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a barometer of deception? (twitter.com)

submitted 1 year ago by froztbyte@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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a friend linked this to me earlier today: nitter (someone else maybe archive it? I don't know what tusky has done to birdsite and how to make wayback play nice)

in one lens/view one could see this as just more of the same (if people were already gunning for YC track shit, there's other things already implied etc), but even so: just how bad is(/must) the "belief" (be) for young people to feel this intensely about it?

I'm over here just watching the arc of likely events and I can barely fathom the anger and disappointment that may[0] come about in a few years after this

[0] - "may" because it seems a lot of folks have their anger redirected far too easily; remains to be seen if it can remain correctly directed in future

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[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More pessimistically i'd call it the "hype train", a bubble promises an eventual pop. What usually happens is people on masse moving the newer and shinier model, apparently afflicted with amnesia about their previous buzz words.

I'd say it's the cancerous influence of VC funding, the grift gets the dough.

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agrée for VCs but what I forgot to say was I don’t really give a fuck about them. I’m thinking more about the people who work for them. The collective despair in the UX community is palpable as they divide into the ones who accept that they are glorified marketers and the ones who know that’s not what they signed up for

[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have developer co-workers who play the role very convincingly ^^, especially for the LLM hype, and I remember more than one tech conference attending evangelizer (to be fair sometimes the tools or practices are actually good).

What’s the focus of UX despair these days? I haven’t touched frontend design or implementation for a long while now.

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago

ahah! you fell into my little trap. It's not spam if you ask for it! haha

I wrote about it recently here https://fasterandworse.com/the-aura-of-care/

The summary explanation is that UX design/research has developed, over a long period, a posture of being the empathetic discipline that cares about people and exists to serve their needs - which is only compatible with capitalism as long as serving people's needs results in a higher return for the business.

Sorry, not a very eloquent summary this early in the morning...