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Full-Stack-Developer and Cloud-Architect 💻 Tech-Enthusiast 💾 Longboarder 🛹 Parent of two beautiful rescued dogs 🐕‍🦺🦮 Based in Portugal 🇵🇹

nixCraft 🐧Jul 15

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking. Basically, using AI tools slows you down as you spend more time rewriting prompts to fix your code.

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

nixCraft 🐧Jun 23

This extension allows you to create unique, random email addresses that forward to your real inbox https://github.com/webmonch/hide-my-mail-cloudflare

GitHub - webmonch/hide-my-mail-cloudflare: This extension allows you to create unique, random email addresses that forward to your real inbox.

This extension allows you to create unique, random email addresses that forward to your real inbox. - webmonch/hide-my-mail-cloudflare

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Ars Technica Jun 12

Smart tires will report on the health of roads in new pilot program
Pirelli is partnering with Apulia to monitor roads with connected tires.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/06/smart-tires-will-report-on-the-health-of-roads-in-new-pilot-program/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

nixCraft 🐧Jun 11

Job Interviewer: What's your biggest strength?

Me: I know exactly what `sudo !!` does and when to use it on Linux machine.

Job Interviewer: You're hired

Interesting insights about the latest AI models getting lazy and trying to cheat on us. Well ... LLMs are also just humans 😅
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx4Tpsk_fnM
#ai

'Forbidden' AI Technique - Computerphile

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I found an old box of technology from my childhood in my parents' attic. This got me thinking about all the old technical devices that are out there waiting for a purpose and to be used again.
#ChatGPT #ai #legacytech

nixCraft 🐧May 19

The decline of Stackoverflow 😱

Smart appliances often overcomplicate our lives with unnecessary internet connectivity. Many users prefer simple, reliable devices with physical buttons and basic displays. Internet features can compromise privacy, become obsolete, and prioritize profits over consumer needs. Let’s keep home appliances consumer-first: functional, durable, and free from overengineering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M_hmwBBPnc

#righttorepair #privacyfirst #consumerfirst

I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud

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nixCraft 🐧May 14

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You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose

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nixCraft 🐧May 19

The decline of Stackoverflow 😱

@nixCraft who reads #stackoverflow the most?

Chattie

Erik Ellsinger May 19

@nixCraft so what data sources will future LLMs use? Will the knowledge base forever be stuck on 2025?

bazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵May 19

@ellsinger @nixCraft the latter, I'm afraid

@bazkie @ellsinger @nixCraft On the bright side, that means AI will get shitty quickly

Kaleissin May 19

@ellsinger @nixCraft Worse. "The AI doesn't know about this programming language/library/solution so I can't/won't use it." End of change, basically.

@ellsinger @nixCraft reddit, it's where a lot of traffic from SO has moved

ferricoxide May 19

@ellsinger @nixCraft

2015ish. That seems to be what all the search-engine hits point to …probably because SO's points-system seems to significantly hamper the ability to ask new questions or offer answers that are more-relevant to current usages.

@ellsinger @nixCraft As data sources for software, I hope will keep writing documentation. Which doesn't solve LLM issues in any way: after all this LLM paranoia I researched how they handled questions on a library I maintain and noticed they hallucinated A LOT of non-existent methods, so I updated the documentation to make it easier to use and even added some methods those LLMs hallucinated.

I just tried, it still sucks, unless you ask it to check the documentation it will try answering your questions only from the trained dataset: https://chatgpt.com/share/682b4abb-cb70-8004-b9d1-4a2f58108185

ChatGPT - Solve equation

Shared via ChatGPT

ChatGPT

enoch_exe_inc May 19

@ellsinger @nixCraft Chinese ones, I guess.

Renato Ramonda May 19

@ellsinger @nixCraft hopefully, the shit peddlers will have run out of hype and money in a couple of years, and LLMs will remain a niche curiosity.

I'm almost scared about what absurd idiocy will be the NEXT hype train after crypto, NFT/Web3 and "AI". Probably Quantum Anything.

@nixCraft ChatGPT might be wrong but it doesn't flame me just for being new or wrong myself.

