EnshittifAIcation

Three episodes, one week. AI bots that hallucinate VPN requirements, recommend Apache configs on nginx servers, and suggest replacing 128 GB of RAM with a cloud VPS. A field note on the cost of mistaking confidence for competence.

IT Notes
@itnotes Yeah, strange times we are living in… and this is only the beginning, I fear. Now, how can we educate people to filter out this AI bullshit ? I’m quite sure my client will soon want to feed an Ai with my codebase to audit code and get brilliant ideas💡 And then, will occur the same fight “expertise vs the-obvious-ai-truth” : will client trust me or will it trust the vaporwareAI “very clever ideas”. To get a feeling, I began playing with Claude Code (in a local environment with ollama and a not-stupid-model). Well, while the thing does great to write code, it is not great to play with a large codebase and reverse engineer the design choices on a 20yo architecture with a lot of subsequent changes. I suffered to get the knowledge, but it’s fairly clear in my head. I wouldn’t rely on the llm to properly act on this code. so, my job is safe, for now.
@itnotes Meanwhile, I cherish the pleasures of the still-existing analog world, such as listening to my fellow French Sophie, transmitting from the ISS yesterday on 145.800 MHz. Was plain pleasure to hear her voice, sent from above the clouds. A fading signal, in all Doppler style. No AI, just radio components, and antennas. No model, no tech giant. Just Sophie and her mic. 🎙️. 73 to the clouds!