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zarkanian sh.itjust.works zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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Yes, reddit is very anti-AI, you goober. I barely use the site anymore, and even I know that. How a daily user would miss that is beyond me.

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rumschlumpel feddit.org rumschlumpel@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-23
#2 · Quote Reply

Reddit users being anti-AI would explain a community ban, not a site-wide ban. Unless community mods or regular users use fake allegations to get a pro-AI user banned, which I guess is possible.

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Waterpumpee lemmus.org Waterpumpee@lemmus.org
Joined: 2026-06-05
#3 · Quote Reply

If there only was an alternative...

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zikzak025 lemmy.world zikzak025@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-12-24
#4 · Quote Reply

If there only was an alternative...

Please nobody tell him

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endless_nameless lemmy.world endless_nameless@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-15
#5 · Quote Reply

Dumbass should just make another account if he cares so much

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A_Chilean_Cyborg feddit.cl A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl
Joined: 2023-06-12
#6 · Quote Reply

ngl one less slophead == the internet heals a bit.

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jaybone lemmy.zip jaybone@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-02-08
#7 · Quote Reply

Dumbass should just make another account if he cares so much

I would guess they track your IP and do fingerprinting?

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harrys_balzac lemmy.dbzer0.com harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-03-21
#8 · Quote Reply

WTF is a "fractional CTO"? My first guess is he's 1/10 of the CTO and chatbots are the rest.

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jaybone lemmy.zip jaybone@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-02-08
#9 · Quote Reply

“This place is terrible and they treat me like shit. Can someone please help me get back in?”

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Gandalf the Gorsed feddit.org GandalftheBlack@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-27
#10 · Quote Reply

WTF is a "fractional CTO"? My first guess is he's 1/10 of the CTO and chatbots are the rest.

CTO of a division of the company

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makeshift0546 lemmy.today makeshift0546@lemmy.today
Joined: 2026-05-11
#11 · (edited) Quote Reply

WTF is a "fractional CTO"? My first guess is he's 1/10 of the CTO and chatbots are the rest.

They work for multiple companies. Common in small to mid size startups looking for direction on how larger operations do business and help bring in technology investment who probably don’t have money to get an experienced cto with connections.

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makeshift0546 lemmy.today makeshift0546@lemmy.today
Joined: 2026-05-11
#12 · Quote Reply

CTO of a division of the company

Not what they were asking and you are not correct. It’s the chief technology officer. You know a person.

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harmbugler piefed.social harmbugler@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-08-25
#13 · Quote Reply

Please nobody tell him

Not many deserve Reddit, but this... this is one of them.

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harmbugler piefed.social harmbugler@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-08-25
#14 · Quote Reply

I would guess they track your IP and do fingerprinting?

If only he was a full CTO he could find some way around that

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fif-t fedia.io fif-t@fedia.io
Joined: 2024-06-28
#15 · Quote Reply

WTF is a "fractional CTO"? My first guess is he's 1/10 of the CTO and chatbots are the rest.

A guy offering CTO services as a part time service to multiple different companies

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one_old_coder piefed.social one_old_coder@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-02-08
#16 · Quote Reply

WTF is a "fractional CTO"? My first guess is he's 1/10 of the CTO and chatbots are the rest.

Exactly this. A CTO that uses AI and doesn't know that he should have left reddit 10 years ago is a mediocre CTO.

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Gandalf the Gorsed feddit.org GandalftheBlack@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-27
#17 · Quote Reply

Not what they were asking and you are not correct. It’s the chief technology officer. You know a person.

I was wrong, yeah, but what do you mean by "You know a person"?

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harrys_balzac lemmy.dbzer0.com harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-03-21
#18 · Quote Reply

A guy offering CTO services as a part time service to multiple different companies

Nice scam gog, I guess. Dude's probably just feeding his emails to Claude then copy-pasting the responses

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iatenine piefed.social iatenine@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-08-12
#19 · Quote Reply

WTF is a "fractional CTO"? My first guess is he's 1/10 of the CTO and chatbots are the rest.

Prob just a start up called Fractional but I could also see a poorly run business trying to get cheap labor via title inflation

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rapchee lemmy.world rapchee@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-02-10
#20 · (edited) Quote Reply

ok but he himself says "anti-ai" is "a joke obviously"

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schipelblorp sh.itjust.works schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2026-05-16
#21 · Quote Reply

I was wrong, yeah, but what do you mean by "You know a person"?

Not the person who wrote it, but I think this punctuation might better convey a likely meaning:

It’s the chief technology officer, you know? A person.

The CTO is a person and not a department.

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andyburke kbin.earth andyburke@kbin.earth
Joined: 2026-04-22
#22 · Quote Reply

Exactly this. A CTO that uses AI and doesn't know that he should have left reddit 10 years ago is a mediocre CTO.

☝️

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Gandalf the Gorsed feddit.org GandalftheBlack@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-27
#23 · Quote Reply

Not the person who wrote it, but I think this punctuation might better convey a likely meaning: It’s the chief technology officer, you know? A person. The CTO is a person and not a department.

