reading yet another discussion pro/anti LLM (this time in debian) and it's incredible how an explicit statement that it's OK to use LLMs for code generation is being framed by the pro-LLM side as 'agreeing to disagree'

RE: https://ruby.social/@davetron5000/116121221889473016 This is less extreme than my own position but interesting anyway. In particular I have no faith that the problems around it will be solved in a meaningful timeframe. (I agree that they're all solvable in principle, I just don't think […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116110912928005524 I switched away from 1Password because they started using Electron instead of native apps. Nostalgic for the days when that was the biggest complaint I had about an app, now I need to find a Bitwarden alternative. (Ironically Bitwarden is […]

Switched my servers (home and VPS) over from tailscale to wireguard this weekend. Works nicely on #freebsd in particular. #debian was a little less straightforward but still not bad. Next task is to figure out DNS rather than hardcoding the IP addresses. Not entirely sure what the right option […]

In order to remove Andrew from the line of succession, every Commonwealth realm must independently pass legislation to give that effect. That gives rise to the possibility that some of them would fail to do so and we'd have a situation where the York line inherited some of the realms and […]

Instead of defending the use of LLMs for polishing up your writing, we could be advocating for unpolished writing. Blog posts with spelling errors and awkwardly repeated words. Emails that sound a bit less warm and professional because you forgot the preamble of "Apologies for the late reply […]

every time i touch a service class in our codebase i turn it into ... a method

them: as a senior engineer, i expect you to discuss tradeoffs in your technical solutions me: cool, let’s talk about the externalities of LLMs them: wait not like that

Satisfying to tidy up some repeated code that had been building up over the last couple of months. 340 lines deleted across 32 files. Don't automate writing boilerplate, delete it.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116083623180403291 every time I complain about something like this, some AI fan will show up to say ‘well obviously there still has to be a human in the loop’ well, yes, but the problem is that most of the time there clearly isn’t a human in the loop. it’s […]

[LLMs] I feel like I’m constantly hearing ‘sensible’ AI defenders claiming things like ‘it’s fine as long as you have a human in the loop’. and yet they’ll still come out and say that they generate so much code without reviewing that they no longer understand what it does […]

RE: https://ruby.social/@ingemar/116071315409399467 what are the chances that anybody involved will learn anything from this?

So far not that impressed by Bluesky over Mastodon. It has more celebrities, I'll give it that. The recommendation feature has spontaneously started telling me to follow dozens of US law professors. 🤷🏻

[palestine, genocide] UN report finds Israel's actions to be ‘consistent with genocide’ https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-committee-finds-israels-warfare-methods-gaza-consistent-genocide

[Bluesky] Finding the Bluesky app (not the network itself) quite annoying so far. If there are new posts to load and you hit the load button or pull down to reload or whatever, it then moves you to the top of the feed *past* all of the things that just loaded. So now I have to scroll down to […]

[gbpol, labour, palestine] Keir Starmer engaging in outright genocide denial at PMQs. It doesn’t count as genocide because Hamas started it, apparently. Israel can kill as many civilians as it likes, as far as Starmer is concerned, because they’re asking for it. I thought my opinion of him […]

I wish Americans would stop referring to ex-military as “vets”. I see people talking about vets and get my hopes up for pet-related content and they always mean veterans not veterinarians. Disappointing.