Elena Rossini ⁂Mar 11

Dear Fedi friends,

I'd like to put together a list of people who are publicly resisting / calling out LLMs and AI slop.

Why? I enjoy reading my Fediverse feed in topical lists and I need something to counteract the unrelenting AI hype I see in the media.

Do you have any recommendations?

So far, at the top of my list I have:

@timnitGebru @emilymbender and @alexhanna of @DAIR

plus @cwebber @jaredwhite and @tante

Anyone else to recommend who advocates for #NoAI?

Show threadJan Dytrych🇨🇿🇺🇦
@_elena regarding LLMs, it's crazy from developers' perspective. BIG tech is pushing LLMs hard to developers, saying you'll lose job or will be paid less if not using LLMs. That's what they are pushing, my colleague did even said "If you're not going to use it, you'll lose job or will be paid less." My boss doesn't like to use LLM for development, so far so good, but there is huge push and pressure towards it.
Mar 11 at 10:47amWeb
Show threadElena Rossini ⁂Mar 11
@jan ouf that's rough. I personally know a lot of people in this space - here in France - and it's really rough out there. Not to mention the collapsing valuation of most software start-ups since early 2025 (US politics + Claude + geopolitical tensions = lethal mix)
Show threadJan Dytrych🇨🇿🇺🇦Mar 11
@_elena yes, it will be very rough few years. Will see how that goes. This will make us developers dump and highly dependent to LLMs in cloud owned by some company in US.
Show threadElena Rossini ⁂Mar 11
@jan 🫂
Show threadJan Dytrych🇨🇿🇺🇦Mar 11
@_elena thank you! 🙂
Show threadJan Wildeboer 😷Mar 11
@_elena Film idea: "Back to the roots". They meet in secret. In coding dojos. They write code by hand. They have ancient books, real books, printed, with names like "Assembly Guide for the x86 ISA", "High Performance Python" that are sacred bibles of ancient knowledge. Follow our hero as she goes from LLM withdrawal to changing the world with hand-written code that frees the minds of millions. @jan
Show threadElena Rossini ⁂Mar 11

@jwildeboer haha I LOVE this! 🥰

also adding you to the list of course!

@jan

Show threadChris KletschMar 11
@_elena @jwildeboer @jan
I had the very same idea for such a story as well, although apparently vi is out of scope now
https://ioc.exchange/@CKL/116161896679343123
Chris Kletsch (@[email protected])

Now I want to read a sci-fi novel set in the near future about two programmers who need to learn non-vibe-coding to write something under the radar of the AIs (plural!) watching their every move online. To save the world. In rust. And they're fighting over vi vs emacs. And it will have to be on an OpenBSD machine, since every performance setting is disabled because of rowhammer et alter. Something like the Morse stuff in Cryptonomicon? #AI #nealstephenson #cryptonomicon #vibecoding #vi #openbsd #bsd #writingprompt #rust #rustlang

IOC.exchange
Show threadzipkid - Breaker of SystemsMar 11

@CKL #EVi to the rescue! https://mastodon.social/@mrmasterkeyboard/116206795065369412

@_elena @jwildeboer @jan

Show threadBMar 11

@jwildeboer Not sure why, but I just had scenes from "Dead Poets Society" flash in my head when reading this.

@_elena @jan

Show threadJan Wildeboer 😷Mar 11
@blainsmith Dead Poets Society meets Mr. Robot. In the dark basements of Paris, Munich and Barcelona. With Deep House from Vinyl playing in the background. @_elena @jan
Show threadJan Wildeboer 😷Mar 11
@blainsmith And for the ending credits of the movie, of course Max Headroom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6epzmRZk6UU @_elena @jan
The Art of Noise with Max Headroom - Paranoimia (Official Video)

The official video for Paranoimia - '86 Version.Subscribe to the Art Of Noise channel here: smarturl.it/SubscribeToAON

YouTube
Show threadBMar 11

@jwildeboer Sounding like we need to make this happen somehow now haha

@_elena @jan

Show threadJan Wildeboer 😷Mar 11
@blainsmith Yes. But the script must be manually typed on an Underwood typewriter. I don't make the rules ;) @_elena @jan
Show threadTrammell HudsonMar 11
@jwildeboer @blainsmith @_elena @jan do you know how to get the compiler to produce working executables on the Underwood Portable?
Show threadFrancesco MariniMar 11

@jwildeboer @_elena @jan just read a wonderful piece on literature and LLMs, which has a part that is eerily similar to your idea 😁

I think you might like it ☺️

https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-colonization-of-confidence/

The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles

A fabulously gay blind author.

Show threadJan Wildeboer 😷Mar 11
@fmarini Yes, I read (and shared) that too the day it was published :) @_elena @jan
Show threadJosh Mar 11
@jwildeboer @_elena @jan Hackers 2: Hack the Planet Again
Show threadMark WhybirdMar 11
@jwildeboer @_elena @jan One of the languages they use is forked from Rust before the AI invaded even that, called tRust.
Show threadMark WhybirdMar 11
@jwildeboer @_elena @jan Revised idea: “TRUST” (always written in quotes, per the style guide of the language), is the bad version of Rust that the LLMs use; Rust itself is what the heroes use.
Show threadRobotistryMar 11
@jan @_elena Waiting for the rise of artisanal coding, when people who code without LLMs are paid extra money to provide customized, reliable code.
Show threadElena Rossini ⁂Mar 11
@robotistry that's precisely why I plan to learn how to code 😂 🤗