Starting things off with a new(ish) and very well-crafted sneer from Iris Meredith: There’s little that’s “inevitable” about AI

For a while it looked like devs would resist the slop, but now it looks like the slop is winning. It is pretty depressing. I am thinking about leaving tech altogether.

Honestly, can’t blame you - with how utterly tech’s surrendered to the slop machines, and how its actively sabotaged attempts to resist them, I’d be looking to leave as well.

Musk and DHH are both incompetent fascists, they were made for each other

Glyph’s recently sneered his fellow programmers’ enthusiasitc acceptance of the slop machines - recommend checking it out.

Terminator, but stupid

You could also compare it to the lobotomy, with how much it ruins people’s intellect

Should be working now, forgot the https:// prefix

ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons, because simply stealing the collective works of humanity isn’t enough

New Baldur Bjarnason: Software developers are not okay

I vaguely recall once arguing that an arts education should be mandatory for all students. Honestly, that would probably solve a lot of problems in society.

Maybe if we banned teaching MBAs altogether alongside it…

manifesto: https://jregory.substack.com/p/why-we-are-torturing-clankers

If you called this a schizopost, Jreg would proudly agree with you. Especially the entire “You Are Autistic” section where he invents new and insane flavours of ableism, then proudly declares himself a schizophrenic, for the purpose of hating AI more.

This idea that the LLM is analogous to a camera is such an insipid, thought-terminating cliché.

Its completely wrong, too - the camera’s invention didn’t render painting obsolete like he implies. The only way you’d come to that conclusion is if you’re utterly devoid of creativity and artistic insight.

Iris suggested “prevent[ing] people from studying software development and only software development” in her article. I fully endorse that idea - at the bare minimum, it’d hopefully reduce the number of dipshits like this guy.

Pretty dead, checking one of their own graphs - the number of questions on the site has been in freefall for the past few years:

Starting off with a double bill:

• First, a new post from Iris Meredith about enshittification, featuring a cameo from the rats.

• Second, a truly godawful take on art history coming from a DHH defender (h/t Daphne Preston-Kendal)

Continuing on the Resident Evil talk, the T-Virus itself was the product of an eugenics program called Project W (aka: the Wesker Program), an eugenics program set on creating A Superior Breed of Man™, which would line up real nicely with the rats’ beliefs.

(They’d need to ignore Umbrella and its associates being complicit in over a dozen zombie outbreaks/apocalypses, but they can always rely on longtermism for that)

Zero advice on how to resist the siren song of a rogue AI trying to escape it’s box and zero insight on how OR WHY it might try to achieve that.

The best advice probably boils down to “Don’t be a rat in the first place”. As Soyweiser’s already mentioned, the AI only escapes if Yud’s playing against LW insiders.

Premium-quality sneer ran across my eyes recently: All A.I. Projects Are Digital Asbestos

Starting things off with a fresh sneer I recently ran across (and put in the wrong place):

You do not have to hand IT to the techbros

Starting things off with a fresh sneer I recently ran across:

You do not have to hand IT to the techbros

Using AI is a skill issue in and of itself, adding some accidental irony to the title