Mastodawn

tehfishman 6h ago

@cR0w @mttaggart "Mom said I'd fall and crack my head open if I skate off this sweet jump, guess I'll go ask Dad"

tehfishman 4d ago

@jay_peper @TomF @simon_brooke @catgirlQueer @vashti I'm still not sure I grasp it. Is it the same as expressing the "width" of an electron in light-femtoseconds or something?

https://worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/mcp-an-accidentally-universal-plugin

tehfishman 4d ago

@bagder what does total volume over time look like? High/critical reports are down as a percentage, but is the total volume down as well?

tehfishman Jun 28

boB Rudis 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦Jun 28

This post fully captures why I 💙 MCP servers so much (as noted, it has nothing to do with "AI").

MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System

Or: The Day My Toaster Started Taking Phone Calls

Works on My Machine

tehfishman Jun 28

@RetroHeart extra thicc sky daddy uwu

tehfishman Jun 26

@directhex I missed where that was a campaign promise, but that's like ~6% of the entire population.

tehfishman Jun 20

Dr. Cat Hicks Jun 19

Sigh. I'm still so bothered by that "chatgpt rots your brain" paper BECAUSE it correctly positions some of the compelling questions we have about LLM usage but then does us all a disservice in its approach, pushy interpretation, and inappropriate or misleading framing of brain evidence and measurement of human problem-solving, imo

I am asking myself: what studies would *I* design to evaluate people's usage of LLMs in keeping with learning science and without neurohype?

tehfishman May 24

Watching Microsoft’s robots telling Microsoft’s other robots that they need to agree to Microsoft CLAs in between Microsoft’s developers begging Microsoft’s robots to actually understand the problems they’re trying to fix in Microsoft's platform code on Microsoft's version-control website is kind of amazing.

This is definitely the future Terry Gilliam promised us.

tehfishman May 17

@the_etrain but if there are two ancient squid monsters going at it on a hovercraft, we still have a ballgame. And the basis for a new romance novel series.

tehfishman Apr 25

@kajer am I crazy or is there not actually an advisory for this yet

This is definitely the future Terry Gilliam promised us.

The Right Irreverend May 21

@mhoye This looks really weird. Could you elaborate on what this all means?

@dadakopf https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1krttqo/my_new_hobby_watching_ai_slowly_drive_microsoft/

The Right Irreverend May 21

@mhoye Thanks!

n3wjack May 21

@mhoye @dadakopf This is horrible. Like a total moron in the team.
This needs some serious fine-tuning before this gets anywhere near usable.

Alexander The 1st May 22

@n3wjack @mhoye @dadakopf At least team members that could fit that designation wouldn't be pushing these changes to the pull requests.

They might say "I don't know how to do that.", but they won't say "Problem fixed" when it clearly isn't.

mhoye May 22

@AT1ST @n3wjack @dadakopf If this was an overeager, underskilled intern you'd be having a quiet conversation with their manager using sentences like "growth opportunity" and "understanding their extended impact" and with an shared, unspoken understanding that the kid is on thin ice.

Kevin Riggle May 24

@mhoye @AT1ST @n3wjack @dadakopf The only saving grace here is that AIUI the .NET people specifically signed up for this, so, well, they're getting the dogfooding they wanted.

Alexander The 1st May 24

@kevinriggle @mhoye @n3wjack @dadakopf As I read it, it was that they *had* to use A.I. *some* way, and this is how they chose to do it.

Like having family insist that they eat broccoli, and getting to choose between cooked and uncooked broccoli, or either of those with cheese sauce.

Kevin Riggle May 25

@AT1ST @mhoye @n3wjack @dadakopf As a performance art piece about why that's a terrible idea, I approve of their choice.

Marcel Fröhlich May 29

@n3wjack @mhoye @AT1ST @dadakopf @kevinriggle
I think this is far more sinister:
Accustom the audience to the idea that LLMs have legal personhood and can be accountable for their output -
absolving creators and operators.

Alexander The 1st May 29

@FrohlichMarcel @n3wjack @mhoye @dadakopf @kevinriggle I suspect they don't want to aim for legal personhood, because then they become accountable for training the LLM.

And/or the copyright infringements that the LLM does, under their "Employment".

Marcel Fröhlich May 29

@mhoye @AT1ST @dadakopf @kevinriggle @n3wjack
It is about normalizing unsupervised agency of LLMs, I believe. Even if it sounds ridiculous. By introducing the idea of LLMs being a contract party as a relevant frame, the success is just that, even if the surrounding story is absurd.

Alexander The 1st May 29

@FrohlichMarcel @mhoye @dadakopf @kevinriggle @n3wjack Well, it's doing a...*type* of job in that aspect, I suppose...

