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• Post #4498081

  Damn. DAMN. I was researching FSMs, as one does. The cursed AI overview offered an example. Very trivial, nothing like what I need. It has that question area. I told it to make a change in the direction I wanted. It provided a better example. Two steps later, it offered a style of solution that I would not have thought of, that is better than what I would do in that situation. It's not what I need, but as a step toward what I need but it's useful. I am fascinated, and I do not like...

• Post #3619228

  I would like it to become a thing for interviewers to say: "Just one more question: what the fuck is wrong with you?"

• Post #3594035

  I go to bed now.

• Post #3594034

  Hello, loves! Got a bit carried away with refactoring this morning. Is it worth it? One More Thing ... I see one more thing that needs doing. And then I propose that we have a little fun. What am I saying, programming IS fun for me. CW: Brief LLM excursion. https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/s/s/

• Post #3594033

  RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116862461351351480 Eat the rich. Start now.

• Post #3594032

  I have a simple idea that I think may be quite nifty. Maybe I'll nap first, or finish this Carl book. Or both.

• Post #3594031

  Hello, loves! Let's See ... ... if we can gin up something that's kind of fun. I have a simple idea that seems promising. Turns out to be Very Pleasing! https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/s/r/

• Post #3594030

  Hm, are the movies not working in my latest article? Too big or something? Let me know. https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/s/r/

• Post #3592382

  RE: https://eigenmagic.net/@vampiress/116859241032699772 Important.

• Post #3580405

  I do the work because I enjoy doing it. I don't let the demon do the work, because I enjoy doing the work. And because the demon is a demon, not a benign genie. And because the demon steals human's work. And because the demon enriches the ultra-rich. And because the demon costs humans their jobs. And because the demon destroys the environment. And because the demon is the tool of the oppressor. I do the work because it is my work, and I enjoy doing it.

• Post #3487338

  Dammit. I completed today's article and was wondering how many lines it was on the screen. I didn't find that out, but Safari included a menu item "Summarize", clearly an "AI" summary of some kind, so I clicked it. It provided two very coherent paragraphs that sounded quite certain about it all. Each paragraph was substantially correct, and each included an important error that resulted in a misstatement of what was really in there. Damn "AI" and the horse...

• Post #2217953

  RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@MarkHoltom/116526787448440204 Upon hearing this, my dear wife reported that she feels quite normal today.

• Post #2125880

  If you are using or touting LLMs, you are supporting the destruction of the environment, the loss of jobs, transfer of money from regular folx to the rich. You are betraying humanity. There is, however money to be made, so that's probably just fine.

• Post #2009586

  I am, of course, concerned for us all, victims of this evil rich idiocracy, but ever so much more concerned for my brothers, sisters, siblings of color, or who are subject to gender- or orientation-based discrimination, or who are being bombed out of their homes, their countries by aggressors, or subject to being oppressed in any form. I do not know what to do. I do not know what anyone can do. I guess we all just do what little things we can, and hope for the butterfly effect.

• Post #1997976

  Fossil fuels are bad. Cars are bad. Ideally, I should use no fossil fuel, not drive a car. Is it better to use less fuel, better to drive less, rather than make no change in what I do? Seems it must be. This is a question about "AI". Happens that I don't use any of the programming "AI" things. I know folx who do. I'm wondering what I should think about that.

• Post #1816499

  RE: https://functional.cafe/@chris__martin/116460722561583481 Dude, if you wrote really good specs, we'd just compile and run them. 😀

• Post #1549808

  RE: https://mstdn.social/@cammerman/116450016476591367 Ron shouts a bad word ...

• Post #1409421

  Interview with Ron Jeffries Markus Gärtner interviewed Ron Jeffries, co-author of the Agile Manifesto and Coach of the first Extreme Programming team. Ron reflects back on the past 20-or-so-years of Agile Software Development and dares to look ahead on things to come. https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-x024/-v04/8/

• Post #1380787

  RE: https://mastodon.online/@jchyip/116426284818812798 Interesting. Identifies a key issue. I'm not convinced about the proposed solutions, but I could be quite wrong. My core objections to LLM-AI remain untouched: not good for humans, not good for the world, but good for the oligarchy, who are already an immense threat to humanity at large.

• Post #1122305

  RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@lproven/116385638367341889 A bit harsh. I like it!

• Post #1091010

  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@AndrewRadev/116385454951248902 Sabotage, one of the well-known ways to resist the system. And if ever a system needed resisting, today's does.

• Post #1017312

  Will no one rid me of this demented orange buffoon and his sycophantic evil enablers?

• Post #1017311

  Design Thinking We have Dot in the dungeon, but not very neatly. Let's latch the keys, and think about how things might work as we proceed. https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/x/b/

• Post #1017309

  If you are a developer working with "AI", you are digging your own grave or the grave of your coworker. If you are <profession> working with "AI', ... If the other massive evils don't stop you ... I guess that one won't either. Never mind.

• Post #1017308

  Design Feedback The FGNO OGs gave me some good ideas about my design: thanks, OGs. This morning I'll start following some of those ideas. I use test doubles! https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/x/b/

• Post #1017307

  I do understand why folx, including many whom I respect and care for, collaborate with the "AI" enemy. I get it, I really do. Collaborators live longer and better than the resistance. If I weren't retired, I might well be collaborating: I am not a brave man, and I love my well-off life. But damn. "AI" feeds the system, enriches the oligarchy, and if it's not stopped, it will come for you. Maybe one should live the best life one can until th...

• Post #1017306

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@PragmaticAndy/116369493321705784 Very interesting!

• Post #1017305

  I have written some strange things. https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-z022/01121/waterfall-2/

• Post #1017303

  Guess the state: What seems to be the problem, officer? Sir, I pulled you over because there is an alligator on your roof.

• Post #1006114

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@elizayer/116347405120099886 Yep!