Mastodawn

It was only a matter of time before some AI-addled guy saw me quoting fucked up parts of the Claude code source, thought it was my code, and say it was just a skill issue and I just need to {prompting superstition} but it finally happened.

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jonny (good kind)2d ago

man what is going on.

edit: since this post is spreading a bit further than I'm used to my posts spreading, I feel obliged to add: we have suspended this person for below racist comment and you may want to as well, and I am leaving this post up for moderation receipts purposes for now, but please do not go harass/brigade him.

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jonny (good kind)2d ago

i usually try not to dunkpost but i also usually don't get called little buddy

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jonny (good kind)2d ago

i have not yet blocked because this guy is saying that claude code must have been written by hand because it has comments in it and i am utterly fascinated that kinds of guys like this can even exist

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Condor Puma Serpiente

@jonny That's the most old man shit I've ever read lmfao

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Luca Hammer 2d ago

@brad @jonny he even does the double space after punctuation stuff.

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Condor Puma Serpiente 2d ago

@luca @jonny there's something about "Go stand with the dummies" that is so funny to me

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draNgNon 2d ago

@luca HEY, now, that's an independent axis @brad @jonny

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Luca Hammer 2d ago

@draNgNon @brad @jonny Not sure if I correctly interpreted your comment. To me, using double spaces in the Fediverse in 2026 indicates unwillingness to change. Classic old man behavior.

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Zack Weinberg 2d ago

@luca @draNgNon @brad @jonny I'm not claiming to not be an old man here, but two spaces after a period was the style when I learned to type so that's what my fingers do when I'm not thinking about it and it's such a trivial thing that I'm not going to put in the effort to rewire my fingers.

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Nick 2d ago

@zwol Same, except I have actually tried to stop (just because it is unnecessary when not in physical print), but it's really hard; it's just deeply ingrained in my typing reflexes. @luca @draNgNon @brad @jonny

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Zack Weinberg 2d ago

@internic @luca @draNgNon @brad @jonny There's actual research demonstrating that having a little extra space after sentence-ending punctuation does help readability, but the computer ought to be taking care of that for you (serious typesetting engines generally do, but browsers don't; this is one of the several typesetting-related things I *wanted* to tackle during my brief time at Mozilla but got nowhere with because I was unable to locate the code that would need to be changed).

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Nick 2d ago

@zwol Right. On a computer my feeling is that I should indicate the semantics (a period followed by whitespace to indicate the end of the sentence), and then the layout should be determined separately (possibly with user-defined preferences in a browser). I know LaTeX will ignore multiple spaces after a period, and I actually thought HTML rendering generally ignored multiple spaces as well (unless you use the non-breaking space HTML entity or are inside a pre tag). @luca @draNgNon @brad @jonny

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2xfo 1d ago

@internic @zwol @luca @draNgNon @brad @jonny
I thought it would be hard but it took me less than a week to change to one space after a period. (It saves paper if you print things too)

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Zack Weinberg 1d ago

@RnDanger @internic @luca @draNgNon @brad @jonny that's nice for you. my brain does not work that way.

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The Doctor 2d ago

@zwol @luca @draNgNon @brad @jonny Echo that. There's nothing wrong with it. We're well past the age of 166 kb disks.

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Ω 🌍 Gus Posey 1d ago

@zwol Also, if people can write without punctuation, or capitalization, it means that any style is okay. If someone doesn't like it, tell them to go hopping sideways.

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Log 🪵1d ago

@luca @draNgNon @brad @jonny I am not old man. I am old log. That's way different. You can pry those double spaces separating sentences out of my cold, dead mycelium, and you cannot kill me in any way that matters, so.... Aaaanyway, I think the other account was a bot--an *old* bot. (Note my use of two hyphens to make an em dash, just like we used to do on the typewriters!)

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