Dang. What that was in reply to, got removed. I don’t remember what it was (and failed to find what it was in the modlog systems ~ remind me, how do I get to see what was removed?).

Now I’m wondering if I misinterpreted something serious as satirical or vice versa. And even wondering if my reply there could likewise get misinterpreted. IIRC, either way, that image, what it depicts, still stands… remarking on the deranged insanity of being wistful for war.

… One of these days this war’s going to be over.

That’s debatable.

That smells like a false dichotomy… but, I’m heading on to other things better to do with my time than to think up examples outside those two possibilities.

But don’t worry, everybody. The national/global digital ID single point of failure will protect us from such fails. :`3

I don’t know what they mean, but,

In my experience, it’s an accelerant towards burnout.

And it even entices you in deeper, with the continuing illusion of ease of productivity, deeper, into burnout.

Burnout is no fun. [Note: To be clear, that’s “no fun”, not merely “not fun”. As in, it saps, eliminates and prevents all fun from your life while in burnout. And it takes twice as long to recover as it seems, ~ so the moment you think you’ve recovered, you’re only half way there, and need to keep on having no fun for as long again, despite feeling like you can have fun, and every bit of energy expended on fun can still more readily send you back into burnout and extends the recovery time, tormenting you further. Seriously, burnout, is no fun. ~ Speaking as someone with (at last count) 65 ailments (some of which reduce some people to tears when they hear about), and I remain chipper, mocking the harrowing symptoms of it all, by calling it “fun” (e.g. “oh my flesh is rupturing again, what fun”), but burnout… that’s no fun.]

So, I suspect we may see an increase in burnout among our developers. And that’s speaking just from the enticing use on an individual level, before considering then also the added workload from everybody else churning through LLM accelerated workloads, having to deal with all the bug reports and pull requests (many of which will be hallucinated, or have insidious malicious injections, many of which will be vital critical issues), and then all the extra pressure to try harder to keep up your own skills against the accelerating spray, and those skills being moved to where your lower level skills atrophy, especially amidst the social pressure, perhaps even economic pressure and pressure from bosses and hierarchies and investors, to “keep up”, and quantity over quality lines being blurred in the self reassurance that it’s not being enshitified and our atrophying capacity to discern for ourselves… the demands increasing and capacity decreasing, drives the race to the bottom even harder. So I suspect we may see an increase in burnout among our developers.

Rather than relaxing back towards a 4 hour working week, or to lives of leisure, the driving inertia of society’s contemporary socio-economic model would instead have us see this promise of extra potential as something to maximally exploit, for the more that can be done. … Which in turn drives that ambition even more. And do-addiction is a hard chariot to dismount from, or to slow down. Unlike food-addiction [the other difficult addiction (~ because you have to eat)], the dopamine from a do-addiction is largely celebrated and not shamed nor generally offered help to break the addiction.

All this a verbose way to get around to depicting that… we may see many of those who embrace “AI” more, despite an initial apparent “getting ahead”, may be headed for a big long stall and crash, and instead it’s they who “fall behind”.

Depends how one uses it; How well one manages to titrate ones use. It could be a great pedagogical facilitator. But then, so could the internet… remember…? Remember when the internet was more like a library and science club, before it became more like TV and a bar fight? … With the perverse incentives of big actors with the most grasp of the steering wheel, we may see LLMs/AI head the same degenerative direction, despite the early hopium promise that it wont be skynet, and will be a paradise generator that helps us sublimate past such societal structural corruption issues. Remember when electromagnetism was going to power the world for free, wirelessly in cymatic cromulence, making us all free and healthy (~ no, I guess not… a bit before our time), and now look and the technology born of electromagnetic discoveries and depictions, the prisons it gets shaped into, by those lacking the wisdom to see beyond their petty parasitic short-loop “well I have more than them”, with all it’s attention hijacking, with trillions invested in ensnaring our minds [(~ glad I got outta that biz, where that used to be my “just doing my job”)]. Difficult to see, if pattern will hold, with all this hopium and urgent socio-economic pressure and terror gumming up our senses. It could save us, you have to or you’ll fall behind, it could enslave and kill us all. Hope, pressure, terror. But if we take a step back… maybe we can get a more sober assessment.

Anyways, long rambles aside, really just posing the counter-notion to the assumption in the statement being queried in the original post,

despite an initial apparent “getting ahead”, with the demand, the churn, the lure, they may be headed for burnout, and instead it’s they who “fall behind”. Depends tho.

Aaaaah! I was just getting past that one, starting to convince myself of my adaptability to work around anything I forget to bring. How easily that one is rekindled. That’s a biggie.

Every time I discover I didn’t, I add another check.

I don’t know if “Did you lock the door?” is beginner anxiety. Seems more a delicacy of hyper vigilance anxiety from PTSD; more higher tier stuff. Like starting on a sip of the strong stuff.

Ahhh. Fond memories. They were simpler times. “Duck and cover!” and under our desks we’d go.

That was some fun anxiety fodder… The adults taking care of us were telling us being under our desks would save us from a nuclear blast.

And it’s happening right now! Everywhere!

Didn’t have to read it.

I’m intentionally steering my eyes away from all the suggestions here, lol.

“Am I breathing right?”

tends to help get things going.

If it doesn’t work, and you actually calm your breathing instead, try prefacing it with an “Oh no!”, and if that doesn’t work still, try framing it in the negative, with more urgent alarm…

“Oh no! Is my breathing wrong?!”

Then you can really get underway with anxiety, moving on to things like “something bad is going to happen”.

With a little practice, you can build up to full blown panic attacks in no time.

Wouldn’t that more correctly be

untangle his tarsi

(tarsuses?)

And, how did you manage to determine his sex?

be owned by owners,

is not what freedom looks like.

perverse incentives.

When looking that up, I came across this tidbit of extra irony at the start of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate :

According to the World Prison Brief (WPB) the United States had the world’s highest incarceration rate from 2001 (when the US overtook Russia) through October 4, 2022 (US rate of 629 per 100,000 population at that time).

Rummaging around through other sources gives me the idea the numbers are being massaged and manipulated, and that the real numbers could be much higher, and not had [as many sources imply] a decline from around 2003-2023. I suspect it could very likely be higher than 1996, now in 2026, rather than around half of what it was in 1996 [as many sources imply].

I wonder how many on house arrest, in bureaucratic states of transition that do not get counted as incarceration (even for extended periods), kept for questioning for terrorism, crammed into slavery prisons with quotas to fulfil, in local jails, in ICE holding, in private prisons that do not call themselves part of the US prison system, in unrecorded illegal incarceration, immigration processing, etc etc etc that are not being counted.

Not to mention the sanctuary districts! [Like Star Trek Deep Space Nine warned us about, on our television sets around the world around 1996, 57th & 58th episodes (11th & 12th episodes of season 3).]

And the broader “open prison” aspects of society… even just like the prison slop in place of food.

Depending on how one cuts the pie… could arguably go right up to around 300 million.

Or, perhaps more contrived an over-reach of interpretation… around 8 billion.

So much so, so naturally so, that you brought it up so, makes me wonder about what strife witnessed.

Some are.

Why are plants purple?

So you’re the one.

if only implementation were the problem.