Johan Vervloet

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#php developer
fighting against crud
trying to convince you that you need automated tests
author of some #wiezen related web apps

If you think AI can solve your problem, ask your AI. If you ask me, I will do the thinking myself, thank you.

gitlabhttps://gitlab.com/johanv
bloghttps://blog.johanv.org

My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"

Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC

Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models/RfC - Wikipedia

Never submit code you don't understand

Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.

I tasked an AI agent with the implementation of an algorithm from a research paper. 15 minutes later: clean code, green tests, plausible visualizations. Hours later: I'm still not sure if it's correct.

What happens when AI generates code faster than you can understand the domain?

https://phpunit.expert/articles/faster-than-understanding.html?ref=mastodon

Faster than understanding

An AI coding agent implemented a complex software metric in 15 minutes. I have now spent hours trying to figure out whether the implementation is correct. Is this really a productivity boost?

phpunit.expert
Dus 3 weken een fairphone6, de de-google'd versie. Mijn bevindingen:
Veel werk manueel alles te installeren. Zonder google cloud toch wat gefoefel.
- van banken: enkel medirect werkt niet
- itsme / aegis / bitwarden / KUL auth wél
- mynexuzhealth niet ("meneer u heeft daarvoor een google android voor nodig" -> FOEI)
- payconic go niet (professionele payconiq voor in 't café), weet nog niet waarom, maar google zal er voor tussen zitten.
- zélf launcher kiezen, heb gekozen voor nova

I'm in no way an AI hater. It has some very good use cases. But in the commercial world, if you are promoting a product or service, the phrase "AI-powered" translates to "didn't read the room". The majority probably don't see that as a plus? (I could be wrong!)

Boost if you will to get coverage. The results will be interesting if enough people vote.

EDIT: I should have said "hater or lover". But the question was strictly concerning the use of that language in promo and advertising.

AI-powered is a positive thing
0.7%
AI-powered is a negative thing
99.3%
Poll ended at .
Vanochtend 16 maart 2026 was er om 5.29 uur een lichte aardbeving in Jalhay (provincie Luik). Met een kracht van 3,1 op de schaal van Richter werd de aardbeving door veel mensen gevoeld.
Meer achtergrond over aardbevingen in België vind je op https://seismologie.be
en
https://www.frankdeboosere.be/vragen/vraag157.php
Royal observatory of Belgium - Seismology-Gravimetry

A little ironic that @derickr 's cool talk on llms stealing our content, is followed by some robot slop #dpc26
I've seen some great talks at #dpc16 today, but I really can't stand the sound of 100s of devs eating popcorn 🍿😣
Good opening for #dpc26

Today is the final day of Dutch PHP Conference and we couldn't be more excited! 🚀

We have an amazing program with over 50 speakers.

Will we see you today?

#dpc26 #developers