Programmers grow in knowledge as they write code. Compilers are deterministic and don't cost you more for each line of text they take in. Determinism and practical knowledge is how most systems are maintained. It's how you fix bugs.

Posting slop online and calling it good is a tactic that abuses communities by having them check your work when there's zero work from you in these posts. This has been around before #genAI but now it can be automated by feeding the responses back into the machine and repeating the cycle.

See the number of people walking by in the street with their heads on their phones? That's how glassholes are no longer assholes. We need some decent alternatives for people to walk and phone without cameras propagating mass surveillance. Technology doesn't have to suck, but it also shouldn't Zuck.

"You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools" codeberg.org/Codeberg/org... Approved by 69% (nice) #genAI #openSource #Linux #FOSS #aiagents

I haven't posted a crazy XSS vector for a while... Works on every browser

So far, version control systems have served to identify the problem, but not the solution. To understand any of them, you have to confront the issue of merge conflicts and walk back from them. A challenge with git can be about your code, your workflow or an understanding of #git itself.

At least half the purpose of a code review is there to benefit a team of software developers and their understanding of the project. If we automate that to a point where no human is learning anything, we should call code review something else.

Have a nice weekend #bloomscrolling

Not sure if agentic coders are able to grok this: www.selc.org/news/trump-a... "hey, it's a cheaper 5.5"

Community health is at risk as Trump admin defends illegal xAI pollution

I want you to hear directly from me about a major turn in our Clean Air Act lawsuit against xAI, Elon Musk’s sprawling data center complex straddling Memphis and North Mississippi.  This week, the U.S...

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Efforts for promoting the #fediverse need to recognise that, for a first impression, a gazillion options is too much and just one is too little. Maybe aim for two. You like chocolate or strawberry? You can even have both.

Inflation is also rising artificially in #Portugal with a scheme that has already failed in Scotland or Malta. As always, it starts by charging more for plastic packaging that eventually you can redeem. But with no incentive to make redemption work, you just get charged more. Let the boycotts begin.

Social media is just some websites on the internet that people keep going to. And governments like to make lists of websites they don't want people to go to. But they let you go to the website if it tells you to vote for them and that works.

the road to hell is paved with good employees

The shortest history of the internet is probably small place good, big place bad.

Peter Flax@pflax1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Bluesky can't match the golden years of Twitter, when the platform was a mostly civil town square where everyone could interact, but when I peek at X now it's quite striking how it has become a cesspool full of misinformation, bigotry, conspiracy theories, bots, and hostility. Broken beyond repair.

I guess every other #IDE like #Zed just got better by simply not being Cursor.

Turns out that before we enter the bunker in some post-apocalypse we preemptively bunker ourselves in our minds. We "this is fine" inside our preferred reality distortion field.

If the AI-mania in the US was really constrained by energy, we would see a huge push for renewables. But it's actually constrained by the tunnel vision of its own hype.

Let's see which CLI will first let me use it without a github/gitlab login, @coderabbitai.bsky.social or @greptile.bsky.social 🤔

Homeopathic version of #mythos might be coming today

Good morning #WWDC

An essential question for the web has always been, assuming you put some text file online and anyone in the world can read it by typing the right address in their browser, who is actually doing that and how much do you care if they do?

How much can #ux really matter when the user doesn't pay for the experience? I can already hear a stakeholder asking "how much time can we keep them on the app?"

A better question than "what is your p-doom?" is " what's the likelihood that, at any point in History, #AI alignment becomes more important than human alignment?"

Mild take: all land use should respect local needs and avoid hurting those who live there. Among many other factors, land use includes noise pollution, wasted water or the overall consumption of non-renewable resources.

The cultural archetype of the generic "IT guy" is poisonous to innovation in #Portugal Need to run a cable? IT guy Fix the AC? IT guy Put up a website? IT guy Excel doesn't open? IT guy

so I just solved a ML CTF challenge with just GPT 5.5 xhigh 😅 went for 12h now it's making a nice PDF write-up 🤔 will it manage to lay out text on a page in less time?

People talk about the virality and reach that algorithmic feeds can give us. But my experience is that #mastodon can give you more meaningful engagement purely based on chronological feeds and reciprocity. Would you expect to be shouting into the void on #bluesky while trading comments on masto?

Dear #Microsoft, github.com/orgs/communi... #Copilot was good enough paired with #VSCode completion or #GitHub integration. But because you had to go full agentic, Copilot positioned itself to compete with #ClaudeCode or #Codex instead. It ain't happening.

GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing · community · Discussion #192948

Hello GitHub Community, Today we announced we are transitioning to a usage-based billing model for GitHub Copilot, effective June 1 📆 Please refer to the blog post for the full announcement link to...

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some math folks in the 1950s: "it's called Artificial Intelligence, give us money" some math folks in the 2020s: "it's called Artificial General Intelligence, give us money"

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