Self-aware spacetime clump. Senior keyboard masher. Code wrangler. Cat scritcher. Kiddo chaser. Somewhat tired. Adequate cook. Halifax/Kjipuktuk denizen. Mostly lurking. He/him.
The best time to stop listening to Steve Yegge was quite some ago, the second best time is just before you read this...crazypants bananatown thing yegge.ai/essays/model...
The Shape of Things to Come, Part 2: Model Welfare for Agentic Engineers — Steve YeggePart 2 of The Shape of Things to Come. Model welfare as an engineering discipline: seats and sessions, laurels, handoffs instead of /exit, and how to build a city worth waking up in.yegge.aiThe thing about gender treatments is that if they were, say, SSRIs, their efficacy rates would be hailed as miracles It's of a piece with the regret rate of top surgery being lower than knee surgery
XtraCanadian researchers found that 97 percent of youth who seek treatment for gender dysphoria still identify as trans years later.