google had to level up by killing RSS and XMPP before they could gain enough XP to kill email.

once they're done with that they will move on to the final boss of killing the web.

“I’d created 2000 free-text responses and labelled them ‘UK’. Then I copied and pasted the exact same 2000 responses but labelled these ‘US’. Finally, I combined them to create a dataset of 4000 total responses, and jumbled them up.

Despite the responses being identical for the UK and US, Copilot produced a rich, detailed summary of how US and UK respondents differed.”

https://kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signals-or-artificial-stereotypes

H/T @sinalana.eurosky.social

RE: https://grrl.me/@soph/116586772000163018

I’ve had a similar awakening a few months when realising that GitHub shows you the cost of free-for-open-source Actions usage. On of my decidedly low-traffic but big test suite (173 checks) would cost thousands of dollars per month.

I have come to the inevitable conclusion that they’ve played us all for fools. We all have infinitely fast dev machines, but we need to rent a dev machine’s worth of servers every month to run an open source project?

Absolutely not.

„Any of these dopes — Musk, Thiel, Vance — would 100% have tried to take the Ring for themselves.“

https://kottke.org/26/05/what-would-jrr-tolkien-think-of-palantir

Welp. I've been using GitLab for over a decade and have been pretty happy with it. Deployed and maintained several instances, some personal, some for small hobby orgs, some for work.

But it looks like it is time to ditch GitLab for good:

> Software will be built by machines, directed by people. AI is the substrate on which future software gets built. Agents will plan, code, review, deploy, and repair.
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/

#GitLab #AI #FuckAI #SoftwareDevelopment

Congrats! Your new job is: arguing with a bot. Multiple bots. And people outsourcing their brain to bots. But mostly bots.

Sometimes you have to social engineer the bots to do your bidding. Sometimes you have to pit the bots against each other. But make no mistake, it's arguing with the bots.

That, and email. And meetings.

How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/116528225865871694

I'm not at all shocked that open-weight models are closing up; a little surprised that the players are showing their hands this quickly, but anybody who has paid the slightest bit of attention to tech over the past 30+ years should have seen this coming.

You cannot depend on big tech to keep things open when there is money to be made in making them (more) proprietary.

It is foolish to plan on anything remaining open when its openness depends on a single vendor maintaining its openness over the long haul.