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#Music as Oferlund. #Podcast at Kodsnack (swedish lang). Runs a #SmallTech software business named Ziran. Interests include #Climate, #TechEthics, #Music, #MusicProduction, #FOSS, #Photography, #Gardening and programming languages. #Antifascist #Anarchist #Butlerian #Luddite.
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Joined July 05, 2025
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@parismarx@mastodon.online Just FYI Framework are supporters of the right-wing extremist DHH, and continue to support him despite backlash
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@lianna @chirpbirb If ”livelihoods are at stake” then they can do the most basic amount of work required, read the readme and just pin the commit they want. Come on.
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@eFlex Min känsla är att det är ett estetiskt val som ger citatet provenans och patina, något kontextuellt går förlorat om man bara delar själva texten. Men det är OK med mig så länge det finns alt-text.
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@lawprofblawg@mstdn.social I used to spend years lifting heavy weights, slowly building my strength and endurance, fighting through fatigue and lack of motivation.
A forklift could have lifted all that weight in an instant.
The weight lifting game has changed forever.
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@munificent@mastodon.social @sarna@types.pl Oh I completely agree with you; personally even if it does what it's supposed to I would not touch it. I genuinely think it is inducing brain damage in a lot of developers right now. People don't seem to realise that the way you grow and learn something is by doing it, and if you outsource the doing not only will you stop learning but your abilities will absolutely atrophy. It's as if all the other joggers out there are suddenly riding little golf carts around the park, bragging about how much faster their jogs are. BUT once again - assuming it's true, assuming there is utility. I feel like even that is giving it too much credence! I just don't see the claimed utility. The only example of someone who uses it and is demonstrably productive that I have seen is Mitchell Hashimoto.. and despite him saying that he benefits I really don't think he is more productive with it than without it. Somehow he built his career before LLMs doing exactly the same kind of things as he is doing now with the same level of output.
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@sarna@types.pl @munificent@mastodon.social Came here to say the same thing. The article keeps saying "assuming the utility is there" - well, is it? Not that it matters to me, I am against AI anyway because programming to me is not at all different from other creative endeavours. You can make any argument about utility in code for utility in (commercial) art as well and it's equally abhorrent to me in either domain. Any domain. Summaries? No. Writing? Hell no. Music? Never. Art? No. Code? No. Any generated code is instant tech debt, a black hole of anti-knowledge in a field which is all about understanding things.
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@oatmeal I feel the way you feel about AI art about everything AI. The words are empty, the connections are trite and bland, it’s just an endless soup of mashed potato mix. I don’t think AI is good even for backgrounds or form emails or job applications or anything because whoever is at the receiving end will pick up on the complete lack of energy in it. I also don’t think it’s inevitable. It’s enormously costly and seems to generate absolutely zero profit so far. This period of subsidized AI everywhere can’t last.
Look at these amazing toads by @kramo@chaos.social !
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@Crell@phpc.social Here's something that rubs me the wrong way: "At some point soon, I will have to figure out how to work with AI coding tools" - No, you don't. That's a choice you are making. In the end, you are making the same choice as those who say "It is what it is". You choose personal convenience over your convictions. Someone has to be the first to refuse. Someone has to be the one to shoulder the burden. What makes you think that someone isn't you?
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@praetor@mstdn.social @andrewrk@mastodon.social @veverkap@hachyderm.io I can only provide the dots, it’s up to you to connect them.
Really need a git forge that stores issues/prs in the repo, so that mirrors have that stuff as well. Like now I am mirroring gram from codeberg to my own forgejo, but what good does that do me? It's just the code, and I have the code locally on a couple of machines already. What I need mirrored are the issues and prs, so I can work with that stuff even if codeberg is down. Maybe I should look into radicle... I don't think tangled is doing anything useful there either? Seems to me that's just worse, now I am tangled (heh) into not just one but two wildly unprofitable VC startups.
