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   Jess👾 (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 30-Apr-2026 02:06:14 JST Jess👾

   The shitty secret nobody likes talking about is that humans are pretty fucking bad at writing code too.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 30-Apr-2026 02:06:13 JST Rich Felker

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     • Glyph

     @glyph @JessTheUnstill And the comparison isn't between code the "AI" wrote and code a bad-at-coding human wrote.

     It's between code the "AI" sloppily copied from something other humans, some of them good at coding and others bad at it, wrote, and that got review and bugfixes over time, and code a bad-at-coding human wrote.

     Only the former are now not getting credited, not getting the leverage control if/how/where their work gets used, but instead getting used as free labor propping up the most awful people's plot to burn the planet and institute permanent fascist hellscape.

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Apr-2026 02:06:14 JST Glyph

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     @JessTheUnstill you're not wrong but I hate this framing because it gives the wrong impression of *what is wrong* with "AI" code. humans are also, on average, quite "bad" at art and writing. but there is no evaluation of quality without intent and purpose, and LLMs can't establish either of those things. their code is, as the saying goes, "not even wrong"