I've posted on vibe coding reddit to ask folk what would make it easier for them to learn about their code (if they started vibe coding without prior coding skills) https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1pb9sfx/what_would_help_you_learn_about_your_code/

@sue as someone who learned to code for scientific computing but then has rarely needed the skill since grad school, using an LLM to support the occasional bit of coding I do has been great. Kind of like how Duolingo has been effective at improving my Spanish, which I took years of in school […]

Thanks so much for your reply to my post, unfortunately I was out having a fun time and couldn't be arsed reading it but I hope you have a great day. 👍🏻

I sometimes see people describing resistance to LLM assisted coding as gatekeeping and I get that, software engineering culture is absolutely rife with gatekeeping, I quite literally dedicated dedicated my career to developer education because I want more people to have access to these […]

*hoards phone with more intensity*

When I was a kid in the 1980s, british children's tv was very slime oriented, you hardly ever see slime on telly these days

I used to have two modes: nice, and monster. So every time I manage to be assertive without being an arsehole is a victory. Honing in on my goal of impenetrable indifference.

It's fairly common to worry that by cutting toxic folk out of your life you might regret it, especially when they're gone, but I can tell you that when I got my cancer diagnosis one of my top priorities immediately became minimising the time I spent with people who made me miserable. I know […]

Really enjoying Cancer Detectives on Channel 4, there are some amazing things happening in cancer medicine right now https://www.channel4.com/programmes/cancer-detectives-finding-the-cures

I saw folk talking about this on LinkedIn earlier and some saying it was made up, it is not lol Obviously this is total shite but it's making me wonder if it might be valuable to probe the idea that LLM assisted coding is an abstraction that uses natural language (English) as a high level language

Catching up with the OCaml PR drama, so nice to see how the maintainers handled it.. I've always found it helpful to remember your response to this kind of public situation is also (or even primarily) for others reading rather than just the person you're responding to lol, this is such a good […]

It boggles my mind that people who know how to code and are able to use LLMs to automate code generation effectively draw the conclusion that learning to code will not be relevant to future generations.. Encouraging people to cultivate some awareness of their own skills and understanding would […]

A long time ago I worked in bookshops, when high street bookselling went to shit, the focus on deep discounts etc.. booksellers knew you made more profit on the backlist titles people who loved books selected, but they were ignored because corporate folk assumed they were all marxists or […]

"Writing code is easy. Once you have a solution in mind, and have mastered the syntax of your favorite programming language, writing code is easy. Having an LLM write entire functions for you? Even easier. But the hard part isn’t the writing. It’s the reading. It’s the time it takes to load the […]

When talking about people who aren't here anymore I have to say I think the best compliment I can pay someone is that they were good company

Guy trying to sell something at the door yesterday but luckily I was able to draw the conversation to a close quickly because he asked "where is your husband" lol

A lot of the new vibe coding platforms lock you in by using proprietary back-ends and other non-portable code. Claude Code etc don’t, but there are a lot of downstream, dedicated platforms using very dark patterns. Another reason to avoid.

This makes me sad and makes me want to revisit the idea I made a half arsed version of on glitch where you remixed a project that was broken and had to fix it.. avoidance of debugging is avoidance of the learning that opens up opportunities through software […] [Original post on glasgow.social]

My weekend plans are shopping for various microwaveable and otherwise heated garments

My house is fucking freezing because I kept opening the door to hear the noise from hampden 🤣

On the one hand I'm glad to see the increase in understanding that software engineering isn't writing code. On the other we now have to counter the "deduction" that this means writing code is longer a valuable skill lolol. If software engineering is a more abstract skillset than writing code […]

Slack really needs that thing discourse forums have where it warns you you're about to post something that *checks notes* several dozen people have already posted literally right above the text field you're typing in lolololol

So gaining fitness gets slower but losing it is somehow faster. I see. Getting older is a series of practical jokes isn't it.

