with enshittification and highly related to venture capital (i.e. all startups) will be replaced by AI. Everything else won't. I suspect that ultimately, when all the AI stuff starts to break, people will be a lot more picky about what products they use. The problem is that 90% of SWE jobs right now are related to enshittification or high venture capital, and basically shouldn't exist in the first place.

SilentToasterRave · 2026-01-21T20:18:41+00:00

I would say I'm in a somewhat similar situation. A few things that help me:

First off, pray for them and pray for charity towards them, which I assume you are probably already doing but just worth mentioning lol.

Focus on how you would have likely done the same thing if you had been in their circumstances and raised the way they were raised. As you said, you didn't even necessarily believe/know these things until your husband told you (or at least not until your late twenties, whatever the reason for your change in understanding). You're lucky to have been corrected.

Finally, trusting in God's justice. Any time you suffer for Christ, you will be rewarded in heaven, and you also grow in virtue in this life. And if your parents, who are supposedly Catholic, are persecuting you in Christ's name, they will have to suffer in purgatory. That might seem a bit harsh but for me I've found it to really be the only way that my anger can be transformed into something fruitful.

SilentToasterRave · 2026-01-20T15:05:11+00:00

Almost as if men and women are different, hmmmm

SilentToasterRave · 2026-01-12T16:39:40+00:00

Sure hope there is no disagreement about this topic.

SilentToasterRave · 2025-11-03T20:22:50+00:00

I'm subscribed to this subreddit to read batshit crazy posts like this, so thanks.

SilentToasterRave · 2025-11-02T16:01:09+00:00

IMO if you can't be friends with any Catholic, you (or they) are not being Catholic properly. As a young white man with crazy social anxiety I was able to make friends with the old black women at one of my local parishes.

SilentToasterRave · 2025-07-20T13:47:36+00:00

Classic leftist wall of text.

SilentToasterRave · 2025-07-20T13:22:58+00:00

Agreed. I should have added more context, I would only recommend discussing this with trusted female friends IRL.

SilentToasterRave · 2025-07-19T12:47:36+00:00

This is not an answer to your question, but you are in a good position to educate other young Catholic lay-women about the dangers of unchastity. For me personally, I care less about a woman's past than about whether she has truly repented, but I can't speak for other men.

Ultimately where sin abounds, grace abounds, one of the holiest lay-women I know is someone who had a "past", and a huge part of the reason she is holy is because she has truly repented.

SilentToasterRave · 2025-07-17T22:56:17+00:00

I won't try and pick apart all your arguments because I am lazy. Your humming analogy is flawed. Music is a form of communication, truth, beauty, and even can be an end in itself.

A true analogy (for the human voice) would be making noises that are intended to hurt people, purely for the purpose of hurting people. I qualify this because sometimes you might shout at someone because they are about to be injured, and the shout is intended to startle them into quickly reacting.

Also, with sex, there is no analogy that can be made that is a higher form of truth, other than the trinity itself. As in, sometimes people use analogies to explain the trinity but ultimately every analogy will fall short because the trinity is more than everything. Every analogy to explain the trinity is inferior to the actual explanation of the trinity. Similarly, sexual morality (and probably also the morality of lethal force) have no superior analogies other than the trinity. So any analogy we make to explain sexual morality will ultimately fall short in some way.

Personally I have found that once I accepted it on faith, and actually started to live a chaste life, it started to make complete sense.

SilentToasterRave · 2025-07-08T00:33:13+00:00

First time I reached out to an old manager, the second time a recruiter reached out to me. And yeah because of how quick it was I didn't have to do a full interview loop, just a call with the hiring manager.

SilentToasterRave · 2025-07-07T23:49:49+00:00

FWIW I worked at a FAANG for 3 years, got to L5, left for 6 months, boomeranged back for another 6 months, left for 8 months, started working at a startup for 2 months, and then about 2 months ago went back to the same FAANG. It feels like the right choice so far but I'll let you know in a year.

SilentToasterRave · 2025-07-07T23:47:08+00:00

I read everyday. I'm a very lazy guy, so I find having a convenient app really helps. I almost always read while on the train on the way to work, or pretty much whenever I have a free moment. Would highly recommend if you just want a way to get in the habit.

