the ideology behind automated tools is that the friction itself is the problem, and removing it is the goal, but its really a signal and discovering the proper abstractions are the goal, and i fear lots of people are flying blind
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to spell this out a bit more forcefully: AI tools attempt to achieve lock-in by actively making non-users less productive when forced to engage with AI-derived artefacts
absolute horses@jcoglan.com · 6d agoAI producing excessive amounts of code is a self-reinforcing phenomenon wherein you have to write huge diffs to get anything done due to the way the existing code is implemented
I wrote a long reply to this, and it is not about whether or not LLMs work for producing code, it is about what world we get if they do and how developers are entirely oblivious to that question www.felienne.nl/2026-11-01/
Extropian bodily autonomy insurer@rekmarks.com · 2w agoTwo things are true: 1. Claims about AI capabilities are overblown 2. AI has completely revolutionized software development, and will do the same to many other fields I'm a software developer by trade. I'm going to attempt to explain what this revolution feels like "from the inside".
A consultant turns problems into solutions. A co-consultant turns solutions into problems.
I have since privately received information that the lack of credit was in bad faith, and that this was a blatant and intentional ripoff. I'm not the only one disheartened by the lack of due credit.
rain 🌦️@sunshowers.io · 4w ago
She has discovered a devastating memetic weapon against me, and it is saying ‘white people phrases’ slightly wrong confidently. ‘Nothing to chalk home about’, ‘let’s blow this cheese stand’, ‘let’s rock and drums’. This is breaking me. She’s become too powerful.
I would remove the retry button if I could: a flakey test is a failing test
tef@tef.bsky.social · last mo.software developers desperate to get ci working, need only get lucky once, but users have to get lucky every time
How I imagine the Habsburgs from The Empress would react to LLMs: - Franz Joseph: My AI gf tells me we need to build a railway - Elisabeth: I *am* the stochastic parrot trapped in a gilded cage!
Tough guys don't care, tough guys don't wipe their ass, tough guys don't read instructions or tighten nuts to torque specification. The gender politics of the appropriation of engineering is extremely loud.
I don’t know how to explain to people that just because certain things appear to approximately work doesn’t mean they actually work. This was already horrifically difficult before AI and now it’s damn near impossible to get the point across when literally any trivial example passes muster
I've cut nix eval times in half at work using a new profiling tool I've been playing around with 😎 this is after having picked lots of low hanging fruit in the past
it is incredibly fucked up that the UK government and police consider it a much worse crime to wear a t-shirt or wave a placard with 'palestine action' on it than to block ports and attack lifeboats
The product of programming is the programmer, just as the product of learning is the learner
Problem Machine@problemmachine.bsky.social · 2mo agoQuoting myself from a day ago - "The problem is thinking that the product of a programmer is code. It isn't, really, the code is just the final stage. The actual valuable thing the programmer produces is the underlying mental model. Without that, the code is just tech debt"
it gave me a lot of hope about coding communities that around 40 people came to the reboot of the London Haskell meetup!
> Pensioners just above threshold shouldn’t pay income tax, says No 10 Sorites paradox. Of course, pensioners just above just above the threshold shouldnt pay tax either. that would be unfair. And then of course ...
the whole world now holds our breath to see how steven universe responds
Cadenza 華彩樂@eldritch.beauty · 2mo agobruh
They're transing the devs with new paradigms, call that Haskell Replacement Therapy bsky.app/profile/fast...
Amos Wenger@fasterthanli.me · 3mo agoHaskell replacement therapy?
apparently in GTA 6, you're going to be able to build your own farm, combining heritage skills and modern technologies to tackle the polycrisis by building sustainable and environmentally-friendly food systems. you're also going to be able to fire rockets out of a Ferguson tractor
You cannot produce knowledge while outsourcing your thinking to software. thecybernetician.substack.com/p/being-in-t...
Being in the business of thinking
Software cannot think for you.
thecybernetician.substack.com
The agentic vizier software I bought to automate my whispers to the sultan has developed its own agenda and long story short I'm getting beheaded at dawn
If you're in London on the 17th of September come watch me give an introduction to rel8, a postgresql query DSL in Haskell
Haskell programming language@haskell.org · 3mo agoLondon #Haskell Meetup Thursday 17th of September Bring your Haskell, or one will be provided to you Register here: luma.com/70s76zly