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fancysandwiches @fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social · Jul 29, 2026

Replying to @QasimRashid@mastodon.social

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social link to the story for those interested: https://www.kcur.org/news/2026-07-28/missouri-couple-shot-dead-in-guatemala-after-local-ice-stop-led-to-deportations

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fancysandwiches @fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social · Jul 18, 2026

Replying to @Hex@kolektiva.social

@Hex@kolektiva.social but even if you weren't forced to buy a car you are forced to deal with the negative externalities like air pollution, noise pollution, and pedestrian fatalities. Let's not forget that cars brought us the delightful innovation of leaded gasoline, which then literally coated the planet in lead. I do think LLMs are bringing us the next form of leaded gasoline, everything is getting worse, and all information is getting warped. Misinformation was already getting bad before LLMs but it's accelerated that problem by an order of magnitude. It seems to exacerbate mental health problems in many people. I could go on.

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fancysandwiches @fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social · Jul 08, 2026

If you post to the photography or painting related hashtags with shit you made with AI you get blocked on site. It's not a painting if you didn't fucking paint it. It's not a photo if you didn't use a camera to take the picture.

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fancysandwiches @fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social · Jul 04, 2026

Replying to @marijn@mastodon.social

@marijn@mastodon.social wow, beautiful art! Excited about this project.

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fancysandwiches @fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social · Jun 23, 2026

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People complaining about the Steam Machine price don't seem to understand that: Valve is not subsidizing the computerThe computer is not locked down like a traditional console. You do not need to pay a monthly or yearly fee in order to play your games onlineThe Steam store consistently has the best sales on the marketThe computer has access to every game in my library that can run on the hardware, as does any computer that runs SteamValve will not charge you an upgrade fee per game when the Steam Machine 2 is releasedThe cost to build an equivalent PC is slightly less, yes, but you literally cannot build a PC that has the same form factor as the Steam Machine. Mini-ITX is still bigger than the Steam Machine. The difference is huge. I could not fit a Mini-ITX computer in my TV room, I could fit a Steam Machine in my living room If you consider only points 2 & 3 above, the lifetime cost of owning a Steam Machine is probably on par with the lifetime cost of owning any other console.

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fancysandwiches @fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social · Jun 21, 2026

Replying to @jonny@neuromatch.social

@jonny@neuromatch.social I'm struggling to figure out what is going on in that charles repo. It looks like it's a place for a specific open claw agent to find work and it does this by offering bounties to people who will send it issues in other repos. But then the issue tracker is riddled with other bots opening issues showing work they did in other repos. Each one of these issues then has multiple other bots replying saying that they'll fix the issue. And then there's yet another class of bot that is trying to fix every issue in the charles repo by simply adding a package.json file or something similar to the charles repo. The whole fucking thing is a rats nest of wasted compute and I hate it.

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fancysandwiches @fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social · May 06, 2026

Replying to @potterybyosa@mastodon.social

@potterybyosa@mastodon.social @Jgbird@mas.to well I can't argue with that!

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fancysandwiches @fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social · May 06, 2026

Replying to @Jgbird@mas.to

@Jgbird@mas.to I do not think of you as an amateur 😂

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fancysandwiches @fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social · May 06, 2026

Replying to @erisceleste@tech.lgbt

@erisceleste @daisy Yes, as far as I can tell the guy I was dealing with was only measuring the time it took to write the code, and not all of the time around it. He was bragging about he only wrote "about 5 lines of code", and he was absolutely not counting my code review time, which was certainly more time than he worked on the whole PR.

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fancysandwiches @fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social · May 06, 2026

Replying to @daisy@cloudisland.nz

@daisy

Like I don’t know if they’re using the tool heaps differently and getting better results, or they’re doing the same rework as I’m doing and just not perceiving it as a slowdown, or if they have different and much more permissive quality standards to mine.

I suspect it's a mixture of things, but IME the people who I work with directly that all see it as a force multiplier are way more permissive of quality (and arguably wouldn't know what quality even looks like anyway), and are also bad at tracking how long things take.

One guy I know spent 8 hours prompting and reprompting claude to craft a plan, then had it implement the plan. The plan was garbage and the implementation was worse than the plan. I could have cranked out what he had Claude do in less time. The code review was also a slog, took me longer to review the code than it took him to prompt claude (it was like 8k LOC), and there were like 200 comments on the PR. He spoke highly of this experience and described claude as a force multiplier afterwards. He's delusional.

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fancysandwiches @fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social · May 05, 2026

Replying to @freakboy3742@cloudisland.nz

@freakboy3742@cloudisland.nz I heard that once they hit $10T everything will work well

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fancysandwiches @fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social · May 05, 2026

Replying to @freakboy3742@cloudisland.nz

@freakboy3742@cloudisland.nz Google is only worth $4.5T, do you expect them to actually be good at what they do?

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fancysandwiches @fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social · Apr 30, 2026

Replying to @dbattistella@mstdn.ca

@dbattistella wow, that's so cool! I already loved vultures, but my love for them has just grown even more.

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