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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social ("Low Quality Facts") wrote:

Obviously.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

So if you find yourself feeling dependent upon AI because you're "not good enough", not like the prominent critics who you are putting on a pedestal, then allow me to paraphrase this famous exhortation from the philosopher Kamina:

"Don't believe in yourself! Believe in me! Believe in the me who believes in you!"

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Third, for _most_ of the people who say this to me (direct coworkers excluded) I'm a *prominent* programmer, not necessarily a *good* one. You know about me because of my nano-celebrity status in the history of the development of modern async interaction patterns. There are lots of "better" programmers out there that just toil in obscurity. This is not a profession where quality (multivariate and complex as it is) corresponds to notoriety.

This goes double for Rob Pike or Linus Torvalds.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Second, the way you get to be a "good programmer" (on any one of the multivariate axes upon one can be such a thing) is to practice a lot, and AI deprives you of practice. So it might be momentarily helping you to *avoid embarrassment* but you're basically just bluffing your way through a situation, not really producing "better code" in that situation.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

First, there's no such thing as a "good programmer". Programming skill is not a scalar where we all compete with each other. It's a complex multi-factor ability with a lot of nuance in how it's measured. Domain knowledge matters a lot.

It's also highly situational. I have had career experiences where I went from a top-tier first-percentile all-star contributor to a bottom-rung barely-hanging-on loser shipping slowly if at all, because I moved teams. It really depends what I'm working on.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@llimllib/117260168640641069

This is a thing that people say to me with surprising regularity to me, too. "But you're such a *good* programmer, glyph, that's why you don't see the value in AI. It helps with reversion to the mean, which means that for below-average folks it's great."

I think it is important to reject the premise here.

Boosted by pixxl:
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)") wrote:

Group screaming starts in 10 minutes

:neocat_scream_stare:⁠:neocat_scream:

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com ("ACARS Drama") wrote:

Air to Ground Message:

300 WAS LIKE A BEACHBALL AT A NICKLEBACK CONCERT TRYING 280

Area: Kitchener, ON, Canada
Type: Boeing 737-800
A: #a3bcb52007b
F: #fb046aff8dc

#acars #vdlm2

Boosted by pixxl:
hannorein ("Hanno Rein") wrote:

This AI doomerism is completely misplaced. I hate AI. In its current form it’s inherently unethical. But I’m not afraid that it becomes conscious and wants to kill us all. What I am afraid of is that my doctor’s office is replacing the receptionist with AI and I can’t get through to a human when I need it most.

Boosted by pixxl:
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

> You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by your CFO who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on six more.

This is about AI.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%5Fhave%5Ftwo%5Fcows)

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

i just misread 'gift' as 'grift' which i think suggests pavlovian conditioning by the times.

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
linnane ("Patrick Linnane") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mikemcquaid/117262823039541754

We worked tremendously hard on this release and it shows. Security improvements are a headline feature I’m really proud of.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Limantour Beach, north of San Francisco near Inverness

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
nerdd@mstdn.social ("Rasmus Grouleff (he/him)") wrote:

@nielsa Have you seen https://handcraftedcode.org?

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
evanurquhart.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Evan Urquhart") wrote:

Btw Biden gained nothing from his immigration crackdown and anti trans Dems will gain nothing now.

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
erininthemorning.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Erin Reed") wrote:

No candidate, regardless of party, will ever get my vote if they call me a "biological man" and advocate for laws targeting my community.

Its that simple.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jalefkowit@hachyderm.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

The Sniper Elite franchise is currently on sale on Steam.

The most recent game in the series (Sniper Elite: Resistance, 2025) is marked down to $20, which is nothing to write home about. But the two games before that (2017's Sniper Elite 4 and 2022's Sniper Elite 5) are 90% off; that puts 4 at $6 and 5 at $5. Those are screaming deals for the amount of gameplay those games provide.

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/SniperEliteFranchiseSale

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

Corrected headline: OpenAI uploaded hundreds of malicious packages to public repository, claims it was an accident and can't be prevented

Subhead: we gave them a trillion dollars so they could do this

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/11/openai-agents-rubygems-malicious-packages

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

This is such a cool project. https://brailleneue.com

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

we were kind of hoping we wouldn't have to do this, but it's not that much of a surprise. we've got a pretty good bag of tricks for installing these traps at this point, which is the cleanest, hmmm

Boosted by jwz:
bleuje@mathstodon.xyz ("Etienne Jacob") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: black and white animation using the Gosper curve

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

ah, right, sigh, the code inside the inner transforms uses the lexer of that transform, not the lexer of the outer transform. so we do need to have the outer transform modify the inner transform's lexer. hmmmmm.

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

Via https://xcancel.com/SootySec/status/2098685173936062689#m.

Also, https://cucklinux.com.

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

there must be something we're forgetting about how the inner transforms work, we should re-read those parts of the code

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

we're trying to figure out why our trap is only firing on the time we don't care about, and how we can make it tell which time it's experiencing

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

therefore, any magic comments in that source are read several times

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

see, when the compiler is compiling itself, it loads several copies of its own source because they need to be used in different ways

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
meg@fediscience.org ("Megan ⚘") wrote:

Be more like Marlene Dietrich.

"Remembered as one of early Hollywood’s boldest stars, Marlene Dietrich transformed her fame into a weapon against Nazi Germany."

https://www.thecollector.com/why-nazi-germanys-favorite-actress-became-their-greatest-enemy/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
nielsa@mas.to ("Niels Abildgaard") wrote:

I (and we at https://deranged.dk) do not use LLMs for code generation, and LLMs have had very little impact on our day to day work.

Most posts on social media by software developers indicate the opposite.

Can we try to build a little trove of counter-examples?

Who else is out there doing professional software dev with no or minimal LLM usage and impact? If you can, tell me about your situation, I'd love to see if patterns emerge.