Aaron Klotz 🇨🇦🇺🇦🎗️
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Not the freelance tech writer. Member of Technical Staff at Tailscale, ex-Mozilla. Opinions = personal, articles/links/follows/reblogs ≠ endorsements.
Here's a proposal for a LLM use case that we can all get behind: giphy search that actually works.
Mike ShewardBREAKING: GitHub switching status page default language to German in order to return to five neins.
Matt CampbellI just read about a blind person vibe-coding a new email client for Windows. Not linking because I don't want people to pile onto this person, who is a veteran of the software industry and a respected, persistent accessibility advocate and contributor to assistive technology. Instead, I want to point out how badly the commercial software industry, particularly Microsoft in this case, has failed us such that an individual feels the need to do this. Don't know what to do instead though.
Lex knows systems
I always thought it would be fun to contribute code to Wine, but I essentially disqualified myself in 1998 at the tender age of 16 when I reverse engineered my first Windows binary.
At this point, there are plenty more where that came from... Oh well!
Brian Swetland@jwz @adriano @mjg59 @glyph I spent the better part of 30 years writing kernel and driver code, and in my experience there's usually room for quite a bit of creativity and expressiveness even in "low level" driver code. In most situations there's "bigger picture" stuff to consider, beyond line-to-line writing-the-semicolons coding.
And clarity matters for anything that's not a one-shot throwaway script or prototype (even ignoring how often management decides you should ship the prototype).
@mjg59 @jwz @adriano @glyph There are a lot of people out there who seem quite convinced that LLMs will completely eliminate the need for programmers or programming "as we know it".
Admittedly, I've seen this claimed about a variety of technologies over the past few decades, so it is hard to take seriously even before one sees the quality of the resulting code.