Christie Koehler

That “We mourn our craft” post is smug AI booster bait, don’t fall for it.

This shit is not inevitable, you don’t have to roll over and take it, and you’re not a dinosaur for not wanting to. This applies to wherever you are in your career.

Real skills matter. Thinking for yourself matters. The process of software engineering matters and can’t be replaced by probabilistic text extruders. Resisting the complete capture of the means of production by corporations so they can extract endless rents matters. Stay strong!

Feb 11 at 3:38pmWeb
Show threadChristie KoehlerFeb 12

We live in hell. This is hell.

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132

[PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib

This PR addresses issue #31130 by replacing specific safe occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for better performance. IMPORTANT: This is a more targeted fix than originally proposed. ...

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Show threadChristie KoehlerFeb 12
Follow up from the Matplotlib maintainer https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

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Show threadJulie PaganoFeb 13
@christi3k What a nightmare. Being an OSS maintainer was a risk for burnout *before* LLMs. I cannot even imagine how bad it will be with people using them like this.
Show threadJan Lehnardt Feb 11
@christi3k yeah, I don’t mourn our craft, I mourn my peers’ intellect that fell for this very obvious scam.
Show threadJared White (ResistanceNet ✊)Feb 11
@christi3k Yeah, unfortunately that author has continually misrepresented his position and has not written about the topic in good faith. I really hope people ignore such unfounded slopaganda.
Show threadjohnny anhedonicFeb 11

@christi3k so many of these things that are framed as critique are absolutely just advertorials.

“oh, it's just too powerful,” “how appallingly convenient,” “ubiquitous and all-encompassing,” “here to stay, unfortunately,”

motherfuckers were you being paid to take a dive or are the creases ironed in so you just fold that way?

Show threadValentino GagliardiFeb 11
@christi3k thanks for writing this out!
Show threadJo - pièce de résistanceFeb 11
@christi3k I am still doing & developing my craft. I am still creating art that comes from my unique pov & inspiration. They choose, instead of doing the marvellous work of problem solving, understanding, developing, levelling up, they try to shortcut their route through incantations over stolen property. What they create is The Acceptable Blob for low standard people lacking discernment or morals. People looking at vomit as art. Inspiration in a turd.