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Alessandra Sierra

@lambdasierra@hachyderm.io
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Just another trans woman in tech. Software architecture, distributed systems, #Clojure. I wrote that Clojure library that you find slightly annoying. I used to blog. Occasionally I still do.

Profile picture is the letters A, S, and lambda superimposed.

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Joined March 03, 2023
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Alessandra Sierra @lambdasierra@hachyderm.io · Jul 08, 2026
Alessandra Sierra
@lambdasierra@hachyderm.io

Just another trans woman in tech. Software architecture, distributed systems, #Clojure. I wrote that Clojure library that you find slightly annoying. I used to blog. Occasionally I still do. Profile picture is the letters A, S, and lambda superimposed.

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Why doomscroll when you can play DOOMscroll — The Game? https://gisnep.com/doomscroll/
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Alessandra Sierra @lambdasierra@hachyderm.io · May 07, 2026
Alessandra Sierra
@lambdasierra@hachyderm.io

Just another trans woman in tech. Software architecture, distributed systems, #Clojure. I wrote that Clojure library that you find slightly annoying. I used to blog. Occasionally I still do. Profile picture is the letters A, S, and lambda superimposed.

hachyderm.io
Replying to @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange I wonder about this a lot myself, since I transitioned late, after I had already hit Principal Engineer. I still don't have any concrete evidence either way.
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Alessandra Sierra @lambdasierra@hachyderm.io · Apr 13, 2026
Alessandra Sierra
@lambdasierra@hachyderm.io

Just another trans woman in tech. Software architecture, distributed systems, #Clojure. I wrote that Clojure library that you find slightly annoying. I used to blog. Occasionally I still do. Profile picture is the letters A, S, and lambda superimposed.

hachyderm.io

Clojure: The Official Documentary will have its premiere on YouTube this Thusrday, April 16, 2026. You can see me, Alex Miller, @swannodette@mas.to, Stuart Halloway, and many others talk about the history of Clojure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJEyffSdBsk

#Clojure #CultRepo #Lisp

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Alessandra Sierra @lambdasierra@hachyderm.io · Mar 27, 2026
Alessandra Sierra
@lambdasierra@hachyderm.io

Just another trans woman in tech. Software architecture, distributed systems, #Clojure. I wrote that Clojure library that you find slightly annoying. I used to blog. Occasionally I still do. Profile picture is the letters A, S, and lambda superimposed.

hachyderm.io

I'm in a thing. It's about #Clojure. It's not out yet, but it will be soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJEyffSdBsk

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Alessandra Sierra @lambdasierra@hachyderm.io · Nov 21, 2025
Alessandra Sierra
@lambdasierra@hachyderm.io

Just another trans woman in tech. Software architecture, distributed systems, #Clojure. I wrote that Clojure library that you find slightly annoying. I used to blog. Occasionally I still do. Profile picture is the letters A, S, and lambda superimposed.

hachyderm.io
Replying to @lambdasierra@hachyderm.io
In other words, when I write code (or prose) most of my effort is spent *choosing* what to write, just like an artist choosing what to draw. The mechanical skills we use along the way are just table stakes to get to that point. #GenAI reproduces the mechanical output. If you’re impressed by that, you might not think as deeply or critically about the “choices” it made.
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Alessandra Sierra @lambdasierra@hachyderm.io · Nov 21, 2025
Alessandra Sierra
@lambdasierra@hachyderm.io

Just another trans woman in tech. Software architecture, distributed systems, #Clojure. I wrote that Clojure library that you find slightly annoying. I used to blog. Occasionally I still do. Profile picture is the letters A, S, and lambda superimposed.

hachyderm.io
Replying to @lambdasierra@hachyderm.io
Likewise for code. I’ve written a lot of code in my life, including plenty of bad code. Merely generating code that does *something* doesn’t strike me as much of an achievement. I did that when I was a kid. But the average person has no idea what programming is like. Their only frame of reference is what they’ve seen in movies, where it looks a lot like magic. So if a computer can do that, then the computer must be doing something magical. So they’re impressed. But when I look at AI-generated code, I see flaws. I see mistakes. I know, because I’ve made those same mistakes! While the AI is unquestionably faster than I am, it’s not necessarily better. And I know that the *real work* of programming is not writing code but rather planning, debugging, and maintaining a project over time.
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Alessandra Sierra @lambdasierra@hachyderm.io · Nov 21, 2025
Alessandra Sierra
@lambdasierra@hachyderm.io

Just another trans woman in tech. Software architecture, distributed systems, #Clojure. I wrote that Clojure library that you find slightly annoying. I used to blog. Occasionally I still do. Profile picture is the letters A, S, and lambda superimposed.

hachyderm.io
Replying to @lambdasierra@hachyderm.io
Likewise for AI-generated art. For example, I can’t draw. I struggle with the most trivial sketch and the best I can produce is an incoherent mess. I’m impressed just watching an artist wiggle pencil over paper and seeing a recognizable image emerge. But for a working artist, that’s just a mechanical skill they had to learn on the way to creating the art they want to create. It’s the first year of art school, or even earlier. I don’t like AI-generated art any more than I like AI-generated text, but to me, art “feels” like a more significant accomplishment for a computer, because I have no personal frame of reference for the human skills involved.
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Alessandra Sierra @lambdasierra@hachyderm.io · Nov 21, 2025
Alessandra Sierra
@lambdasierra@hachyderm.io

Just another trans woman in tech. Software architecture, distributed systems, #Clojure. I wrote that Clojure library that you find slightly annoying. I used to blog. Occasionally I still do. Profile picture is the letters A, S, and lambda superimposed.

hachyderm.io

Maybe someone’s experience of #GenAI is partially determined by how “difficult” they perceive the task to be?

I’ve known intelligent people who would sweat bullets writing a single coherent sentence. Seeing an AI spit out pages of (nominally) coherent prose in seconds must seem like magic to them.

But as someone who writes multi-page documents as a routine part of my job, I don’t see the mere **generation of sentences** as an interesting achievement.

What are those sentences *saying*? How do they flow together? What points do they communicate? This is where LLM-generated text tends to fall down.

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