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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

finally got around to putting a fan on my cpu cooler. it makes quite a difference....

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
mnl@hachyderm.io ("mnl mnl mnl mnl mnl") wrote:

@aredridel definitely something driving me up the walls. The hype-AI and the anti-AI debate is... accepting the same framework that AI tools are labor-replacing thinking-replacing magical widgets. Either irredeemably bad, or unconditionally amazing.

It's however much easier to have a nuanced discussion with the hype-AI crowd, because by virtue of them using the tool are very aware of the current shortcomings of the technology and of the spectrum of skill using them.

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@danluu/116333185599071224

This. This is how it is.

Startups can ship slop faster than ever _and that is the correct decision for them for the most part_. If we structure business so that they are existentially constrained like they are, this is the correct answer for how they will behave.

And if we want real engineering, the tool isn't the problem, it's the incentives.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
danluu ("Dan Luu") wrote:

@regehr @ryan This matches what I hear from friends in industry.

I hear a lot of stories of projects where someone outsourced thinking to an LLM and spent days or weeks debugging something and not fixing it when applying a bit of human judgment would solve the problem. A friend of mine makes good money as a consultant who cleans up people's LLM-assisted messes.

On the flip side, the growth rate of startups is faster than ever because you can ship at previously impossible velocities.

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regehr ("John Regehr") wrote:

My own experience is that it’s not at all easy to get reasonable code out of even the latest LLMs. Makefiles and that sort of thing— easy peasy. Medium or larger code you’d actually maintain? Very tricky

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
regehr ("John Regehr") wrote:

I’m not sure how to feel about this but I suspect it’s good news for CS types, it means all the managers and other random vibe coders aren’t really competition

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regehr ("John Regehr") wrote:

this spring I've been teaching undergrads to use LLM agents. my rationale for doing this was that it would give me a chance to covertly teach lots of real software engineering, which is what I've done.

meanwhile, I've been watching the students closely to try to figure out whether a coding agent is a leveling factor (reducing differences in effectiveness between different students) or an anti-leveling factor (amplifying differences). at this point I'm 99% sure it's the second thing.

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

God I hate ending up defending these tools because some of the takes are _so damn bad_. Like you could not do better as a psyop to advertise these tools and cement the ideological foundations.

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

I knew it was this way but it's really hitting me today how much the Open Source movement and copyright maximalism supplanted the idea of free software, and again how much the Free Software movement turned from a close ideological cousin of the remix and open culture movement into a culture of legalism. At the same time, copyright law itself has been extended to be near-immortal copyrights rather than brief monopolies to spur creation by enabling profit from creating works.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Trying to bomb a nation of over 90 million people into the stone age isn't going to happen, and ought not to be the purpose of a war. It's also not going to salvage his status here at home.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/02/yay-the-war-is-over/

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Youtube's notice-and-staydown system is Content ID, an incredibly baroque system that allows copyright holders (and people pretending to be copyright holders) to "claim" video and sound files, and block others from posting them. No one - not even the world's leading copyright experts - can figure out how to use this system to uphold copyright:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/27/nuke-first/#ask-questions-never

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”.

Totally trustworthy people.

(Any open source project that at the very least requires disclosure of AI-authored contributions should immediately ban Anthropic employees on principle.)

#AI #Anthropic #ClaudeCode #subterfuge

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Probably going to get a viral blog out of this experience, I'm trying to report a 4tb exposed cloud bucket to a company using their responsible disclosure programme... but they replaced the people with a GenAI ticket system that refuses to discuss the case as it thinks exploring open buckets is unethical and against its rules.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

the first shitposter is believed to be marie antoinette. this of course quickly led to the first shitpost-related death as it was in particularly poor taste.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

“Your choice isn’t between risk and safety but different kinds of risk: choose well.”

I really needed to read @aworkinglibrary’s thoughts on finding our way out of workslop; maybe you do, too. https://everythingchanges.us/blog/mouthwords/

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

IT'S HAPPENING

GITHUB, THE FIRST ENTERPRISE CLOUD SOLUTION TO REACH ZERO NINES RELIABILITY

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

#github

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jaffathecake ("Jake Archibald") wrote:

I've been playing around with Chrome's experimental HTML-in-Canvas API (I use it to create my videos), and I wanted to see if I could make text-selection work on a curved surface by moving the underlying element around on pointermove. It works pretty well!

Live demo: https://random-stuff.jakearchibald.com/apps/curved-markup/ (needs Chrome Canary with the canvas-draw-element flag.

Source: https://github.com/jakearchibald/random-stuff/blob/main/apps/curved-markup/src/App/index.tsx#L113

Attachments:

• gifv: Some HTML mapped across a spherical-like object. Although the content is curved, text-selection and clicking links works fine.

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

Starting to see more LLM-using acquaintances who've spent the past three years ignoring every problem solemnly talk about "having concerns about the technology". Not many, but more.

Kinda wondering whether it's a critical mass thing (easy to ignore individual problems but not all the problems everywhere) or whether there was a single specific thing that soured them on it, leading them to see it differently.

But also don't really care why or how, just that they're finally listening.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

okay but thinking about ways haskell sucks got me thinking about what i should do if i ever decide to push a language out to the mass market.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

make ghc 10x faster

ahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahawhahahaha*cough*ahahaha*choke*

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

blocked myself from social media for the Easter weekend

see you next week!

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

see the mechanical turk in all its glory

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

“Mouthwords | everything changes”

https://everythingchanges.us/blog/mouthwords/

> We need to see the advent of workslop in the context of the technological aims of the last several decades, one of which has been to obfuscate the human labor involved in everything from driving to cooking to gathering

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!

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
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