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@jasongorman @baldur Gary Marcus is increasingly striking me as one of those ”He makes great points except when talking about my area of expertise” confident opinionators
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@carl@heath.social Det enda jag hört från svensk sida är att flera myndigheter och större företag just nu påbörjar migreringar till amerikanska moln, inte bort från dem. Totalt vansinne.
https://youtu.be/5G3-870AIKc These new songs are so fucking good, I need to see them live
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@janoc200@mstdn.social @levork@graphics.social From what I can see in software I use or are subjected to, the negative effects far outweigh any positives on average. At least for now. Maybe it will get better. Makes me think of when cocaine was discovered by the west and was added to food and drinks. Or radium in watch faces.
There is a ”Technical Program Manager at Google” posting LLM-generated slop articles about concurrency to lobste.rs and HN getting onto the front page, and it annoys me on several levels. The articles are plausible-sounding (to a casual reader) but wrong, which is bad enough. But I can see how to an unscrupulous person this kind of thing makes perfect sense. They use the slop to boost themselves and their careers, and the risk is minimal since someone has to actually understand things like Erlang message passing and concurrency to notice the factual issues, and be familiar enough with the flavour of LLM-generated bullshit to notice the confident-but-wrong patterns.
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@JustinMac84@mastodon.social @Crell@phpc.social First off, other people are already losing their jobs regardless of the choices they make personally, so to even have a choice puts them in a privileged position. Second, what are their principles worth if all it takes is to threaten with hypothetical (not real) joblessness? How about making an attempt at a principled stance before caving in? Third, the whole point of the article is that he looks down on those choosing personal convenience over conviction, yet here he is doing the same.
The suits at Morgoslop Slophub are starting to feel the consequences of wanting too much. They delved too greedily and too deep. More code, more productivity, more content. More is more, as Yngwie says. Well, you got what you asked for. Your product is shit. You are drowning in it. Your lungs are burning. It's in your eyes. No one can help you now.
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@larsmb@mastodon.online @JustinMac84@mastodon.social @Crell@phpc.social I’ll also concede that this topic is not great for my own mental health, but I feel like so many of us are far too quick to jump to helplessness when widespread refusal (a strike if you will) would make a real difference.
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@remaster@mastodon.social @kodsnack@social.podsnack.se Jag tror det är ett porträtt av August Strindberg. Men Jean Sibelius var ju väldigt lik faktiskt
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@rysiek@mstdn.social @mullvadnet@mastodon.online I'm not waiting. Looking for replacements now.
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@janoc200@mstdn.social @levork@graphics.social I’m sure you can get it to avoid most of the quirks but in my reviewing experience very few people do :(
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@mark I guess we’ll see where the tech makes sense over time, if it survives. Personally I have found it to be disappointing even for those kinds of applications..
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@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io It's kind of a funny coincidence how the same people who insist that the code is really good are the same people who proudly declaim that they don't even read code anymore
Feels like we’re stuck in a tech news Groundhog Day just recycling the same news over and over.
- A new open source project turns out to be slop.
- An old open source project adopts slop-based development practices.
- A middle-aged white guy falls in love with his AI girlfriend which he names ”Lucia”.
- A paper is published showing major frontal-lobe damage after minutes of AI usage.
- A Silicon Valley tech giant claims massive gains using AI while laying off half the staff.
- Some cloud service is having an extended outage.
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@larsmb@mastodon.online @JustinMac84@mastodon.social @Crell@phpc.social I am not asking them to make a different choice (that is up to them. I make choices for myself). I am asking them to state clearly that they are making the choice, and not frame it as ”I have no choice”.
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@patriksvensson@mstdn.social whipping myself with barbed wire to atone for your suffering 👍
FFS
❯ cargo clean
Removed 256189 files, 498.3GiB total
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@praetor@mstdn.social @andrewrk@mastodon.social @veverkap@hachyderm.io I honestly don’t understand what you are referring to here, but OK.
First they came for the em-dashes
And I did not speak out
Because I was not using SmartyPants.pl
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@levork@graphics.social I also look at a lot of AI-generated code and to me it does have a distinct personality (as in I recognize the LLM “style”) but it’s a very annoying one. Comments that spend whole paragraphs saying nothing or referring to changes that have been discarded, “does X instead of Y to avoid Z”, using outdated language constructs, an extreme love of catching and discarding exceptions whenever possible…
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@janoc200@mstdn.social @levork@graphics.social I don’t think it’s quite that simple. It’s more like a sloppiness amplifier. The people who were somewhat careless before are completely out of control now.
