It's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.

How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.

But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.

Bundesinnenministerium stoppt Fördergelder für Anti-Extremismusprojekt

Die Gründerin eines Anti-Extremismusprojekts kritisiert Aussagen des Kanzlers, darauf stoppt das Innenministerium die Finanzierung - trotz Protestes der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. Das belegen Dokumente, die Report Mainz vorliegen.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/report-mainz/foerderstopp-bmi-radikale-toechter-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Bundesinnenministerium #Fördergeld

🚨No Joke: Conservatives in the EU Parliament (EPP) want the vote on #ChatControl 1.0 to be repeated this Thursday - even though the Parliament already voted NO! 😡

Make sure your MP stays strong. Contact them now!
👉 https://fightchatcontrol.eu/#contact-tool

Make the voluntary scanning by Gmail, Microsoft, LinkedIn etc stop! 🚨 https://tuta.com/blog/voluntary-scanning-google-microsoft

"Exklusive Vorteilspreise in der App."

Dass das als Werbeslogan herangezogen wird, lässt tief blicken.

Mich wirbt's nicht. Mich informiert es darüber, dass ich in dem Laden mehr zahlen muss als andere Kund.innen. Weil eure Exklusivität mich nicht beinhaltet.

#digitalzwang

Got my performance review today.
Positive feedback: literally every member of my team says I'm the best manager they have ever had. I solved multiple long-standing problems the team has been dealing with for years. Team members feel safe to share their struggles, everyone feels empowered, everyone receives valuable feedback.
Negative feedback: I am not enthusiastic enough about AI.
Overall ranking: 3/5.

Anyone hiring for a fully remote team lead?

#GenAI #LLM #GetFediHired #FediHire