Mastodawn

If you're new to contributing to Django and you're using an LLM, please consider reading this. We want to bring you into the community, but we can't do that only interacting with an LLM's output.

https://www.better-simple.com/django/2026/03/16/give-django-your-time-and-money/

#Django #Python #OpenSource

Give Django your time and money, not your tokens

The Django community wants to collaborate with you, not a facade of you.

Better Simple

matsPod Mar 11

Eugen Rochko Mar 10

Machine translations are often brought up as a gotcha whenever I criticize LLMs. It's worth pointing out two things: Machine translations existed decades before LLMs, and yes, machine translations are useful. However: I would never in my life read a machine translated book. Understanding what a social media post is talking about in rough terms? Sure. Literature? Absolutely not. Hell, have you ever seen machine translated subtitles? It's absolute garbage.

matsPod Mar 11

BoredomFestival Mar 11

Re-reading "Neuromancer" and I'm struck how the protagonist wanting to get out of debt by selling 3MB of RAM went from being laughably dated to seeming actually plausible within recent months

matsPod Mar 10

David Gerard Mar 10

Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages:
Ecommerce giant says there has been a ‘trend of incidents’ linked to ‘Gen-AI assisted changes’

https://www.ft.com/content/7cab4ec7-4712-4137-b602-119a44f771de
archive: https://archive.is/wXvF3

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Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages

Ecommerce giant says there has been a ‘trend of incidents’ linked to ‘Gen-AI assisted changes’

Financial Times

matsPod Mar 10

K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁Mar 6

If an LLM is used for military purposes, then the datacenters hosting the LLM become legitimate military targets.

matsPod Mar 8

I've spent the last couple of days tinkering with MacOS 9 on an iPad, inspired by http://www.thekyotoconnection.com/system7/

It took a bit of back-and-forth with OpenCode, but now I've got a custom proxy running that gives me access to the essentials of the modern web - and slims the content down to a "read mode for legacy browsers".

Tempted to go looking for a desk lamp iMac ;)

#MARCHintosh

matsPod Feb 3

Lucas Werkmeister Feb 3

Fellow fedizens! As decreed by https://xkcd.com/843/ some fifteen years ago, it is once again time to spend the morning reading through the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions.

#xkcd #xkcd843 #misconceptions #Wikipedia

matsPod Jan 18

Glyph Jan 17

we all need a little less raging against the dying of the light and a little more coordinated tactical assault on the darkness factory

matsPod Dec 16

Ellen Dec 16

Hoe AI alle creativiteit doodslaat.

matsPod Dec 9

Josh Collinsworth Dec 8

I have a lot of thoughts on AI.

I've been working on this post for a couple of months now. It's very personal, characteristically lengthy, and sure to be at least somewhat controversial. Take it (or don't) as you will.

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/sloptimism