Mastodawn

I see people talking about "reach" and "engagement" and "algorithms" and whatnot on X vs Bluesky vs Mastodon and I feel so lucky that I have no commercial needs whatsoever.

It's 100% a feature for me that unless I actively include a bunch of hashtags no one will ever see my vapid, drunken, digital utterances.

#VapidDrunkenDigitalUtterances

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spitchell 2d ago

I "uninstall" copilot from my teams sidebar every day, and the next day it's back.

If I'm also actually using it on purpose, however tentatively, surely it's just a matter of time before my resistance begins to crumble and I just give in to the need to rely on this bullshit for one reason or another, like I did with self service checkouts.

I feel like a frog being boiled.

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spitchell 2d ago

Recently I've used a "AI" to generate mock data in a specific json schema, and it worked great.

I've also used it to produce an exhaustive list of handwavy arguments for a particular software architecture I want to critique.

In both cases I'm leaning into LLMs' specific ability to come up with convincing bullshit, but even still I'm troubled.

spitchell 2d ago

I am proud to consider myself a bloody-minded, socialist refusenik. So I'm obviously staunchly opposed to this ubiquitous commercial shoehorning of LLMs into every aspect of my experience as a web user and a frontend developer.

But I was bloody-mindedly opposed to self service checkouts for several years, until they became tolerably usable and the shops became intolerably understaffed, and now. I use them every single day.

spitchell 2d ago

Max Leibman 2d ago

Look, I know AI is controversial, but just for a moment, let's set aside our preconceived notions, our biases, the environmental impact, the massive cost to train and run models, the labor exploitation, the intellectual property theft, the inaccuracies, the mania it causes in users, the destruction of search, the deskilling of professionals, the devaluation of creative work, job losses, and lack of economic value from enterprise implementations.

Wait, what were we talking about?

spitchell 3d ago

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mcc 3d ago

Wait I think I withdraw my above statement because "demand chain" / "software demand chain" is just too good

spitchell 3d ago

Fesshole 🧻3d ago

At work we have started a new project called "Hot Chocolate Leather Queen" with sub projects like "transfemme" and "black justice". It has nothing to with any of that. We named it that to keep the prudish AI bots from stealing our work.

spitchell Jun 20