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"An LLM helped me with some task" is not a good argument for these things increasing productivity. Did you also factor in all the cases where it made you slower? Where the output created extra work? And how much of your work/activity is that task?

My first return guest on the second channel is going to be @nerdy.dev, though this time, we didn't nerd out about CSS!

Instead, Adam came on to share some insights on his recent job search.

The full episode will be out in a few weeks.

I can kinda see the elegance of Modifier being both the variable name and the class name but god is it hard to teach newbies

I'm joking but am I?

70% of bugs people new to programming run into could be fixed by significant whitespace. Every beginning tutorial should teach them how to set up format on save before a single line of code is written

My workaround of choice is jsonc. I can learn to live alongside the other limitations of JSON but the lack of comments are too ouchy

JSON's lack of comments is singlehandedly the biggest driver of the invention of new data serialization languages

Writing JSON: I wish JSON were less verbose. I hate all the quotes and the commas

Writing YAML: Now I understand why JSON is like that

The latest in vomitous AI billboards: "A digital workforce doesn't dream"

I actually like looking at multiple links to get multiple ideas from multiple people's perspectives. Having it all boiled down to a single fawning answer doesn't jive with me. Also I don't like the cognitive overhead of trying to parse which parts of the AI response is hallucination

Every one of these ChatGPT ads I see is batshit some dude has been suggested a dish to make to impress a girl so he had to type the q into chatgpt, read the answer and then follow it - as opposed to typing the question in a search engine reading the answer and then following it??? it's so stupid

Supercook is the one I know that does this. But it's not as good as Gemini for getting a variety of recipe ideas for real dinners. Although one time Gemini suggested I make a "deconstructed sushi bowl" with ham, no seaweed, and no fish ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

The Majority AI View - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

They're going to invent a security process called ketchup and the new best practice will be to put ketchup on your hashed passwords after salting and peppering them

Cache invalidation is easy. Just use a cron job to periodically push a message into a message queue that the invalidation microservice can access to run a pseudorandom coin flip that will delete the cache and all its replicas when you flip heads. I'm going to crush this system design interview!

I hear people of all types, techies, finance folks say “ai is going to”….but it’s here. Why aren’t they talking in present tense? We increased productivity by X..I don’t hear that. And I work in tech.

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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CSS is not statically typed. If broken CSS didn't compile, it would break the web

Using AI to code feels like the "AI fucks my wife" poem. I am genuinely surprised at the sheer breadth of programmers who turned out to not actually like programming

sometimes . it . flip ping . looks . kinda . flip ping . cool . though . 🥺🥺🥺

Outed as a Haskell noob 😭

The AI bubble, which accounts for over a third of the US stock market, which exceeds the amount of consumer spending, which has literally warped the entire tech industry into an incestuous ponzi scheme of funding, is 17 times bigger than the dot com bubble.

sometimes . it . looks . kinda . cool . though . 🥺

I have a sentient coin because I ask if it's alive, telling it that Heads is Yes and Tails is No.

I flip it and, would you believe, it says Yes!

But, what's really impressive, is that sometimes¹ it shows Tails, which proves that it is so smart it knows how to lie!

¹ about half, to be honest

"i just use it to generate ideas"

baroque: mommy branch

Tweet by David Sacks: "Wikipedia is hopelessly biased. An army of left-wing activists maintain the bios and fight reasonable corrections. Magnifying the problem, Wikipedia often appears first in Google search results, and now it’s a trusted source for AI model training. This is a huge problem."

Someone should probably inform the White House's "AI & Crypto Czar" that no one is forcing AI companies to train their models on Wikipedia

Jokes about CSS not being a programming language are zooming rapidly into the direction of jokes about how hard it is to center a div