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I don't think we should purity test. In the interest of the greater good, we should be prepared to endure unpleasantness and get over our personal distaste.
In unrelated news, I've been fired from my job as drinking water treatment plant supervisor for "negligence" and "hundreds of people died"
In unrelated news, I've been fired from my job as drinking water treatment plant supervisor for "negligence" and "hundreds of people died"
November 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I don't think we should purity test. In the interest of the greater good, we should be prepared to endure unpleasantness and get over our personal distaste.
In unrelated news, I've been fired from my job as drinking water treatment plant supervisor for "negligence" and "hundreds of people died"
In unrelated news, I've been fired from my job as drinking water treatment plant supervisor for "negligence" and "hundreds of people died"
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So I'm reviewing a PR from a colleague that was written for like 95% by AI, and while it might have made his job easier, it's making mine a lot harder because it's riddled with mistakes and issues that I have to now fix, and I feel like I have to thoroughly check every single line of code twice
November 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
So I'm reviewing a PR from a colleague that was written for like 95% by AI, and while it might have made his job easier, it's making mine a lot harder because it's riddled with mistakes and issues that I have to now fix, and I feel like I have to thoroughly check every single line of code twice
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"An LLM helped me with some task" is not a good argument for these things increasing productivity. Did you also factor in all the cases where it made you slower? Where the output created extra work? And how much of your work/activity is that task?
October 31, 2025 at 9:51 AM
"An LLM helped me with some task" is not a good argument for these things increasing productivity. Did you also factor in all the cases where it made you slower? Where the output created extra work? And how much of your work/activity is that task?
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My first return guest on the second channel is going to be @nerdy.dev, though this time, we didn't nerd out about CSS!
Instead, Adam came on to share some insights on his recent job search.
The full episode will be out in a few weeks.
Instead, Adam came on to share some insights on his recent job search.
The full episode will be out in a few weeks.
September 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
My first return guest on the second channel is going to be @nerdy.dev, though this time, we didn't nerd out about CSS!
Instead, Adam came on to share some insights on his recent job search.
The full episode will be out in a few weeks.
Instead, Adam came on to share some insights on his recent job search.
The full episode will be out in a few weeks.
I can kinda see the elegance of Modifier being both the variable name and the class name but god is it hard to teach newbies
October 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I can kinda see the elegance of Modifier being both the variable name and the class name but god is it hard to teach newbies
70% of bugs people new to programming run into could be fixed by significant whitespace. Every beginning tutorial should teach them how to set up format on save before a single line of code is written
October 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
70% of bugs people new to programming run into could be fixed by significant whitespace. Every beginning tutorial should teach them how to set up format on save before a single line of code is written
Writing JSON: I wish JSON were less verbose. I hate all the quotes and the commas
Writing YAML: Now I understand why JSON is like that
Writing YAML: Now I understand why JSON is like that
October 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Writing JSON: I wish JSON were less verbose. I hate all the quotes and the commas
Writing YAML: Now I understand why JSON is like that
Writing YAML: Now I understand why JSON is like that
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The latest in vomitous AI billboards: "A digital workforce doesn't dream"
October 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The latest in vomitous AI billboards: "A digital workforce doesn't dream"
I actually like looking at multiple links to get multiple ideas from multiple people's perspectives. Having it all boiled down to a single fawning answer doesn't jive with me. Also I don't like the cognitive overhead of trying to parse which parts of the AI response is hallucination
Genuine question: have you considered this “cognitive burden” is actually a GOOD thing? That it helps one’s brain develop/maintain critical thinking and discernment skills?
October 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I actually like looking at multiple links to get multiple ideas from multiple people's perspectives. Having it all boiled down to a single fawning answer doesn't jive with me. Also I don't like the cognitive overhead of trying to parse which parts of the AI response is hallucination
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Every one of these ChatGPT ads I see is batshit some dude has been suggested a dish to make to impress a girl so he had to type the q into chatgpt, read the answer and then follow it - as opposed to typing the question in a search engine reading the answer and then following it??? it's so stupid
October 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Every one of these ChatGPT ads I see is batshit some dude has been suggested a dish to make to impress a girl so he had to type the q into chatgpt, read the answer and then follow it - as opposed to typing the question in a search engine reading the answer and then following it??? it's so stupid
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Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
They're going to invent a security process called ketchup and the new best practice will be to put ketchup on your hashed passwords after salting and peppering them
October 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
They're going to invent a security process called ketchup and the new best practice will be to put ketchup on your hashed passwords after salting and peppering them
Cache invalidation is easy. Just use a cron job to periodically push a message into a message queue that the invalidation microservice can access to run a pseudorandom coin flip that will delete the cache and all its replicas when you flip heads. I'm going to crush this system design interview!
