Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
by hocusPokeUs on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @12:11PM
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As someone who went into electrical and computer engineering in the 90s and was noodling with toy neural nets in the 90s; yeah agreed with the joke/clown knowledge job
Been saying to boos and rotten veggies "it's just electrical state in a machine; yall are deluding and debasing yourself for money." And "if you want to improve security stop using leaky abstractions to configure your machines".
Even better is that AI is replacing all knowledge work it just reinforces how absolutely bonkers the US "services economy" is and giving social stature to credentialed randos whose skills are whittled down to cooking frozen meals, grubhub, and Excel Sheet expert; unserious country peddling before the eyes of the poorest manual workers all these years that their degree in accounting earned them the right to wander through someone's home town across the world via resource intensive travel
Or better yet just being born rich earns them that!
This is an unserious country and social culture top to bottom to continue to assume modern people of nations rebuilt since Murica bombed them to the stone age don't see how Americans are drinking their own piss since the end of WW2; refusal to acknowledge externalities like generational churn (among all the others) makes it clear America is an unserious country.
HR and accounting and even a law degree do not make the individual worker bee irreplaceable themselves; whole lot of arrogant low skilled "knowledge workers", biological fuzzy VHS of often debunked pseudoscience studies now 30 years outdated... can pound sand.
Been saying to boos and rotten veggies "it's just electrical state in a machine; yall are deluding and debasing yourself for money." And "if you want to improve security stop using leaky abstractions to configure your machines".
Even better is that AI is replacing all knowledge work it just reinforces how absolutely bonkers the US "services economy" is and giving social stature to credentialed randos whose skills are whittled down to cooking frozen meals, grubhub, and Excel Sheet expert; unserious country peddling before the eyes of the poorest manual workers all these years that their degree in accounting earned them the right to wander through someone's home town across the world via resource intensive travel
Or better yet just being born rich earns them that!
This is an unserious country and social culture top to bottom to continue to assume modern people of nations rebuilt since Murica bombed them to the stone age don't see how Americans are drinking their own piss since the end of WW2; refusal to acknowledge externalities like generational churn (among all the others) makes it clear America is an unserious country.
HR and accounting and even a law degree do not make the individual worker bee irreplaceable themselves; whole lot of arrogant low skilled "knowledge workers", biological fuzzy VHS of often debunked pseudoscience studies now 30 years outdated... can pound sand.
Top to bottom American society is clowns.