Matthias Wagler

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👋 Hey, I live in Stuttgart, Germany. I'm a human, father, product owner, frontend engineer, and web technology enthusiast that believes in interdisciplinary approaches.
Websitehttps://gedankentank.com
Githubhttps://mattwagl.github.io
Workhttps://helio-hmi.com/en
Warum Benzin keine Freiheit bedeutet | Fun Facts mit Luisa Neubauer

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Togetherness, trust, deep connections, empathy, and community. So extremely difficult to create and build. So incredibly easy to tear down. We need more of all of these things at every level. So one important step is to sharpen our tools and skills so that we can plant them and let them flourish.

And maybe even simpler: we should first stop falling into the psychological traps that make ourselves tear those things down so easily.

OK, I will say this later and perhaps more polished-ly on my blog, but here goes:

I will refuse to review any academic paper that credits a chatbot in the acknowledgements. Why? For much the same reason that I would refuse to review a paper that studied conflict diamonds just because they were convenient.

The human cost is unacceptable:

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/05/in-the-end-you-feel-blank-indias-female-workers-watching-hours-of-abusive-content-to-train-ai

The industry has no line against using the output of the Nazi CSAM generator and calling it "training data".

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/24/latest-chatgpt-model-uses-elon-musks-grokipedia-as-source-tests-reveal

https://www.theverge.com/report/870910/ai-chatbots-citing-grokipedia

Any marginal benefit that an individual scientist thinks they see is just saying, "Wow, the bus to the conference runs so much better on leaded gasoline."

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

The Guardian

„The programmers of the future may write less code directly. They may work at higher levels of abstraction. They may use tools we cannot currently imagine. But they will still be doing the essential work of translating human intent into software that works. And that work will continue to require skill, judgment, and understanding that no tool has yet replaced.“

https://www.ivanturkovic.com/2026/01/22/history-software-simplification-cobol-ai-hype/

The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers

From COBOL in the 1960s to AI in the 2020s, every generation promises to eliminate programmers. Explore the recurring cycles of software simplification hype.

Signal Through the Noise

„Perhaps the most important lesson from six decades of promised simplification is this: there is no substitute for understanding.

The tools change. The languages change. The platforms change. But the need for people who deeply understand what they are building, and why, remains constant.“

https://www.ivanturkovic.com/2026/01/22/history-software-simplification-cobol-ai-hype/

The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers

From COBOL in the 1960s to AI in the 2020s, every generation promises to eliminate programmers. Explore the recurring cycles of software simplification hype.

Signal Through the Noise

RE: https://toot.cat/@ceejbot/116149718909141919

„The hard part of software development has never been typing code. It has always been figuring out exactly what the software should do, and ensuring it actually does that under all circumstances. This is why specification languages and automatic code generation repeatedly fail to eliminate programmers: they simply move the complexity from code to specification, and specification is at least as difficult.“

https://www.ivanturkovic.com/2026/01/22/history-software-simplification-cobol-ai-hype/

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Heute ist #DIDay!

Im CCC #Hamburg erklären wir, was ein Messenger eigentlich ist und wie solche Apps funktionieren, welche Kriterien für eine Auswahl interessant sind (z. B. Verschlüsselung), welche alternativen Apps eine gute Balance zwischen Benutzbarkeit, Sicherheit und Unabhängigkeit bieten, und wie ihr eure Freunde, Vereinskolleg*innen oder den Klassenchat umstellen könnt.

Bringt gerne eure eigenen Handys mit.
Es ist keine Anmeldung erforderlich. #DIDit

https://termine.di.day/events/8b7a457b-3fad-4266-ac7e-c771fb574ff6

Digital Independence Day Veranstaltungen

Immer am ersten Sonntag im Monat #DIDit #DUTgemacht

https://modern-css.com/

„Stop writing CSS
like it's 2015.“

🤩

via @stefan 🙏

Modern CSS Code Snippets | modern.css

A collection of modern CSS code snippets. Every old CSS hack next to its clean, native replacement, side by side.

modern.css

RE: https://toot.cat/@zkat/116140049513880795

Will the AI wave lead to a decline of open source or free speech software? Seems like this could be an outcome... 🤔

Which is weird cause it has been fueled by it by providing free training data. 🙃