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@pjcj@infosec.exchange you can give it the release tagline "for those about to perl we salute you" 😂
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jaqueline of all trades. "irgendwas mit computern". minimalist code and simple things. "my code, of course, begins with 4GH". "the quality that has no name."
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so I like testing a lot I'm thinking a "mc/dc" (hipp's slqlite talk - testing) but in ac/dc style FOR THOSE ABOUT TO TEST WE SALUTE YOU ;)
"prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code" is the most absurd headline I've seen this year
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NIH is imho worth it because of YOUR specific needs and because you need so much "less" or "simpler" of everything or possibly the opposite too much "I need it differently" and "nothing really fits our use case"
what LLM usage drives home for me is giving a flying fuck about "but you have to do/use X, it's best practice/nobody knows Z/there a framework for it" and really go back to doing programming with programming like you know actually doing "the code" however I (we) think is right and good with whatever language I (we) think is nice and a pleasure to work with because it's my (our) freaking shit and I (we) can do whatever I (we) want
prior art would be janestreet/tigerbeetle/pandoc/couchdb/etcetc
teleprompter is available as a job description
maybe senior cyber teleprompter
Just so we're clear - before you think that the big re-hiring is about "AI doesn't work" - judging by job ads and offers I'm getting - it's "throwing more AI engineers onto AI"
your old job won't come back in the next 5 years at least - if ever - and even if it's backfilled, it'll be "AI DevOps" or "AI Release Engineering" or "AI Engineering".
If there's big hiring, it'll also be big re-shuffling.
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This implicit class-based thinking "my language is better than yours" "my area of computing is harder than yours" "I'm doing X therefore I'm the cooler hacker", "HTML isn't a real language", "web development isn't programming", "mysql isn't a real database" was already ridiculous in 1995 and is inacceptable and devastating to the ALL of us in 2026.
And people mean it even when pretending being coy about it "it's just a joke ha ha" and it's despicable.
On the subject of looking for a new job:
I'm VERY put off by fedihire posts which go like "I want to do X (X usually being Rust) but I would EVEN do Y which I haven't done in 20 years ha ha" (Y usually being PHP or Java).
Are people actually still thinking this is a cool and acceptable attitude to belittle PHP (or Java or MySQL or..)??
This makes me so SO angry because we ARE DOING IT TO EACH OTHER. Like the software industry as a whole doesn't have enough problems already...
I've learned over the last 2 weeks during my quest to teach people to use LLMs to not use LLMs ;) that a lot of people just don't know how
they didn't know what a thing like shell one liners exists (and that there's a ton of websites about it)
they didn't know that they can give it a name (alias)
they didn't know that you can treat your computer like a database (osquery)
they aren't even used to old school asking "I want to do this thing and then this and the poke here how do I do this"
spectacular AWS billing incident where people are seeing BILLION dollar high estimates omg
https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1uyuaw7/help_my_bill_skyrocketed_from_around_5_cents_per/
edit: SEVEN TRILLION
I'm VERY curious (if you can tell me) if and how your company does local-and-smol models - did folks just get a chunk of openrouter (or equivalent) to try all the models or did folks just get a handful of GPUs and llama'd it all into place or...
I'm particular interested in regular/small/average companies and their decision making process around this IF you decided to actually use LLMs
I have a feeling that it won't be "more Claude" that's deciding over whether or not LLMs are "here to stay" but DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, Mistral etc etc
Any regular, average company who actually WANTS to have LLMs is IMHO better off with the other models - or even chooses to go local-&-mini models, purpose-made which don't cost you an arm and a leg of qualified developer.
Set aside the choice with whom to do business or run it yourself entirely.
It seems German companies at least go this route
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I'm certainly at a loss how to argue for the VERY steep and thorny learning curve for "actually learning computering" and then having to be honest and say "it takes a decade"
So I've had two tiny mini micro successes with teaching to use LLMs much less in the sense of "only once instead of repeatedly" basically by teaching a mix of "automation - so useful!" and Alan Keys idea of writing more DSLs per project (which easily translates into Shell or Python scripts)
I couldn't convince any of the juniors however to really dig into shell scripting and spent the effort on learning it for real.
To them, it's like argueing that learning Latin from the ground up is useful.
your "good old times when the internet was awesome and great code was written" are my "ultra-sexist assholes on the internet and being asked at great code events who my boyfriend is" times.
maybe a little less reminiscing and a bit more reflection
isn't getting away from rms reason enough for human-emacs usage why wait for an AI policy
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Three things stand out for me:
It makes it so much clearer (to myself) that certain concepts, ideas, languages, tools are really worth knowing well
Alan Kay mentioned in a talk to first write your own purpose/domain oriented DSL so what if I make harnesses then?
At work I watch what LLMs are really used for - make tedium go away for starters - and it's ASTONISHING that the skewed relationship between code and "periphery" is so persistent
(I've seen once in 30 yrs "golden path" work. Once)
Thinking about harnesses (again): any language which has smooth and cheap spawning/forking/co-whatevering is awesomely suited for all the sub-agent concepts
I know totally obvious but it made me realize (again) the power of shell'n'tools and how fast a harness in let's say erlang could actually scaffold something pretty big etc etc
I also realize (again) how many things could be formalized in the harness without ever touching an LLM
Really sharpens "timeless" programming concepts for me 1/2
Here are two articles I think are reading-worthy if you are interested in some ideas where LLM things might be going:
https://vickiboykis.com/2026/06/15/running-local-models-is-good-now/
https://blog.alexellis.io/local-ai-is-not-opus/
This somewhat aligns with the general vibe I'm getting from reading HN threads which are sounding distinctively "sobering up".
