A typical
subject of conversation in my group is the degradation of software
quality - why the fuck is fucking Windows 95 more responsible than
modern Windows? Automatic answer is why would any programmer do the job

of getting the project done right if they can use some bloated
framework that gets the job done within the impossible deadlines
expected.

The mantra I keep using is:

"We've been automating the same business processes for half a century and getting less efficient at it every year."

And we've gotten away with it because the curve of "faster computers cost less than programmer time." But we may have hit the end of that trend. We're hitting the limits of physics to the point where we have to literally pour water on the chips to keep them from burning up. A computer you bought a decade ago is still usable as long as you're not trying to do slop on it; meanwhile, the slop generator wants more compute than you can possibly give it.

I'm a "systems" guy - my career disappeared to
Indian in the early 2000s, then the cloud drove the final stake
into it.

And that's why it's revenge time.

When the code generator costs less than the Indian, the Indian loses his job.

So I just did a thing, wrote a citadel bbs from the ground up in Java. ssh bbs@games.gamesdaemondeck.com to check it out.

ssh: Could not resolve hostname games.gamesdaemondeck.com: Name or service not known

When the code generator costs less than the Indian, the Indian loses

his job.

Unfortunately, it also costs less than you and me.

2026-04-02 11:40 from LoanShark

When the code generator costs less than the Indian, the Indian loses

his job.

Unfortunately, it also costs less than you and me.

I mentioned it in a piracy focused group, but there is a reason why so many technical people is turning to fucking farming. This is not a joke, it is a trend I am seeing.

I have been bracing for impact for about a decade already, not because I think there is such a thing as an AI apocalypse, but because the economic fabric os my country's economy and all the adjacent economies are stressed and close to the breaking point. Meaning: the reality in which nobody wants to hire you and nobody cares if you live or die is pretty much a thing already around here.

Quite frankly, if I lost all my jobs *today* I could not care less about securing an IT job these days, or any sort of qualified job. I think working for peanuts for somebody who makes three times your sallary and thinks she is better than you despite the fact she does nto know how the firm works is not a good plan anymore - I have been lucky in that I have avoided that position most of my life but that is the reality qualified jobs operate under. I think I would just walk to the nearest mid-sized village and ask if they need people for the next cereal season at this point. I would only need to make by for about 5 years.

I literally spoke to somebody on a discord and when I told him how long I had just been unemployed he was like "shit, I would have just given up and bought a farm by now."

Wouldn't that be remarkable ... if we went back to being an agrarian society because we got so efficient at the information society that it automated itself away.

Thankfully, software development is only a small portion of my job.

The steady-state a lot of people are hoping for is that the AI is good enough to replace Shababolipuntajab Malasubravishtarmanian the H1B or offshore code pounder who only knows how to build the exact thing you prompt him to (which is what LLM excels at) but does not ultimately replace systems architects who actually think about how to put software systems together.

Also we should totally nuke China.

2026-04-07 01:54 from IGnatius T Foobar
Wouldn't that be remarkable ... if we went back to being an agrarian
society because we got so efficient at the information society that it

automated itself away.

The Great Depression occurred in no small part because of automation-driven farm productivity improvements.

There are simply too many people for everyone to have a farm job...

ssh: Could not resolve hostname games.gamesdaemondeck.com: Name or

service not known

You must have hit it when I was transisioning the host name to my new VPS ip. I was initially hosting it on my windows machine via a wireguard tunnel through my old VPS since my entire network is TMOBILE, and I have not control of natting. Now it's hosted on a new VPS with way more horsepower.

To answer your question you left on the board, this is what's under the covers:
Concurrency: Java 21 Virtual Threads (Project Loom)
Network Layer: Apache MINA SSHD
Data Persistence: Nitrite NoSQL
Terminal UI: JLine3
Security: jBCrypt
Build & Version Control: Gradle & GitHub CLI
In short, itbs a modern, asynchronous micro-server dressed up in the classic, room-based aesthetics of the 80s and 90s, and soon will be open sourced on github. I'm just constantly adding features, and trying to remember how the modern versions of cit acted and looked. A nostalgia project. LOL
I could have written in pretty much any language, but I chose JAVA because it's what I have the most experience with, and it's super portable without having to recompile. Not that my Android/IOS Flutter/Dart projects don't require this, but out of all the projects this compiles way faster than any of my others on this old laptop I code on. LOL.

2026-04-07 19:05 from Metal Maniac
Subject: Re: New Cit

ssh: Could not resolve hostname games.gamesdaemondeck.com: Name or

service not known

You must have hit it when I was transisioning the host name to my new

VPS ip. I was initially hosting it on my windows machine via a
wireguard tunnel through my old VPS since my entire network is TMOBILE,

and I have not control of natting. Now it's hosted on a new VPS with

way more horsepower.

To answer your question you left on the board, this is what's under
the covers:
Concurrency: Java 21 Virtual Threads (Project Loom)
Network Layer: Apache MINA SSHD
Data Persistence: Nitrite NoSQL
Terminal UI: JLine3
Security: jBCrypt
Build & Version Control: Gradle & GitHub CLI
In short, itb s a modern, asynchronous micro-server dressed

up in the

classic, room-based aesthetics of the 80s and 90s, and soon will be
open sourced on github. I'm just constantly adding features, and trying

to remember how the modern versions of cit acted and looked. A
nostalgia project. LOL
I could have written in pretty much any language, but I chose JAVA
because it's what I have the most experience with, and it's super
portable without having to recompile. Not that my Android/IOS
Flutter/Dart projects don't require this, but out of all the projects

this compiles way faster than any of my others on this old laptop I
code on. LOL.

So it's starting to become a hybrid, now has floor support. LOL