Aubrey Sambor

@starshaped@labyrinth.social
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Front end developer, accessibility advocate, knitter, and lover of stationery

I talk about #CSS #accessibility #knitting #handspinning #fountainpens #beer #coffee and so many other things!

Bloghttps://aubreysambor.com
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"When you’re developing software, you never claim you’ve optimised your program without measuring the program’s performance. That should apply to claims about dev tools. How many AI advocates measure their performance numbers properly, not just self-reporting? It’s all vibe advocacy."

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/11/ai-coders-think-theyre-20-faster-but-theyre-actually-19-slower/

AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower

Model Evaluation and Threat Research is an AI research charity that looks into the threat of AI agents! That sounds a bit AI doomsday cult, and they take funding from the AI doomsday cult organisat…

Pivot to AI
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be prompt engineers.
@bell.bz I can’t wait to get a job again so I can go back to ignoring it.

"LLMs are essentially confident-sounding lying machines with a penchant to occasionally disclose private data or plagiarise existing work. While they do this, they also use vast amounts of energy and are happy using all the GPUs you can throw at them which is a problem we’ve seen before in the field of cryptocurrencies.

As such, it does not feel right to bundle any such solution into Vivaldi. There is enough misinformation going around to risk adding more to the pile." https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/vivaldi-wont-allow-a-machine-to-lie-to-you/

Why Vivaldi browser won’t follow the current AI trend?

Web browsers are integrating the current AI trend with Large Language Model (LLM) functionality. But there are fundamental issues with it. We address them.

Vivaldi Browser
@ichris I'm watching the Fiji season that was earlier, season 14, so before they were there permanently. I watched all the New Era seasons already and yeah, I can't tell them apart!
@ichris Maybe I will do this then! I'm almost done with Survivor: Fiji and, uhh, it's a rough one.
@ichris You know, that would be pretty entertaining! At the very least, I can write some season recaps or something too.
@ichris I had never seen Survivor before this year so I'm watching all the seasons for the first time!

Week Notes 001: Getting things started https://aubreysambor.com/week-notes-001-getting-things-started/

Now I need to stick with posting these every week…

Week Notes 001: Getting things started | Aubrey Sambor

A blog about web development, knitting, and other assorted things.

Aubrey Sambor
@robb I love those stickers!