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  Interesting to see how “magical” and manichean the anti-ai discourse can be, at least here on mastodon. Things and people are irredeemably tainted by #ai , a single commit with a Claude code signature is enough to leave a project behind, ai is like the one ring, ai is a brainworm, ai rots your brain, etc… ngl but it feels like walking into a rationalist bar at times. (Assuming most discourse is about #llms) I get that word machines really put a strain on our understanding of what it is to be...

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  Wow the Harvard coop really is just an apparel store now huh. #cambridgema

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  “Would I behave like this/say something like this in the real world?” is a pretty good metric overall. Is this me just getting old 😂😭?

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  This is how I program these days… 🤷 #llms #llm

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  Storm day!

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  Lowkey one of the things I miss most in the US is old medieval churches that smell like centuries of moisture and incense.

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  Why the fuck is Apple Music’s algorithm so so so bad. I listen to some pretty cool albums and once it’s over it feels like listening to the same Starbucks album that matches “the genre”, with the same 18 songs each time. Jazz? Blue bossa. Idm? The same 3 aphex twin songs. Thrash metal? Here’s the same two songs by slayer and megadeth. I only want that when I listen to eurodance since there’s like only 15 good tracks total. Hate it so much…

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  “Firstly, the deconstruction of false problems (problematizations) that emerge under the computational paradigm: ‘How long before we can model human consciousness?’, ‘When will we be able simulate/replicate human experience?’, ‘How long before we ‘decipher’ the (allegedly) mathematical nature of the universe?’, ‘Is Artificial Sentience possible?’ ‘Will AI take over?’ etc. Throwing these into the trash bin of ideology.” Feels good to read something that applies the “deconstruction through vibes”...

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  #vibecoding at work. #ai #llms #llm

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  Absolutely delightful UI/UX channel. https://www.youtube.com/@interfacestudies #ui #ux #design

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  @cevenio@mastodon.social sure, i'll do that too. but for that the code first has to be written. I'm routinely maintaining around 100 repos that i have written with #llms #llm over the last 3.5 years. https://github.com/wesen

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  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mnl/116715814203059670 one day someone skeptical of #llm #llms will take me up on this. my timeline still feels like i'm living in an alternate universe.

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  all these embedded devices not exposing vsync are driving me nuts.

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  Seeing companies freaking out over their $30k monthly token bill. Finally, agents are such a problematic abstraction for working with llms. #llms #genai #vibecoding #llm

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  For all the people out there who are still "#llms don't work, I told it to do X and it didn't do it, everybody using them is deluded and just gambling away their cognitive skills", I'm happy to spend 4h (!) on any random task you want to give me, and show what my #llm - assisted coding workflow that might, hopefully, show that that isn't the case. You can do all the gotchas, I don't care, I'll give it a fair and honest try. Only...

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  I skipped crypto for years because of proof of work energy needs, but want to give it a second pass now that proof of stake has solved that issue. Things I'm mostly interested in: - digital identity - microtransactions (have your LLM agent pay me if you read my docs) - distributed storage I have no idea if these even make sense but it's stuff that seems tangentially related at least to my quest of doing distributed persistence and identity for my "OS" (for la...

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  my #llm development workflow: - type something into computer - read output - think hard - type something into computer - win

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  my favourite kind of AI / anti-AI article: "AI is opaque and incomprehensible and unreliable" 2 paragraphs later, confidently asserting "AI is totally Y it has been trained on X" (with X not really being further specified anyway). come on... at least have some rigor. You can't both decry the end of knowledge and cognition and intellect and then speak in confident contradictions without a single ounce of precision. #genai #llm

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  @sushee@ohai.social @janl@narrativ.es @ramsey@phpc.social I haven’t touched DO in about a year but one of the main reasons I pushed for a move was that their log forwarding was just abysmal. Even if you get your logs to stdout and forwarded to their log aggregator, lines will get cut off, rendering the whole thing meaningless. (We were using app platform). I used our own ELK stack with our own log forwarders baked in for a minute and we then used Datadog. DO logs drove me absolutely bananas, es...

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  The US AI economy #llm #llms #genai

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  Can't quote the toot, but I'll spend the next 4 hours (6pm EST - 10pm EST) working on @zyd 's "challenge" to build a REPL based task manager. Which oddly enough is _very_ close to what I wanted to build tonight. I'll be streaming it but without too much yapping, so it's mostly going to be me scribbling on my tablet. The goal overall was (now slightly updated): build a graphical lisp OS for my recently arrived picocalc with ulisp running...

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  Might have pushed a bit hard on the refactoring and fundamentals work this weekend…

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  NGL I'm really annoyed that we had a period of 3 years were people invested into better software engineering could have gained a headstart on using LLMs for programming/learning. And now here we are, with tokenmaxxers everywhere and tooling that encourage it, and the rest pointing at it as some kind of gotcha. I do think this is all gonna crumble and we'll by sheer economic virtue have to return to some more appropriate ways of handling the technology. #llms #llm #VibeCoding...

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  Reminder that I'm ready to spend 4h (!) of my time working on whatever thing you throw at me, with my current heavily #llm supported workflow. I'm doing this in the hope of showing that they are very capable development tools, and worth being considered seriously, hopefully for building more local / self-hosted / community-oriented software, or at least to show that they have a serious impact on what the definition of a software engineer is, in our current work practices, and th...

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  All the posts being absolutist about "AI" (problematic term, obviously) such as any use of genai models being involved in an artifact being a sign or consequence of a loss of "humanity" push the same narrative as the hyperscalers saying that AI is humanity's panacea. It posits that "AI" is a technology that through mere contact with it redefines who you are as a human and your "value". Use it and you are "elevating your skills", or, inverse...

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  granted, one thing that sucked ass was security 🤣

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  @tewha time for a greasemonkey / chrome extension!

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  Wrote some about how I use coding agents to be more human and think deeply and creatively. #llms #llm #vibecoding #codex https://the.scapegoat.dev/slowing-down-in-the-age-of-coding-agents/

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  re software "laundering": I just call it “sampling” software now. I have a great collection of samples for many situations I built up crate digging, and now I can make tracks pretty quickly, layering on a little solo when I feel like it. Depending on the situation (say, who this software is for, how much I "transformed" the samples) it'll feel like something I just straight out borrowed, but it'll also feel like mine at some point. It feels ee...