Dave Thomas

@7sharp9.bsky.social

Programmer and Guitarist. >The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second. - Douglas Adams

“For better or worse, the power of these systems is so great and the ability to accelerate is so strong that just writing stuff by hand...I don’t think it’s going to make sense for very much longer,”, Zach Lloyd

And so it begins, a massive jump in billing calculation. Copilot is useful for some repo grunt work but it's not in the same league of usefulness of Claude Code, even when Copilot uses the same anthropic models.

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I'm still processing but I watched Dirty Business (not even done yet) & while I knew a lot about this & lived in Ox, I'm completely beguiled by the almost direct parallel to what we're going through with AI. I'm at a heightened awareness of our role as academics. theconversation.com/englands-sew...

England’s sewage scandal hinges on lack of water industry regulation – new docudrama reveals how profit drives pollution

The water industry has been left to police its own pollution.

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About a year ago I made some predictions about the effect of AI on programming jobs. Block laid off 40% of its staff claiming AI made them more efficient. Is that really true or did they just over-hire? Let's look at some data and see what's really happening. Full post: seldo.com/posts/do-ai-...

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I'm seeing a lot of anti AI sentiment, not AI has taken our jobs and stuff like that, but things like: AI agents don't work or they are no good or don't help. I see the exact opposite and cant help that my career as a programmer is defunct, at least in terms of actually writing code.

You know, we used to joke about 'vibe coding.' Well... things have changed. We should call it what it is: Coding with AI. From @karpathy.bsky.social It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually but in this last December.

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Learning Rust. Looks like someone took functional and procedural F# or Haskell and transmuted it with the C-like syntax while using the Malbolge paradigm (making everything as convoluted as humanly possible) into a new language difficult as hell.