Mastodawn

OH: "EBITDA - Earnings Before Iran, Tariffs & Donald Announcements"

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/116334321751266751

I worked at GitHub briefly 3 years ago, and saw the decline happening then, but it's been even more drastic than I predicted.

Matt Robinson 1d ago

Paul Asadoorian 1d ago

I will never look at the Slack logo the same way now

Matt Robinson Mar 13

Now running 3-5 miles for a light run after about 3 months of training. Hadn't really run in the last 10 years, mostly due to a hip injury. Had my hip replaced 1.5 years ago, and this is awesome. Starting to get that runner's high again, and is forgotten how good it feels.

Matt Robinson Mar 12

iiradned Mar 12

The capital class is in the grips of a bizarre form of AI psychosis: the fantasy of a world without people, where any fool idea that pops into a boss's head can be turned into a product without having to negotiate its creation with skilled workers

AI "journalists" prove that media bosses don't give a shit @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/11/modal-dialog-a-palooza/

Pluralistic: AI “journalists” prove that media bosses don’t give a shit (11 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Matt Robinson Mar 5

Baldur Bjarnason Mar 4

(Following thread was prompted by people pointing out that the Bluesky dev team seems heavily into vibe-coding now and originally posted on said vibe-coded Bluesky platform that is now constantly failing.)

Over the past year, every single time one of the apps or services I use suddenly became less reliable and more buggy, I never have to look far for the "Claude is amazing and now writes most of my code" post for the devs involved.

Matt Robinson Mar 5

Jef Poskanzer Mar 4

Matt Robinson Mar 3

https://pixelfed.social/p/mmrobins/931382173192391301

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Matt Robinson Mar 2

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mikemcquaid/116160284666466149

Even though I think AI is a net negative in software (which is I assume is meant here and almost never rises to the level of engineering), and a huge net negative in society, I appreciate seeing more nuance than the typical doomer / booster takes

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Matt Robinson Mar 2

For me the biggest contributor to why AI doesn't speed me up much is that the bottleneck to shipping software is almost never how fast I write the code, so speedups there rarely amount to much.

The biggest bottleneck changes day to day, but can include: motivation, deploy time, CI flakiness, dev env issues, poor sleep the night before, reading the news and feeling angry and hopeless, meetings interrupting my flow, not really caring about the task, getting code review from people, etc, etc