TFW you explain Gas Town* to your therapist

[nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt]

TFW you explain Gas Town* to your therapist

* (that's Steve Yegge's vibe-coding project plus rugpull crypto scam)

[jalefkowit@vmst.io]

@nina_kali_nina Pretty sure they are working on an entry on it for the DSM-6

[nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt]

@jalefkowit they better be... I think it'll take me more than one session to explain how utterly fucked up IT can be these days, I'd appreciate a shortcut for that. "And our staff eng was a typical GasTowner" - "ah yeah, it can be difficult" (for clarity: our staff eng isn't, to my knowledge)

[mhd@tilde.zone]

@nina_kali_nina

[nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt]

@mhd that's surprisingly accurate depiction of the session. Tbh I don't know if it was time well spent; maybe I should've taken my guitar from the rack behind my back and sang an impromptu song about it instead

[luis_in_brief@social.coop]

@nina_kali_nina I have threatened for years to write a one-pager on “explaining open source to your therapist” but I guess like everything else that is now obsolete

[tezoatlipoca@mas.to]

@nina_kali_nina @jalefkowit

Erm. Gas Town? Is that a particular open source context (that obviously Im not familiar with) or is comparing someone to Gas Town in the Mad Max: Fury Road context i.e. they eat people but have the guzzoline?

edit: or you're talking about the persistant claude code agent manager.

Thought there was someone being a dick about something in a foss project (totes inconceivable!) and they were gaslighting someone.

[daveography@yeg.bike]

@tezoatlipoca @nina_kali_nina @jalefkowit

My mind went straight to Mad Max as well.

[nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt]

@tezoatlipoca @jalefkowit I'm talking about the claude code agent manager unfortunately

[bangskij@climatejustice.social]

@nina_kali_nina @jalefkowit just read about gastown and took 2 d100 psychic damage

[bytex64@awesome.garden]

@nina_kali_nina Hope your therapist has a good therapist.

[nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt]

@bytex64 yeah...

[tezoatlipoca@mas.to]

@nina_kali_nina @jalefkowit

Right.

All of my engineering career if I want to explain to friends what I do I have to describe in way too much detail how trunked terrestrial emergency radio systems, advanced train signalling or aerospace composite tooling systems worked.

It was nice during my stint at Blackberry when I could just take out my phone, point to it and say "the Whatsaflam app? I did that."

[cwebber@social.coop]

@nina_kali_nina I didn't even know there was a rugpull crypto scam aspect to it and I already hate Gas Town so much

[canageek@wandering.shop]

@cwebber @nina_kali_nina Oh I'm glad reading this thread to discovered it's a scam, I thought a lot of people just hated the tourist neighborhood in Vancouver and was very confused

[cliffle@hachyderm.io]

@nina_kali_nina @mhd Therapy: The Musical!

[hwll@sunny.garden]

@nina_kali_nina 👀

[canageek@wandering.shop]

@cwebber @nina_kali_nina not that there aren't valid reasons to hate Gastown, it is a district entirely of really expensive shops, selling things you don't need and nightclubs right next to the worst poverty in the city, like there's an invisible line and you go from nice restaurants to people openly dealing hard drugs in about 15 meters

[hwll@sunny.garden]

@nina_kali_nina I don't even want to know how they managed to wedge crypto into this thing

[be@floss.social]

@nina_kali_nina @tezoatlipoca @jalefkowit "agent manager". These techbros really desperately want to cosplay as bosses.