Oh right, I know that. I just thought the fractional bit meant they were the CTO of a division of the company.

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wholookshere lemmy.blahaj.zone wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-06-13
#24 · Quote Reply

WTF is a "fractional CTO"? My first guess is he's 1/10 of the CTO and chatbots are the rest.

Not gonna lie your username got me.

Only because both Balzac, Alberta and Harry's Razor
Both exist, so I thought you were some odd wearhouse name. Because thats all Balzac has, wearhouses.

Anyways, you got me.

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schipelblorp sh.itjust.works schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2026-05-16
#25 · Quote Reply

Oh right, I know that. I just thought the fractional bit meant they were the CTO of a division of the company.

Oh, like they're a CTO of a fraction of the company? No, I think it means a fraction of the person is a CTO of the company, or, more precisely, a fraction of their work hours.

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furry toaster lemmy.blahaj.zone protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-01-04
#26 · (edited) Quote Reply

I would guess they track your IP and do fingerprinting?

reddit literally shadow bans all new accounts not made with chromium and gmail or icloud email

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makeshift0546 lemmy.today makeshift0546@lemmy.today
Joined: 2026-05-11
#27 · (edited) Quote Reply

Prob just a start up called Fractional but I could also see a poorly run business trying to get cheap labor via title inflation

Always amazes me how much people will mouth off over things they have no clue about especially when there are several correct answers. Massive adhd shit.

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harrys_balzac lemmy.dbzer0.com harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-03-21
#28 · Quote Reply

Not gonna lie your username got me. Only because both Balzac, Alberta and Harry's Razor Both exist, so I thought you were some odd wearhouse name. Because thats all Balzac has, wearhouses. Anyways, you got me.

I appreciate it. It took me minutes to come up with it.

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Sergio piefed.social Sergio@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-08-01
#29 · Quote Reply

ok but he himself says "anti-ai" is "a joke obviously"

Now I'm confused. Is Reddit anti-AI? Genuinely do not know.

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RachelRodent lemmy.dbzer0.com WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-09-24
#30 · Quote Reply

Now I'm confused. Is Reddit anti-AI? Genuinely do not know.

Reddit serves billionaires interest so probably pro ai

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Aneb lemmy.world Aneb@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-08-28
#31 · Quote Reply

“This place is terrible and they treat me like shit. Can someone please help me get back in?”

"...So you know the lepers that eat my face, well I actually prefer they start with the eyes"

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Shadisica lemmy.zip Shadisica@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-02-01
#32 · Quote Reply

"...So you know the lepers that eat my face, well I actually prefer they start with the eyes"

leopards* I hope

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JackbyDev programming.dev JackbyDev@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-06-13
#33 · Quote Reply

Reddit serves billionaires interest so probably pro ai

Reddit is anti AI in the sense that they're butthurt their content got scanned as training data and they didn't get money out of it. That's the extent of their "anti AI".

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rapchee lemmy.world rapchee@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-02-10
#34 · Quote Reply

Now I'm confused. Is Reddit anti-AI? Genuinely do not know.

no, it's not, very much pro ai, pro scraping, dealing with google etc.
how is this confusing?

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blargh513 sh.itjust.works blargh513@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-07
#35 · Quote Reply

They work for multiple companies. Common in small to mid size startups looking for direction on how larger operations do business and help bring in technology investment who probably don’t have money to get an experienced cto with connections.

Thusly, NOT a CTO. They just misspelled "hourly gig tech worker". They're like the Uber drivers of technology.

It's always odd to me when you have someone who gives themself a C-suite title when they work for a company without a corporate board. That's kind of the deal. If you're a "chief" of anything, that means you're actually an officer of the company with specific duties like signing stock certificates, etc. Most of these structures are set up by the MCBA.

You can declare yourself chief of upper buttcrack, but I don't imagine anyone would be fooled by the title.

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makeshift0546 lemmy.today makeshift0546@lemmy.today
Joined: 2026-05-11
#36 · Quote Reply

Thusly, NOT a CTO. They just misspelled "hourly gig tech worker". They're like the Uber drivers of technology. It's always odd to me when you have someone who gives themself a C-suite title when they work for a company without a corporate board. That's kind of the deal. If you're a "chief" of anything, that means you're actually an officer of the company with specific duties like signing stock ...

👌👍

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jaybone lemmy.zip jaybone@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-02-08
#37 · Quote Reply

leopards* I hope

Actually, face eating lepers has a very zombie vibe to it. I like it.

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CannonFodder lemmy.world CannonFodder@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-08-22
#38 · Quote Reply

If there only was an alternative...

Like one doesn't get banned all over the place on Lemmy!!!

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CrimeIsLegalNow ani.social CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social
Joined: 2026-09-09
#39 · Quote Reply

Reddit is anti AI in the sense that they're butthurt their content got scanned as training data and they didn't get money out of it. That's the extent of their "anti AI".

They should be, Gemini answers are literally just Reddit posts

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