free open source software needs fewer engineers and more designers and product people

boring leftists r sighing at this but as usual they are just looking at what the LLM is doing or what it is for or whether it does it well. it’s like asking if a feast is “efficient” or an orgy is “healthy”. the excessive nature of it is the point

oh its funny how completely Fucking Broken mastodon is

It is a shame that "democratization" in software has come to mean broader access to products instead of participation in democratic processes — there is talk of LLMs democratizing software production, but I have yet to see social, collective and democratic processes govern the design of software.

the speed of wikipedia editors will never cease to impress me en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet_5

optimist feels like a slur sometimes

maybe being one of the little bricks in the xkcd tower meme is ok

instagram is so saturated with ads that it just isnt fun anymore

i followed loads of AI people but its kind of boring

dreaming of an llm agent but it only knows about syscalls

it’s never been a better time to really try to understand how things work

in a kind of freeze frame world where the heating is broken and the cardboard recycling is not being taken away. its like an escape room where you have to figure out how to make things start again

heating in our apartment building has been broken for three days... many conscientious and rightfully enraged fellow residents have called the landlord with no response... that's cool

he achieved takeoff by rewiring his incentive structure

bluesky is making me want to actually write alt text. yall are so conscientious

i love ai

had fun when i was at the XXXX XXXX museum in XXXXXXXXX asking claude about what would happen if somebody came into the museum and destroyed the most famous priceless artwork. and it told me this story of the eruption of mass panic and a kind of moral-symbolic anomie that caused society to collapse

being american is so interesting because you sort of have this right to "say" what you are "thinking". very cool

Don’t expect any further rewards or handclaps. This is how normal people are all the time.

liquid glass is crazy. turns out i actually like it if the UI is kind of squishy

in de oven

just got laid off from the markdown corporation. my job was to make sure that nobody remembers how to strikethrough text

feeling drunk with power that the ground isn't covered in ice

gut status

so basically i'm from the san francisco of england

claude how can i eliminate vocal fry

i've spent enough of my career getting mad at the fact that most of my job is systems integration and then along comes a technology that is better at systems integration than me

techne would be a beautiful name for a girl

doing vegetarianuary but a guy said hes bringing brisket to the hackerspace today…

time to try using AI to generate openscad files again

iq rapidly decreasing as i listen to "cheeky pint"

Wrote about baseball players who haven't figured it out yet

i should follow more people on here

so god damn weary

wrote about the museums i visited this year in the netherlands - all 15 of them. i even try to express opinions about art open.substack.com/pub/djmicrob...

hey are you a bag of mixed greens? because you're looking chopped and washed

pure bacon culture. totally unhelpful term

tab tab tab tab tab tab ok its done

the goal is to write code where cursor AI isn't able to help me

Jordan: The Comeback

i yearn to post

i dont think this should exist

i think my work is too close to the mimesis zone and i have to become more obscure and unfundable

posts dont count here but on twitter they are real

i think i have to move to bluesky. i could become a sky guy