Post #1368681

2026-04-18 23:43 UTC

Every paragraph rings true here, at least WRT my experience at work in the last six months. We&#39;ve killed a lot of sparrows. The AI Great Leap Forward https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/

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@emilymbender@dair-community.social 2026-04-20 14:14

@trochee@dair-community.social ugh. And yes, except: "A drag-and-drop canvas makes it trivially easy to chain ten LLM calls together and impossibly hard to debug why the eighth one hallucinates on Tuesdays." Because it "hallucinates" on days that end in y, ofc.

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@paulhebert@sunny.garden 2026-04-19 01:55

@trochee this is a great article. It captures how fucking performative a lot of the push for AI has been. We want to use this SAAS because it’s “AI forward” This role is hiring for an “AI native developer” People bragging about how they used AI instead of what they actually built. The tools can sometimes be useful but the movement is toxic.

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@wook@fosstodon.org 2026-04-19 14:39

@trochee @paulhebert . Yup. I am a sparrow and I can’t get hired anymore because I can’t and won’t be a lobster.

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@worksintheory.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy 2026-04-19 15:41

Same. I can see how the tools are useful and I use them. But so much in that article hits home.

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@slink@fosstodon.org 2026-04-27 09:00

@trochee brilliant

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