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.

Wow 🤯

"No batteries, no circuits, no external power source required. … The outer skin is made from a moisture-responsive biodegradable composite, & seeds are housed w/in it. When the device rolls [to] where humidity conditions are right, the skin begins to break down & disperse those seeds directly into the soil. It boosts soil oxygen, contributes to carbon sequestration, & by the end of its journey, the device has fully merged with the ground it was trying to restore."
https://infosec.exchange/@littlealex/116272079809170463

Before AI, I felt like I could review PRs and, based on whose code I was reviewing, I could be more trusting and casual with my review, since I knew they usually wrote good code and paid attention to details. Now, with AI, no one pays attention to details, so I have to deeply scrutinize every PR, which takes twice or 3x the effort.

AI agents almost always add things that aren’t necessary, or they follow anti-patterns based on the surrounding legacy code context.

So, nun kann ich es ja ganz offiziell machen, und in die Welt hinausposaunen.

Das freundliche #LMAA 😁 - aka "Liste Möglicher #Amazon #Alternativen" - ist nun erwachsen geworden!

Kein nerdiges Git-Repo mehr, mit dem ich das Gros der Menschys vom Mitmachen ausschließe.

Ich hoffe euch gefällt es und ihr seht einen Nutzen für euch darin. Natürlich freue ich mich über euer Feedback sowie konstruktive Kritik. Findet ihr Fehler, dann meldet sie mir.

Ansonsten teilt, shared, boosted was das Zeugs hält. Alle Peeps sollen davon erfahren. 😀

#DIT #DUT

https://lmaa.space

I've been wanting to write something lengthy about "AI" for a while, discussing the arguments for and against and arriving at a reasonable position, but I find myself completely unable to get past the most glaring point, which is that we are facing catastrophic ecosphere collapse because of capitalist overconsumption. Our species is literally committing suicide by capitalism right in front of my eyes and the architects of the climate crisis have latched onto data centres with the energy budgets of countries running sycophantic Markov chains as their latest engine of short term profit extraction and people are split right down the middle either happily burning the world down to keep continvoucly morging or whatever the newest slop models tell them to do next, or existing in a state of angry refusal to believe that anything is wrong as everything crumbles into ash around them other than that some people have the wrong skin colour or gender presentation.

*deep breath*

The few of us who don't starve to death as our food sources collapse may eventually die of asphyxiation when the wrong Amazon finishes burning down.

How do you get past that?

How does one even hope to connect with people who prioritise dismantling the structures of capitalism before it kills us all lower than asking Claude for coding tips?

I guess we know what the Great Filter is now.