Less of a context collapse, more of a context sinkhole

Men explaining my own posts to me in the replies

Love to get a linkedin connection request saying they discovered you through a community you haven't participated in for years, open the slack out of curiosity and discover people in there arguing about a flippant social media post you made lolll

This thing that 404 is writing about in the US—the dehumanizing fake content created purely because Facebook pays people to make it? https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-videos-of-ice-raids-are-wildly-viral-on-facebook/ It has a direct precedent in the Myanmar genocide and has been widely […]

It's hard to even imagine the scale of trademark violation notifications web hosting services of any kind must be getting rn from vibe coded websites people have deployed without even realising they contain that

My brother is temporarily staying in a flat where the kitchen has a warming drawer and having never heard of this before I now fail to understand how I'm supposed to continue without one

A few weeks ago I shared a tutorial on how to make a simple HTML gallery and host it online for free. Here's a version that uses the 11ty static site generator. https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/making-a-free-image-gallery-with-11ty-and-neocities-org/ #tutorial #gallery #imagegallery #11ty […]

I keep seeing the idea that English is the next programming language and it's making me think there's a kind of inversion of how we think of coding skills and abstraction. I'd say that in order to express the necessary information in an English language specification you currently need […]

Interested to see more of this kind of discussion, what is the difference between LLM generated code and copy paste from stack overflow, from boilerplate etc (setting aside the difference in consent on the training data of course) https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTCoding/s/ijq6iqq9Ct

Incredible, first-of-their-kind images show an orca being born in Norway https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/incredible-first-of-their-kind-images-show-an-orca-being-born-in-norway-and-the-rest-of-its-pod-forming-a-protective-circle 🐬 #cetaceans #marinemammals #marinelife #marinebiology […]

Men replying to women with some sort of perceived gotcha and as their first interaction, this is the masto shit that would earn you a sore face where I come from, say what you like about glaswegian men but they are overwhelmingly not that stupid

I like Guillermo del Toro but I also think men should stop making versions of Frankenstein

Go away, put it on my gravestone 👍🏻

Low number of fucks in the bank at the moment pals

As infuriating as the thing about Gillian Anderson getting a fraction of the pay David Duchovny was for the x files is for the obvious reasons, and as much as I enjoy Duchovny, in what fucking universe is she worth less than him lol gies a break

I haven't been able to swim in a week and a half and I can tell I'm at the stage where I'm about to start having swimming dreams

"The more Copilot handles, the less devs feel responsible for the code they ship." A lot of interesting stuff in here https://dev.to/dev_tips/copilot-is-gaslighting-developers-and-were-all-pretending-its-fine-51j9

My conviction that most LLM coding tooling is aimed at avoiding learning rather than enabling it just keeps getting stronger. Today I'm looking at debugging tools for LLM generated code and you'll never guess what everything I'm finding uses, why it's more LLMs of course. 🤡

I think my capacity for justifying and advocating for shit I'm an expert in is almost at zero. Unfortunately I still likely have many years of work ahead of me and I'm a woman working in tech lololol.

Somehow managed to miss this, free public transport trial in Glasgow next year https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25583861.free-public-transport-glasgow-pilot-begin-2026/

"Maybe some of you think I’m an idiot: You don’t get it at all lol. But that’s kind of my point. There are insiders and outsiders. When I talk to researchers or engineers who are happy to drop AGI into the conversation as a given, it’s like they know something I don’t. But nobody’s ever been […]

Someone has suggested LLMs are "good for writing summaries" but today I wrote a summary of all 38 chapters in "The Book I Can't Talk About Until it is Done" and this really helped me put them in order better and decide what I need to write next, cut and revise. Just having the summary done […]

Sometimes people comment on me not presenting feminine or whatever and tbh I'm always like, okay, I don't really think about it, which is of course privilege as a cis person.. It never comes from trans or non binary folk though, pretty much only cis women, it's interesting!

You might've heard of its spiritual successor, https://neocities.org? Recently I put together a beginner-friendly tutorial showing you how to create your own gallery page. https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/making-a-free-image-gallery-with-neocities-org/ I'll be turning this into a series, so stay […]

I had a pull request on an open source github repo the other day that was basically a couple of typo fixes in code comments, but also other commits that were unexplained and not mergeable, so I explained this and the person came back saying copilot made those changes.. Then they made more […]

Been thinking a lot lately about the deep tension between abstraction and context. What do I mean by "abstraction" and "context"? Abstraction to me, fundamentally, is separation. Distance. It's that which can be lifted up out of its context and sent far away. A software library. A bylaw. A […]

So close to getting it