”Here, through a series of randomized controlled trials on human-AI interactions (N= 1, 222), we provide causal evidence for two key consequences of AI assistance: reduced persistence and impairment of unassisted performance.”
”Our results are notable on two fronts. First, while concern about AI-induced deskilling has grown, prior evidence has been largely correlational (Budzy´ n et al., 2025; Gerlich, 2025) or limited to small samples (Kosmyna et al., 2025; Shen & Tamkin, 2026). Here, through a series of randomized controlled trials on human-AI interactions, we provide the first large-scale causal evidence of this effect. Second, we demonstrate how AI can result in loss of motivation and persistence. A rich body of literature in cognitive science and education has shown that the capacity to regulate effort and persist through difficulty is foundational to effective learning, and is among the strongest predictors of long-term academic achievement, workforce adaptability, and resilience (Metcalfe & Mischel, 1999; Duckworth et al., 2007; Maddux, 2009; Metcalfe, 2009; Andersson & Bergman, 2011; Bjork et al., 2011; Kapur, 2014; Guiso et al., 2016; Mooradian et al., 2016). Our results suggest that AI assistance erodes precisely these capacities. People do not merely become worse at tasks, but they also stop trying.”
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@munificent@mastodon.social @sarna@types.pl Like, sure. I'll grant this. IF the utility is there, IF the negative externalities were not, IF the companies selling it weren't destroying the economy and funding fascism and IF you are literally Mitchell Hashimoto and already built terraform and are basically already retired and don't actually NEED your abilities as a developer anymore... then fine, you can use it. But in reality none of those conditions are true except for that last one (in one single case).
One question that has been on my mind since I forked Zed is why it's such a huge project. It's a text editor. What does all that code really do?
I still don't know if I understand why. I have looked at a fraction of the code at this point. What does it all do? Fuck if I know. But here, take a look at this for example...
Python support in Gram (forked from Zed) is mainly provided by python.rs, a single file containing 2865 lines of code (as of today). One part of that code is a function which lists virtual environments available to the editor. The code to actually discover which venvs are available is handled by a dependency (the PET library from Microsoft) but sorting the venvs in order of importance is handled here:
It's a single call to the method sort_by on a variable confusingly named toolchains, containing a list of virtual environments. I have been trying to make sense of it for a while. Like, one sort criteria is filesystem distance, which kind of makes sense. Wouldn't it make sense to primarily sort by filesystem distance, and a second sort by Python version? Instead this is primarily sorting alphabetically by executable name, it's looking at multiple environment variables for priority, it's sorting alphabetically based on conda prefix(?)...
Maybe I'm missing something, maybe I am not galaxy-brained enough to sort virtual environments with the big fellas. But I then compare this to helix which has no special handling for virtual environments, you just configure the LSP to use the venv you want to use, and I feel like maybe it didn't have to be this complicated?
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@neal@social.gompa.me @larsmb@mastodon.online I am also a self-employed freelance software engineer, for whatever that's worth :)
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@larsmb@mastodon.online @JustinMac84@mastodon.social @Crell@phpc.social I don’t know if I agree. It feels like an easy cop-out. If every problem is systemic, surely there is no individual responsibility at all then? I think it is reasonable to say that if you are going to rant about someone elses individual choices you should be honest to yourself about the choices available to you.
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@technomancy@hey.hagelb.org Reading people's takes as "oh Codeberg will hit all the same issues as Github when it grows" is making me want to migrate off it back to my own Forgejo instance. I'm already mirroring, but issues and PRs aren't mirrored (I may have made a mistake when setting it up). But yeah jeez people, don't rush to replace one SPOF with another. My dream is that we had a culture of local code clubs in towns and universities that all ran federated code forges.
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@xahteiwi ”not giving a flying fuck”
I think this is the baseline we’re working from in general, sadly
vibe sickness
Liked them so much I tried making a couple of variants for Gram.
https://codeberg.org/krig/gram-crt-theme
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@DrorBedrack @mhoye I guess the answer to that question depends on whether you are talking about the thinking spirit or the soulless husk