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18 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
All jobs will be automated until only four remain: The Aristocrats!!!
So the father is just automating and automating whether or not it makes sense and meanwhile the mom is in a passenger rocket to Mars and it’s just spewing shit and vomit all over the place from its engines and the kids are getting caught in the automation and covered in the shit
from the Mars missions and finally one kid designs an AI sentiment recognition to recognize and retaliate against shit rockets to Mars and so THAT system starts firing missiles filled with depleted uranium and sheep shit all over the place and finally all four of them are just
standing there while the automation and the mars rockets and the sheepshit missile shooting sentiment recognition AI are all going at it behind them and they all have bloody knuckles and are completely coated in shit and the agent says that’s a hell of an act what do you call it?

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@alanpage It's very telling that manual testing is seen as cheap.

IME this perception exists because (as I have repeatedly seen at clients) the absolute most junior people are hired as testers in order to keep costs down. Because they’re so junior they don’t contribute very much. 1/2
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The cheapest QA analyst costs 17% of a dev salary.
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