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"Code is Cheap(er)" by Carson Gross https://htmx.org/essays/code-is-cheap/

I can sign off on basically every sentence here.

</> htmx ~ Code is Cheap(er)

In this essay, Carson Gross argues that as AI makes code cheap to produce, understanding code becomes the expensive and scarce resource. He warns of the complexity that LLM code can generate and proposes the subtractive, constraining engineer as the discipline needed to keep systems comprehensible & stable.

Per Liedman May 5

Iván Sánchez Ortega May 5

If Gemini Nano weights 4GiB, then that implies the existence of Gemini Micro at four terabytes, Gemini Milli at four petabytes, and Gemini Mega at 20 times the entire internet.
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude Desktop case I wrote about last month, but the scale is between two and three orders of magnitude larger. This article does the legal analysis and, for the first time, the environmental analysis. The numbers are not small.

That Privacy Guy!

Per Liedman Apr 30

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Tom MacWright Apr 24

programming can be fun (for a few hours on the weekends and mornings and evenings as long as you don't think about the outside world at all and stay focused and make some progress)

Per Liedman Apr 24

Ashe Dryden 🙆🏼‍♀️🐈🐈‍⬛Apr 23

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116456073161532866

Honestly, if I see a button that says “reject” or “decline” or “disallow” I hit it without reading the box it’s attached to.

Whatever you’re selling, I don’t want it.

Per Liedman Apr 22

Someone wrote to tell me about how they use an open source library I've published, and now I'm like "yeah that's a pretty clear license violation". Hate writing that back, but also, I gave it that license (AGPL) to prevent exactly this...

Per Liedman Apr 17

User feature request: "we need drag-n-drop to rearrange items in this list"

What it really meant: "we need a scrollbar in the list since some items fall outside the view" - and I had accidentally removed scrolling.

Per Liedman Apr 17

Ryan Bateman

Mar 26

Inspired by this post (https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/116268399785747534) I made an animated, alphabetised, deeply cursed clock.

https://boat.horse/clock/index.html

Per Liedman Apr 9

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@phillmv/116374893262685669

Finally a thread that isn't just "ARGH! AI SO STUPID!" (I wish it were, it would have been so much simpler.)

Per Liedman Apr 8

John Overholt Apr 8

Your password must contain at least one character flaw that you have long recognized within yourself, but that you would never admit to anyone--not your therapist, your spouse, nor your most trusted friend. It is the dark secret shame that you must bear alone.

Per Liedman Apr 7

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jwz Apr 6

Once there is:

• A luxury hotel atop Everest, or
• A settlement 500m below the surface of any ocean; or
• Any city getting 30% of its veggies/grains from subway hydroponics; or
• Vegas making all of its own water;

...then I will concede that we have solved the first 1% of the problems needed to be a spacefaring species.

Absent any of that, putting monkeys in a can is just a premature stunt.

This timeline sucks.

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