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It’s called “data chauffered”: instead of following the data, tell it where it needs to take you

If the purpose of a metric is to show adoption, the metric can be defined in a way to show adoption. Could be just an effect of promo driven culture, AI push and good’ol Goodhart’s law.

Like, how do you even measure when code is ai authored and when not. If you insert 25% of a variable name and the autocompleter guesses the rest of the name correctly, are the remaining 75% AI generated?

Do you actually need to share your bookmarks? I found that bookmarks in Firefox and an RSS reader hosted on my nextcloud are enough for personal use.

He also did sawzall, but thankfully that didn’t get widely adopted

I think ClownStrike is the name they deserve

Thanks, I hate it

Meanwhile in the LLM “search engine” land: https://a2mi.social/@dave0/113031300914816116

Surely it is helping to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful

So does Java. /me runs

Ugh, just reading the summary made me want to puke. What the fuck is wrong with those people. Who the fuck thinks that delegating the responsibility to computers is a good idea. Can’t they cope with the outcomes of their choices and need to outsource that responsibility to some magick software

ublock is cheaper and actually works