I first learned how to program in 1984 at 14. The tech press said I'd be obsolete by 25, due to age.

About 1990 tech press said the Japanese were building fifth generation computers to make me obsolete.

In 2000, the dot com bubble bursting was said to make me obsolete.

There's been neural networks, no-code, and more, since then, to make me obsolete.

Now it's LLMs.

Excuse me while I sit here and don't panic.

#rant

EDIT: This blew up. Muting the thread for some peace and quiet.

these people have basically become addicted to gambling. think about it: they pour money into tokens, obsess about that leading to a good result, keep spending until (and then well after) that happens, all while never being able to stop themselves from thinking about it. AI’s a slot machine.

https://bsky.app/profile/timkellogg.me/post/3mevhhd4lbs2b

Let's remind everyone what a safe internet actually means. 🌐🌍

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#SaferInternetDay26 #SID

If you have a Ring (Amazon) camera, you are -- or will become -- a tool of the surveillance state. Is that really what you want to be?

https://www.404media.co/with-ring-american-consumers-built-a-surveillance-dragnet/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter&attribution_id=698b47cbe724d10001786209&attribution_type=post

two equally true things:

1. knowing how to binary search is one of the most important algorithms every human should know
2. whenever you have to manually binary search on a computer, software has failed you. it should be binary searching for you