I think the worst thing is actually feeling discouraged from working on the skills, which has been a pure joy in itself for 20 years or so
Feeling very disheartened particularly regarding my relationship with the programming trade, and lacking anybody in real life to talk to about it because they all seem to just be going with the flow like happy little deranged fish
Why
#AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation -
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/ "The result is a "JPEG of thought" – visually coherent but stripped of its original data density through semantic ablation."
#creativity
Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation
opinion: The subtractive bias we're ignoring
I've been doing so much of this sort of thing today that I'm keeping psql permanently in unaligned mode. Am I becoming artificially intelligent?
Today I learned you can just `json_agg` a whole table. Pretty handy.
#postgresMaking a million typos today, and still wasting less energy than one ChatGPT message
The little things are the most fun sometimes
Unfortunately a bit late as it's looking like it's already time to switch to something more maintained, but seriously an amazing user experience relative to regular vimworld.
I'm realizing my current
#rustlang enjoyment is massively boosted by recently discovering
#lunarvim
Glyn Moody