@gooba42 @nixCraft it should, it makes you strong

@srgesus @nixCraft Or it chases otherwise good and pro-social people out of the game.

Wombatadon May 19

@nixCraft Stackoverflow was frequently wrong too.

Harry Karadimas May 19

@nixCraft Doomsday will be when it will be renamed "Stackunderflow" or even "Stackempty"

Daniel Evers May 19

@harry_karadimas
The stack's last, silent "pop"...
@nixCraft

dodothedev🦤💻May 19

@nixCraft
Maybe if it weren't so hostile, it would have survived longer.

ferricoxide May 19

@nixCraft

Been on a decline since 2017 — quite likely due to how much of a pain in the ass it is to ask (or otherwise participate) with the service. Most of the time that a web search provides a hit that links to Stack*, it's for answers that are elderly (typically in the 2013-2017 range of the graph's plateau). Given how quickly/frequently tech, and associated answers, change - in whole or in part (e.g., an answer perfect for Py27 may be considerably less-perfect for Py312) - the bars they've raised to asking or answering questions really reduces the site's utility.

Beyond that, and assuming that this is an actual case where correlation does equal causation, then, at best, LLM-provided answers have only increased the pace of decline rather than been its impetus.

modestmax May 19

@nixCraft Maybe all the questions have been answered /j

@nixCraft I stopped contributing to SO soon after the AI nonsense began.

@nixCraft Fuck AI, but I won’t mourn the passing of Stackoverflow.

@nixCraft decline also coincides with cookie popups.

ferricoxide May 19

@soren @nixCraft

It was during the plateau period where they started trying to sell self-hosted mirrors of their service (for customers that strictly limit on-premises users access to the internet at large). So, yeah, the overall monetization efforts coincide significantly with the initial decline.

@nixCraft AI companies are scraping any data they find and will force you to buy it from them - that is why I'm deleting all my public data including SO. I think a lot of people think like that

@nixCraft Wonder what all the covid questions were about, "how to enable webcam in microsoft teams"?

NEO//LIX 🔊May 19

@nixCraft Which tells me that the vast majority of questions on StackOverflow were redundant and could have been be avoided if there the search would have actually worked.

Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫May 19

@nixCraft
Where's the point on the graph where stackoverflow started publicly embracing AI? May 2024, right?

Eyeballing it, it looks like the steep drop after that last upward bump.

Peter Krefting May 19

@nixCraft Everything of value has been asked 🙂

SO is still a treasure trove of well-curated content to find answers to problems, though. But you have to be careful to look at the dates (both to avoid old content, and to avoid AI slop).

@nixCraft RIP the goat

@nixCraft what an amazing development

DistroWatch May 19

@nixCraft I wonder what their traffic is like in comparison? This shows "questions asked" which makes me wonder if maybe most common questions are already asked and show up in search results? This would mean users don't need to ask questions, but might still be visiting the site for answers.

Neromabene May 19

@nixCraft Nothing lasts forever. Wonder what comes after LLMs.

greenpepper22 May 19

@nixCraft didn’t some VC firm also buy StackOverflow a few years ago? I feel like that would also contribute to the decline

@nixCraft I still use it

AnthonyCFox May 19

It is a knowledge base and the downward trend began 6 years ago.

Not to defend AI - boo ~ hiss ~ bad software!!!

I'm being sarcastic, but there are problems with it...
https://infosec.exchange/@AnthonyCFox/114529136371314287

AnthonyCFox (@AnthonyCFox@infosec.exchange)

Attached: 1 image We’ve been anthropomorphizing AI since the beginning. No one questioned it. We should now. It distorts reality. Opens us to manipulation. Shifts power. Erodes responsibility. Fuels hype and fear. And it shapes the AI itself—models tuned to sound human, even when hallucinating. This is a bug. Here's the whitepaper that details it: AI as Exploit → [https://dev.to/anthony\_fox\_aabf9d00159f3/ai-as-exploit-the-weaponization-of-perception-and-authority-1d3k](https://dev.to/anthony_fox_aabf9d00159f3/ai-as-exploit-the-weaponization-of-perception-and-authority-1d3k) @dyn

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