John Overholtoverholt@glammr.us
Oct 23, 2026, 5:40 PM“If you don’t use AI you’re going to get left behind.”
Gosh, I sure hope so. I see where you’re going and it sucks.
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silverwizardsilverwizard@convenient.emailOct 23, 2026, 6:25 PM@overholt One day maybe they'll actually leave me here!
Frequency Fault Officialfrequencyfault@mastodon.socialOct 23, 2026, 6:48 PM@overholt There are people who call themselves "Production Prompt Engineers" trying to weasel their way into the music production pro community.
These losers don't know how to produce an artist, write a song, anything about music theory; they know ZERO about electronics or how equipment works...in fact, they basically only own consumer headphones and a laptop, pretty much, and call themselves music production professionals.
I hate all of these people.
Oct 23, 2026, 7:09 PM@overholt If it's here to stay, there's no need to rush. The only things you need to rush for are temporary fads.
Rupert V/rupert@mastodon.nzOct 23, 2026, 11:54 PM- Oct 24, 2026, 8:59 AM
@rupert @overholt The thing is, most software we deal with is existing software, not new software. And software often exists longer than employees last. There's a lot of money to be made when existing software becomes old software.
(I could talk at length about the process to plan for a software transition, most people underestimate or entirely ignore the constraints brought in by existing software).
Domestic Supply :verified:ddgulledge@social.linux.pizzaOct 24, 2026, 1:13 PM- Oct 24, 2026, 1:14 PM
@ddgulledge @rupert @overholt I've promised myself I would try to retire well before that date.
thriftwickerthriftwicker@mastodon.socialOct 23, 2026, 7:17 PM@overholt Good riddance! I'ma take a nap.
elvissays🏴elvissays@vivaldi.netOct 23, 2026, 7:18 PM@overholt Please don't elaborate on the sucks bit . We truly understand . 👍
mbkmaybe_mbk@mastodon.socialOct 23, 2026, 7:39 PMUnfortunately these *censored* *censored* *censored* won't leave me alone. Just want to scream "Just leave me behind already. Go with God, but go! Look, the carpenter made a hole in the wall over there, get out and take your lying chatbot with you!" every time this comes up.
annabeeannabee92@mastodon.socialOct 23, 2026, 7:57 PM@overholt I've always been prone to resisting mainstream culture and over time it's become more and more satisfying. Now it's like "yeah, you go and grow dependant on an LLM guessing what you want to hear and generating soulless pictures for you while you're inadvertently contributing to the decline of our planet's health, go be a victim of our species' hubris and idiocy while burying your own agency" 😋
Chris Hansoneschaton@mastodon.socialOct 23, 2026, 8:09 PM@overholt What I wonder is when they switch from that to their true message: “Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been is over. From this time forward, you will service us.”
ScrimshawScrimshaw9@mastodon.socialOct 23, 2026, 8:14 PM@overholt That statement is true and what I don't like is that largely the ppl that would teach AI about democracy and equality and moral values that promote democracy and equality have taken themselves out of the AI equation and we are being left with a more fascist, totolitarian, and dystopian AI. Tech, like elections needs people willing to deal solutions and democractic values into tech instead of ppl that want to just throw the baby out with the bath water and fearmonger about the future.
Oct 23, 2026, 8:17 PM@overholt I love how they keep saying that and refusing to actually leave me behind and alone.
Not The LBC GuyNotTheLBCGuy@mstdn.socialOct 23, 2026, 8:20 PM@overholt evangelicals keep telling me this about the Rapture and my response is the same. Hurry up then, so we the left behind can start cleaning up the mess you left.
Carrie Shanafeltcarrideen@c18.masto.hostOct 23, 2026, 8:30 PM@overholt My brother offered to jailbreak my Gemini so I could join him in forcing it to give us medical advice for my mother, who is probably dying, and whose medical records we don't have access to. No thanks! I don't even have a Gemini.
AnnekeAnneke@front-end.socialOct 24, 2026, 6:01 AM@carrideen @overholt he’s probably just finding a way to deal and is in denial maybe. I wish you strength :(
The November Man ☯️🇺🇦🏳️🌈TheNovemberMan@bookstodon.comOct 23, 2026, 9:10 PM@overholt 👍💯👍
ModernMaslowModernMaslow@techhub.socialOct 23, 2026, 9:33 PM@overholt Well, the Amish sure don't seem to be shying away from #permaculture.
