Stefan Hodges-Kluck
@stefanhodgeskluck.com
Dad, cyclist, software engineer, recovering academic.
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Some Solidarity against the AI Hype
The relentless AI craze can easily wear down software engineers. But those of us who want to push back are not alone.
www.stefanhodgeskluck.com
In honor of Labor Day, I wrote a post about how I've found some solidarity against the anti-labor tendencies of #genAI.
www.stefanhodgeskluck.com/blogs/some-s...
www.stefanhodgeskluck.com/blogs/some-s...
@klhkhistorian.bsky.social and I are watching the Sean Bean Robin Hood.
It's 2025 and there is still not a single decent Robin Hood adaptation that doesn't have either talking foxes or Mel Brooks.
It's 2025 and there is still not a single decent Robin Hood adaptation that doesn't have either talking foxes or Mel Brooks.
November 3, 2025 at 1:54 AM
@klhkhistorian.bsky.social and I are watching the Sean Bean Robin Hood.
It's 2025 and there is still not a single decent Robin Hood adaptation that doesn't have either talking foxes or Mel Brooks.
It's 2025 and there is still not a single decent Robin Hood adaptation that doesn't have either talking foxes or Mel Brooks.
Very disappointed in UVA today.
The U.S. Justice Department announced an agreement with the University of Virginia to pause Trump administration civil rights investigations.
University of Virginia strikes deal to pause Trump administration investigations
The U.S. Justice Department has announced an agreement with the University of Virginia to pause civil rights investigations.
bit.ly
October 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Very disappointed in UVA today.
Wow, did not expect that comeback from @denver-broncos.bsky.social!
October 20, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Wow, did not expect that comeback from @denver-broncos.bsky.social!
Out sick today for @indivisiblecville.bsky.social No Kings 😥. Solidarity to all showing up ✊
October 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Out sick today for @indivisiblecville.bsky.social No Kings 😥. Solidarity to all showing up ✊
"History is different from commemoration. History is about what happened in the past, while commemoration is about the present. We put up statues and celebrate holidays to honor figures from the past who embody some quality we admire."
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
October 12, 2025
On October 9, President Donald J.
open.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM
"History is different from commemoration. History is about what happened in the past, while commemoration is about the present. We put up statues and celebrate holidays to honor figures from the past who embody some quality we admire."
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Definitely not the exact same attachment to artistic creativity in what I do, but I think a lot of what @theoatmeal.bsky.social says here about how AI makes fields worse by eroding practice and process really does apply to software.
theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
theoatmeal.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Definitely not the exact same attachment to artistic creativity in what I do, but I think a lot of what @theoatmeal.bsky.social says here about how AI makes fields worse by eroding practice and process really does apply to software.
theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
"When you see everything as an outcome — an outcome you may or may not understand, and definitely don’t understand the process behind, let alone care about — you kind of already see your workers as LLMs."
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
The Case Against Generative AI
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth
Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...
www.wheresyoured.at
October 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
"When you see everything as an outcome — an outcome you may or may not understand, and definitely don’t understand the process behind, let alone care about — you kind of already see your workers as LLMs."
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
Reposted by Stefan Hodges-Kluck
Reposted by Stefan Hodges-Kluck
Give a man a fish, he'll have food for a day.
Give a man an LLM, he'll brag about his fishing skills and claim that fishing as we know it is obsolete.
Meanwhile, he won't know what to do when his fishing pole pulls up a piece of garbage.
Give a man an LLM, he'll brag about his fishing skills and claim that fishing as we know it is obsolete.
Meanwhile, he won't know what to do when his fishing pole pulls up a piece of garbage.
September 28, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Give a man a fish, he'll have food for a day.
Give a man an LLM, he'll brag about his fishing skills and claim that fishing as we know it is obsolete.
Meanwhile, he won't know what to do when his fishing pole pulls up a piece of garbage.
Give a man an LLM, he'll brag about his fishing skills and claim that fishing as we know it is obsolete.
Meanwhile, he won't know what to do when his fishing pole pulls up a piece of garbage.
This would be amazing to do, if it weren't virtually unviable for those of us who live in Southwood and have to drop their kids at schools off Avon.
Take my kid in my bike through the 5th Street Station shit show at rush hour? Yeah, no thanks.
Let's get that bridge to Biscuit Run!!
Take my kid in my bike through the 5th Street Station shit show at rush hour? Yeah, no thanks.
Let's get that bridge to Biscuit Run!!
Have you signed up for #weekwithoutdriving #cville yet? Only a few more days until it kicks off.
Even if, like me, you already know it's not viable to go 7 days in a row without driving, you can sign up for tips on this learning experience
Even if, like me, you already know it's not viable to go 7 days in a row without driving, you can sign up for tips on this learning experience
September 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
This would be amazing to do, if it weren't virtually unviable for those of us who live in Southwood and have to drop their kids at schools off Avon.
Take my kid in my bike through the 5th Street Station shit show at rush hour? Yeah, no thanks.
Let's get that bridge to Biscuit Run!!
Take my kid in my bike through the 5th Street Station shit show at rush hour? Yeah, no thanks.
Let's get that bridge to Biscuit Run!!
Reposted by Stefan Hodges-Kluck
This is a bit sad but really good to have out there: LLMs remain a viable tech for SOME use-cases, but trying to slap it on top of everything (we already knew, but it is now proved) is completely irresponsible
Tech optimists: carry on, a better solution will show up one day, but this ain’t it chief
Tech optimists: carry on, a better solution will show up one day, but this ain’t it chief
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
This is a bit sad but really good to have out there: LLMs remain a viable tech for SOME use-cases, but trying to slap it on top of everything (we already knew, but it is now proved) is completely irresponsible
Tech optimists: carry on, a better solution will show up one day, but this ain’t it chief
Tech optimists: carry on, a better solution will show up one day, but this ain’t it chief
Again, someone please tell me when anti-vax went from "I don't want my kid to get vaccinated" to "I don't want anyone's kid to get vaccinated."
