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title: "💭 Programming Still Sucks. — Writing"
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date: 2026-05-07
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      <div class="embed-card-description">Sorry Peter. — I&#39;m at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there&#39;s always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And...</div>
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Absolute banger of a post, this is the time we are living in. Explain "are you afraid AI is going to take your job" to a non tech blue collar worker.  Broken over promises, greed, and projects mismanaged by leadership who has no idea what the day to day work actually does and how critical it is.

I'm not quite in Sara's position, but I feel something shielded by half of this working deep inside of a non tech part of a non tech company leading a very small rag tag team with get shit done attitude.

But I feel it, I see colleagues hit by these blasts.b I get clipped with shrapnel from some of the largest blasts.  But nothing as significant as I see many others hit with 

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    This post is a <a href="/thoughts/" class="wikilink" data-title="Thoughts" data-description="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my..." data-date="2024-04-01">thought</a>. It's a short note that I make
    about someone else's content online #thoughts
