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Great article by @maggieappleton.com on where the tension between humans working with LLMs can be reduced by contrasting the different modes of operation, and thinking about how to improve feedback loops maggieappleton.com/planning-age...
Planning with Agents: Divided Worlds, Boundary Objects, and Thicker Interfaces
Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with agents
maggieappleton.com
This article by @maevyn.codes on decoherence is a breath of fresh air, and provides the language I hadn't developed to describe where I've found LLMs to be useful vs harmful: maevyn.codes/decoherence This article and @alexewerlof.com's "Coding is not solved" complement each other nicely
The Decoherence Trap: When AI slop drowns out the signal in an endless sea of noise
Of all the forms of tech debt, decoherence is the worst. It compounds exponentially with a system's rate of change, and AI is now producing it faster than ever, leading us deeper and deeper into the a...
maevyn.codes
blog.alexewerlof.com/p/coding-is-... Pretty much my experience with where LLMs are effective: - mapping - reduction - search - prototypes, PoCs, personal tools, weaponisation For systems where accountability and correctness are required, rigour and experience is critical Thanks @alexewerlof.com
Coding is NOT solved
Tell me you don’t understand software without literally using those words!!!
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@llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy thanks for your writeup on git worktrees here: notes.billmill.org/blog/2024/03... I see in your worktree script you're using cp here: github.com/llimllib/per... Out of interest, how did you choose between cp and symlinking? Did you have issues with symlinks?
Fantastic discussion between @npcollapse.bsky.social and @natehagens.bsky.social about AGI and SI; Connor's optimism and outlook is inspiring youtu.be/7Y_1_RmCJmA
Why AI Development Is Not What You Think with Connor Leahy | TGS 184
YouTube video by Nate Hagens
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You know, I really hope people are realising how trivial software development is, and that outsourcing the work to generative tools whole-sale is definitely not a footgun I mean, look at this silly graph from roadmap.sh/backend - surely no one needs to actually know what any of this actually means?
@krassenstein.bsky.social alt text on your images would massively help out visually impaired users on BlueSky who otherwise may not get to enjoy your posts
Using AI/LLMs for search seems problematic www.cjr.org/tow_center/w... > [they] “take away transparency and user agency, further amplify the problems associated with bias in [information access] systems, and often provide ungrounded and/or toxic answers that may go unchecked by a typical user.”
AI Search Has A Citation Problem
We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.
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Interesting essay on different perceptions of gender "Right vs wrong" arguments are not always indicative of reality www.spencergreenberg.com/2025/02/why-...
Why can’t society agree on who is a “man,” who is a “woman,” and who is neither? An empirical and philosophical investigation into the metaphysics of gender.
by Spencer Greenberg Gender is a central part of many people’s identities, and yet a very basic and politically contentious question is still being debated: What IS gender? And what defines w…
spencergreenberg.com
Nice open-source screen-recording utility for MacOS: github.com/lihaoyun6/Qu...
GitHub - lihaoyun6/QuickRecorder: A lightweight screen recorder based on ScreenCapture Kit for macOS / 基于 ScreenCapture Kit 的轻量化多功能 macOS 录屏工具
A lightweight screen recorder based on ScreenCapture Kit for macOS / 基于 ScreenCapture Kit 的轻量化多功能 macOS 录屏工具 - lihaoyun6/QuickRecorder
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Oh no! Hilary's emails are crashing the market on Hunter Biden's laptop! Those rapscallions!
"Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow." - Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951 hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/o...
On Fake Hannah Arendt Quotations
This article discusses a mis-attributed quote to Hannah Arendt circulating on social media, exploring why such alterations occur and their potential consequences. Berkowitz argues that while simplifie...
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Excellent talk by @maggieappleton.com on where we currently sit with AI, potential implications for the future, and the responsibility we have to take ownership of the things that humans are good at, while using AI as a _tool_ to do things better, not as a crutch maggieappleton.com/forest-talk
The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
An exploration of the problems and possible futures of flooding the web with generative AI content
maggieappleton.com
You either love false dichotomies, or you have no idea that you're using them
A human somewhere in the world has mistaken my email address for theirs for years; I frequently get a view into their current interests The latest: a sub to a crypto newsletter, suggesting that retirement in 12 months is possible with a few $1000 in memecoins, thanks to extreme volatility wtaf :/
At war with a villain You can't call a truce You put down your weapon but now he's got two A liar's a liar Take him at his word Forever rebelling against the absurd The world made us sick How can it heal us?
Adults are often just kids in saggy bodies Maturing is not about one's age - if one never puts effort into improving the things that they don't yet know are crappy about themselves, they'll end up acting like children until the end
luna@imlunahey.com · 2y agopeople over 30 quote this with some life advice for the rest of us?
/me maybe I should try fish shell... /in terminal $ brew install fish $ fish -i $ just <tab> hoooooooooooooooly flippin' shits there's autocomplete out-of-the-box O.o
splits can be diffed in Vim O.o - open a new tab with :tabe - paste text - open a vertical split with :vnew - paste other text - bind scrolling across splits with :set scrollbind - activate diffing with :windo diffthis
Was using nnn for file exploration, and came across yazi (github.com/sxyazi/yazi) yesterday - holy smokes it's good And then... yazi.nvim (github.com/mikavilpas/y...) goes and makes scoping greps by directory or selected files in Neovim trivial boom!
GitHub - sxyazi/yazi: 💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.
💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O. - sxyazi/yazi
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well, you can tell by the way I utilise my gait, I'm a lady's gentleman, no time to fraternise
