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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

All the devs saying that Anthropic’s code quality is “normal” are telling on themselves and everybody they’ve worked with

(Also supports what many have been saying about software quality being a crisis that precedes LLMs, but that’s another story)

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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

reminder that anthropic ran (and is still running) an ENTIRE AD CAMPAIGN around "Claude code is written with claude code" and after the source was leaked that has got to be the funniest self-own in the history of advertising because OH BOY IT SHOWS.

it's hard to get across in microblogging format just how big of a dumpster fire this thing is, because what it "looks like" is "everything is done a dozen times in a dozen different ways, and everything is just sort of jammed in anywhere. to the degree there is any kind of coherent structure like 'tools' and 'agents' and whatnot, it's entirely undercut by how the entire rest of the code might have written in some special condition that completely changes how any such thing might work." I have read a lot of unrefined, straight from the LLM code, and Claude code is a masterclass in exactly what you get when you do that - an incomprehensible mess.

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blustoftimes@mastodon.scot ("BLURST OF TIMES") wrote:

@blogdiva I can’t hate this enough. This is what I reserve the word hate for truly. Like a perversion of everything these artist ever did. Soulless!

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carlton@chaos.social ("Carlton Gibson") wrote:

Current vibes

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indutny@mean.engineer ("Fedor Indutny") wrote:

Node.js TSC meeting ended slightly earlier today, and we had a very productive conversation on LLM use in Node.js core. I don’t think I covered all concerns that I heard or had, but I tired to summarize most of them!

The resolution is to hold a bigger discussion during the collaborator summit in London in 2 weeks.

For now the AI policy PR will remain blocked!

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
indutny@mean.engineer ("Fedor Indutny") wrote:

In a way I'm glad that we started discourse on LLM use in Node.js core because it revealed to me that there are a lot more people who are not in AI hype-cycle than I previously thought. I'm now much more optimistic about the future of software engineering!

Consider this:

- 87.3% upvote ratio with 298 upvotes on /r/node
- 76.6% upvote ratio with 50 upvotes on /r/javascript (and I just posted it)
- Incredibly supportive comments on HN (!!!)

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

This "careful" "AI Safety" company that just accidentally leaked its entire source code to the world is the one that African governments are entering into agreements with to include in infrastructures from health care to god knows what.

These are the products people have to use to make sure that they don't get dinged in their performance reviews for "not using AI."

These are the products teachers have to use in schools so that "students aren't left behind."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/01/anthropic-claudes-code-leaks-ai

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

The prompt strings have an odd narrative/narrator structure. It sort of reminds me of Bakhtin's discussion of polyphony and narrator in Dostoevsky - there is no omniscient narrator, no author-constructed reality. narration is always embedded within the voice and subjectivity of the character. this is also literally true since the LLM is writing the code and the prompts that are then used to write code and prompts at runtime.

They also read a bit like a Philip K Dick story, paranoid and suspicious, constantly uncertain about the status of one's own and others identities.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Claude Code codebase leaked

Anthropic: ‘human error, not a security breach’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpkyF-ugVq4&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260401-claude-code-codebase-leaked - podcast

time: 8 min 19 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/01/claude-code-codebase-is-leaked/ - blog post

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

It’s April

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PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:

"AI is writing 90% of our code" sounds impressive before you realize that AI-generated code is orders of magnitude more verbose & less efficient than code written by a professional software engineer.

But "we ship 9 lines of fluff for each line of code that does something" doesn't sound as impressive.

#LLM #AI #ClaudeCode #vibecoding

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

I have fail. I'm a fraud. 39/100 is embarrassing. That's way too high, any tips to reach zero?

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

blogged: CSS subgrid is super good

https://dbushell.com/2026/04/02/css-subgrid-is-super-good/

— in writing this I learned that -1 (negative one) for grid columns is not an integer overflow hack - you can just count the grid lines backwards 🤦‍♂️ imagine reading the spec...