October 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Cache invalidation is easy. Just use a cron job to periodically push a message into a message queue that the invalidation microservice can access to run a pseudorandom coin flip that will delete the cache and all its replicas when you flip heads. I'm going to crush this system design interview!
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I hear people of all types, techies, finance folks say “ai is going to”….but it’s here. Why aren’t they talking in present tense? We increased productivity by X..I don’t hear that. And I work in tech.
October 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I hear people of all types, techies, finance folks say “ai is going to”….but it’s here. Why aren’t they talking in present tense? We increased productivity by X..I don’t hear that. And I work in tech.
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Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.
October 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.
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A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.
October 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.
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My submission for @nordcraft.com’s #BadUXWorldCup on badux.lol:
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October 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
My submission for @nordcraft.com’s #BadUXWorldCup on badux.lol:
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Need to find the perfect date?
Modern problems require modern solutions
Find the one you’re looking for with Shitty Date Picker today:
html-starter-fawn-kappa.vercel.app
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Need to find the perfect date?
Modern problems require modern solutions
Find the one you’re looking for with Shitty Date Picker today:
html-starter-fawn-kappa.vercel.app
Using AI to code feels like the "AI fucks my wife" poem. I am genuinely surprised at the sheer breadth of programmers who turned out to not actually like programming
there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually
October 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Using AI to code feels like the "AI fucks my wife" poem. I am genuinely surprised at the sheer breadth of programmers who turned out to not actually like programming
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The AI bubble, which accounts for over a third of the US stock market, which exceeds the amount of consumer spending, which has literally warped the entire tech industry into an incestuous ponzi scheme of funding, is 17 times bigger than the dot com bubble.
October 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The AI bubble, which accounts for over a third of the US stock market, which exceeds the amount of consumer spending, which has literally warped the entire tech industry into an incestuous ponzi scheme of funding, is 17 times bigger than the dot com bubble.
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I have a sentient coin because I ask if it's alive, telling it that Heads is Yes and Tails is No.
I flip it and, would you believe, it says Yes!
But, what's really impressive, is that sometimes¹ it shows Tails, which proves that it is so smart it knows how to lie!
¹ about half, to be honest
I flip it and, would you believe, it says Yes!
But, what's really impressive, is that sometimes¹ it shows Tails, which proves that it is so smart it knows how to lie!
¹ about half, to be honest
October 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I have a sentient coin because I ask if it's alive, telling it that Heads is Yes and Tails is No.
I flip it and, would you believe, it says Yes!
But, what's really impressive, is that sometimes¹ it shows Tails, which proves that it is so smart it knows how to lie!
¹ about half, to be honest
I flip it and, would you believe, it says Yes!
But, what's really impressive, is that sometimes¹ it shows Tails, which proves that it is so smart it knows how to lie!
¹ about half, to be honest
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"i just use it to generate ideas"
October 1, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"i just use it to generate ideas"
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Someone should probably inform the White House's "AI & Crypto Czar" that no one is forcing AI companies to train their models on Wikipedia
September 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Someone should probably inform the White House's "AI & Crypto Czar" that no one is forcing AI companies to train their models on Wikipedia
Jokes about CSS not being a programming language are zooming rapidly into the direction of jokes about how hard it is to center a div
September 30, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Jokes about CSS not being a programming language are zooming rapidly into the direction of jokes about how hard it is to center a div
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Here's a hypothesis: AI exists to make your job obsolete because the alternative is that AI makes managers obsolete.
AI could easily replace most management tasks: engagement metrics, OKRs, performance reviews, agile methods, innovation labs... You get it. Bullshit jobs as Graeber would say.
AI could easily replace most management tasks: engagement metrics, OKRs, performance reviews, agile methods, innovation labs... You get it. Bullshit jobs as Graeber would say.
September 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Here's a hypothesis: AI exists to make your job obsolete because the alternative is that AI makes managers obsolete.
AI could easily replace most management tasks: engagement metrics, OKRs, performance reviews, agile methods, innovation labs... You get it. Bullshit jobs as Graeber would say.
AI could easily replace most management tasks: engagement metrics, OKRs, performance reviews, agile methods, innovation labs... You get it. Bullshit jobs as Graeber would say.