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Brad
Selfish Heathen
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
 
2022-09-07, 21:48

I've also spent time playing with text synthesis tools to generate stories, usually based on some work-related subject, that I've shared with colleagues. You give these tools a couple sentences, and they try to generate more text based on that. Some of them are eerily good.

One of my recent attempts was almost too perfect. The bold part was the only input I gave it. The rest it generated on its own.

Quote:
write me a 4chan greentext

> be me
> writing backend APIs for Red Hat OpenShift cloud services

> it gets pretty fucking hard to keep track of them sometimes.
> i have no fucking idea what the fuck these are.
> i literally just checked my codebase. i have more git repos than i have lines of code.
> if you think i'm being dramatic,
> i am not
> my git repo has more branches than i do commits.
> and more branches than commits than my own code commits.
> and there's one more branch than my commits.
> there's a good chance i don't know what the hell it does
> but i don't fucking care.
> i'm just glad there's no PR's for it yet.
> and for the people who are going to shit on me,
> let me just tell you something about how much time i spend on writing code
> that no one will ever fucking use.
> first of all, what i really fucking care about is building things that people will actually use.
> we work in a really competitive business. we spend a lot of money and invest a lot of our time
> building out our open source cloud infrastructure
> because that's the way to differentiate our product and build an ecosystem of customers.
> we have very little time to do that.
> we have very little time to build new features, bugfixes and support and maintain existing functionality.
> so that when some shit happens,
> like an Amazon cloud outage or a Windows S2S connection goes down
> we can roll our system back immediately and continue working.
> that's why we have like a dozen fucking git repos
> and most of them don't even have any code in them.
> we build this cloud infrastructure to get shit done
> and it's not a fucking hobby.
> i would much rather have a bunch of code
> that no one is using but works really well
I actually have ranted among peers about the assortment of services and git repos and branches I have to deal with on a regular basis.

Other results haven't been quite as close to home, but they still tend to be believable as stories, like...

Quote:
write me a 4chan greentext

> be me
> trying to diagnose an openshift performance issue

> get called out on 4chan
> get an email from a friend asking "what the fuck did you do?"
> explain it to my manager, who was sympathetic
> get a call from the CTO
> apologize
> get called into a meeting with the CTO, VP of engineering, VP of operations, and our COO.
> explain everything, from the "weird problem" and my research
> get called a faggot
> feel like an ass
> have my boss come into my cube and explain the seriousness of the situation to me
> get laid off
or…

Quote:
write me a 4chan greentext

> be me
> writing open source enterprise cloud monitoring software from home
, on my laptop, from bed
> and get paid hourly for it
> but because that's what I'm best at
> that's how I get my kicks
> and in my spare time I have to write
> articles on
> social justice
> in order to pay for my bills
> even though I don't even believe in this shit
> and my dad is a cop
> so I am literally a product of my environment
> the best I can do is talk about shit online
> and if I can do that while paying off my student loans, great
> but in order to do that
> I need to write more shit
> on my blog
> and get paid for it
> but I don't want to
> because I'm not into this shit
> and I hate the topic
> but it pays the bills
> so I have to
> because I'm not
> a successful white liberal

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