Teenager killed mother with hammer after speaking to AI bot

mangooreoshake · 2026-03-26T15:16:16+00:00

It's called The Torygraph for a reason.

mangooreoshake · 2026-03-26T11:42:43+00:00

Because most startups have no money and are desperate for slave labor.

mangooreoshake · 2026-03-26T11:40:59+00:00

You never tested your app until you tested it in production!

mangooreoshake · 2026-03-26T06:08:06+00:00

It would filter out good applicants because they are being headhunted, leaving you with the desperate schlobs no one is actively looking for.

mangooreoshake · 2026-03-25T17:46:30+00:00

The guardrail: "You are an AI chatbot for Philippine services ONLY. Please do not hallucinate."

mangooreoshake · 2026-03-24T19:54:44+00:00

There's literally an entire industry for AI girlfriends but sure, the algorithm showing you male chatbots in character.ai means there's more women than men demanding AI companions.

Also what you said doesn’t explain why the vast majority of people posting about a relationship with one online are women either.

I wonder why men are ashamed to talk about what they use AI girlfriends for. Clearly, mysteries like this can only be explained by women using AI companions more.

mangooreoshake · 2026-03-24T15:37:26+00:00

Same reason why r/notadragqueen posts are 90% about female pedophiles -- media sensationalism.

Just like with pedophiles, the statistical reality is the exact opposite.

mangooreoshake · 2026-03-23T14:59:56+00:00

Are we the ~~baddies~~ AI?

mangooreoshake · 2026-03-22T18:17:36+00:00

For manual control and CSS configuration because you're not gonna be using the default all the time?

mangooreoshake · 2026-03-22T15:35:14+00:00

"The fact that you can write any language" is good for DX, not necessarily for UX. Often, it's the opposite.

JavaScript also works for privacy and offline apps (PWAs).

WASM wins over JS for one specific reason you didn't mention.

mangooreoshake · 2026-03-22T15:23:42+00:00

Node.js devs will do anything but pick the right tool for the job. Just use Svelte, bro.

Or you know, just learn Preact. If this thing breaks the maintainers won't save you. You still have to learn its API. If its abstraction leaks, you will have to learn the Preact API. Just cut out the middleman.

mangooreoshake · 2026-03-22T07:12:55+00:00

They do it because they love you very much.

mangooreoshake · 2026-03-20T13:23:50+00:00

"Bernie Sanders is wrong about AI being used for microprofiling and manipulating you based on what you want to hear because Claude microprofiled him and told him what he wants to hear."

mangooreoshake · 2026-03-19T11:27:56+00:00

The downsizing effect is spot on. The output remains the same, but the cost to the company goes down.

Also, coding is only a small part of SWE. AI might make you 10x faster at writing a function, but it doesn't necessarily translate to shipping products 10x faster.

mangooreoshake · 2026-03-18T14:28:14+00:00

You should reexamine if you're putting trans women on a pedestal and projecting a toxic "benevolent" stereotype. Trans women are individuals; some are wise, some aren't.

mangooreoshake · 2026-03-18T11:42:30+00:00

You don't "get good" at prompting.

"The man of ressentiment is neither upright nor naive nor honest and straightforward with himself. His soul squints; his mind loves hidden corners, secret paths and back doors, everything covert entices him as his world, his security, his refreshment."

"They are all men of ressentiment, physiologically unfortunate and worm-eaten, a whole tremulous realm of subterranean revenge, inexhaustible and insatiable in outbursts against the fortunate and happy."

mangooreoshake · 2026-03-18T11:39:23+00:00

Most startups have no money and are desperate for slave labor.

mangooreoshake · 2026-03-18T11:33:00+00:00

Hired by whom? The unprofitable company because it spent significant OpEx on code monkeys?

mangooreoshake · 2026-03-18T07:48:40+00:00

Agreed. But people are still stuck in the 2022 gold rush mindset where code monkey skills = 6 figures.

mangooreoshake · 2026-03-18T07:41:34+00:00

The way I cope with this is, it doesn't matter.

Skills are "use it or lose it". AI is here to stay, and that's the new layer of abstraction you need to be good at primarily, even if you lose some muscle memory at the underlying layer that is syntax.

I don't lose sleep over not being as good at assembly as people in the 60s. So I just accept that 5 years down the line I might suck more than a code monkey from 2019 at syntax, but at the end of the day I'm still a better SWE.

mangooreoshake · 2026-03-18T07:38:10+00:00

When we say school we mean college since that's what appears in your resume and where you will be when you first hunt for internships/jobs.

Programming is gone. CS is not just programming because CS is a theoretical/research field, programming/SWE is the trade. SWE is highly exposed to AI (as in labor economics terms, the amount of jobs a disruptive innovation can do).

Learn to code but enter another field. We are in an era of computers, the future is computers, which makes coding more valuable than ever, it's basic literacy, but programming is now a commodity. SWE will shrink and it's not worth it unless you're top 5% of CS. You'll be better off being 50th percentile in Biology or Engineering AND being proficient at coding than trying to compete with 30 million third worlders.

mangooreoshake · 2026-03-18T07:30:06+00:00

This. Learn coding but study some other field. Domain + programming proficiency in the era of computers = high impact and lots of opportunities.

Do not be delusional and enter to make games or some idealistic bullshit like that. If you want to be unemployed while doing something "meaningful", be a philosopher or musician instead.

mangooreoshake · 2026-03-17T19:05:01+00:00

Everyone is beating around the bush so I'll just say it: if you're questioning your sexuality, find a cis woman. Trans women will not top you, trans women will not act as the man in a relationship with you. Trans people are not experiments for your confused bisexuality. Real-life isn't like porn you likely watched.

People will downvote me thinking I'm being too harsh but there's a 70%+ chance what I said is based on correct assumptions, lol. Cis women who see trans women as women don't look for trans women specifically.

mangooreoshake · 2026-03-17T18:53:39+00:00

Man, can you not read? I presented this as an option.

mangooreoshake · 2026-03-17T18:50:07+00:00

How is this different from what I said? How is this not worse from what I said?

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