jaredcwhite

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by jaredcwhite 4mo ago
It's weird. I still remember 2008, when GitHub's claim to fame was that it was "the easiest (and prettiest) way to participate in the collaborative development of software." Now they want to end that collaboration, and t
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by jaredcwhite 4mo ago
Same. I've been a programmer for over 30 years. I'll be a programmer for another 30 years, sans the LLMs. There's nothing about the technology which appeals to me in the slightest.
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by jaredcwhite 4mo ago
I've used and paid for Dropbox for well over a decade. Other than the rare hiccup every few years (usually due to switching machines/OSes or whatnot), it's been rock solid and a true workhorse. I know there are many other opt
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by jaredcwhite 5mo ago
This page rather reeks of LLM slop itself. If not…well I don't know what to call this style of writing exactly but I see it all the time on LinkedIn (or some annoying startup landing page) and it's very upsetting to me. "You
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by jaredcwhite 5mo ago
Ah, the classic "But just you wait, the next version will be better!" fallacy. It's a fallacy because the reality is often not that…in fact sometimes the reality ends up worse. (See "enshittification", a process w
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by jaredcwhite 5mo ago
It's funny because it's (almost) true.
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by jaredcwhite 5mo ago
Yeah I'll pick two, thanks.
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by jaredcwhite 5mo ago
Virtually every person I talk to on a regular basis either (a) generally hates AI but uses it in specific ways because of the utility they perceive, or (b) hates AI and won't use it at all. The idea that "distain for AI" is l
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by jaredcwhite 5mo ago
Booing is a valid form of debate. We could shout "your arguments are not made in good faith and you are a bad actor" but a boo accomplishes the same thing and is far more effective.
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by jaredcwhite 5mo ago
The level of pushback you're receiving to this honestly makes me weep for the society we find ourselves in. I grew up expecting the future would be much like what Captain Jean-Luc Picard described in First Contact: "The acquisitio
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by jaredcwhite 5mo ago
Haha, April Fools! Good one. Wait…it's May. Ugh, I'm so confused. :spiral eyes emoji:
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by jaredcwhite 5mo ago
Indeed. I've only seen that "quality, depth and pace of innovation" is in inverse proportion to the adoption of slop machines within an org. The more sloppy they get, the more the output stinks to high heaven.
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by jaredcwhite 5mo ago
The future of forges is decentralized, and I'm getting all I need now out of Forgejo/Codeberg/Codefloe. I'll be handcoding software merrily away on platforms which don't suck and aren't beholden to techbros spe
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by jaredcwhite 5mo ago
Code exists for humans to read and write. The fact it happens to compile and get executed by a computer system is a side effect.
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by jaredcwhite 5mo ago
Yes, and I'd argue having to spend weeks on a single design decision is an extremely good thing. The worst thing that can happen to software development is for it to become trivial to pump out reams of new "software". That on
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by jaredcwhite 5mo ago
"But the nature of painting changed." No it didn't. You can go find wildly talented painters today who work in incredibly realist styles…in fact just a few years ago as visual social media really took off, there were many cha
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by jaredcwhite 5mo ago
Are we surprised that a project bought out by an AI company wants to vibe code a new AI-sloppified runtime? (The comments of "it's basically the same codebase" are so laughable as to feel like intentional gaslighting. Are we
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by jaredcwhite 5mo ago
Decades? Maybe not. A few years at minimum? Hell yeah!
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by jaredcwhite 5mo ago
The Web is Dead. –WIRED Magazine, 2010 But seriously, I feel like every few years we're all wringing our hands about what's happening to the web. And plenty of folks think they have the correct remedy. Remember when web3 was goi
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by jaredcwhite 5mo ago
100% the opposite here. I derive all the pleasure from writing code, which is why I'm still writing code.
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by jaredcwhite 5mo ago
Probably not what the author intended, but this article highlights exactly where Millennials (of which I am one) went terribly, terribly wrong. And the last piece of advice at the end is unfortunately the exact opposite of the remedy we n
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by jaredcwhite 5mo ago
Nice, looking forward to all the, ahem, creative protest to be done on the robocars if they ever do show up here. heh
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by jaredcwhite 5mo ago
"rapidly evolving industry" That has always been wildly unprofitable…
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by jaredcwhite 6mo ago
RIP Mozilla. I can't even with this nonsense…truly a shame considering I once admired this organization and the principles it stood for.
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by jaredcwhite 6mo ago
So a sloppified Django spit out by Claude? Good luck with that.
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by jaredcwhite 6mo ago
The water stuff isn't fake though. It's just easier to lie about.
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by jaredcwhite 6mo ago
The future isn't more autonomous cars driving on city streets. It's fewer cars on streets. I truly believe massive gains in transit & micromobility especially when related to the green energy boom is the real game-changing sto
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by jaredcwhite 6mo ago
You don't seem to be engaging seriously with respected experts in this field who have been reporting for years at this point that merely scaling LLMs and so-called "agentic systems" doesn't get us anywhere close to tru
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by jaredcwhite 6mo ago
Oh? And what extensive knowledge and experience makes YOU qualified to determine what "the vast majority of people on this planet" are doing for work and if those tasks are creative or uncreative?
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by jaredcwhite 6mo ago
AI, the way you are describing it, has not been invented yet. It is a fiction. What is called "AI" today is an extremely vague marketing term being applied to various software technologies which are only dangerous because humans a

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