@jcaron

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(code-is-data 🌱🏔️)
Githubhttps://github.com/jdecaron
Websitehttps://rollance.com
jcaron4d ago
JA Westenberg4d ago
Clawmaxxers will mass-email 10,000 strangers using AI to "personalise" a pitch about "authentic connection" and see absolutely no irony in that. None. Zero. The irony detector has been automated and it also doesn't work.
jcaron6d ago

JD's Notes: Predictions 2026!!

https://mont.social/JD%27s-Notes/Predictions-2026%21%21

Predictions 2026!!

source oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/predictions-2026 by Simon Willison Coding agents work well because code is reversible — we have Git and can undo mistakes.

(social 🏔️)
jcaronMar 14
Jim NielsenMar 13

The mistake in advocating any technology is denying that there is always a trade-off (there always is).

Granted, trade-offs are often not known on the frontier, but to pretend there is always only upside is crazy talk.

jcaronMar 7

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mntmn/116168236866690617

> ... do more with less ...

Lately I did set my mind on "doing better with less", I prefer it to "doing more with less". Still, I enjoy Lucie post, which I consider worth to be amplified. I care about the humans who see software as a craft, those who also pay attention to what is not there.

Français: ... faire mieux avec moins ...

jcaronMar 3
Craig S. KaplanMar 3
In my online undergraduate P5.js course, students are about to begin the module on motion and physics, including a bit of physics simulation using Matter.js. It suddenly occurred to me that I had never seen anybody put together this particular demo before, and I realized it had to be done. Messy source code at https://editor.p5js.org/isohedral/full/vJa5RiZWs.
Show threadjcaronFeb 26

@drahardja you are confusing me with this post. I read Cory's posts frequently and he's quite critical.

Please share the sources, I'm curious to know when and where he defended LLMs.

I ran my notes through an LLM, and the result is oriented the way I was feeling, Cory's quite critical about it:
> 3 entries from Pluralistic that touch on AI/LLMs. The overall stance is overwhelmingly critical, with only modest positive concessions.

Notes search result:
https://gist.github.com/jdecaron/072c20451b231c2cf2abc32ee7acca66

doctorow-on-llms.md

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Gist
Show threadjcaronFeb 26
@Migueldeicaza drinking bird in the loop ☢️
jcaronFeb 23
David HoDec 1, 2024
The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil 4x more than electric cars due to their staggering uptake in China and elsewhere.

The world’s 280 million electr...
The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars

Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.

The Conversation
jcaronFeb 20
Peter GleickFeb 17
AI can't fix climate change because the problem is politicians in the pocket of fossil-fuel interests, not a lack of information or understanding.
jcaronFeb 14
Simon WillisonFeb 13
I had some fun pulling OpenAI's mission statement out of their IRS tax filings from 2016 to 2024, loading them into a git repo with fake commit dates and then taking a look at the diffs https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/13/openai-mission-statement/
The evolution of OpenAI’s mission statement

As a USA 501(c)(3) the OpenAI non-profit has to file a tax return each year with the IRS. One of the required fields on that tax return is to “Briefly …

Simon Willison’s Weblog