Artemesia

@artemesia@sfba.social
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I've been on mastodon since Nov 2022. I moved to sfba.social in january 2025, so far so good. I'm an old fart who likes to bike and garden and grow obscure houseplants, and occasionally reminisce about how the current fediverse is something like usenet in its good years.

No, computers won’t replace humans to write code for themselves.

Please stop with this nonsense.

What we will see though is tremendous losses in productivity as deskilled programmers will get less and less education and practice—and take longer and longer to make broken AI-generated code work. Meanwhile, AI models will regress from eating their own generated shit when being trained on.

Eventually AI companies will finally run out of investors to scam—and when they disappear or get so expensive they become unaffordable, “prompt engineers” will be asked to not use AI anymore.

What’s gonna happen then?

We’re losing a whole generation of programmers to this while thought leaders in our field are talking about “inevitability” and are jerking off to sci-fi-nostalgia-fueled fantasies of AGI.

I love this mural by Smug on Mitchell Street in central Glasgow, and I've been known to spend way too much time waiting for some unsuspecting person to be pass through exactly the right spot to take a photo of it!

#glasgow #streetart #mural #smug #glasgowmurals #glasgowstreetart #mitchellstreet #honeyishrunkthekids

Man, I just wish my dad lived long enough to hear white guys telling each other to go back to Africa

'What could possibly go wrong?' Trump rollback of banking rules creates shock - Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-banking-rules/

'What could possibly go wrong?' Trump rollback of banking rules creates shock

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) and others on the left have often said that one of the painful lessons of the Great Recession is that the United States needs more regulation of b...

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@Andrev now I'm imagining artistic movements in programming like minimalism (lisp) and dadaism (PHP)
Poppies (Flanders) in the morning garden. #garden #gardening #flowers #bloomscrolling #poppies
I feel like you could make a Visual Basic script that changes vowels to consonants and sell it for $1 billion today if you just called it AI.

'Overplayed his hand': Experts flag big consequences of Trump's latest 'retreat' - Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-overplayed-hand-experts-china/

'Overplayed his hand': Experts flag big consequences of Trump's latest 'retreat'

Donald Trump's latest international negotiations aren't going as planned, according to experts.Trump's recent negotiations in Switzerland resulted in what some saw as a win for the president, because it stopped some of the bleeding in the trade war against China.But other countries saw that and are ...

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"After a judicial recount, the Quebec riding of Terrebonne has flipped to the Liberals, who have beaten the Bloc QuĂ©bĂ©cois by one vote. The result means the Liberals have 170 seats in the House of Commons â€” just two shy of a majority govt" #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/terrebone-recount-liberal-1.7532136
Quebec riding of Terrebonne flips to Liberals after recount shows candidate won by single vote | CBC News

After a judicial recount, sources tell CBC News the Quebec riding of Terrebonne has flipped to the Liberals, who have beaten the Bloc QuĂ©bĂ©cois by one vote. The result means the Liberals have 170 seats in the House of Commons â€” just two shy of a majority government.

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(Good line last week from MeidasTouch)

The only reason they should have called him Sleepy Joe is because we were able to sleep at night.