I wish I could go back in time and tell my past self not to let anyone know that I'm remotely skeptical of LLM coding. I genuinely think there's a big segment of the workforce who will basically reject all criticism, as long as they can convince themselves that the person is biased

I once saw Ron Jeremy leave a 24 hour laundromat in Manhattan at 2AM across the street from a chess bar. Someone there yelled at him for an autograph and he said "not now buddy" and got into a Toyota camry. He then backed into another car as he was trying to get out and drove away

what’s the largest animal you think you could beat in a fight i’ll go first: ponyo

Cloud LLM providers are a bit like cyber cafes. Back in 1999, hardware and games were evolving together. It was expensive to buy a PC because you knew it was likely to be too slow within a couple of years. So you went to a third party who had economies of scale.

Hey AI-empowered developers, What's your contingency plan for when tokens get 20x more expensive??

One very strange thing I've noticed as a software developer is, every team has that one AI evangelist, who's trying to be very visible about applying LLMs And this guy is almost always the one asking the worst questions about your work.

Hey just checking in about the AI models. Are they supposed to be improving? Is it supposed to happen at least once a year? What's up with that?

"skunkworks" is way too cool a name for what is essentially a bunch of pocket protector nerds sitting in a big office park

it is sort of interesting that the most expansive conceptions of "harm," those which were associated with the political left during the Obama years, have become practically sole province of political right.

The absolute irony of a MF who can't reliably perform a "jump to definition"... Trying to tell me that I have to download certain tools because they're the Future of Coding

In fairness, it did pause briefly before leaving the scene of the accident.

Guy in charge of a society that was almost exterminated by a group of people calling themselves the Master Race: "nobody's allowed to say the word 'phenotype' for the next twenty years" Liberals: "this is genocide"

Why am I not able to specify a collection of type signatures (and unit tests), and have the AI fill out my program for me? This would solve a lot of the pain points that people describe with "vibe coding". Because you would have a lot of mechanical correctness checks, "for free"

Democrats are too far gone, man

so ICE agents were “confused” by the order to revoke the visa of a student activist with a green card but then … disappeared him anyway because he was Palestinian? Jesus Christ

venture capital burned through all of the good “what if a computer could do <x>” business ideas by like 2009 and everything since has required increasingly degrading levels of suspended disbelief. silicon valley must move beyond computers

Trump is a puppet of Putin which is why he's antagonizing Russia's Much Stronger neighbor and largest trading partner. This will go great for Russia

Javascript never should have been allowed to escape the confines of the browser. Loosing it upon servers was a mistake and the first domino in the decline and eventual extinction of humanity.

When people learn that I take COVID precautions, they get stressed. They worry that I'm missing out on important parts of life. But it's like, my brother, it takes you three weeks to recover from a cold, and this happens twice a year. Idk who's missing out on more!!

Liberals defending the First Island Chain

Yo has anyone checked in with Shen Yun now that USAID is being shut down

I love AI art because it gives us back reality as it truly is: soaked in glistening condensate of uncertain origins, shadowy yet luminous in a moody dialectic of chrome and chiaroscuro, and every detail decomposing into eldritch fractal madness if you look too close. body without organs horror baby

I love how Sapir Whorf is called a "hypothesis". As though it could ever be tested!!!!

Explaining current events to my parents is insane. Because it's like "you know that Huge Thing that happened when you were 35 years old and you were reading the news every single day? Oh, you don't? Oh, well, this thing happened back then and now there's an update"

bolsonaro plot to poison opponents foiled by bolsonaro accidentally taking poison himself

Is the boiler in the room with us now?

The new python static typing stuff is cool as hell pyright-play.net?code=MQAgDgn...

The only way for Market Forces to demonstrate the inferiority of our barbaric farming practices is for us to have a massive pandemic that kills a ton of wildlife and people and livestock

Generative AI is about deskilling, and the type system is a skill

There's two types of clever code. There's code you have to be clever to understand. And there's code you have to be clever to write. And people think these two categories generally overlap but they don't.

The reason Hillary's emails should have been controversial is that we know she was basically asking her interns to bring her hot dog water for lunch

WW2 Japanese officer: my god, they have so many ships. That one is only for making ice cream. That has truly broken my spirit and showed me our cause is lost. Pete Hegseth: You can’t shoot ice cream at the enemy. Ice cream is fucking gay and woke.

Rob Horning on the bizarre dystopia of the Salesforce ad for AI agents: "Basic civilities and accommodations will be automated out of existence, so that they can be sold back to atomized individuals as perks or bonuses... necessarily administered by machines" robhorning.substack.com/p/can-we-alr...

Regardless of what trump does, Ukraine was losing badly already in the war. And it's the fault of the EU and USA. We waited until a moment where Russia had fully dug in (literally). And we pressured Ukraine into advancing!!

[leaning over to my seatmate in a nosediving passenger jet] you like string beans? guess what! thanks to donald trump's policies, they're about to get more expensive. donald trump promised to lower the prices of string beans, but he didn't. now you'll have to pay more for string beans than ever befo

My favorite thing about Signal, the privacy app, is that the very first thing it does is tell everyone in the world that you've joined Signal. In other words, it counterintuitively leaks data about you. Potentially sensitive data!!!

gitlab is kiki firefox is bouba

Groimes arm troyin to boy OpenAyOy

Today’s millennial product of excellence. You’re not making spaghetti at home, you are a sophisticated culinary expert who spends 8 dollars for only the finest of Italy

You ever see a cute dog video on social media so then you have to sprint over to annoy your own dog

"Specifically, higher confidence in GenAI is associated with less critical thinking, while higher self-confidence is associated with more critical thinking. Qualitatively, GenAI shifts the nature of critical thinking toward information verification, response integration, and task stewardship."

Muting Tom Brady, turning on the Philly police scanner

Who's this Tom Grady guy

Trump is gonna say something like "in order to enable us to safely cut down on the defense budget, we're going to nuke Beijing tomorrow at noon" And then when China responds, every liberal will complain about "Chinese aggression " "They really need to learn to take a joke"

So the thing about programming is that it's a lot like playing pool. The best pool players find themselves taking a long series of easy shots. And it's because they're making the right choices.