CaveDave

@engravecavedave
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Sometimes I'm amusing

Fediverse resident Neanderthal

30,000 years old (or 30 but close enough)

he/him. Don't like gender norms as they haven't been invented yet

#NoAI #NoBot #NoIndex #NoSearch #nobridge

Anthropic's Claude Code's full source code leaked. Claude is seen by many to be the best coding LLM on the market with Anthropic proudly stating that Claude Code itself is mostly written by the LLM.

Now this sounds good as long as nobody can see the code which is quite the trash fire. Detecting "code sentiment" via regular expressions, variable and functions names containing prompt parts trying to influence the bot, a completely intransparent mess of a control flow that makes actual maintenance and debugging functionally impossible and the prompts ... of the prompts. All the begging and pleading to the chatbot not to do this or not to do that or please to do this.

It is fascinating but it is as far away from actual engineering as drunkenly pissing your name in the snow. Dunno what you call the people prompting software at Anthropic but "engineer" is not it.

Now it is fun to look at the currently hyped product striped bare and showing its pathetic quality but that is the future of software if we let those companies continue to undermine every good practice software engineering has tried establishing.

The software we have to use will be bad, insecure, unmaintainable, expensive with nobody having the skills or resources to build something better. As I wrote a few months ago: LLM based software production is equivalent to saying that fast fashion should be the only way to produce clothing. A tragic degeneration of the quality of the artefacts we rely on build for maximum profit on the backs of people in countries from the global majority.

Meet my new bff, a clicky mage frog! 🐸 🧙 Haha I’ve been carrying this ‘lil buddy around all day, ‘click!’, ‘click!’, ‘click!’ as a sensory tool. 💜

#BrittBuilds3D

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116329926212439335

not enough to steal all the books
also empowering those who want to ban books

Hey geeks! We're ordering extra blank mugs for the upcoming Mother's Day, but if you want one of our statistical parent mugs, please get your order in. https://smbc-store.myshopify.com/products/good-parent-mug

It's fun how, even as a pretty senior person, you end up in research projects with PhD candidates or postdocs who assume you an expert while you panicky try to read up on what you are working on and at least understand the basics enough to be able to follow and usefully contribute.

In other news: X-ray polarization is weird.

#AcademicChatter #astrodon #XraysAreTheBestRays

Swedish government announced that the country’s schools would be going back to basics, emphasizing skills such as reading and writing, particularly in early grades. After mostly being sidelined, physical books are now being reintroduced into classrooms, and students are learning to write the old-fashioned way: by hand, with a pencil or pen, on sheets of paper. The Swedish government also plans to make schools cellphone-free throughout the country https://undark.org/2026/04/01/sweden-schools-books/
Why Swedish Schools Are Bringing Back Books

Amid declining test scores, the country has pivoted away from screens and invested in back-to-basics school materials.

Undark Magazine
the "upside" to AI
God, I love Mastodon. This place is so much better.

I like water Pokémon with determination in their eyes.

#Nanoblock #Pokémon #Lapras

Cozy gamer who loves stickers?? Look no further!! These stickers are part of the sticker set available on my Kickstarter right now. This is my first transparent sticker and I LOVE IT SO MUCH! 😍
Had to use it *immediately* haha

Come join the Kickstarter to get them (and more) too! Link in bio 💕

#stickers #sketchbook #smallbusiness