Notices by cthos 🐱 (cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev)

Okay IRC without the need for a bouncer is pretty sweet.

@mattly I somehow missed that Anthropic is also switching some flags on Claude code to token-based billing very soon too so yeahhhhh I think a lot of vibe coders are about to get a surprise bill.

@mattly I love that one because it totally neglects the fact that the "best models" run in a loop to do "reasoning" and chain themselves together to "error correct"

@mattly Or the variant "But they're charging less per million now!"

RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/116590156596542536

You should just read some of the comments in there. There's a lot of ... let's say, interesting, reactions to the post.

Hottake

Google's latest push with Recaptcha to require you to scan a QR code with a smartphone is just another push towards "you need a modern smart phone that is run by the duopoly to participate in society".

Passkeys evoke a similar concern / anxiety, but they're not the same - there are several escape hatches.... but if you own no computing devices at all and rely on borrowing one from the library, for example, you're going to have a hard(er) time.

So uh, is it a "widely accepted sentiment" that agentic coding is the future of software developers?

Like....I have seen this assertion made, and certainly a lot of prominent dev *influencers* think this, but I am not convinced it is the majority opinion. (Especially because genai "mandates" are still necessary)

@mattly The people in question were in fact arguing that they should not have to pay a billion dollar corporation to do this and thus "small language model".

But like... it's right there! The tools exist.

This might actually be worse than I was thinking and is in fact "smol language model please fix the errors my LSP is detecting" which.... yeah.

*rubs temples*

...there are a non-zero number of devs out there who think LLMs are magic because they never bothered setting up their deterministic tooling, aren't there?

(this is wild speculation on my part but I just encountered "use a small language model to fix small code errors" in the wild and I'm just... what?)

*hovers over the "fix all autofixable errors button"*

no, no I should ask a non-deterministic language model to correct this for me.

So I just blocked a mutual for writing a blog post about all the things they've been doing with Claude Code. Normally, I would let that slide, but the thing that got me was "yeah, I recognize the ethical concerns, but I think we'll fix those".

While also making an informational website with a big "please check sources" disclaimer up at the top.

I just... why! Why do *you* think that the slop machine needs to create informational resources but not FACT CHECK them.

I swear Claude fucking infects people's brains to the point that they think they need to make a bunch of projects and then wash away the ethical concerns by saying "oh yeah, we'll get there".

Just. No. It's incredibly disappointing.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@flyingpenguin/116399482954754093

"When the top two most-exploitable bugs are removed from the corpus, Mythos’s FCE rate drops from 72.4% to… wait for it… 4.4%. (Figure 3.3.3.B, page 52) Under 5%!"

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME???? Absolutely astounding. Why do people keep falling for this shit???

@aeva @cwebber Yep! No need to examine any externalities, token hose will remain flowing *forever*.

@mattly I mean they probably shouldn't have allowed this in the first place if they had a business plan but I think they needed to stay on the OpenClaw bandwagon to generate MAUs

Lol: https://bsky.app/profile/techmeme.com/post/3mimv5teukc2d

24 hour warning before they limit the Claude subscription further is pretty short notice

@mattly Yeah, I don't actually think the developer is intentionally malicious, but he is putting out hundreds of thousands of lines of code he's never reviewed so....

RE: https://masto.deoan.org/@neurovagrant/116341969058729163

I mean, I expected this, OpenClaw's proudly vibe-coded.

The slop code enthusiasts sure do love to use the whole "the Linux kernel accepts LLM code, you might as well shove it everywhere" as a mantra, huh?