Being Left Behind Enjoyer

In Ides of March lore, I didn't know that Brutus made a commemorative coin

The funniest thing so far this year is that people create burner accounts to reply to me how I’m wrong and how great AI is.

Perfectly normal behavior.

"Hi junkies^H^H^H^H^H^Hstudents! Now that we made you dependent on LLM models for coding; we're doing the obvious: only providing you with dulled down models unless you pay up!"
—Microsoft

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/189268

RE: @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

One would hope that when this hype cycle is over it won’t be just an AI winter but an AI ice age.

Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, 1966

Is this good?

https://apnews.com/article/heat-dome-snow-blizzard-cold-polar-flooding-55e3baf6877e81ee1961aade3cb361c3

So what was the best ever Mac?

I’m in! [famous last words]

TIL a LLM-based simulation of a specific person (like Grammarly does without asking) is called a “sloppelgänger”

(Source: https://bsky.app/profile/lifewinning.com/post/3mgqaymhkf227)

Pour out a quicksort today in honor of the late Tony Hoare.

So I saw a new primary care doctor yesterday, had a really good in-person experience there.

I looked at the visit notes in the patient portal and it mentions (all the way at the bottom) that it uses some AI tool to generate the notes.

At least 10% of it is pure fabrication and never happened.

how about we reach a compromise and AI enthusiasts can evangelize as much as they want but only to LLMs

One thing I don't get about how "AI" is marketed is this:

Almost no people want to be their own software designer, or their own doctor, or their own lawyer, or their own structural engineer or indeed their own artist.

They want to get advice from trained and experienced professionals and enjoy art and stories and entertainment from great artists.

If you’re a open source person yelling at people to “do it yourself” when they have valid criticism of open source projects (yours or others) you 1) need to touch some grass (it can be free and open source grass) and 2) stop doing that

Without looking it up, guess where this quote is from!

"It is said that to explain is to explain away. This maxim is nowhere so well fulfilled as in the area of computer programming, especially in what is called heuristic programming and artificial intelligence.

For in those realms machines are made to behave in wondrous ways, often sufficient to dazzle even the most experienced observer.

But once a particular program is unmasked, once its inner workings are explained in language sufficiently plain to induce understanding, its magic crumbles away."

Rejoice, now there’s only one type of connector!

Therefore differences in what ports do are marked with extra labels that you can’t see as they’re on the back of the monitor!

Lunar Eclipse from my deck in Tucson, Arizona

#astrophotography #TotalLunarEclipse

this is very tempting (alas, can't afford it atm)

Is there a slow software movement?

as in a pledge to ship only well-tested and polished software and only do it very occasionally instead of deploying slop multiple times a day that your users will have to ingest like a king's food taster

Wanna feel old?

ScummVM turns 25 this year

Imagine the trillions of dollars used to blow up people in far-away countries just to get control of their oil instead used to push renewable energy forward.

It's interesting that our society, in order to "think of the children", isn't lifting a finger to go after the adults who harm the children, going as far as ignoring evidence that a lot of men in the highest echelons of society are child rapists.

Instead we are restricting the rights of children, and with it the rights of adults who aren't heinous criminals.

RE: @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

Software development these days really reminds me of what large political parties do—no shred of thinking about the whole, not even a little bit of conviction, just churning out mid ever more milquetoast "features" designed to eek out a little more compliance.

Moral stances and ethics be damned.

The regularity of leftish political parties wondering why they lose voters after they've tried so, so hard to embrace centrism* is truly awe-inspiring

*centrism doesn't exist, it's right-wing politics with some lipstick and eyeshadow

You look like you need a photo of a cat lounging on a stack of Toshiba laptops from the 1990s

You can either buy a rubber duck for 50¢ or you can pay a cloud landlord rent and give them access to all your source code to talk about it with a slimeball robot based on the most mid programmers and programming

None of the "code generation" stuff is new by the way.

The tech industry has tried to speed up coding and increase software output for the last 3 to 4 decades, by various means; e.g. Rapid Application Development, Expert Systems, Object-Oriented Programming, thousands of different frameworks all the way to trying to off-shore development and exploit third-world labor.

The problem with this is: there is no software scarcity. Pretending that "we can't make software fast enough" is a red herring to hide the fact that making (good) software is 90% painstaking research, design, planning, marketing and talking to and supporting customers.

And 10% writing the actual code—the C-suite is doing ye olde "trying to find a technical solution to a social problem".

I don’t think people understand how bad this is going to get.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/data-centers-will-consume-70-percent-of-memory-chips-made-in-2026-supply-shortfall-will-cause-the-chip-shortage-to-spread-to-other-segments

Joy is an act of resistance

https://dansinker.com/posts/2026-02-22-act-of-resistence/

howdy

nobody ever asks if we already have enough software or if maybe we should take a break and fix what we have instead of vibe coding more shovelware

Cory Doctorow sounds like he has been chatting to his chatbot therapist and they decided together it's a good idea to publish an article that attacks people for having valid criticisms about LLMs and the AI industry.

How dare he. This is such poor judgment.

"you're just using AI wrong" is extremely "guns don't kill people" coded

https://aftermath.site/ram-prices-hdd-prices-ai-bubble-computer-expensive/

“Is there a technology that the left is excited about?!?”

- Solar energy
- Libraries
- Trains
- Vibrators
- Guillotines

When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.

These days, Microsoft releases graphs like this

Whyyyyyyyyy SONY????!1 (complimentary)

not a single day goes by when I don't have to block someone for this