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Sterling
@ssterling@squawk.social
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Something in between a polymath and a dilettante. Mostly a birder and amateur computer scientist, though.
Gulfie 
Bright, sunny day with a calm breeze and low humidity—and the electric just popped off all over the neighborhood. Huh?
4am ❧LLM-generated code is digital asbestos, and someday the companies lucky enough to survive the lost generation of expertise will be throwing bags of money at actual developers to come out of retirement and rip it all out.
Thomas 🔭🕹️ (@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)
No, computers won’t replace humans to write code for themselves. Please stop with this nonsense. What we will see though is tremendous losses in productivity as deskilled programmers will get less and less education and practice—and take longer and longer to make broken AI-generated code work. Meanwhile, AI models will regress from eating their own generated shit when being trained on. Eventually AI companies will finally run out of investors to scam—and when they disappear or get so expensive they become unaffordable, “prompt engineers” will be asked to not use AI anymore. What’s gonna happen then? We’re losing a whole generation of programmers to this while thought leaders in our field are talking about “inevitability” and are jerking off to sci-fi-nostalgia-fueled fantasies of AGI.
nytpuCan’t tell whether my supervisor put me on a lighter job today because she thinks I’m incompetent/useless or because… literally any other reason. I fucking hate working the summer at Wal-Mart (my brain goes wholly unused the entire shift), but that doesn’t mean I wanna be lazy.
taco, bird/cat 
bird furries when they see a bird: bird
Michael PerryAcorn Woodpecker presses the side of its head against a tree - perhaps to listen for insects.
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#nature #photo #photography #birds #grackle #birders #birdwatchers #birding #California #LosAngeles #birdphoto #birdwatching #GriffithPark #DailyBird #BirdsOfPixelfed #LARiver #BirdsOfMastodon #woodpecker #naturephotos #LAWildlife #cute
Genuinely struggling to answer the question “am I too much of a fanboy to form an actual friendship with this person?” right now.
NerdNextDoor 
@kkarhan and I assume the creator of XLibre is making up a conspiracy just to gain attention to the project claiming it’s not that people are adopting Wayland because it’s better but instead it’s because “big tech moles” are trying to defund and extinguish activity on XOrg.
Seriously, this is stupid. The creator had to have done something to violate the rules of the FreeDesktop Git to get purged, not just because he started XLibre and he’s covered it up.
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XANTRONIX
