Starting things off with a new(ish) and very well-crafted sneer from Iris Meredith: There's little that's "inevitable" about AI

For a while it looked like devs would resist the slop, but now it looks like the slop is winning. It is pretty depressing. I am thinking about leaving tech altogether.

Honestly, can't blame you - with how utterly tech's surrendered to the slop machines, and how its actively sabotaged attempts to resist them, I'd be looking to leave as well.

Musk and DHH are both incompetent fascists, they were made for each other

Glyph's recently sneered his fellow programmers' enthusiastic acceptance of the slop machines - recommend checking it out.

Terminator, but stupid

ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons, because simply stealing the collective works of humanity isn't enough

New Baldur Bjarnason: Software developers are not okay

You could also compare it to the lobotomy, with how much it ruins people's intellect

Should be working now, forgot the https:// prefix

This idea that the LLM is analogous to a camera is such an insipid, thought-terminating cliché.

Its completely wrong, too - the camera's invention didn't render painting obsolete like he implies. The only way you'd come to that conclusion is if you're utterly devoid of creativity and artistic insight.

Iris suggested "prevent[ing] people from studying software development and only software development" in her article. I fully endorse that idea - at the bare minimum, it'd hopefully reduce the number of dipshits like this guy.

manifesto: https://jregory.substack.com/...

If you called this a schizopost, Jreg would proudly agree with you. Especially the entire "You Are Autistic" section where he invents new and insane flavours of ableism, then proudly declares himself a schizophrenic, for the purpose of hating AI more.

Starting off with a double bill:

• First, a new post from Iris Meredith about enshittification, featuring a cameo from the rats.

• Second, a truly godawful take on art history coming from a DHH defender (h/t Daphne Preston-Kendal)

Pretty dead, checking one of their own graphs - the number of questions on the site has been in freefall for the past few years:

I vaguely recall once arguing that an arts education should be mandatory for all students. Honestly, that would probably solve a lot of problems in society.

Maybe if we banned teaching MBAs altogether alongside it...

I've already seen people go absolutely fucking crazy with this - from people posting trans-supportive Muskrat pictures to people making fucked-up images with Nintendo/Disney characters, the utter lack of guardrails has led to predictable chaos.

Between the cost of running an LLM and the potential lawsuits this can unleash, part of me suspects this might end up being what ultimately does in Twitter.

Not only that, she introduced mass surveillance to Bluesky and is brainstorming further methods of such in response to getting clowned on so hard.

To reference a previous sidenote, DeepSeek gives corps and randos a means to shove an LLM into their shit for dirt-cheap, so I expect they're gonna blow up in popularity.

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I jumped ship to Librewolf a year and a half ago (after seeing Mozilla steal people's data and sell it to advertisers), and I'm pretty fucking thankful for that. For anyone looking to leave Mozilla to rot, I highly recommend it.

Baldur Bjarnason's given his thoughts on Bluesky:

My current theory is that the main difference between open source and closed source when it comes to the adoption of “AI” tools is that open source projects generally have to ship working code, whereas closed source only needs to ship code that runs.

I’ve heard so many examples of closed source projects that get shipped but don’t actually work for the business. And too many examples of broken closed source projects that are replacing legacy code that was both working just fine and genuinely secure. Pure novelty-seeking

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