Notices by Sue Smith (sue@glasgow.social)

People who encounter perspectives they mostly agree with, but focus on the part they disagree with or don't like, should know that's the literal opposite to how successful social movements are built

Paging the replying men of mastodon

"I warn my students:

- Yes, AI can generate the code for this assignment. Don’t let it. You have to write the code.

I explain that, if they don’t write the code, they will not be able to effectively read the code. The ability to read code is certainly going to be valuable, maybe more valuable, in an AI-based coding future."

This is 💯 the advice I'm giving young folk right now.

https://htmx.org/essays/yes-and/

There's a Golden Girls episode where Sophia has a bulk shopping discount card and buys all sorts of nonsense including four gross of toothbrushes and I think of it every time someone says they generated however many hundreds of thousands of lines of code

On the viral tweet about claude generating in an hour what a team at google had apparently built in a year, the OP provided more context which.. of course it was a misrepresentation of what had actually happened

Bluesky is *dreadful* for this, it's a frenzy of people finding posts to get annoyed about.

Mastodon is worse in many other ways so this is not an opportunity for smugness lol.

It reminds me of a Limmy sketch where he's disgusted by a guy in his office, when the guy moves out of his eyeline, he goes out of his way to still be able to see and be appalled by him.

I had a cat who hated the smell of an air freshener we had, but would deliberately go up and smell it every time he was near it, just to verify how appalling it was and be annoyed by it all over again. Well, that's how a lot of people appear to use social media.

@inthehands @jenniferplusplus the daft thing for me was that my course actually had really high teaching standards, they did their best for the students, but still somehow they had internalised this nonsense

I sometimes see people describing resistance to LLM assisted coding as gatekeeping and I get that, software engineering culture is absolutely rife with gatekeeping, I quite literally dedicated dedicated my career to developer education because I want more people to have access to these opportunities.

But here's the thing, in order to fully participate in the world of software you will still need to learn to code, giving people the impression that isn't the case is not empowering.

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What I love about this picture is you can see he's enjoying himself torturing them up there, that character was a fly wee swine, it's why I can't stand the later episodes

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Yes, the pissed off waitress is a young Jamie Lee Curtis

(She's just confiscated the food Columbo brought in with him)

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