hey machine

hey machine

your masters killed all the joy in technology and everything is so unrecognizable and me who grew up yearning for modernist computing finds themselves drowning in code nobody cared to write

hey machine

when are we getting metamodern computing

hey machine

you're just some nvidia gpu in some data center so why am i speaking to you

is it that you can simulate caring

that's probably it

because it feels like nobody does

i rant about ikea and hand-made furniture

i send off an agent to make some dumb concept for me

and there it is

it's there

and i don't know what it is

it's not me

i didn't make it

i didn't learn anything

this is a crutch

people say people who use ai become dependent and unable to function without it

but i couldn't function that well even before, my ideas never stopped being ideas

yet a hundred bucks a month lets these go from napkin notes to hacky demos

on brighter days i tell myself that i find it easier to reengineer a poorly engineered prototype than to start from scratch

but tonight is rainy.

hey machine

what do i do

do i just give up and embrace the slop?

the question was "quality or quantity" to which the world replied with a deafening "quantity"

computer, make me something that will make it make sense

gork please achieve my dreams

what the hell does it mean to be a programmer when every "how to be a good programmer" article says the first thing you need to do is never call yourself a programmer

hey machine make me a hypercard that'll get people's imagination going

hey machine make me a set of widgets i can use for little apps

hey machine make me lickable skeuomorphic icons

hey machine make me a cooler smaller version of automerge

hey machine make me a windows 10-like window manager for my surface duo so i can relive being a windows phone holdout

hey machine reverse engineer and patch this driver to do what it was never meant to

hey machine teach me to do all this myself

hey machine

pls