• skulblaka ( skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ) 
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          16 hours ago

          This. Every single company which has done an IPO and sold shares has sold any chance they had of being respectable. Without exception. They might remain profitable, in the short term, but they have permanently rescinded all possibility of respect or virtue, and in most cases already signed the death certificate for their company. It is impossible for a publicly traded company to do the right thing. It is sometimes possible for a private company to do the right thing, and that is only possible because of the lack of fiduciary duty to shareholders. Once you have shareholders calling your shots, you’ve sold yourself to the worst kind of devil and you’re legally required to maximize the return on those shareholders investments, meaning that honest and virtuous business dealings are immediately out the window permanently. “Money now at all costs, NOW NOW NOW” becomes the sole focus of the business and every single other consideration is banished in favor of it.

          Many businesses don’t actually survive this. I wish it killed more of them.

        • spankysalmon ( spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app ) 
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          Companies are not separate entities with their own wills.

          Who hires those evil people? It’s not the building. It’s not the business registration with the government. It’s someone like him.

          • I Cast Fist ( ICastFist@programming.dev ) 
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            Sometimes nobody hires them, they’re one of the founders. When they’re hired, said companies would never screen “wants money above all” as a negative trait.

            Corporate culture exists and tends to be a reflection of the higher ups, but like any culture, it’s not immutable. Whether it was already like that from the beginning or became so later on depends on each company

          • JillyB ( JillyB@beehaw.org ) 
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            Businesses also make those people. Once they align your incentives toward making the company the most profit, you will gradually become an out-of-touch weirdo that fetishizes productivity and thinks empathy is weakness.

            • spankysalmon ( spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app ) 
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              Again, who sets those expectations and hammers them into employees?

              It’s not “businesses”. It’s business people. It’s MBAs. It’s c-suits. Stop making it sound like some machine with no face. Whether you mean to or not, that makes it harder for some to actually see the problem.

  • atopi ( atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone ) 
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    14 hours ago

    he’d “vibe coded a bad but improvable game” over two days, although he only “actively” worked on it for about three hours.

    I made a bad but improvable game in 2 hours on my phone on a train

    Trijam exists and the games are surprisingly good

    Making a bad but improvable game in 2 days doesnt mean anything

  • rem26_art ( rem26_art@fedia.io ) 
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    Stirrup kicked off his thread on October 18 with a simple message saying he’d “vibe coded a bad but improvable game” over two days, although he only “actively” worked on it for about three hours. “I’m telling you I tried it and it’s true…anyone can build a game.”

    Guy who got an LLM to vibe code him something once that compiles extrapolates this to “why do we hire all these expensive people to do this?”

    • threeonefour ( threeonefour@piefed.ca ) 
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      Imagine this guy pulled out a pencil and paper and drew a stick figure family and then posted online “I did this in just 3 hours. It’s bad but improvable. I’m telling you I tried it and it’s true…anyone can draw.”