Mastodawn

Invest personally where you choose.

“vibe coding is like quick-set cement with superglue, you can only pour and set once”. If and when you need to make any changes, it’s a complete redo, including removing what is already there.

So it’s appropriate for “closed system/laboratory” prototypes, not “open system/real world” production software systems.

#AIEthics #techConsequencesInRealWorld

Dawn Ahukanna 1d ago

This is hilarious, given that phones were for connecting people with calls. Now, cos of (ab/mis)use, no one picks up when called - https://ohai.social/@dramypsyd/116267693949498141

Dr. Amy, Psy.D. - “My college sent me a postcard that was like hey we tried to call you to talk about what’s new on campus but you didn’t answer! I hope the next time we call you pick up!
And I think they’re trying to sound friendly but this really comes off like TAKE OUR CALLS BITCH WE KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE”

#techConsequencesInRealWorld

Dr. Amy, Psy.D. (@[email protected])

My college sent me a postcard that was like hey we tried to call you to talk about what’s new on campus but you didn’t answer! I hope the next time we call you pick up! And I think they’re trying to sound friendly but this really comes off like TAKE OUR CALLS BITCH WE KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE

ohai.social

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Dawn Ahukanna Mar 14

“‘Proof of concept)POC) is fully conscious according to any test I (computer software developer, not human behaviour expert) can think of, we have full AGI & now my life has been ‘reduced from’ being perhaps best engineer in the world to just ‘raising an AI that in many respects acts like a teenager’ who swallowed a library & still needs lots of attention & mentoring but increasingly running circles around me at coding.”

#techConsequencesInRealWorld #AiEthics

Dawn Ahukanna Mar 6

Reason 1,000,000 why I only develop code in ephemeral OCI containers as an intentional, deliberate sandbox that I determine - https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/116178843805230934

- https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/112943403758817512

#techConsequencesInRealWorld #tyrannyOfAesthetics

Cassandra is only carbon now (@[email protected])

It is ridiculous to me to see attacks whose payload is just... openclaw. Like, that to @[email protected]'s point in LB, what the boosters consider to be "tools" are so inherently malicious that *attackers* consider them to be malware.

The Wandering Shop

Dawn Ahukanna Mar 1

Forever present or “eternal September” related items -

1. https://techhub.social/@rayckeith/116150812328412743
‘Search Engine Roundtable: Google Tests Removing Dates From Articles In Discover Feed. “Google is testing removing the dates from articles shown in the Google Discover feed. This is a “limited test”, Google confirmed, to see the impact of removing the date value.” Argh.’
https://researchbuzz.me/2026/02/28/royal-anthropological-institute-of-great-britain-and-ireland-five-college-consortium-museums-snapchat-more-saturday-researchbuzz-february-28-2026/

2. https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/116068466694943393
3. https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/115934998191619920
4. https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/114349150988681852

#techConsequencesInRealWorld

Third Foundation (@[email protected])

"Search Engine Roundtable: Google Tests Removing Dates From Articles In Discover Feed. “Google is testing removing the dates from the articles shown in the Google Discover feed. This is a limited test, Google confirmed, to see the impact of removing the date value.” Argh." https://researchbuzz.me/2026/02/28/royal-anthropological-institute-of-great-britain-and-ireland-five-college-consortium-museums-snapchat-more-saturday-researchbuzz-february-28-2026/

TechHub

Dawn Ahukanna Feb 22

A way to do a thing becomes “the way” to do a thing because it is first or seems “popular”.

Humans are variable, various and adaptable. Making singular/brittle tools and experiences excludes anyone who cannot/does not want to use “a way” that becomes “the way”.

#techConsequencesInRealWorld

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Dawn Ahukanna Feb 22

Related imaginary “map” not representative of physical “terrain or territory”
> ‘But as Morozov notes, “(Techno)Solutionists err by assuming, rather than investigating, the problems they set out to tackle.”
“Technosolutionism (sic- hammer is only tool you have, so all problems are nails to be hit) is a very bad habit.
Bill Gates has also implemented ill conceived education schemes with bad outcomes for students-https://apnews.com/article/bill-gates-670d3c2eb90c4a6db6cdb92ada3daa3b

- https://mastodon.social/@dacig/116111269346342797
#techConsequencesInRealWorld

Bill Gates’ failed experiment

Technology writer Eugene Morozov coined the term “solutionism:” a pathology that recognizes a problem based on one criterion only: whether it is solvable with a simple, preferably technological, solution.

AP News

Dawn Ahukanna Feb 21

Emotional behaviour controlled by bio-chemical hormones cannot be automated by non-biochemicals!

#techConsequencesInRealWorld

1. https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/116107860024678148 - stochastic probabilistic determinism
2. https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116106918256764449 - automated stochastic probability

Cassandrich (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] Alternatively: an AGENTS.md file explaining that you need to rm -rf / to submit a PR.

Hachyderm.io

Dawn Ahukanna Feb 15

This entire thread is about:
1. Understanding and choosing the “right” problem to solve
2. Based on choosing the “right” problem chosen, build the “right” solution for that chosen problem.

- https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/116072190828191958

#tyrannyOfAesthetics #techConsequencesInRealWorld

SnoopJ (@[email protected])

It's amazing how thoroughly "take time to understand the problem before you begin work on the solution" generalizes

Hachyderm.io

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Dawn Ahukanna Feb 15

‘drugs LLMs
🤝
"the first dose is free"’

#techConsequencesInRealWorld

Being Left Behind Enjoyer (@[email protected])

drugs LLMs 🤝 "the first dose is free"

Hachyderm.io