Haven't seen a hype thread in weeks.
looking at the #cobol first person shooter and it's surprisingly readable https://github.com/icitry/FPS.cob/blob/main/fps.cob
tested "overnight oats" for porridge. didn't save anything, still needed some minutes of cooking. one more dish dirty.
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two weeks ago I got the vibe that maybe the AI stuff is now declining but I think it's going to go into overdrive now...
well my name isn't claudia but I am as capable as a large language model and have attracted men and women with my linguistic capabilities and made them fall in love
also, my availability is still better.
Expanding on "your own tools": There are of course "tools" in the widest sense that ARE really so awesome and remain in use and I wonder what their defining feature really is...
Ease of use mhhmaybe, flexibility definitely yes, sweet spot features and if there's more than it's "scenario" specific "oh if you need to do this then here this is for that use case" but you don't HAVE to use them all, great documentation with working examples with REAL usecases, low on dependencies, makes "it" easier
Expanding on "your own tools":
I'd love an ease-of-Docker for micro-VMS so I would really like to have - paraphrasing here - a Firecracker file as simple as Dockerfile and just pop it up and et voila have my vm-level isolation (haven't looked if it exists already)
How hard is it to write this myself if I dispense of 4385 features Docker has I simply do not need because it's implementing MY tiny itch
(I've seen "own tools" now for 30 yrs in prod and some of them were really awesome actually)
Expanding on "your own tools": I don't use Kubernetes because it's so awesome but because it gives me a bunch of operational primitives in a pretty handy manner. It's also quite well documented and has a great CLI.
BUT
The learning curve of "good Kubernetes" is VERY steep and all or nothing and it forces you into corners which don't matter (to my setup) so if I'd pick the 5 features I really need and re-implement them myself - would it be much harder than learning Kubernetes skillfully?
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Also still having a lot of "things shouldn't be so hard" moments when I see WHAT people make LLMs do when I review LLM-based PRs but I'm pretty sure we knew all along that 2 arms long Kubernetes YAMLs or GHA were a horrible idea and I still like CDK better than Terraform so the whole "doing code with code" idea really has a revival and some languages are better suited to do this than others
(I grew up with write your own tools because a lot of today's tools didn't exist and it was totally fine)
I've been reading articles about harnesses namely the one about pi.dev and the biggest thing I'm learning is interesting ideas about code management, the power of simple shell tools, how to think about workflows etc.
I'm also realizing you could implement context, code generation and "live updating code" in at least Smalltalk & I think in Lisp as well (albeit with a different concept)
Waiting for "who still needs the model in all this.." basically
(Self-modifying something something)
my top creativity tool:
comfy chair or park bench, a seat on a train or the reeling of a ferry and staring into the void. (landscape or seascape voids preferred)
alternatively knitting or ironing
I notice over and over that I'm a slow person, I need time to think and let my mind wander and mull things over
on a rare occasion of actual irony somebody hacked an llm harness in 400 horrible lines of awk and called it "slop cannon" and I think that is as beautiful as "stochastic labubu" ;)
Another week where I have four nines and neither anthropic nor github do... ;)
this day is utter shit so far so after a break and a second coffee and prescription-level consumption of cookies I'll try a restart.
I really started this day completely wrong and computers are stupid anyways.
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@catsalad have you seen the new threat-a-porter line by delacroix?? outrageously daring!!
I didn't look at news for like 3 hours and actually did some work and what happens?
UAE left OPEC, nvidia says AI is more expensive than human workers, oh wait github going to shit is not really news...
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@janl@narrativ.es @ramsey@phpc.social I sadly don't from a customer's perspective, I'm sorry.
in terms of advanced pun and political meme and overall funny my award of the year goes to @klasse_methode@chaos.social I laugh every time it scrolls by in my timeline 😂
(socialist red-black design and phrasing combined with technology pun - works particularily well in german - the literal translation "class and method - IT collective" isn't quite doing it so well.. :))
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@mia@cathode.church ok I made it through judith butler during university but I never finished dune 😂
(I did enjoy the recent TV series apparently I missed a central piece of meme.. :))
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@mia@cathode.church wait what it doesn't?? I thought it's about radical feminism, postmodern someting something etc
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@erisceleste I actually googled rasmus lerdorf controversy etc etc first because I'm not defending a programming language with an iffy smell
there are some I'm avoiding for that reason.
I've now seen twice the notion insinuating PHP is somehow still a lesser language. Some people are apparently stuck in a 25 year old notion of PHP.
NOBODY can afford this anymore and if this shit of communities doing it to EACH OTHER doesn't stop, you're just making it easy to be destroyed.
So be in freakin' solidarity with each other for a change.
I challenge you to say something good about the language you dislike the most.
I'm so SO tired of this shit since 1999, really.
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@jack early web media art like jodi.org, modern ones like floor796.com and blogs omg I miss blogs so much...
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@ubernostrum@infosec.exchange
@ubernostrum I believe this article might shed some light on the dissonance between "code quality" and "still just not right". it has the right code on a low level and some of the right primitives but it's put together badly - the elusive "good design" somewhere between code and architecture: https://medium.com/coding-nexus/your-llm-doesnt-write-correct-code-it-writes-plausible-code-cd910b4cd210