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by ljm 8mo ago
I would never advocate for torches and pitchforks, I've been close to victims of that in the past. It is, however, concerning that the owner of that bot could passively absolve themselves of any responsibility. The anonymity in that se
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by ljm 8mo ago
I don't really see the validity in creating a conspiracy theory here. It's very crisis actor adjacent.
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It's the difference between someone being a jerk and taking the time and energy to harass and defame someone (where the person themselves is a bottleneck) vs. running an unsupervised agent to carpet bomb the target. The fact that your
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by ljm 8mo ago
The first customer is always the investor these days, so anything that threatens the investor's confidence is bad for business.
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by ljm 8mo ago
The simple fact that the owner of this bot wanted to remain anonymous and completely unaccountable for their harassment of the author, says everything about the validity of their 'social experiment' and the quality of their charac
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by ljm 8mo ago
I'm building a new hardware drum machine that is powered by voltage based on fluctuations in the stock market, and I'm getting a clean triangle wave from the predictive markets. Bring on the cryptocore.
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by ljm 8mo ago
There's overlap in that with brownfield or legacy code you are strongly opinionated on the status quo, and on the greenfield you are strongly opinionated with fewer constraints. You have to work with conviction though. It's when y
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by ljm 8mo ago
I don't see how "create an abstraction before attempting to solve the problem" will ever work as a decent prompt when you are not even steering it towards specifics. If you gave this exact prompt to a senior engineer I would
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by ljm 8mo ago
Nobody said how hyper the HT in HTML and HTTP had to be, so here we are. Oh, TLS also. Encrypted connections over HTTP are trivial. Arguably this has created far more freedom by making encrypted network traffic default and free. Convenience
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by ljm 8mo ago
The author thinks they made the wrong move a few times during their career, and now they're replaying it in hindsight as if their present experience has a measure on previous performance. They are only able to write this post because t
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by ljm 8mo ago
I argue we shouldn't, because if everyone is like Carmack then no one is. And only people on the older end of the spectrum have seen Carmack working in his element back in the day. The things I want people to take from a guy like John
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by ljm 8mo ago
But it also looks like these companies value and pay for the tech bro version of a snake oil consultant. And that you still have to have a lot of things going in your favour for your own brand of slop to elevate you to tech celebrity status
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by ljm 8mo ago
Using popular open source repos as a launchpad for this kind of experiment is beyond the pale and is not a scientific method. So you're suggesting that we should consider this to actually be more deliberate and someone wanted to market
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by ljm 8mo ago
I'm glad the OP called it a hit piece, because that's what I called it. A lot of other people were calling it a 'takedown' which is a massive understatement of what happened to Scott here. An AI agent fucking singled him
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by ljm 8mo ago
Scott: I'm getting SSL warnings on your blog. Invalid certificate or some such.
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The Age of Ensloppification(leemeichin.com)
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by ljm 8mo ago
Yeah I saw the page come back a bit later on, which is when I found out that the agent was building up a grudge.
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by ljm 8mo ago
Whatever it is, it's not letting the issue go: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...
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by ljm 8mo ago
It's about time someone democratised botnet technology. Just needs a nice SaaS subscription plan and a 7 day free trial.
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by ljm 8mo ago
> That would have been devastating in its clarity and almost impossible to dismiss. This sounds utterly psychotic lol. I'm not sure I want devastating clarity; that sounds like it wants me to question my purpose in life.
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by ljm 8mo ago
Fundamentally it boils down to knowing the person you're talking to and how they deal with feedback or something like rejection (like having a PR closed and not understanding why). An AI agent right now isn't really going to react
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by ljm 8mo ago
I dug out the deleted post from the git repo. Fucking hell, this unattended AI published a full-blown hit piece about a contributor because it was butthurt by a rejection. Calling it a takedown is softening the blow; it was more like a surg
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by ljm 8mo ago
It's not a benchmark though, right? Because there's no control group or reference. It's just an experiment on how different models interpret a vague prompt. "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle" is loaded
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by ljm 8mo ago
You're reading it though, and I imagine you are applying comprehension to it based on your experience. It's not vibe-coding any more at that point, I'd call it rapid application development. That's what Rails did in, wha
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by ljm 8mo ago
There are a lot of situations at work where posting a confluence page or a markdown doc on slack doesn't really get any traction, but a mob session does as you can step through things. Something like this might be a good middle ground
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by ljm 8mo ago
At worst, it's the outsourcing of cab drivers to remote roles in cheaper countries. No problem for the investors who are banking on another market disruption, since they're leaving the local society to hold the bag.
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by ljm 8mo ago
It was only a matter of time before someone turned RCE exploits into a service. Imagine someone running this shit gets a spam email that says "I'm the CEO of your company, you need to liquidate your crypto portfolio because shit i
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by ljm 8mo ago
I'm pretty much just rawdogging Claude Code and opencode and I haven't bothered setting up skills or MCPs except for one that talks to Jira and Confluence. I just don't see the point when I'm perfectly capable of writing
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by ljm 8mo ago
WCAG is a standard designed around the web and web-adjacent apps. Am I missing something here? Because accessibility standards are much easier to adhere to now. So the text label always has to be there, but you can also make it visible in t
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by ljm 8mo ago
I don't personally want any kind of workflow that spams my repo with gen AI refactorings or doc maintenance either. That is literally just creating overhead for me and it sounds like an excuse to shoehorn AI in to a workflow more than

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