Arne Brasseur

Reminder that we are having a informal #clojure meetup in #leuven #belgium tomorrow. Come say hi! No Clojure knowledge required. https://mobilizon.fr/events/496659ea-e89c-4601-a0af-0ccc8e9633cf

RE: @oblique_strategies@mas.to

More like discard an axios amiright? #npm

I wrote about AI in software engineering, and about making choices.

A longer and more nuanced follow-up to my viral toot from last week.

https://gaiwan.co/blog/in-the-face-of-tech-kaiju-2/

This should be studied in schools, a field guide in recognising LLM generated text.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3ASigns_of_AI_writing

Looks like Clojureverse's SSL cert failed to renew... I'm looking into it.

Two very senior engineers, pairing for over an hour, to figure out that a function call had its first two arguments in the wrong order.

I'm not sure what the moral of this story is. Maybe it's that stupid stuff will trip you up, no matter how experienced you are. Or that positional arguments were a mistake. Or maybe that meatbags weren't meant to code and we really do just need to hand it all over to the AI overlords.

Hell hath no fury like a redditor who missed the point

— ancient proverb

Interesting Clojure technique, by @cgrand@mastodon.social. (ab)use the tagged-literal function in data modeling.

https://buttondown.com/tensegritics-curiosities/archive/when-you-run-out-of-types/

I just emailed all Belgian MEPs regarding the vote on #chatcontrol. It was really easy, this tool will let you copy-paste all relevant email addresses, and provide an email template. Just add your name at the bottom.

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/#contact-tool

It's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.

How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.

But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.

It is quite astonishing to me how much AI adoption is being driven by literal FOMO.

Devs don't want to miss the boat, lest they become obsolete. Not really doing it for you? That's a skill issue, try harder.

Managers/execs pushing AI through forced mandates, lest they fall behind the competition. Not getting the expected results? It's ok, we're learning. Push harder, set token quotas, do internal hackatons.

Policy makers and investors chasing the next growth engine. Do whatever it takes to stimulate their own local AI industry. Capture the market, returns will come later.

Tomorrow's St Patrick's day, but we've been chasing that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for a while now.

It is quite astonishing to me how much AI adoption is being driven by literal FOMO.

Devs don't want to miss the boat, lest they become obsolete. Not really doing it for you? That's a skill issue, try harder.

Managers/execs pushing AI through forced mandates, lest they fall behind the competition. Not getting the expected results? It's ok, we're learning. Push harder, set token quotas, do internal hackatons.

Policy makers and investors chasing the next growth engine. Do whatever it takes to stimulate their own local AI industry. Capture the market, returns will come later.

Tomorrow's St Patrick's day, but we've been chasing that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for a while now.

RE: @plexus@toot.cat

I'm gonna need a signal boost on this... there has to be more weird fedi out there. I'll do my part and point folks towards my two nominations, @Nickiquote@mstdn.social and @detondev@social.linux.pizza

I need to spice up my fedi a bit. Who are the most devoted and talented shitposters in your feed? Where my absolute trolls at? Who's keeping it weird after hours when the mods are asleep?

I have some consulting capacity available the coming months. I have a proven track record of making tech teams more effective, through a combination of technical and non-technical work. I work around communication and documentation, dev experience, architecture, alignment between biz and the dev team, and software/product development process, as well as doing staff-level engineering work.

DMs are open! Ping me if you like to have a chat!

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Well yes, soylent green _is_ people, but you can't just apply existing homicide laws to a business like ours. The entire humans-as-nutritional-sludge industry would be out of business.