AI coding claims are conveniently nondisprovable. What studies there are show it not helping coding at all, or making it worse. But SO MANY ANECDOTES! Trust me, I am now the most efficient coder in the land. No, you can't see it. No, I didn't measure. But if you don't believe me, you are a fool.

bugfixes from rel, branch may be continvoucly morged back into develop

"you're going to face consequences" #pixelart #humanart #humanartist

lol genAI is spawning its own version of SEO snake oil. if this even works, how do we expect to be able to trust any output from these things when people are actively gaming it and you cannot distinguish the source of any information it presents

AI guys insisting on the inevitability of the tech are so irritating. every comparison they make is to something whose utility was immediately apparent. "it does things faster and we can fix its mistakes later and that'll be the job now" does not compare to "metronome that doesn't need winding"

Our AI cheerleader keeps posting that AI is great for summaries 🫠😬

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This “if you think AI helps, you’re doing coding wrong” perspective is a refreshing counterpoint to the ubiquitous “if you don’t think AI helps, you’re doing AI wrong” cope.

British journalists are always like "I only had 4 annual european holidays growing up, because my father, the Baron, was a bit of a cheapskate, so really I am working class" then 5 minutes later decree an actual working class person a faker because they drink coffee

An untold dimension of this story is the degree to which corporate law has been abused to permit corporate controllers/founders to monopolize the value of the corporation, siphoning off the wealth properly due to public stockholders (like pension funds and your 401k)

You can yell at the clouds like an old man or you can brush your teeth with radium, what’s it gonna be???

“It’s inevitable!” I shout of a thing that requires my active participation and enthusiasm to survive.

I should stop taking the AI bait. All of this shit is so pointless and boring. There is nothing more dull and tired than this technology and the entire cloud of bullshit swarming around it.

I’ve got a better idea, write less and higher quality code from scratch and stop getting distracted by imaginary productivity. Whatever your goal is I promise you you can do it more sustainably and intelligently without filling your head and codebase with low calorie garbage.

"Keir doesn't read. He has no hinterland"

Drudgery in coding is caused by: lack of craft, bad working conditions and unrealistic expectations, and insufficient experience and poor mentorship. The relief felt by using GenAI tools is mostly illusory and does nothing to address the root causes while exacerbating the problems for everyone.

It was a long-simmering and deepening dismay with what this post describes that motivated me and @cnygren.bsky.social to propose this as one of our four frictions. www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

roses are red chocolate is nice read books, punch nazis moreover, destroy I.C.E.

As a coder I can say this just isn’t true at all. Using AI to code is frustrating beyond belief—I have to spend all my effort cleaning up and correcting things I’d have done right the first time. Granted a lot of engineering had been turned into ugly rushed hackwork but it does not have to be so.

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

The amount of mental gymnastics and environmental, social, and political devastation people are willing to turbocharge at great expense just to avoid writing ten or fifteen lines of decent Python code themselves is staggering.

And in every case that I've been forced to use a new "AI-enhanced" version of something I had before, the experience is worse, the result is worse, and the task takes longer to complete

A young violinist was nervous about meeting with Jeffrey Epstein due to his 2008 child sex abuse conviction. Epstein reassured her by noting his friendship with @bardcollege.bsky.social’s Leon Botstein, and set up a dinner between Botstein and the musician. She soon became one of Epstein’s victims.

Brilliant.

I've said it before: The business plan behind this massive push for consumer-facing "A.i." is to force people to accept shittier service, worse daily lives, and a higher level of human misery and death so billionaires can make more money.

you can't be a good publication if you have mostly brilliant writers but also some hypervisible reactionary bullshitters just for balance.

Remarkable: Majority of working class voters oppose deportations of undocumented immigrants with jobs/no criminal records, per new Marquette data. Remember how pundits said 2024 meant Dems must become restrictionist to win back working class? I challenge that here: newrepublic.com/article/2059...

Exactly this right here.

The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.

I see people talking about having dozens of autonomous agents fired up, their personal mcp servers cranking, a million GPUs burning away, their sensitive personal information flashing to the world, all to generate like a fucking lame bash script and some doofy plagiarized images. Wtf are we doing???

The amount of mental gymnastics and environmental, social, and political devastation people are willing to turbocharge at great expense just to avoid writing ten or fifteen lines of decent Python code themselves is staggering.

🧪🏺 Authors assert: "archaeologists must evaluate these implications to proactively shape the foundations of our engagement with [gen- #AI]" My take? We should we should boycott & call out its use in #scicomm as something which *by its nature* diminishes accuracy, nuance & educational benefit.

Oh my god this is an incredible review.

It’s never happened before but I think this time when it crashes and burns we should force people to be humiliated and embarrassed for mindlessly boosting this bullshit, punished even, to the extent they violated the trust their position in society required of them.

The @washingtonpost.com layoffs disproportionately affected union members of color, per data from the @postguild.bsky.social. 50% of Hispanic/Latino guild members,​ 45% of Black members, and​ 43% of Asian members were laid off, compared to 37% of white members. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/wash...

Can't believe people blocked me just for being a bigoted piece of shit. I will have 7000 words in the Atlantic on this next month

Today’s ice art and poetry: “Bedrock” — I can’t believe how well Mark was able to turn water into stone and wood, and a succession of lives. One of my favorite pieces yet.

GenAI lives at the intersection of many fantasies but one of these fantasies is simply not having to do work, and it’s most appealing to people who end up doing a hundred times more work (and foisting work on others) trying to avoid doing the work than actually just like fucking knuckling down.

completely agree

God has abandoned us. Just something I noticed

If I were God I wouldnt make man in my image…I would kind of go for a new more creative thing

For decades the tech industry has insulated itself from criticism by leveraging the rhetoric of progressivism & benignity towards the disenfranchised & disabled, w promises of “access” & “democratization” that their products afford. We can’t stop them using this lang but we can stop falling for it.

"owners of residential buildings pay most of their rent earnings not on maintenance or operations, but to service their debts to their creditors...they borrowed too much to buy...based on an expectation that rents would rise faster than they actually did." www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aft...

hold on i gotta take this

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

"everyone has to get back to the office because the important thing about business is human interaction" is dying, but "white collar jobs will be replaced by AI agents within 18 months" cannot yet be born; in this interregnum a variety of morbid symptoms appear.

The billionaires take our money, they take our children, they murder moms and nurses.

I’ve been worried about getting enough fiber, but rejoice, a single tube of tomato paste is a day’s allowance and then some!