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• Post #4060472

  Codeberg disallowing LLM slop on their own platform: "They're restricting my freedom!" Corporations pirating books and code to automate plagiarism, DDoS-ing the entire internet, and eroding trust in software ecosystems: "It's just a tool!"

• Post #2063196

  @afilina A year ago or so, I was reviewing bullet points for a group project that one of the group members obviously generated via LLM. I figured "fine, I'll fix them up". They were these generic marketing statements like "the project is highly performant, streamlined bla-bla" or something. I kept thinking "okay, so this refers to X or maybe Y, so I can word it like..." and then I caught myself. These bullet points didn't re...

• Post #2063195

  I want to support artists, I wouldn't mind giving Bandcamp a cut, since they're promoting the music, but... PayPal? Come on. I continue to be pissed off at how difficult it is to give money to artists in exchange for their music/movies/books in the year 2026.

• Post #2063194

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@Blender/116500204687984724 Blender has heard your concerns about taking money from Anthropic and they have carefully deliberated the issue and decided to... take the money anyway, lol. "Blender is a tool for artists and creators, it’s made by humans for humans.", they say, while having commits "assisted" by claude code in its codebase. That's pretty much the pathetic outcome I expected: Nothing substantial has changed an...

• Post #1826229

  Anthropic is yet to officially explain why their machine that is trained on all insecure code in existence is generating insecure code.

• Post #1826228

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@Blender/116482997785333001 For fuck's sake, another respected open source project to add to my personal slop list

• Post #1826226

  It always impresses me to see AI boosters reach new heights of cognitive dissonance. This guy has decided to reject all code contributions: https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/commit/aef4feb501d12c670bb9bbed92d9ff102509cd84 But also, he believes that "coding agents are capable of producing amazingly high-quality code", but also also, "AI generated code needs to be carefully reviewed and iterated on". How is it both, dude? How are you keeping these two...

• Post #1783067

  RE: https://mstdn.social/@fsiddi/116484111552160996 Some truly impressive ongoing hole-digging from Blender here. "We try to make it clear it's just a donation" and "the origin of the donation is very much not appreciated indeed". The press release: "Anthropic is an AI research and development company that creates reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Anthropic’s flagship product is Claude, a large language model trusted by mill...

• Post #1443146

  Belgian hospitals might be giving you some medical slop, as a treat: https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2026/04/16/hospitals-to-use-ai-to-help-make-it-easier-to-understand-medical/ > Patients routinely receive medical reports and discharge letters written in language that is difficult or even impossible for them to understand. Patients don't understand their medical reports, let's ask the lying machine to make some words up that maybe explain the report, or maybe completely misrepresent...

• Post #1066458

  Oh no, the AI rollout would have totally worked so well if it wasn't for those Damn Kids sabotaging it. They do it out of fear, you see, because the AI companies' random text generators are so good at, like, jobs and such.

• Post #1007635

  Ars Technica is here with the hard-hitting news that not every tech issue is caused by AI. Kyle Orland seems to find it really, really important to highlight the nuances of "vibe coding" vs "AI-assisted" coding. He cites a bluesky dev that says "Human review and direction remain key." By the way, Kyle was credited as co-author of an article with hallucinated citations that was pulled and eventually lead to the firing of the other author. Bec...

• Post #749089

  Python's widely-used "requests" library now has at least one commit with a "co-contributed" tag by claude: https://github.com/psf/requests/commit/b2a1d33f571518ca9a6148e7da787cc5827f897a What blows my mind about this is that the contents of this commit is... a version bump. That's it, a version bump. This guy used the most expensive technology on the planet to perform a version bump. Bravo, dude, what a stunning performance.

• Post #749088

  Scrolling through a github PR diff and some of the javascript and html files just don't have any syntax highlighting, seemingly arbitrarily. I refresh and scroll all the way down and the syntax highlighting is there. Good job, Microsoft, very modern.

• Post #749087

  Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Tokens $30,000 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

• Post #749086

  The Metaverse was just too big for companies to ignore, and then it stopped existing. As it turns out, you can ignore it just fine.

• Post #749085

  Add mastodon to the list of projects I use that is allowing LLM slop: https://github.com/mastodon/.github/pull/6 They "do not encourage" LLM-assissted contributions, but they don't ban them as long as you pinky swear you were super-duper careful. "We are a small team supporting a production project; our time is best spent working with contributors who understand the project's technical requirements, and the safety of our users' data."...

• Post #749084

  https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2026/03/10/can-belgium-still-compete-with-other-countries-wonders-belgiums/ > ‘You also have to create an environment in which entrepreneurs can be successful. Regulations in Europe and Belgium weigh too heavily on business. We need to find a better balance between growth, investment and risk-taking on the one hand and regulations on the other.’ > He points to the rapid rise of AI: ‘We have the European GDPR rules (that protect citizens’ privacy), we h...

• Post #549021

  Vim's lead maintainer has fully lost his goddamn mind