https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

Everyone should read this.

This cracks me up because kids just think up these things so brilliantly, but also this proves that age verification laws are complete dogshit and don't even work.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/06/some-kids-are-bypassing-age-verification-checks-with-a-fake-mustache/

RE: https://eigenmagic.net/@abstractcode/116525091915148748

This has been my experience when using Claude Code too. I feel like the time that it takes to rework its output matches or exceeds the time it would have taken to just write the code. And the issues I have to fix vary from code that will be difficult to maintain, to code that only works for a very narrow ideal case, to code that just plain will not do what it is supposed to do.

And that has really changed my perception of people who claim that it’s a huge productivity booster for them, to be honest. Like I don’t know if they’re using the tool heaps differently and getting better results, or they’re doing the same rework as I’m doing and just not perceiving it as a slowdown, or if they have different and much more permissive quality standards to mine.

3 Uhr nachts und ich denke darüber nach, wie absurd es ist, dass wir Wohnen, Bildung und Gesundheit „Märkte" nennen. Als wäre Krankwerden eine Konsumentscheidung und ein Kind in der KiTa ein Investment mit Renditeerwartung.

Vielleicht wäre schon viel gewonnen, wenn wir ein paar Dinge wieder als das behandeln, was sie sind: Grundlagen, keine Geschäftsmodelle.

#Politik #Gesellschaft #Gemeinwohl

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116521307476692073

I’m old enough to remember how mad everyone got when Apple pushed a free U2 album on everyone

"Biedermann und die Brandstifter" ist ein wunderbares Lehrstück über die Gesellschaft und das Playbook des Autoritarismus. Parallelen zu aktuellen gesellschaftspolitischen Prozessen sind so offensichtlich, es gruselt. Ich musste das Lesen mehrfach pausieren.

"Aber die beste und sicherste Tarnung ist die blanke und nackte Wahrheit. Komischerweise. Die glaubt niemand." 🔥

The *entire* selling point to investors of LLMs is "we won't need to employ people."

That's it. That's all. That's why "AI" is worth trillions of dollars. No pesky humans to bother with.

It's not "the workers will be more creative" or "we'll help the disabled." There's no investment money for that. A company is what the worst investors are.

« I love designing and building things for the web, but I’m mourning an industry that does not share the ideals I once thought it did. »

https://ky.fyi/posts/ai-burnout

#ai #burnout