Reposted by *Mel
So, AI tools/assistants that automatically agree with, flatter, or validate a user's ideas rather than challenge them in any way, are known as "Yes Machines".
..... and he wants to rebrand "ai" as "si"?
It's funny because he would never, ever get why that's funny.
![Alteration of the "STOP DOING MATH" meme, edited to the following:
STOP DOING SPECS
- SOFTWARE WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE STRICTLY DEFINED
- YEARS OF SPEC WRITING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for the AUGMENTED BACKUS-NAUR FORM
- Wanted to establish standards anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "MANPAGES"
- "The container of a navigable navigable is the navigable container whose content navigable is navigable" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
LOOK at what Spec Authors have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the RFCs & working groups we built for them
(This is REAL Spec, done by REAL Spec Authors):
[Screenshot of the introduction to Annex K of the ISO/IEC 9899:2024 working draft]
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[Screenshot of the purchase page for IEEE 802.11-2024, showing a price of $913]
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[Drawing of two carrier pigeons standing side by side]
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"Hello I would like [photo of a clothespin-based DHCP implementation info page] IPs please"
They have played us for absolute fools](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x2zlacl3cusn5lllpdirnaxu/bafkreiejo6zm4pzmww44dvoaqj4jtwl7nmhfawcj54lujqglftann7aisq)
