Toot

Written by V0ldek@awful.systems on 2025-01-04 at 16:44

I like the format of this video except for that mid-plug for Patreon. Leave it for the end.

As to the actual text of the video:

At the end of my short adventure at MSFT I realised I organically obtained the abiity to read through Satya’s emails. He had the uncanny ability to take a single sentence and extend it into a 3-paragraph email. Like, he would send a message whose actual information content was “we’re cancelling the annual base salary increase” but it would take up your entire fucking screen. However, after receiving so many of those, after some time I was able to read it effectively – skip the first paragraph, there’s never anything of worth there; if the sentence starts as if it weren’t leading anywhere then it’s not, don’t bother; read every second word – there, you just saved 5 minutes and learnt exactly the same thing.

I never considered language ability to be any indicator of smarts. I’ve learnt your godawful language from scratch, literally anyone can do this, Elon Musk spoke reasonable English (before drugs and 4chan ate his brain). I don’t mean it as something virtuous, as if I was better by not having this “flaw”, but rather as… I never realised just how much of your image comes from that. So you’re telling me people think this guy is smart because he uses four-syllable words? Wow. One of the best engineers I’ve met speaks like B1 English, makes constant grammar mistakes, and speaks with an accent thicker than Yud’s skull, who the fuck cares, everything he says about software is pure gold.

There’s no wonder the managerial class loves genAI so much, their entire shtick depends on copious amounts of form hiding the roughly five words of substance they come up with monthly. At least Satya doesn’t have to spend so much time writing that slop I ignored anyway…

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