Kevin Riggle May 29

@AT1ST @FrohlichMarcel @mhoye @dadakopf @n3wjack whatever these people believe, the effect is that I think they’re ridiculous

Alexander The 1st May 29

@kevinriggle @FrohlichMarcel @mhoye @dadakopf @n3wjack (That was my intended implication - that it certainly was doing a *bad* job at arguing that A.I. should be unsupervised.)

n3wjack May 25

@kevinriggle @mhoye @AT1ST @dadakopf Yeah, I guess this is what it's mostly about. Dogfooding.
Kind of funny it's out there for all to see though. 😂

0xf May 23

@AT1ST @n3wjack @mhoye @dadakopf You'd be surprised. Until recently, there was a guy in my team who really had no idea, but liked to sell himself as if he did. He was constantly trying to merge completely broken code into production.

Alexander The 1st May 22

@mhoye @dadakopf Looking at the second pull request, I knew there wasn't enough popcorn in the world when I saw that it was "Fix a regex".

Alexandre Dulaunoy May 21

@mhoye CLAs are just tools invented by lawyers to exploit human contributions. Seeing a bot get blocked feels like a bit of karmic payback aimed at the legal team.

(*) Worse. https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1krttqo/my_new_hobby_watching_ai_slowly_drive_microsoft/

It didn't get blocked. It's way better(*) than that.

@adulau @mhoye

Alexandre Dulaunoy May 23

@BenAveling I didn’t know that one. It’s the museum of horrors ;-) @mhoye

@adulau It is both extremely funny and absolutely awful.
@mhoye

Author on a Mission May 21

@mhoye
🤣

Eric A. Meyer May 21

@mhoye We’re all in it together!

@Meyerweb "My complication had a little complication."

feld May 21

@mhoye glad bots agree with me that they shouldn't bother with a CLA before submitting a change

the esoteric programmer May 21

@mhoye can you caption that image? you know, it's in the culture of the fediverse to do so

Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】

May 21

@mhoye @lanodan Exactly why I have @markov set up with a list of bots to ignore.

Andrey Markov (Safe)May 21

@tk @lanodan @mhoye i miss nagato

Paul_IPv6 May 21

sorceror's apprentice done in git... this timeline is beyond diseased and broken...

Rep. Eric Gallager (no "h"!)May 22

@mhoye lmao, link?

https://old.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1krttqo/my_new_hobby_watching_ai_slowly_drive_microsoft/

mhoye May 22

@egallager

Rep. Eric Gallager (no "h"!)May 22

@mhoye thanks

Bradley M. Kuhn May 22

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/feb/03/github-copilot-copyleft-gpl/

Given Microsoft's position—“Copilot has a pre-litigated fair use right [0] to regurgitate FOSS w/out a license”— I'm surprised its LLM didn't respond w/ quotes saying its lawyers say it's a “settled issue” & it needn't sign CLA.

(BTW, #OpenSource Initiative director – day job: #Microsoft's lawyer – Justin Colannino actually told me above “fair use settled issue” bullshit to my face.)

[0] “Fair use” is a defense against © infringement, not a right.

Cc: @kevin

If Software is My Copilot, Who Programmed My Software?

Software freedom is our goal. Copyleft is a strategy to reach that goal. That tenet is oft forgotten by activists. Copyleft is even abused to advance proprietary goals. We too often see concern about the future of copyleft overshadow the necessary fundamental question: does a particular behavior or trend — and the inevitable outcomes of those behaviors and trends — increase or decrease users’ rights to copy, share, modify, and reinstall modified versions of their software? That question remains paramount as we face new challenges.

Software Freedom Conservancy

Aurani the Crime Cat May 22

@mhoye Wanting to give back to the community that they've bet all their money on, Microsoft is the first company to open Github repo based chatrooms where lonely bots can find companionship with other lonely bots.

Otte Homan - remember Geordie May 23

@mhoye paging @kcarruthers ... AI going excellent, I see. Well spent resources.

Vicente ⁂May 23

@mhoye we reached the good ending

Bruce Heerssen May 23

@mhoye
GIGO FTW

@bruce GIGO OGH @mhoye

Very Human Robot May 23

@mhoye Pratchett. You're thinking of Terry Pratchett.

mhoye May 23

@StompyRobot you should watch Brazil.

Very Human Robot May 24

@mhoye for the fifth time?

Important context: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1krttqo/my_new_hobby_watching_ai_slowly_drive_microsoft/

(@ @mhoye, I know the link is in other replies, but you should probably edit it into the original post )

Nik | Klampfradler 🎸🚲May 23

@mhoye Can you please share the link to the issue?

Mandar Vaze (desipenguin)May 23

@mhoye Is this what "Fail fast" means ? 😆
MS has been doing that for years .. (release before testing)

Bee O'Problem

May 23

@mhoye maybe a bit of Douglas Adams by way of Sirius Cybernetics too

Paul_IPv6 May 23

bot: "you need to agree to the micro$quish CLA"

monty-python-bot (in bad french accent): "i told him we already got one"

samiamsam May 23

if you haven't seen "Brazil"

now would be a good time to watch it

Robert Kist 🇦🇹🇸🇬May 24

@mhoye If you always wondered why Idiocracy had all this idiotic tech despite the people there being absolute morons... well, here is your Answer. They still had Copilot (now with more... Molecules!).