Mike McCaffrey

@mikemccaffrey@drupal.community
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Senior Architect building Drupal sites for more years than I care to count, with a strong focus on accessibility and best practices. Trying very hard to convince people that the AI craze is a pyramid scheme that is going to crash the entire economy. Opinions expressed do not represent those held by my employer or coworkers; they are totally into AI as well, which makes meetings very awkward.
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General toots@mikemccaffrey
I'm not saying AI won't ever be able to solve 1st grade math problems reliably, just that the mindless sheep who get to be CEOs of our biggest companies are currently stampeding us to stupidland.

I love that everyone thinks #GenerativeAI is going to take over the world, while a company worth two trillion dollars can't get their flagship product to solve 1st grade math problems about a game for 8 year olds.

#AIBubble #Minecraft #Google

Seeing usually smart folks getting rope-a-doped into arguing for LLM utility like there's a moral justice zero-sum trolley-problem slider between "useful" and "ethical" and we're just arguing about the best setting

But the real problem is even dumber

-is its mere use a climate disaster? Yes
-is its data provenance founded on theft? Also yes
-will it be used to ruin ordinary workers' lives? Yup
-will it ruin countless organizations who think they're buying their way to cheap labor? That too

Funny, good #Drupal / CMS development is also about restricting the number of features and options that the editors can see so the interface is not overwhelming (and so they don't unintentionally break things). I guess I didn't explicitly think of it as #Accessibility.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKkQH7_MQMp/

Scooch on Instagram: "Just plz don't stress her out 🥹"

140K likes, 573 comments - scoochcase on June 6, 2025: "Just plz don't stress her out 🥹".

Instagram

Time for another exciting game of #IdiotOrAI.

Is Gregory Falco a real person who doesn't know whether Meta is hosting data in Iran, and is actually promoting the creation of state-sponsored messaging apps by authoritarian regimes?

https://apnews.com/article/iran-whatsapp-meta-israel-d9e6fe43280123c9963802e6f10ac8d1

I feel like "drupal set page title within controller" is not an unreasonable thing to search for and get an answer within the first couple of results.

#drupal

I remember when I didn't know how to do something simple with #Drupal and I could just google it, without asking an AI or wading through hundreds of barely related stackexchange posts.
Years before #VibeCoding became a thing, we had another way to tell computers to run code using simple words. It was called #FunctionalProgramming.

A collective of former WordPress developers and contributors backed by the Linux Foundation has launched the FAIR Package Manager, a new and independent distribution system for trusted WordPress plugins and themes.

#wp #opensource
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/linux-foundation-unveils-decentralized-wordpress-plugin-manager/

Linux Foundation unveils decentralized WordPress plugin manager

A collective of former WordPress developers and contributors backed by the Linux Foundation has launched the FAIR Package Manager, a new and independent distribution system for trusted WordPress plugins and themes.

BleepingComputer

Not a fan of fingerprint or face scans, but if some service lets me log in by gesturing rudely the camera, I may have trouble declining the new authentication method.

#biometrics

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Time for another exciting game of #IdiotOrAI.

Is Gregory Falco a real person who doesn't know whether Meta is hosting data in Iran, and is actually promoting the creation of state-sponsored messaging apps by authoritarian regimes?

https://apnews.com/article/iran-whatsapp-meta-israel-d9e6fe43280123c9963802e6f10ac8d1