LabSpokaneLabSpokane@mas.toOct 23, 2026, 9:51 PM@overholt@glammr.us@glammr.us Yes, I do see your destination, so do leave me behind, then forever leave me the fuck alone.
bitbit@ohai.socialOct 23, 2026, 9:52 PM@overholt I'd also very much like to be left out of the financial crash just around the corner.
Joltrastjoltrast@mastodon.socialOct 23, 2026, 10:00 PM@overholt I realise I am in a privileged position where I don't have to interact with AI chatbots or LLMs at all and I'd like to keep it that way. Others aren't so lucky and I really feel for their predicament. It sucks.
Eric Liknesscarpetbomberz@mastodon.onlineOct 23, 2026, 11:25 PMTruly yes. THIS. They are going the wrong way.
tuban_muzurutuban_muzuru@beige.partyOct 23, 2026, 11:31 PMI sure was glad of the fact that I learned the Rust programming language with the able assistance of my friends here, real encouragement I got from them.
Not.
I use AI pretty much every day of my life as a code assist. If any of these AI Chicken Littles want to work with me on Rust, they're welcome.
ShiroBlooShiroBloo@mastodon.socialOct 23, 2026, 11:33 PM@overholt AI is a technology like any other, it can be useful, but it also makes it easy to make money with low effort. Until that is not true it will continue just pumping out slop.
Some good uses of AI are, for example, suicide prevention at metro stations. AI systems trained to recognise people wanting to jump.- Rupert V/rupert@mastodon.nzOct 23, 2026, 11:50 PM
@overholt Reminded the director of engineering, on a tire kicking visit from the UK, that either I've been unemployable for a year or llm boosters talk a lot of bullshit.
I also said they make you stupid, which I expect to get some feedback on from the people between us on the org chart. 
BoloMKXXVIIIBoloMKXXVIII@mastodon.socialOct 24, 2026, 1:07 AM@overholt Please leave me behind. I am just short of retirement. I am going to find a cabin with no cell or internet service once retired. They should be pretty cheap at this point.
Oct 24, 2026, 2:14 AM@overholt
Does "left behind" mean "left alone?" That's what I'd really like.
Machine Lord ZeroMachineLordZero@mastodon.socialOct 24, 2026, 2:18 AM@overholt "Where are we going?"
"AI city"
"Leave me behind"
josh g.joshg@mathstodon.xyzOct 24, 2026, 4:54 AM@overholt
watching the slop-coded bus drive off the cliff
Adrien PlazasKekunPlazas@mamot.frOct 24, 2026, 5:34 AM@overholt The problem is they are taking us with them by force, AI boosters don't understand consent.
Mike Coxmikecox@mastodon.iow.socialOct 24, 2026, 6:15 AM@overholt Ditto What Sap. "You're missing out on things" No, you're excluding people who don't sell their soul to Zuckerberg.
Konstantin Goncharovdevstorm@toot.ioOct 24, 2026, 6:46 AM
Glyphglyph@mastodon.socialOct 24, 2026, 7:48 AM
Bj�rnbjorndown@mastodon.socialOct 24, 2026, 9:40 AM@overholt I am not interested in anything which threatens to leave anybody behind.
Oct 24, 2026, 10:43 AMSomehow it is simultaneously so intuitive to use that it will replace everything and also something that you can be left behind if you don't immediately use it for everything
RycochetRycochet@furs.socialOct 24, 2026, 1:24 PM@overholt They're like evangelicals trying to convince people to convert then do nothing beneficial to society or to resist their will because the rapture will happen any day now.
Oct 24, 2026, 3:25 PM
Dane 🌎🖖✌️☮️⚛️☸️🕉️TheLastOfHisName@beige.partyOct 24, 2026, 3:35 PMI want you to imagine you're at a bus stop. A bus rolls up that is ramshackled, parts falling off, it's on fire, and the door opens to reveal a driver who is sauced, with a 3/4 empty bottle of dollar store wine. He looks bleary-eyed at you and says “If you don’t get on the bus, you’re going to get left behind.”
That's how I explain my aversion to AI.
Alerta! Alerta!heiglandreas@phpc.socialOct 24, 2026, 6:47 PM@overholt Why do people think I am getting left behind when I am taking a totally different route?
