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okr May 25, 2025

It's 6 AM here and I just baked (half-)baguettes for breakfast. I can never get them to look pretty, but they taste amazing nonetheless

okr May 23, 2025

kepano May 22, 2025

Obsidian Bases + Obsidian Web Clipper is the web archival tool I always wanted

replaces my read-it-later app and saves everything to local markdown files

okr May 6, 2025

Dan Dean May 5, 2025

The management class is used to experiencing the world through the *artifacts of work*.

LLMs produce the artifacts of work without humans producing the associated institutional value and advancement of that work.

The LLM sleight of hand operates in the gap between management inputs and work outputs, making it possible (and likely) for managers to see low value *artifacts as proof of work*, and see *work as waste*.

okr May 5, 2025

Soatok Dreamseeker May 4, 2025

Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI

It's becoming increasingly apparent that one of the reasons why tech companies are so enthusiastic about shoving AI into every product and service is that they fundamentally do not understand why people dislike AI. I will elaborate. I was recently made aware of the Jetbrains developer ecosystem survey, which included a lot of questions about AI. After I answered some of them negatively (and possibly…

http://soatok.blog/2025/05/04/tech-companies-apparently-do-not-understand-why-we-dislike-ai/

Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI - Dhole Moments

It’s becoming increasingly apparent that one of the reasons why tech companies are so enthusiastic about shoving AI into every product and service is that they fundamentally do not understand…

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okr Apr 30, 2025

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Natalie Apr 29, 2025

that said, my coworker who writes his code with chatgpt is just not working out for me. I mean for one thing the code is just a mess: meaningless parameters passed everywhere, error checks that can never trigger because the implementations of the interfaces don’t throw the errors that are being checked.

but the main problem is that it’s not *designed* at all. every single one of these things is like Alton Brown used to say about unitaskers. this code passes the (generated) unit tests and that’s it. trying to use it for anything that it wasn’t explicitly and specifically designed and tested for is like trying to use a pork puller bear claw when what you want is a fork.

it’s not extensible, it’s not maintainable, if you want to add a parameter or tweak an implementation detail the only reasonable call is to rewrite it from scratch.

And what’s so frustrating about that is that it LOOKS fine at a glance. It even looks fine in code review, one chunk at a time!

okr Apr 24, 2025