Maxime Hurtrel

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

Les conclusions sont aussi importantes que le problème. Une vraie leçon qui doit toucher tous les CEO, CTO et RSSI du monde

Les Résistants et survivants des camps qui venaient, avec une énergie qui n'a jamais vacillé, nous parler au collège nous prévenaient : "quand nous ne serons plus là viendront des menteurs et des falsificateurs qui voudront réécrire l'histoire."
Ce temps est venu.

…keep pointing out how MasterCard and Visa are horrible in censoring payments, but please don’t stop at just mildly questionable stuff: we need to go all the way to also make sex workers have legal rights to use payment processors.

“illegal adult content” is puritan BS.

Bigotry must die.

We just lost another word to the dilution of meaning started with LLMs being called AI: now everything is an agent.

I read about coding agents (just LLMs chats for coding), research agents (just LLMs that query the web), agents for X (just LLMs that can do actions on X)…

Agents require agency!

"link in bio" is awful because it's built-in link rot.

As soon as you make another such post, it invalidates the previous such post and you will never know what the link was supposed to be.

"link in comments" or even worse "link in bio" is by far the most frustrating engagement hack to me.

Pleeeeease just put the link in the original post and step off of your figurative engagement maxing horse.

« L’IA est un piège à thunes » : super résumé en français du dernier billet de @edzitron.com, ultra-sceptique (pour de bonnes raisons àmha) de ce qui se passe du côté des IAs/LLMs, et qui explique parfaitement pourquoi la bulle est gigantesque et qu’elle va faire très mal quand elle va exploser.

L'arrivée de Chat GPT5 et quelques takes claquées au sol que j'ai vu passer dessus est l'occasion de revenir sur quelque chose que beaucoup de gens extérieurs à la création littéraire ne comprennent pas vraiment : il n'y a pas vraiment de public commercialement exploitables pour ces oeuvres.

If these signs are right (I think they are, but the timescale might be longer), the big AI players might be already running out of time to stay significant at a tech layer.

What it’s going to matter is what mattered right after every time: design and product.

Substack's extremist ecosystem is flourishing Yup, they're still at it.

PSA:

STOP
USING
SUBSTACK

It's a Nazi bar.

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Microsoft is cautiously onboarding Jack The Ripper following murder concerns

GPT-5 hot take It’s here, finally, but not everything people dreamt it would be

📢 GPT-5 Hot Take #veille

Three weeks after acquiring Windsurf, Cognition offers staff the exit door | TechCrunch Cognition is also laying off 30 employees. Those who don't take the buyout are expected to work 80+ hour weeks.

sigh

Ton patron vient d'annoncer qu'il voulait supprimer le 8-Mai, Burno.

Parle-nous encore de profanation des mémoires.

3. LLMs are no deterministic and often go off rails. Hard/near-impossible to guarantee a deterministic outcome (“production-ready apps”) with a nondeterministic system

But new AI startups NEED to make outrageous claims otherwise no one will use them: everyone would stick w incumbents!

1. To build production-ready apps, you need expertise to verify for production readiness. This is far more than “just” a checklist (that most such platforms do)

2. LLMs cannot audit an app for production-readiness… it’s a hard task even for devs! Companies charge a lot for audits for good reason…

An example of when something sounds too good to be true it probably is:

“A platform where you can generate AI-powered, production ready apps.”

Lots of vibe coding platforms make this claim: but none can actually deliver on it. It’s because of a mix of things (cont’d):

Impact of generative AI—quality How will generative AI impact the quality of games produced in the next 12 months? Regarding quality, however, there has been a significant shift in opinion among developers over the last year. 47% of respondents now believe that generative AI will lead to a reduction in the quality of games produced over the next 12 months, up sharply from 34% in 2024. This is mirrored by a decrease in the number expecting AI-driven increases in game quality, which has fallen to just 11%, meaning developers are more than four times as likely to anticipate a negative impact.

Interesting data from the latest Game Dev Collective survey:

A lot has changed in a year. Folks now think genAI will reduce quality, rather than have no impact, and they think it will increase quality even less.

"Developers are more than four times as likely to anticipate a negative impact."

Menu with no Interrail reduction option

SNCF staff trying and failing to help

SNCF’s loathing of Eurail / Interrail hits new heights

SNCF Connect never sold TGV seat reservations, but Grandes Lignes ticket machines in stations did

But now that has stopped - I just checked in Dijon

I even asked staff, and they were likewise stumped

Solution: use RailEurope.com instead!

Between not authorising foreign rolling stock, blocking night routes and refusing to sell other companies’ tickets, SNCF is significantly holding back rail travel across all of Europe! This cannot continue.

my mom taught me there's two kinds of businesses: hot dog stands and art galleries

- hot dog stands protect territory and keep competition off their turf
- art galleries benefit from more adjacent art galleries, cluster together to amplify reach/support

youre an art gallery, not a hot dog stand

Texas AI centers guzzle 463 million gallons, now residents are asked to cut back on showers Texas AI data centers water usage: As Texas faces a severe drought, the state's AI data centers consume millions of gallons of water daily for cooling, raising concerns about environmental sustainabil...

Prendre une douche ou utiliser ChatGPT, il va falloir choisir.

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Notez bien que la solution proposée n'est pas de faire en sorte que ces 40% puissent partir en vacances à la mer, mais que les détenus en soient également privés.
La loi d'Airain de Badinter est toujours en vigueur.

Car il se heurtait à la loi d'airain : l'opinion publique ne peut accepter, même si c'est objectivement dans son intérêt pour limiter la récidive et faciliter la réinsertion, qu'un détenu soit mieux traité que le plus malheureux des citoyens en liberté.

Robert Badinter a fait de nombreuses réformes sur la prison en France qui lui ont valu les attaques violentes de la droite de la droite. Suppression de l'uniforme pénitentiaire, parloirs ouverts, télévision en cellule, suppression des QHS. Mais il n'a pu aller aussi loin qu'il le souhaitait.

🧐 Sous Firefox Android, pour désactiver l'aperçu IA de merde qui s'affiche automatiquement lors d'une recherche Google : Paramètres > Recherche > Moteur de rechercher par défaut > Ajouter un moteur de recherche

Appelez-le "Google sans IA" (ou autre) et collez l'URL www.google.com/search?udm=1...