@jelmini.bsky.social
Software engineer @adobe. Java/Kotlin. Humanist, leftist, pro-science. Was a social worker in a previous life. Mostly a lurker. Living in🇨🇭. He/Him. Languages: English, French, Italian
The learning loop and LLMs
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I've wasted time, and watched many developers waste time, going round and round in circles with "AI" coding assistants trying to get the cat to lay eggs.
There are always going to be things LLMs simply can't do, because the training data just isn't there.
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NOUVELLE VIDEO ! Je décortique le cas Luc Julia, le réputé co-créateur de Siri et expert mondial de l'IA, encensé dans les médias et récemment auditionné au Sénat. Le résultat est salé mais c'était nécessaire.
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Long and interesting read about AI and 10x developers. I like that there are arguments and explanations for the different statements.
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Moi qd les gens parlent de l'IA comme étant l'avenir
04.08.2025 17:35 — 👍 365 🔁 99 💬 13 📌 2
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
19.02.2025 16:42 — 👍 9765 🔁 3179 💬 161 📌 355
Qui sont les économistes de plateaux TV ? Comment ça ce fait qu’ils ne soient en réalité que très rarement économistes ?
Un nouvel épisode d'Argent Magique avec @stup.media, @arnaud.stup.media, @valentin.stup.media, @marinopesto.bsky.social et @heu7reka.bsky.social.
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
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Even with LLMs, @birgitta410.bsky.social still cares about the code: “LLMs are NOT compilers, interpreters, transpilers or assemblers of natural language, they are inferrers.
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Staff engineer @lawrencejones.dev has been building impressive AI tooling systems for closer to a year - and, naturally, using AI coding tools as well.
His take on vibe coding:
"Vibes-driven-development inevitably becomes just bad vibes."
From: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ai-enginee...
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To work effectively with agentic coding assistants, Birgitta Böckeler found she needs to intervene, correct and steer all the time. She describes examples of these interventions indicating the skills we need to correct the tools' missteps
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Vous connaissez la situation. C’est le moment de changer d’outils et ce site liste plein d’alternatives européennes aux GAFAM european-alternatives.eu
02.02.2025 15:32 — 👍 37 🔁 16 💬 6 📌 3Johann Chapoutot.
Historien spécialiste du nazisme.
Punto e basta
repeat a lie often enough and people will believe it
11.01.2025 14:31 — 👍 1326 🔁 411 💬 26 📌 22
I fear there is deep truth here.
11.01.2025 20:47 — 👍 55503 🔁 13728 💬 1439 📌 843Fact-checking wasn’t “biased” against conservatives. Conservatives just shared more false content. If there’s a sportsball game and one team fouls four times as much, it’s not “biased” for the ref to call four times as many fouls against that team.
07.01.2025 15:27 — 👍 6150 🔁 2039 💬 105 📌 79
Ce papier d' @arretsurimages.net (en libre accès), mérite vraiment d'être lu :
www.arretsurimages.net/chroniques/c...
Once any space becomes less than 40% male, (straight) men tend to cede it entirely while shouting about how it “went woke”. Fascinating read:
01.01.2025 15:28 — 👍 3372 🔁 1031 💬 172 📌 365One of my realisations I've come to during my newsletter/blogging pause is that the vibes crowd has thoroughly won, both in tech specifically and in general. Facts don't matter. Research doesn't matter. If it has research aesthetics and has the vibes you like, people treat it as truth.
02.01.2025 09:23 — 👍 40 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 2
This one needed a longer video
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Nouvelle vidéo ! Je reviens sur deux articles paru récemment au sujet des capacités des LLM à mentir et manipuler.
Au-delà des annonces spectaculaire du type : "o1 a réussi à s'échapper !!!", que disent vraiment ces articles ? Eh bien nous allons voir.
(lien dans la réponse)
HelloWorld.java
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On débat démocratiquement des valeurs, on débat scientifiquement des faits.
Et on nourrit le débat sur les valeurs par des faits, pas l’inverse.
Et c’est en ça que les journalistes justifiant de donner la parole aux crétins au non de la démocratie tentent de nous enfumer.
Do you know the 12 Stability ANTI-patterns?
Here is a cheat sheet:
medium.com/@tpierrain/s...
#SRE #architecture #software #design
Thank you internet for not letting the shit take over. HelloWorld.java by Nanowar of Steel is amazing
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Nouvelle vidéo sur les alternatives à Twitter (et autres), qui affirment être des réseaux sociaux décentralisés !!
Avec un message clair : @bsky.app est nettement le plus prometteur.
Cependant, il reste encore un énorme chantier à accomplir pour sécuriser Bluesky.
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Y'all, I found it: The single greatest post EVER
23.11.2024 18:16 — 👍 980 🔁 373 💬 15 📌 16Rappel que bloquer quelqu'un n'est en aucun cas le censurer. Ce n'est pas plus de la censure que d'éteindre votre télé quand vous y voyez apparaître le vieux groin de Pascal Praud.
La liberté d'expression c'est "tout le monde peut parler", pas "tu dois t'asseoir et écouter tout le monde".
