One of the ways I'm dealing with AI slop at work is that when I'm giving feedback on the work I'm making sure to never assign the responsibility of the bad code to the AI. I'm directly saying that "this change that YOU made needs to be corrected". I'm always assigning the output of the AI to the person who put me in the position of reviewing the work. It is their responsibility to read the code that they're trying to review, they are responsible for 100% of the code, so they also get 100% of the blame when it's bad. If a change is confusing or nonsensical I'll ask "why did YOU make this change?". I'll never ask why an AI made a change, that we cannot know. All we can know is why someone thought it was acceptable to ship garbage, and we can assign them the responsibility for the garbage that they're willing to ship
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mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchSoftware person, co-founder of PyCascades and PuPPy, artist in my free time, collector of hobbies.
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@Hex@kolektiva.social but even if you weren't forced to buy a car you are forced to deal with the negative externalities like air pollution, noise pollution, and pedestrian fatalities. Let's not forget that cars brought us the delightful innovation of leaded gasoline, which then literally coated the planet in lead.
I do think LLMs are bringing us the next form of leaded gasoline, everything is getting worse, and all information is getting warped. Misinformation was already getting bad before LLMs but it's accelerated that problem by an order of magnitude. It seems to exacerbate mental health problems in many people. I could go on.
Me and my friend group beat the main "story" of Big Walk this evening. It's so freaking good y'all, you have to play it if you can. One of the best group gaming experiences I have ever had.
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@QasimRashid@mastodon.social link to the story for those interested:
https://www.kcur.org/news/2026-07-28/missouri-couple-shot-dead-in-guatemala-after-local-ice-stop-led-to-deportations
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Like I don’t know if they’re using the tool heaps differently and getting better results, or they’re doing the same rework as I’m doing and just not perceiving it as a slowdown, or if they have different and much more permissive quality standards to mine.
I suspect it's a mixture of things, but IME the people who I work with directly that all see it as a force multiplier are way more permissive of quality (and arguably wouldn't know what quality even looks like anyway), and are also bad at tracking how long things take.
One guy I know spent 8 hours prompting and reprompting claude to craft a plan, then had it implement the plan. The plan was garbage and the implementation was worse than the plan. I could have cranked out what he had Claude do in less time. The code review was also a slog, took me longer to review the code than it took him to prompt claude (it was like 8k LOC), and there were like 200 comments on the PR. He spoke highly of this experience and described claude as a force multiplier afterwards. He's delusional.
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@jonny@neuromatch.social I'm struggling to figure out what is going on in that charles repo. It looks like it's a place for a specific open claw agent to find work and it does this by offering bounties to people who will send it issues in other repos. But then the issue tracker is riddled with other bots opening issues showing work they did in other repos. Each one of these issues then has multiple other bots replying saying that they'll fix the issue. And then there's yet another class of bot that is trying to fix every issue in the charles repo by simply adding a package.json file or something similar to the charles repo. The whole fucking thing is a rats nest of wasted compute and I hate it.
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@vie@hachyderm.io I'm sure I don't truly know, but I think that it's essentially a form of short sighted eagerness, combined with imposter syndrome. They feel like they're able to do things they could not do before, and they want to be the first/most eager to do it because they feel like that will keep their job secure. But really, if your whole job can be automated with an LLM what incentive is there to keep you? What value are you providing if you don't understand what the code being produced does?
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I'm so happy for you to finally have a tool that can write your code for you so you can collect a 6 figure paycheck for doing essentially nothing. I wish you were forward thinking enough to have any concept of negative externalities.
It'd be a lot easier to be excited about these tools if they were sparking our country's investments into solar and wind, but they're not, they're instead being used to justify more investments in fossil fuels. These tools, which were already built by extracting the labor of countless people, are now being used to justify extracting more fossil fuels from the planet so we can increase the rate at which we're cooking the earth.
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@cstross@wandering.shop fully automated luxury gay space communism implies that everyone is equal. Fully automated leopard-face-chomping neo-feudalism implies that one could be the Lord doing the face chomping. These shitheads want a hierarchy.
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@vie@hachyderm.io oh for sure there's a level of feeling superior to others mixed into this. I reviewed some code this past week that was really bad, super backwards, and nothing like anything I'd seen before, and I said as much in my review, but more diplomatically. I was then lectured about how it's actually really clean, and a "well established" pattern. The problem is that the pattern they said they were using wasn't what was in the code, and my suggestion for what they should do, was actually the pattern they were referencing. They had no idea what they were doing, yet they felt it necessary to tell me that it was well established, and "clean", and that I was wrong.
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Put differently: if what is arguably one of the most important pieces of infrastructure in the software world is allowed to enshittify this hard, then we're truly cooked. Microsoft is actively learning lessons from being able to provide such poor service for such a critical piece of infrastructure. The lessons they are learning are not good.
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@erisceleste @daisy Yes, as far as I can tell the guy I was dealing with was only measuring the time it took to write the code, and not all of the time around it. He was bragging about he only wrote "about 5 lines of code", and he was absolutely not counting my code review time, which was certainly more time than he worked on the whole PR.
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Just a quick follow-up:
The cheapest PS5 is $599. Playstation Plus is $79.99 per year for the cheapest tier, and that is the only way you can play games online.
If you pay yearly for Playstation Plus your 5 year total cost of ownership is: $998.95
If you pay per-quarter for Playstation Plus your 5 year TCO is: $1158.80
If you pay per-month for Playstation Plus your 5 year TCO is: $1258.40
This all assumes Playsation Plus doesn't increase in price in the next 5 years.
