Mastodawn

I can't believe that we live in a timeline where the thing people go most apeshit for in the world is a repository that literally consists of 77 lines of markdown that literally just say "don't write code that is pointless to write" in 6 bullet points

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jonny (nonvenomous)Jun 16

these skills always crack me up, i will never think it is not funny that the correct way to declare a command in a programming interface is to beg something to consider some string as calling you and also beg it to like "wait when you call us that means you should keep listening to the text in this markdown file please" and nothing actually is ever anything except a mash of fucking vibes that exist in a universe designed for the appearance of things working

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Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)

@jonny actually, this finally clarifies for me the core of my objection to the whole thing: I am in love with computers because they are deterministic. They are capable of following instructions exactly, and every result can be understood with enough effort. You can get bytewise reproducibility if you want (architecture-dependent). "AI" breaks that contract. No advantages it could possibly bring would be worth destroying the thing I loved in the first place.