a friend linked this to me earlier today: nitter (someone else maybe archive it? I don’t know what tusky has done to birdsite and how to make wayback play nice)

in one lens/view one could see this as just more of the same (if people were already gunning for YC track shit, there’s other things already implied etc), but even so: just how bad is(/must) the “belief” (be) for young people to feel this intensely about it?

I’m over here just watching the arc of likely events and I can barely fathom the anger and disappointment that may[0] come about in a few years after this

[0] - “may” because it seems a lot of folks have their anger redirected far too easily; remains to be seen if it can remain correctly directed in future

  • zogwarg@awful.systems
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    I have developer co-workers who play the role very convincingly ^^, especially for the LLM hype, and I remember more than one tech conference attending evangelizer (to be fair sometimes the tools or practices are actually good).

    What’s the focus of UX despair these days? I haven’t touched frontend design or implementation for a long while now.

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      ahah! you fell into my little trap. It’s not spam if you ask for it! haha

      I wrote about it recently here https://fasterandworse.com/the-aura-of-care/

      The summary explanation is that UX design/research has developed, over a long period, a posture of being the empathetic discipline that cares about people and exists to serve their needs - which is only compatible with capitalism as long as serving people’s needs results in a higher return for the business.

      Sorry, not a very eloquent summary this early in the morning…