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

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116728764235644110

This is Ellipsus which touts itself as "A principled alternative—by writers, for writers" which is really ridiculous when you put surveillance tools into your editor because LLMs have ruined everything.

And like, I hesitated (for about 20 seconds) yelling about this because of the inevitable "well if you're against this you must be using LLMs to write" which is just AHHHHGHHHH.

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.