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@toolbear@tech.lgbt @cstross@wandering.shop my edit says otherwise 😎
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@jacob@social.jacobian.org @glyph@mastodon.social calling it software engineering is absolutely a joke, it has been a joke for a while, and the rush to adopt LLMs and mostly not read their output is probably the strongest evidence we have that it's been a joke.
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@dbattistella wow, that's so cool! I already loved vultures, but my love for them has just grown even more.
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@glassbottommeg@mastodon.gamedev.place I'm the same way, but my friend group is all in on it, so I got it. FWIW this game doesn't feel very EA, though I'm only like 6 hours in. It feels very much like Valheim, but with Pirates, and a lot of nice little QoL improvements. They've done a good amount of reducing the amount of bullshit chores you have to do.
If you post to the photography or painting related hashtags with shit you made with AI you get blocked on site. It's not a painting if you didn't fucking paint it. It's not a photo if you didn't use a camera to take the picture.
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@marijn@mastodon.social wow, beautiful art! Excited about this project.
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@potterybyosa@mastodon.social @Jgbird@mas.to well I can't argue with that!
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@webology@mastodon.social MangoHud is your friend
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@webology@mastodon.social these don't look too bad! If I can't nab a steam machine I might try to build one. It still might be slightly too big for my space though.
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@davidculley@hachyderm.io @a_lex_ander@mastodon.social yes, as someone who has literally assembled at least a thousand PCs I've never had this become an issue. It's entirely overblown.
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@Jgbird@mas.to I do not think of you as an amateur 😂
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@freakboy3742@cloudisland.nz Google is only worth $4.5T, do you expect them to actually be good at what they do?
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@glassbottommeg@mastodon.gamedev.place I do the same thing all the time and I gave in for Windrose with no regrets yet
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@amostart@mastoart.social my favorite place to be in April for exactly this reason. Sadly won't be in Tucson this year 😢
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@fromjason@mastodon.social there are undoubtedly more. Multiple people disappeared from the system with no evidence they were deported, you just couldn't look up what facility they were in anymore. We have no clue how many lives have been taken. We probably won't know for years.
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@chrisjrn@social.coop @MaggieFero@hachyderm.io a friend of mine just recommended the same thing within the last 5 minutes 😂
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@MaggieFero@hachyderm.io oh that is a useful reference! It's about the same noise level as my vacuum, maybe a little louder. Thank you!
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@miyotehew one of my favorite birds ❤️
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@gimblll@mastodon.gamedev.place nice! The one games related podcast I listen to, The Besties, love your game. It made their top 10.
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@stargirl@hachyderm.io @josefprusa@mas.to lol, lmao
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@Kevin oh! I almost forgot Houlden's Rise Above is the absolute best bakery I've ever been to hands down. It is a vegan bakery, but that does not make it any less. It's truly amazing, if I lived in Tucson I would be there every day they're open.
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@elexia@catcatnya.com correct. No one is doing a single prompt, especially the developers who are enthusiastic, and definitely not the OpenClaw enthusiasts. The argument I've seen for the cost per prompt pricing being low has supposedly included the training costs. Essentially folks are saying you can amortize the cost of training across all prompts later, so cost per prompt is: amortized training cost + inference cost. However, no one actually knows the amortized cost per prompt, AND no one seems to be accounting for the fact that these models aren't around for very long. It would be one thing if we could amortize the cost of the newest frontier model over 10 years, but we're simply not doing that.
No one knows the true cost, and as a result the boosters want to argue that it's cheaper than you think, but all evidence shows that it's incredibly expensive when you consider that we're now trying to increase how many terawatts of power we can produce by what seems to be an order of magnitude, just so we can support these models. I don't recall seeing a ton of news about how we need to significantly increase our energy output because Amazon was scaling up AWS, or Microsoft scaling up Azure, or Google scaling up GCloud. I'm sure they had an impact, but not like what we're seeing.
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@astraluma@tacobelllabs.net @Dio9sys@haunted.computer looking at the technical specs that seems like maybe it's purely a software limitation and something that could be resolved with a 3rd party app, or a future update from them. I would definitely choose this as a primary phone if it was fully featured.
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@webology@mastodon.social that's rad. What's the case situation?
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@Gargron@mastodon.social do Threads next
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Related question: Have you used "open ear" earbuds while doing tasks like mowing a lawn with an electric mower? Is that reasonably possible without cranking the volume so high that I damage my ears? Or do I really need to go with an in ear earbud? I struggle with in ear stuff as they all irritate my ear canal. I'm looking for earbuds because over ear headphones are way too uncomfortable to wear during the summer while doing yard work, or while working out.
Boosts welcome, but please only reply if you have actual experience, not speculation. Assume I am already knowledgeable about headphones, I have 4 pairs I regularly use that vary in price from ~$150 to ~$1,000 USD, I am really only looking for a specific answer to my problem.
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@signalapp fuck yeah, more My Daily Life from Plastic Thing!
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@emerssso@union.place I'm sure it does!
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@tapirgirl@flipping.rocks wow, two in one day. I'm so jealous. I've been wanting to see a snowy owl since I was a child, but still haven't seen one.
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@freakboy3742@cloudisland.nz I heard that once they hit $10T everything will work well
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@chrisjrn@social.coop @glyph@mastodon.social @jacob@social.jacobian.org yeah that seems appropriate to me. I just refer to people as software developers. We're developing software, we're not engineering it (for the most part, there are some folks taking stuff incredibly seriously).