“Vibe prototyping isn't solving problems. It's creating new ones.” https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/vibe-prototyping-isn-t-solving-any-problems-but-it-s-creating-many-new-ones > AI created an environment where good design is impossible

The fuck did you just say to us

If I can think of something even more useless to stick at the top of every email, I'll let you know

started a new book series, i suppose it could be called grimdark fantasy. the first senseless, needless, unjust, and meaningless death just happened…..what- do i hate read the rest of the series for a potential modicum of justice or does no one need this right now? (not euphemism, actually a book)

Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

Hey, you better get on board with this technology, you don't wanna get left behind, etc.

There is no reality in which there is "room for genAI" I continue to unfollow and eyeroll at my peers who purport to be some flavor of "reasonable" (aka "centrist") on this. I am disgusted that you would "explore the possibilities" of added convenience in _this_ technology and what it's doing.

It’s time for the world to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the U.S Avoid the Olympics, World Cup and other sporting events. There’s no reason to celebrate the 250 birthday of this fallen nation

So, the frog stopped the National Guard from coming to Portland, along with astute lawsuits by Oregon. Only part of what's happening, but hard to understate how fundamentally the Portland Frog changed perceptions and helped morale. Humor, imagination, courage, savvy.

hat tip to the absolute legend that runs the clock at the Balmoral in Edinburgh. People are out for new years and they set the clock back. Good lookin’ out! (They have a big clock near Waverley train station and they usually run 5 minutes fast so people don’t miss their train)

Okay I think I am kind of bored of vibe coding… Just prompting really isn’t that interesting. Need to think of ways to mix it up and maybe do more of it manually? Idk. I also don’t feel like I’m learning anything. 🤷‍♀️

Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.

"my least woke opinion is---" That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania. Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.

I think we should actively encourage ad integration into LLM chatbots. Nothing gets people to dump their credible idiot friend that's wrong 5 times a day like said friend shilling an MLM.

I would like to see just one journalist quote Charlie Kirk’s problematic comments to Matt Shaw and ask him to respond.

Reiner as both a political and cultural figure is a grand lesson in how art matters. It’s not just the “art films” that matter, it’s the fun stuff too, the silly stuff, the seemingly inconsequential. It all matters because we matter, it’s all that deep because so are we.

This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants

Let people be their true selves, as they know and understand them. Let children explore their identities. Celebrate difference and variety and the incredible spectrum of humanity. The only alternative denies an opportunity to celebrate the joy of human flourishing and is ultimately unspeakably cruel

This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money. Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.

If something is tedious or clunky, your reaction shouldn't be "let's have the machine write it," it should be "how can I redesign this to be less tedious or clunky."

I collected all Ruby Black Friday deals I could find & posted them in one spot. Highlights include: $130 off @beautifulruby.com Phlex on Rails course $81 off @gorails.com annual subscription +20% @joemasilotti.com Hotwire native content Lots of @pragprog.com deals Enjoy! 🦃🔥💰

This hits close to home, I’ve worked at a place like this.

"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."

The more you utilize the library, for literally any thing, the more they get to point at usage statistics and go "see, give us more money"

Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.

The whole "you can break LLM 'safeguard' trainings by using poetic reformulations, even those produced through another LLM remix" just kind of further confirms that these are superficial pattern matchers, and that this is all they are. No intelligence at home.

It's hard to get neurotypicals to understand "I didn't do the task because I was so intensely aware of the need to do this that my brain built a wall around the concept of doing it", so we just say "I didn't do the task because I forgot."

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

i just realised— Cynthia Erivo is mohawk Storm, the best X-Men character in her napalm era. Cynthia Erivo is super-humanly talented, and has surpassed giving any f*cks about what is “expected” from her and is so totally herself. “hey I have a mohawk now, also meet my girlfriend”

am I gonna keep reposting this cute Cloud in a dress from last year ? you bet I will

I love this. Empathy Driven Development, let’s do it, chat!

“Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic” is a wild sentence to read from anything not The Onion. Also..this..this is why “people who have nothing to hide” don’t like just everyone having any and all of our data.

So I went offline there for a minute. Probably overshot what was necessary but I was fleeing the country and didn’t want anything to interfere with that. I no longer live in the United States so I’m back online and shitposting about tech. Aren’t you lucky

What if automation were about care, not code? And what if doing less made teams more effective? These bold questions shaped our latest #ChicagoRubyMeetup 🔥 Talks from doodling.dev & jremsikjr.bsky.social 📺 Watch the full recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RsW...

Feedback isn’t one-time—it’s continuous. #ValidateBeforeDuringAfter buff.ly/mNw9ldP

So aptly said! I’d prefer an early-career dev every time

I'm looking for stories about how AI is killing creative work, and I'd love to hear from you—artists, writers, illustrators, actors, designers, editors, voice actors and narrators—if your job or practice has been hit. This is going to be a big one. [email protected]

Anyone within the range of coming to get it in Chicago want a Glowforge Pro? I’ve given up on getting money for it and mostly I’d prefer it goes to someone who will continue to be creative with it 🥺

those thinking about speaking or are about to speak: Everyone in the room with you wants you to succeed. It might feel like they’re waiting for you to fail, but they took time out of their lives for this, everyone IS pulling for you. Be as cynical as you can, 👆 that’s what falls out.

I think we finally found a succinct answer for the “why Edinburgh?” Question? It won’t work with everyone, but I think it’ll hit enough of the time. ⭐️ It feels like pre-tech San Francisco

If you don’t know the context: I declared Aaron Patterson the Railsconf World Champion in my keynote, and then Aaron said “Aji, I lost Railsconf” in his..so by the transitive property Drew has declared me world champion. He was on the program committee so I think it’s official.

AC/DC is playing in Edinburgh where we are for a bit and we started talking, ‘oh this song…and that song…and that song!’ And I’m realizing…”have I been a huge AC/DC fan **this whole time??**”

Congratulations to HUNTR/X for being the first K-Pop girl group to top Billboard’s Top 100! “Golden” is a masterpiece and to anyone who says “but they’re not a real band” I have one word for you… “Gorillaz”

Denmark remembering human beings.

I wonder if part of why the management class is so in love with generative “art” is because they’ve never had real control over the output. Someone else did it and the best they could do is give feedback, and usually not very good feedback without the vocabulary to do so.

@polotek.bsky.social- recently I keynoted at Railsconf, having watched all the keynotes of all the Railsconfs to keynote about said keynotes’ contents. I wanted to let you know that your 2017 talk is super important to me, and had a pivotal place in my presentation. 50:40 if you’d like the timestamp