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Programmers will debate endlessly the correctness of code implementing a “taser my genitals” button, its ‘accessibility’, and how to place it on the screen to minimise accidental activation, without ever pausing to ask whether frying the end-user’s balls is a good design or not, or why the fuck their bosses think the user’s balls should be fried
“If I get Claude to generate it as JS embedded in HTML, then the genital-zapping function will be more reusable!”
@baldur _"We were so preoccupied with whether or not we could, that we didn't stop to think if we should."_
@baldur Oh we’ld argue black and blue in Refining about this, but ultimately the PO will go ‘but our customers have asked for this’.
@baldur Alas, so true.
@baldur Suffering as a Service
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@Tomhero200
An dich gedacht, hahaha
@baldur All they care about is feeling like what they're doing is important, novel, and/or making a difference.
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Not all. Some, like me, will discuss the ethics of this use case.
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Who's gonna do unit tests?
We'll require continuous disintegration testicles.
@baldur Zap genitals? [yes] [later]
Any time you want someone to question what your application does, just post something asking how to do it on StackOverflow. I swear, over half my questions there get replies that say, "Why would you ever want to do something like that?" (The other half say, "I found the answer to your question with the first Google search I did with an obsolete phrase in High German, you lazy dope.")
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Instructions unclear. Zapped a trout.
@baldur it’s just like only discussing the flavor and texture and nutritiousness of Soylent Green…..
@baldur This is the #fediverse , i would say there is a small but not zero percentage of beings which want their genitals zapped.
I'm lucky enough to be able at work to ask "but why do you want this ? Maybe I can help you more ? Or it's already somewhere else",
And it's really great, but with "agile" and many project management system, you can just take a ticket and handle it.
@baldur@toot.cafe soon on Substack: "efficiently building the Torment Nexus using ChatGPT Codex version GPT-6.2 Max, and lessons learned for deploying AI at scale"
@baldur yeah, it’s so backwards! I mean, if you consider the end-user experience, it’s clear that there shouldn’t be a “taser my genitals” button but instead a “taser someone else’s genitals” button. The obvious use case is frying the balls of awful people on the internet, and this is the implementation they need to focus on.
