RE: https://mastodon.social/@schwa/116715034580156971

Link gives a really good summary of what the hell happened with rsync.

TLDR anti-LLM hysteria.

Literal death threats against the maintainer of rsync because he used Claude.

Link also gives a good analysis of why the hysteria was 100% unfounded.

This goes back to my theory that the pro vs anti LLM folks are just as irrational as each other.

Although I feel no one has received death threats for not using a LLM

RE: https://journa.host/@mathewi/116613070983973715

Here is a contrary take on the environmental impact of data centers. Even if we have other concerns about AI (I certainly do), we should always decide climate issues based on what the science says; this is an argument that we’re not doing that. And we may still decide building huge numbers of data centers is a bad idea, but we should do so for the right reasons. The author is not a blind tech booster, either.

Anti-AI people strongly stating assumptions as if they were inalienable truths, based on… vibes?

“I tried this thing once a year ago and it didn’t work, so it’s _a fact_ nobody using AI is doing QA and thinks of themselves as a product manager” (barely paraphrasing here).

Alright then…

#llms #llm #genai

I remain skeptical of Tesla robotaxis and this report doesn’t make me feel better:

"Tesla Robotaxis have crashed at least twice since July 2025 while a teleoperator was remotely driving the vehicles…"

Waymo has the right approach. When stuck, cars can be given hints on what to do by remote staff, but the cars still drive based on their training, they can’t be controlled like a video game.