The real irony of the the slop extruders “increasing velocity” yet pumping tech debt and errors and poor design into codebases at ever-increasing rates is that *it was never the job of a programmer to be fast*.

It’s to be efficacious.

I would rather have a real programmer writing 100 lines of code in a week than a prompter writing 1000 lines of code in a day. Because it’s not about making the code work; rather it’s about discovering the code which works well.

If AI/LLMs are cut off from stolen human labour, their outputs turn to meaningless gibberish due to model collapse.

If AI/LLM owners are forced to pay for human labour instead of stealing it, they go bankrupt.

If AI/LLM data centres are forced to stay within energy consumption levels compatible with fighting climate change, they have to close down the overwhelming majority of their capacity.

AI/LLMs are just not sustainable, they can only function through labour theft and burning the planet. They're not so much new technology as a new type of ponzi scheme.

Back in the day at a previous gig I tried and largely failed to convince anyone that sudden upswings in people sharing detailed instructions about screwing around in the guts of the product should be treated the same as sudden upswings in crash rates: a capital-I Incident that deserves near term attention and careful retrospective investigation.

What is this, if not a user expectation going so badly unmet that people are _happy_ to risk bricking their box to fix it?

https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/115576953025427384

Hot take:

Discord is not a documentation platform. It is a chat platform. If your project requires connecting to a discord to obtain necessary information, then your project is undocumented.

I use drugs all the time, and I have a house, healthcare, and a job. Why should we deprive low-income and unhoused people of the freedoms we all engage in?

#capitalism #LateStageCapitalism #socialism