The former view, while problematic given how contagion works, at least had some semblance of grounds in an individual freedom argument.
The former view, while problematic given how contagion works, at least had some semblance of grounds in an individual freedom argument.
CDC committee members, some of whom are vaccine skeptics, are likely to recommend restricting the use of hepatitis B shots at birth or delaying them. The vaccine is credited by public health experts with nearly eliminating maternal transmission of the disease in the U.S.
RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Committee Likely to Target Hepatitis B Shot for Newborns
Committee members, some of whom are vaccine skeptics, are likely to recommend restricting the use of the shots at birth or delaying them until later in childhood.
nyti.ms
September 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Again, someone please tell me when anti-vax went from "I don't want my kid to get vaccinated" to "I don't want anyone's kid to get vaccinated."
The former view, while problematic given how contagion works, at least had some semblance of grounds in an individual freedom argument.
The former view, while problematic given how contagion works, at least had some semblance of grounds in an individual freedom argument.
"With AI learning {subject} is going to become less necessary" is a really great example of what I hate most about all this hype.
Apple’s yearly iPhone event took place this week. The hosts of "Hard Fork" break down all the new products the company announced and discuss: Are we past the peak smartphone era? nyti.ms/4gshG3m
September 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
"With AI learning {subject} is going to become less necessary" is a really great example of what I hate most about all this hype.
"Robinson appears to have admired the “Groypers,” led by Nick Fuentes, who complain that more mainstream organizations like Kirk’s Turning Point USA are not “pro-white” enough and have publicly harassed Kirk in the past."
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
September 12, 2025
Since a gunman murdered right-wing activist Charlie Kirk at an outdoor event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, both social media circles and the political sphere have been alight with accusatio...
open.substack.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"Robinson appears to have admired the “Groypers,” led by Nick Fuentes, who complain that more mainstream organizations like Kirk’s Turning Point USA are not “pro-white” enough and have publicly harassed Kirk in the past."
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Today in "Well, Duh."
The lowest share of Americans ever view capitalism positively and big business rates even worse in new Gallup data released today.
Americans give capitalism its lowest ever rating in new Gallup survey
A slim majority of Americans rate capitalism positively.
www.axios.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Today in "Well, Duh."
If you tell me I can watch my kid during the day because I work remote, I'm going to come to your office and spend all day asking you to play with me, then scream and break stuff when you tell me you need to focus for five minutes.
September 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
If you tell me I can watch my kid during the day because I work remote, I'm going to come to your office and spend all day asking you to play with me, then scream and break stuff when you tell me you need to focus for five minutes.
“People have a right to make their own decisions. Who am I, as a government or anyone else, to tell you what you should put in your body? Our body is a gift from God. What you put into your body is because of your relationship with your body and your God.”
So why cant I put a COVID vax in my body?
So why cant I put a COVID vax in my body?
September 4, 2025 at 12:28 AM
“People have a right to make their own decisions. Who am I, as a government or anyone else, to tell you what you should put in your body? Our body is a gift from God. What you put into your body is because of your relationship with your body and your God.”
So why cant I put a COVID vax in my body?
So why cant I put a COVID vax in my body?
In honor of Labor Day, I wrote a post about how I've found some solidarity against the anti-labor tendencies of #genAI.
www.stefanhodgeskluck.com/blogs/some-s...
www.stefanhodgeskluck.com/blogs/some-s...
Some Solidarity against the AI Hype
The relentless AI craze can easily wear down software engineers. But those of us who want to push back are not alone.
www.stefanhodgeskluck.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
In honor of Labor Day, I wrote a post about how I've found some solidarity against the anti-labor tendencies of #genAI.
www.stefanhodgeskluck.com/blogs/some-s...
www.stefanhodgeskluck.com/blogs/some-s...
Yeah I mean especially because he's already defunding you. What've you got to lose?
Hey, @nprnews.bsky.social, when the US President says he'd like being a dictator, don't just list that off as a normal news headline. Remember the constant urgency of 9-11 reporting? Channel that energy x10 in sounding the alarm about the danger American democracy is facing right now.
August 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Yeah I mean especially because he's already defunding you. What've you got to lose?
Hypothetically, if giving Hitler Czechoslovakia meant that he would definitely never attack the rest of Europe, would you give Hitler Czechoslovakia?
Hypothetically. If complimenting trump meant that there would definitely be 2026 elections and the Dems would sweep Congress in a landslide , would you compliment Trump ?
Or, Is is that thought so abhorrent, you couldn’t bring yourself to do it. Even at the expense of staying the minority?
Or, Is is that thought so abhorrent, you couldn’t bring yourself to do it. Even at the expense of staying the minority?
August 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Hypothetically, if giving Hitler Czechoslovakia meant that he would definitely never attack the rest of Europe, would you give Hitler Czechoslovakia?
Don't know why but I can't help but think that the best way to get more women having babies is to make the whole damn system more helpful to pregnant women and new mothers. But hey that's just me 🤷♂️
For the first time in 60 years, more people are leaving the US than arriving. Also, MAGA wants more babies. Look at this way. US-born women need to step up +25% to break even. So if ~5% of US born women (15-49) had a baby in 2023, to replace all immigrant births that would have to be 6.25%.
115. From 1990 to 2023, immigrant women had 29 million births in the U.S., or 22% of the total. In 2023 it was 24%.
August 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Don't know why but I can't help but think that the best way to get more women having babies is to make the whole damn system more helpful to pregnant women and new mothers. But hey that's just me 🤷♂️