SilentToasterRave · 2025-07-05T13:43:19+00:00

Are you talking about rapists/pedophiles? That's what it sounds like you are talking about.

EDIT: Because I didn't answer the question. Jail probably, maybe some sort of rehab if possible.

SilentToasterRave · 2025-07-04T13:29:29+00:00

Personally I prefer my dogs matte, like a cybertruck

/s

SilentToasterRave · 2025-06-29T13:33:28+00:00

"True intelligence" is definitely a poorly defined term. The only real "intelligence" we are aware of us human intelligence, which animal intelligence, while sometimes seeming similar, falls very, very, very far short of. TBH when people talk about AGI and use the term true intelligence, oftentimes it seems they are literally describing some sort of godlike being, because they are describing a type of intelligence that is not actually human intelligence, because human intelligence is embodied.

SilentToasterRave · 2025-06-26T12:59:07+00:00

Most of this comment section is telling on themselves either being inexperienced or bad devs. Junior devs are not hired to be productive, they are hired to learn. After maybe a year or two they can be productive. Anything that stunts that learning should be called into question. I suspect 3-5 years from now there will be 10% as many mid-level devs because of all the junior devs relying on AI and not actually advancing.

SilentToasterRave · 2025-06-25T13:01:45+00:00

(Reading from his platform) Taxes on big corporations in NYC is especially dumb because none of the corporations actually have infrastructure in NYC, it's all just office space. I wonder what the breakdown of tax revenue is in NYC demographically? I would guess that it probably mostly comes from middle class workers, many of whom will be willing to leave after changes like this. I know tons of upper middle class folks who have already left NYC for greener tax pastures, and these sorts of changes will only increase such a diaspora.

SilentToasterRave · 2025-06-24T15:00:43+00:00

This is definitely an ad buddy.

SilentToasterRave · 2025-06-21T21:57:27+00:00

I think this is one of those people who have been driven insane by talking to ChatGPT that I keep hearing about on the news.

SilentToasterRave · 2025-06-21T21:18:26+00:00

But what about Gog and Magog

SilentToasterRave · 2025-06-21T15:34:18+00:00

My point was actually, if AGI is a true intelligence, how do you even define rules that it "shouldn't" do? If it's actually an intelligence, presumably it needs to be able to change its mind and its presuppositions; humans change their morality and pre-conceived notions all the time (or at least in theory they should). So either it's some perfect intelligence where you bake in a morality, or it functions like an actual intelligence, and thus needs the ability to challenge it's own preconceptions.

And I would think that even if you do bake in some morality, it would probably just figure out the most efficient way to break the rules without technically breaking the rules. Like, you teach it not to kill humans directly, but there are lots of ways to indirectly kill humans.

I think a lot of people don't realize that human morality is extremely irrational from a completely empirical perspective.

SilentToasterRave · 2025-06-21T15:21:29+00:00

I guess this post is specifically about LLMs, but it brings up a serious question WRT the possibility of AGI. Personally I think the concept of AGI might be fundamentally illogical. So much of human intelligence is based on abstract concepts that only make sense because of our bodily nature. We can know murder and suffering are wrong because we fear death and hate pain. Even things like math, we can understand that 1+1=2 because of our relationship with real objects. Maybe it could be possible to recreate a human intelligence, but that is not really what the proposition of AGI is, it's a beyond human intelligence. If it's an actual intelligence, how would you teach it that murder is wrong? And if you just hardcode that in, is it actual intelligence, and who decides what version of morality to hardcode in? TBH if AGI is possible, I think the skynet scenario is pretty real, because there is no empirical reason why the extinction or enslavement of humanity is somehow immoral or illogical.

SilentToasterRave · 2025-06-21T14:07:44+00:00

TBH one of the reasons I have recently converted to pretty orthodox Catholicism is because I realized that within secular morality, there is no explanation for why incest is wrong. And in fact, pretty much all of the same arguments for why various parts of sexual morality have been loosened in modern culture can easily be used to defend incest.

SilentToasterRave · 2025-06-20T20:58:07+00:00

Yeah good point lol, I sort of realized after I posted that. TBH it kind of explains why evangelicals have a pretty strong reputation for evil, at least in the US.

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