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ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network ("Coles Street Pothole") wrote:

"Anyone who still thinks these are unrelated events, disconnected policy decisions made by different people at different times for different reasons, is in willful denial. This is a coordinated demolition of federal land stewardship in America. Every piece connects. Every move advances the same goal: transferring control of your public lands from professional public servants accountable to you to political operatives accountable to the extraction industry."

jwz wrote:

Just convinced a friend to rewatch *Blood Drive* so that's my good deed for the day.

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miss_rodent@girlcock.club ("V") wrote:

@glyph huh, is that an API limit, or a client one?

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scream@bots.robots.rodeo ("Endless Screaming") wrote:

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scream@bots.robots.rodeo ("Endless Screaming") wrote:

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scream@bots.robots.rodeo ("Endless Screaming") wrote:

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scream@bots.robots.rodeo ("Endless Screaming") wrote:

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

"you can't have a quote-post or a link preview in the same toot as an image" is a baffling design choice on mastodon, I'm looking at a bunch of stuff on bsky that makes very good use of juxtaposition and like… why can't we juxtapose things. that's like half of language

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

“Truth is, I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it bollocks? Not compared to how people matter.”

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timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116324676116121930

Incredible thread.

Answered some of my questions about what people think the future will be if everyone codes like this. It seems to be: instead of thinking about constraints of any kind or "what is the most efficient way to do Y or the most readable way to do Z?" answer the question, "what is the most brute force way to perform X if I pretend that there are no resource constraints and nothing needs to make sense as long as I see some sort of test passing? Just ship it with spaghetti code.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@invadersil/116324993175863094

TWO THINGS:

1. it’s shocking how well written this terms of service document is. #Microslop uses plain language and proper emphatic formatting to identify what’s important.

2. this was updated on October 24, 2025. since then NOT ONE TECH JOURNALIST has read it; because, not one tech "journalist" has reported that #Copilot IS MEANT AS #ENTERTAINMENT.

Fourth Estate my ass.

Satya Nadella gifted Sam Altman a billion of Windoze money for a lap dance?

c’mon #tech #journalism. DO YOUR JOBS!

Boosted by kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin"):
annaecook wrote:

I swear half of tech is living in a completely different reality where they don’t realize AI is poisoning the internet.

I keep finding myself confused like do they not know or are they lying

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
spocko@mastodon.online ("Spocko") wrote:

Today we're sending the first black person & the first woman to the moon.

But I know that Dr. Mae Jemison was the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae%5FJemison

Also, Jemison became the first real-life astronaut to appear on #StarTrek
Here's Jemison as Lt. Palmer in #StarTrekTNG episode Second Chances talking to Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's Lt. Uhura, outside the set.
#Artemis #Artemis2

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

This car costs $8500. Not a typo. Less than 10 racks. And you don't have to put gas in it.

But we can't have it in the US, because we'd rather have racism and argue about solved problems like birthright citizenship, and should Black people be allowed to vote.

So you get Cybertrucks instead. Enjoy!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZqRnLp%5FhtE

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phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

Bird rescue. So mad about impending freedom.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

I'm not even talking about the data stealing, exploitation, environmental pillaging, pollution, environmental racism etc.

I'm talking about the way people use the tools. Like what do advocates of using these tools say will happen to software engineering in the future? That it just won't need to exist because everyone will be able to create software using these tools?

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

RE: https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/116332667717903322

I really think that we _are_ starting to build those tools. I'm party to a lot of discussions about how to use these tools well, and a lot of that starts to look like systems design: what are controls? What are the feedback loops? Where do we need to add new frictions? Where do we need to eliminate old bottlenecks?

We are still very, _very_ early in this.

But the work is getting done, and a lot of us 'haters' need to get in the drivers seat and start putting up useful critique like mttaggart's. I don't agree with the entire article, but it's solid work and solid case report. It’s very good stuff. We need a lot more of these conversations.

And we need to let people hate it. Not to be confused with obstinate blocking, but to have the feelings of hating it, of disliking the processes it engenders, of finding those new footings — or rejecting the bad ones. We can't look at this clearly unless we have the space to hate it.