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  My favorite thing about Mastodon is that even with all the advancements on the WordPress ActivityPub and EMA plugins, it’s still incredibly difficult for me to interact with the Mastodon embrace-and-extend walled garden of the Fediverse. Which keeps me out of trouble. https://avdi.codes/?ema-post=182197

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  We’ve spent years loading an extraordinary number of responsibilities onto the humble code review: quality gate, security check, architecture review, mentoring mechanism, knowledge-sharing system, ownership model. Rachel Laycock (rlaycock@thoughtworks.com): Maybe We Shouldn’t Be Reviewing All This Code

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  My position on AI has been extremely boring and is basically, “if something is currently happening, the people who are saying that it’s impossible that it will ever happen are probably wrong”. danluu.com: How Accurate Have Ed Zitron’s AI Skeptic Predictions Been?

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  Making a Claude plugin named Bill Gates that makes Claude put a dollar in the swear jar every time it says “gate”.

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  An open fascist is building one of the bigger sources of funding for open source fully under his individual control and sucks up a lot of money that otherwise might have gone to liberatory projects. Community projects. Antifascist projects. tante: Power Grab

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  Lies, Damn Lies, and Github Stars The social-proof machine for AI techniques and tools is circular, and it’s getting absurd. A rant. https://avdi.codes/lies-damn-lies-and-github-stars/

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  To come in as a technology leader and say “AI should never be used” is to make myself unemployable. Bluntly, I can’t afford that right now. My healthcare costs equal my mortgage, I’m not part of an existing social safety net and I cannot relocate to somewhere more favorable to not earning an income. naildrivin5.com – David Bryant Copeland’s Website: I’m Gonna Write About AI So I Can Process What Is Going On Same.

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  you can train someone to be better. You can’t make someone care about things they don’t intrinsicly value. naildrivin5.com – David Bryant Copeland’s Website: You Cannot Trust the AI Code Generator

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  Me, an ordinary technologist: LLMs are pretty cool, and not inherently ev–* Every AI CEO: WHAT IF WE POWERED THEM WITH PUPPY FEET https://avdi.codes/?ema-post=191635

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  90% utilization is causing more failure than you realize, not just in burn-out, but in productivity and output. Jason Cohen: A Smart Bear » Your non-linear problem of 90% utilization