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by jaredcwhite 6mo ago
Oh we are way-ay-ay past this line of argumentation. The AI skeptic community has been far more right than wrong over several years now, whereas the hype-all-the-AI-things crowd has been proven laughably wrong on a fairly regular basis.
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by jaredcwhite 6mo ago
Exactly. If I had a nickel for every mention of "just wait 'til the next release!!" as some sort of justification for whatever's going on right now, I'd be a rich man.
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by jaredcwhite 6mo ago
"Asbestos has good and bad things" "Assault rifles in the hands of ordinary citizens has good and bad things" "Everyday chemicals in the food supply has good and bad things" Look, some issues require nuance. Ot
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by jaredcwhite 6mo ago
Sheer nonsense. Handcoding is thriving and will easily survive long into the future, especially after the bubble bursts (which is already happening).
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by jaredcwhite 6mo ago
No thanks, I hate it. (To be clear, I'm no fan of WordPress either, and its security hassles are a real issue. But some sloppified MegaCorp vibecoded fever dream will never be a suitable replacement, of that I guarantee.)
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by jaredcwhite 6mo ago
Yes, I lost a client last year because they wanted to start all new feature work by reaching for Claude first, and I refused to participate so our relationship had to end. Very unfortunate, but I'm feeling pretty confident that the A
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by jaredcwhite 6mo ago
Good code will win? What kind of delusion is that? The web has been overrun by low effort React & Tailwind monstrosities, and agenetic services have only accelerated that trend. I don't have any confidence that market forces will
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by jaredcwhite 6mo ago
Liquid (Ruby) has been a bit of a backwater repo for a long, long time now. I lost confidence in building any of my own websites using it, having forked Jekyll to create Bridgetown which afforded me the opportunity to switch to other templa
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by jaredcwhite 7mo ago
> That has strongly disincentivized legitimate contributions from people. Citation needed. I'm seeing the opposite effect: that embracing AI slop in OSS is turning off human contributors who are aghast at projects not standing firm
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by jaredcwhite 7mo ago
Current, a brand-new handcoded RSS reader for i(Pad)OS/macOS is one of the best apps I've ever used. Seriously. I gladly purchased it and use it every day now (with Feedbin as the backend).
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by jaredcwhite 7mo ago
Not only that, many of the apps & services I'm gravitating to are genuinely AI-skeptic either in how they're built or in how they market themselves to the general public. Slop-free is becoming hot stuff, and if you sound sil
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by jaredcwhite 7mo ago
and your stance is not your own if you got the LLM to stand for you. ;-P human prompting != human production
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by jaredcwhite 7mo ago
"because of AI" is not a valid reason to change anything about how developer communities & projects are managed.
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by jaredcwhite 7mo ago
As others have said, should be fine to run Linux in a VM. Running natively from boot, the only potential option would be Asahi Linux, but my understanding is that the A18 Pro chip has certain internal attributes which are akin to an M3, a
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by jaredcwhite 7mo ago
I'm just not buying this framing. At all. I'm not sure what it is I'm supposed to be mourning. I'm using my skills and continuing in my craft the way I have for several decades and the way I will continue to for several
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by jaredcwhite 7mo ago
I really would love an "AR" web. It'd be so cool to walk around a city and get fed real-time information about landmarks, history, cultural events, and shopping destinations—whether through smart glasses or simply a smartphon
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by jaredcwhite 7mo ago
Spoken like a true LLM!
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by jaredcwhite 7mo ago
I've been saying this for a while now. Agentic network activity is indistinguishable from malware. This ruling is merely the opening salvo in a torrent of impending litigation which will tear the Internet apart. Didn't have to be
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by jaredcwhite 7mo ago
LLM-generated code is incompatible with libre software. It's extremely frustrating to see such a lack of conviction to argue this point forcefully and repeatedly. It's certainly bad enough to see such a widespread embrace of this
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by jaredcwhite 7mo ago
Fabulous! Compiled & installed on my Fedora dev VM, no issues. Glad to see the effort made, and I expect we'll see a lot more projects like this going forward as slop unfortunately pervades more OSS.
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by jaredcwhite 7mo ago
People are not intrinsically fun? What on earth is this author saying?? As for why no AI games, it's pretty simple really. Planet-destroying plagiarism machines built at a steep loss by oligarchs who delight in putting artists out of b
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by jaredcwhite 7mo ago
"It's a trap!" –Ackbar, open source software maintainer
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by jaredcwhite 8mo ago
"Success" is a very relative statement in this context.
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by jaredcwhite 8mo ago
Well there goes the neighborhood.
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by jaredcwhite 8mo ago
To pull a GPT-ism, the question isn't why the left has taken a critical position against genAI. The question is why the right hasn't. =) I'll leave it to you to guess the answer, and it's pretty obvious actually…
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by jaredcwhite 8mo ago
What? If anything the tech press is overwhelmingly sycophantic towards both startups and Big Tech alike, often just passing along talking points verbatim without any critical analysis at all. Also, being "anti-AI" isn't bei
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by jaredcwhite 8mo ago
I don't know why people keep sharing this. It's highly offensive and inflammatory. Plenty of open source projects consider themselves a community which welcome newcomers, take governance seriously, and ensure that even if suggesti
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by jaredcwhite 8mo ago
"Nobody disagrees we'll achieve AGI this century." Citation needed please.
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by jaredcwhite 8mo ago
More secure…according to whom? Validated how? With what??
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by jaredcwhite 8mo ago
Gotta love a world in which a tool which has ingested "all the world's libraries" is now trotted out as a solution to replace those libraries. You know what would happen if all the people who handwrote and maintained those li

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