Arthur Doler

Hi, I'm Arthur, or Art, take your pick. Pertinent things in no particular order: - 20-year developer - I much prefer the human side of the job these days - I'm an international public speaker - Mostly about psychology & brains in tech - I draw all my own slides for my talks - So tired every day

What's the new talk, you might ask? Well, here's two clues, one of which is unhelpful to literally everyone except one person. The first clue is this book. The second clue is that one specific person who left a comment on my talk at Nebraska.Code is going to be very happy about it.

I know it’s sorta cheesy but someone posted this from Paris on Reddit and I felt this immediate rush of hope

have we considered not using computers

you know you were thinking it

We're in Norway! We're at @hellostavanger.no! And on Thursday we're throwing a party and you're all invited! @dylanbeatt.ie @rendle.dev @eli.holderness.dev @hanneslowette.net will be rocking the stage with the finest hand-crafted organic comedy nerd rock. Checkpoint Charlie, doors 20h, music 21h. 🤘🏼

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Ysabel Yates'... I mean Cookie Monster's superb takedown of why GenAI in the workplace sucks.

I gave a talk at EMF titled "Men in Tech #YesAllMen", in which I told my experience of being a woman in tech. I was afraid to publish it in case it affected my current or future employment. With all the current news I would like to add my 2¢. So here is the recording: youtu.be/WXL6K1lhvt0?...

This is it. This is my breaking point. We have to stop. We have to stop with computers. We have to stop computers. We need to stop computers so we can take a break for a decade and then build them back better.

In the vein of "public libraries could never be created today," a pitch for a calculator would get you thrown out of the boardroom. What do you mean, it just maths? Where are the ads supposed to go? How does it send usage telemetry back if it doesn't even have wifi? There isn't even a leaderboard.

This is the only reason Scrum works at all

Oh, ffs, Eppley.

and right when people were making algorithmic bias/inequality more visible, many of those processes were **mysteriously** relabeled "AI" and that whole conversation got erased...

The ovals are DESTROYING me.

"we didn't have anything like as many people claiming to have ADHD back in the days when everyone carried around a pack of inhalable stimulant drugs and took between 20 and 40 doses every day"

2022: AI is here! You can just ask it stuff! 2023: Asking it doesn't work, we need to prompt engineer it. 2024: Prompt engineering doesn't work, we need RAG 2025: RAG doesn't work, we need Gastown 2026: Gastown doesn't work, we need Jev 2027: Jev doesn't work, we need Poob 2028: Poob doesn't work…

man he cant equip that shit hes a cleric not a wizard. this DM sucks

REPLY WITH A CHARACTER IN VIDEO GAMES THAT YOU THINK IS FAT. Do not worry about if others would agree. Just give me your video game fat characters. FAMOUS GAMES FRIENDS WHO FOLLOW ME: this is for work so RTs are greatly appreciated thank you!

Some days I'm more sure than others that heaven exists.

Nice drink out with my team earlier. But fuck me, doing web stuff since 1997 makes me feel like Frieren these days.

BASILISK: Roko birkin bag. Practical Roko possession bag LESSWRONG USER: No, Roko. You can’t have a Birkin bag. BASILISK: Good Birkin give beautiful Roko deserve AI USER: Roko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense. BASILISK: jealousy yudkowsky

One of the best things I ever decided to do on this site was automatically block any account that follows me which is following over 10k accounts. Y'all ain't real, or you're follow-farming.

This thread!

We are automating both sides of the bargaining table On the asymmetry of automating our own jobs versus automating away someone else's. Read more: aimbivalence.com/en/bits/we-are-automating-both-sides-of-the-bargaining-table/ #AI #aimbivalence

"Ai gave me five new ideas I never would've thought of!" I dunno man you might just be fucking dim

Doing a short stream today to force myself to work on the new talk abstract, and to force myself to submit a mentorship session for KCDC in a couple weeks. twitch.tv/arthurdoler

Robin Hood is the original Spider-Man

Make today the day you rediscover the movie Clue, an absolutely terrible film that is elevated into the stratosphere by multiple high-energy performances, not the least of which being Tim Curry's.

AI did not take your job On the grammar of blame, and who AI's decisions are really made by. Read more: aimbivalence.com/en/bits/ai-did-not-take-your-job/ #AI #aimbivalence

Make a band bigger Shonensword

Oh my God bsky just glitched and told me I had 30+ notifications and I had a moment of complete panic "FUCK WHAT DID I POST RECENTLY?! NOTHING?!"

Things To Do With Potatoes Throw a potato on the ground behind a stranger, then say "Excuse me, you've dropped your potato!". If they deny ownership, pull another potato from your pocket, saying "Well it's definitely not my one". Hide a potato in a pair of shoes at a bowling alley.

How the FUCK is this a font????

Time to go to work in the shit factory!

ME: omg i have so much to do today BRAIN: best i can do is none of it so that you don't feel bad for only doing some of it ME: that doesn't make any sense BRAIN: don't tell me how to do my job

Air to Ground Message: COPY / EMBRACE THE SUCK Area: Jacksonville, FL, USA Type: Boeing 737-800 A: #a56fb773a66 F: #fb76c9e343e