Mastodawn

At #FOSSY2025 I *expected* to hear insights about craziness, risks, and prospects for #AI in context of #FLO freedoms and development

Bit surprised. Less AI-focus than expected, and mostly about practical issues and pitfalls of AI tools today

Most people had not heard of big-picture perspectives I've been focusing on like:

https://ai-2027.com/

Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari

https://www.humanetech.com

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/23/maximal-plausibility/#reverse-centaurs

https://dek.ai/ "Parenting AI"

Etc.

AI 2027

A research-backed AI scenario forecast.

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Eric Schultz Aug 7, 2025

@wolftune I can't believe there's any sort of credible issue for software engineering until someone can make money providing GenAI. At some point, someone needs to pay the bills and it doesn't seem like anyone has a credible plan for that

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Aaron Wolf Aug 7, 2025

@wwahammy there is no credible business doing GenAI or AI-coding replacing developers at this time, but there are ways that AI-push is impacting people plus the issues going forward.

Of the links I mentioned, https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/23/maximal-plausibility/#reverse-centaurs is the most relevant to today's programmers. It amounts to making money by using AI to abuse tech-workers and reduce their clout in the market — regardless of *worse* products…

Pluralistic: “Humans in the loop” must detect the hardest-to-spot errors, at superhuman speed (23 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Eric Schultz Aug 7, 2025

@wolftune we did talk a bit about AI in the licensing panel