Notices by Becca Cotton-Weinhold (rlcw@ecoevo.social)

@AlSweigart
I do use #AI, but I am not a dev by profession, I do review all of the code anyway and I do use the AI to build my understanding of programming - in addition to other sources.
But I also have a "fun" story of a professional dev vibecoding hashing a bunch values - the AI wrote a program which replaced the values with made up values that looked like hashes, and deployed that code. 🍿You do have a choice in how you use this tech.
@inthehands

@kaia
20 people on 2+ continents. How awesome is that? All from my mom's living room!

The #US rather elects a demented #fascist than a competent woman. When we need sensible and thoughtful leaders more than ever. If we don't watch out we will make a similar mistake in #Germany next year. I'd wish all the idiots to hell, but with #climateChange, what's the point? So to all the idiots supporting fascists everywhere: Congratulations, you have won a terrible #future for yourself and your children. Sadly also me & my friends and so many others, who deserve better. Fuck you.

@pluralistic I also love this part, sign a petition so cards against humanity can get $47 from Musk. Magic!

Shortcut: sign here: https://petition.theamericapac.org/

And enter "MuskIsDumb@cah.lol" as referrer.

#uselection

@inthehands Very true. Main thing I advise Start-up clients to do is to focus on figuring out what is important now, and build the product in ways that it is kind of modular and easy to scale and extend in parts, when that time comes. This usually makes things less complex and encourages clean simple design patterns in all areas. For scaleups, I love the strangler pattern, to scale & rebuild the product bit by bit.

@Di4na @cstross @KevinMarks Don't jumble in all AI together. There have been massive productivity gains from a diverse set of AIs throughout all areas of life and industry in the past decades. Those AIs by and large where not a non specialised generative AI such as the LLMs and image generation we are seeing now. They are specialized and mostly invisible.
Talking about GenAI as "AI" as if it covered the whole field is a marketing trick. Don't help them pull it off. ;-)

@aharoni Go back to what? The Jews where uprooted, robbed and killed most places the Nazis got to, but also especially Poland. And telling people to go back to "where they came from" three generations later is also it's own racist bullshit. Most Israelis where born and raised in Israel. That is their home - for better or worse. The past happened, and we need to handle the situation as it is now.

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