Post #916681
2026-02-08 20:34 UTC
Replies (11)
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@tinheadned@dice.camp 2026-02-08 21:26
@sophie "I know that a large part of this is me holding it wrong" oh lord that's certainly what I get told five times if I say something like "I used Claude and it hallucinated wildly"
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@jlk@social.lol 2026-02-08 22:22
@sophie , excellent post, thanks! I especially like the last part about remembering what we enjoyed about doing this in the first place.
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@oscarjiminy@aus.social 2026-02-08 22:41
@sophie this's fantastic, thank you.
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@tylerlwsmith@hachyderm.io 2026-02-09 07:38
@sophie I love the post and I love website design(s) I'm hoping that someday in the future we can all post critiques of AI without having to explain that criticisms of AI don't mean we _hate_ AI and are anti-progress. I hope that one day AI conversations are as boring and matter-of-fact as a conversation about when to use a NoSQL database
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@rakheshster@hachyderm.io 2026-02-09 07:42
@sophie Amazing! Thank you for writing this post. Puts into words a lot of things I had been feeling and thinking myself but couldn’t elucidate clearly. Visited your blog after reading this post and loved that too. Nice work!
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@rap1ds@mastodon.social 2026-02-09 08:38
@sophie I was nodding all the time when reading this. And what a lovely website design! I subscribed to your RSS
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@konst@hachyderm.io 2026-02-09 09:18
@sophie excellent post. Not anti progress, definitely anti hype, and spicy autocomplete can be useful sometimes.
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@thirstybear@agilodon.social 2026-02-09 09:44
@sophie @jitterted That is so close to the thoughts in my own head it’s scary.Thanks for the write up.
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@benjamineskola@hachyderm.io 2026-02-09 12:21
@sophie "I find it hard to justify the value of investing so much of my time perfecting the art of asking a machine to write what I could do perfectly well in less time than it takes to hone the prompt." Very much agreed with this.
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@firepoet@tech.lgbt 2026-02-09 12:37
@sophie I love this! I wish I had been the one to write it. Though, I would have been far less persuasive because I would have focused far more on the environmental concerns (LLMs completely wiped out ALL progress on rolling back global warming!) and ethical ones (it regularly plagiarizes without abandon and you can’t easily tell!). And it doesn’t just replace your thinking — it actively lowers your intelligence. Why would anyone want that??? See.. this thing I just did is how one just makes people defensive enough to close ranks. Your way, however, might actually get through to people. Yay!
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@savtrip@mastodon.social 2026-02-18 19:02
@sophie This article is on point, the hype is fatiguing, and damaging to the software dev trade. I’m glad their are some grounded devs out there that understand the limitations. On the other side big tech try to choke it down our throats. It annoys me that everyone has to keep prefacing that they aren’t anti AI or progress, I think your article made it clear even without that addition. Not sure if that addition is to avoid haters, but your article was top notch. Thanks Sophie.