Looking a bit closer and what they tag as ‘permissive AI policy’ ranges from barely tolerant to actively welcoming. I don’t necessarily think ‘you are responsible for what the LLM produces’ is very effective; but it still gives quite a different impression than ‘AI contributions welcome’. And […]

Took a look at the ‘open slopware’ list for the first time since it was pretty new and found it pretty depressing on multiple levels. Like on the one hand it obviously sucks that so much software is being affected by this to greater and lesser degrees. But also, it feels like the list relies […]

this is the perfect metaphor to understand the distinction between AI doomer concerns versus AI skeptic concerns

feature request: option to make it play worse with “AI” “agents“

That 'holding up the internet' post that was going around the other day finally prompted me to figure out how to disable scrolljacking. Apparently reduced-motion accessibility setting should do it, but that depends on the site actually implementing a reduced-motion version. I guess they forgot […]

About ten years back I was walking in the city centre and across the road there was a small protest, I think about fur farming. And on my side of the road there was a middle-aged white guy loudly moaning about snowflakes. Mate you’re the one finding it impossible to ignore what other people say […]

I’ve turned off all the “AI” nonsense that I can but there are still a bunch of places where it’s desperately begging to be used. Shortcuts. Now when you press edit it gives you a little LLM-generated description of what it does. I know what it does, I wrote it! (As far as I can tell that’s […]

Coding agents reduce software development to a simple matter of: * specifying requirements * verifying correctness and quality * maintaining and operating software you didn't write As we all know, those have always been the easiest, most well-understood parts of the craft, so everything is fine!

I’m probably not the first person to point this out but it does strike me that the shift to SaaS and subscription-based software has made this sort of forcible LLM insertion much easier. Not completely (there are examples of non-SaaS/non-subscription software doing it) but in those cases you […]

[gbpol, Green Party, Palestine, antisemitism] someone replied to this to explain to me that Zionism doesn't mean Jewish people. which is... exactly what i said? then they got offended when i said so. oh well. no loss.

unfortunately i can't reply in the way i'd like from my work email address

oh great, now i have some random ‘AI’ startup asking for permission to include ‘my’ work in their slop machine firstly it's MIT licenced, which the email references and should be sufficient answer; secondly it's not my decision anyway, which should have been obvious from the very same file.

an llm tic I’ve been noticing recently is something like ‘a phrase: one X, no Y, no Z’. it’s a bit more specific than the grouping of three things, but it’s also so vague that it obviously could just be (and presumably does) appear in non-LLM writing too. these things always make me feel like […]

[gbpol, Green Party, Palestine, antisemitism] and then also I can’t help but wonder if talking about ‘zionism’ is inherently going to complicate matters. if you’re criticising Israel then just say that, and then you don’t have to explain that Zionism means Israel and not Jewish people. idk.

[gbpol, Green Party, Palestine, antisemitism] I don’t really have strong opinions either way about the ‘Zionism is racism’ motion in itself. Already, though, I’ve seen interpretations of it which, as per usual, seem to imply that criticism of ‘Zionism’ (meaning criticism of Israel) is […]

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