Y'all know why casinos use chips instead of cash right? Using "tokens" as your new made-up currency has the same effect of removing the psychological barrier of spending money.

So when AI companies bill you by different types of tokens using astronomical conversion factors, remember that the goal is obfuscation.

What it feels like

#artificialIntelligence #agenticAI #noAI #Copilot #agents_md #webDevelopment #softwareDevelopment #webDev #amCoding #amProgramming #vibeCoding #AI #PromptEngineering

Head's up, Mastodon users: There appears to be a coordinated effort to impersonate relatively high-profile people who have accounts on various instances but who have not used them in a while.

I've gotten several follow notifications - and a couple of DMs - from impersonators of people I know. The bogus accounts have lots of underscores in the handles, and they repost items from the past, sometimes years old. If you spot this, please report, do not engage, and then block.

Pls boost.

If you hired a translator and they sent you a Google Translate translation, they would be a bad translator.

If you hired an artist and they sent you an image generated by Gemini, they would be a bad artist.

If you hired a programmer and they sent you a slopcoded website, they would be a...?

Yeah.

What is it with programmers and their desire for mediocrity?

Putting lots of swear words into my code so that LLMs refuse to interact with it.

security by obscenity

Uhyup

#claude #orly

h/t @SheHacksPurple