Notices by Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io), page 5

The main difference is that this time around companies are also preventing junior developers from actually being able to learn how to code.

Truly epic galaxy-brain fail.

During the outsourcing and offshoring craze a decade or two ago everyone hired cheap developers in India and eventually companies realized that that doesn’t work.

Now they’re trying the same with outsourcing to LLMs.

The bottleneck in software development isn’t coding.

It’s management and design.

The funniest thing so far this year is that people create burner accounts to reply to me how I’m wrong and how great AI is.

Perfectly normal behavior.

So if intelligence will be like a utility will they have to lay intelligence pipes to your home?

What if the drain clogs?

Do I have to get the discarded intelligence septic pumped from time to time?

So many questions

It is not an extreme position to want to be able to think for yourself, to write by just typing words in, to learn things from other people or to make art with your hands.

😮

@bastilian 👀

Fucking clowns https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/13/grammarly-removes-ai-expert-review-feature-mimicking-writers-after-backlash

"Hi junkies^H^H^H^H^H^Hstudents! Now that we made you dependent on LLM models for coding; we're doing the obvious: only providing you with dulled down models unless you pay up!"
—Microsoft

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/189268

@joe I have one of those palm keyboards!! So cool

@einarwh Dreyfus, What Computers Can’t Do, Harper 1972/1979.

Quoting Bar-Hillel in the SIGART Newsletter (Critique of June 1966 Meeting)

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116223237018240570

One would hope that when this hype cycle is over it won’t be just an AI winter but an AI ice age.

Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, 1966

And "free" also implies that the worker is supposedly completely free. He is free in the sense that he can sell for as high a price as he can manage.

Himself?

Yes, for as much money as possible. - Now, in this market, the computer replaces the best thing the worker has to offer: knowledge and skill. The machine takes over both, and he himself is degraded to a mere machine operator. His actual abilities have been coaxed out of him and incorporated into the device. Consequently, he has less to sell than before, and what he can still sell is worth less.

He himself loses value?

Yes, because he is not only robbed of the ability to provide bread for his family, but also of one of the signs that prove to him that he is human. Now he is simplified and transformed into an operator. (Almost like in Kafka, where a man is transformed into a beetle; Kafka is a prophet in that regard.)"

Joseph Weizenbaum, Kurs auf den Eisberg, Serie Piper, Munich, 1987

Something to think about is that the lot fondly remembered computers from Apple are those with specific custom highly sophisticated mechanical engineering in their cases—as opposed to electronics.

Examples:
- the monitor arm on the iMac G4
- the door on the PowerMac G4
- the screen hinge on the alumin(i)um unibody laptops
- the locking handle on the G4 Cube
- even the motorized PowerBook Duo dock

@tvdv I wish the hadn’t messed up the software for it—it could have been so much more successful.

Goes to show how much you need both good hardware and good software to get a platform off the ground.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116222482099263644

Obviously this is a joke post, I’ve been a (mostly) happy Mac user for going on 25 years now.

And there’s been many amazing models.

My favorite of all time is the iMac G4. Spectacularly beautiful and supremely ergonomic.

@malcircuit @RnDanger @jonne @peter I completely agree with you.

For wha it’s worth, it’s him talking about it and he’s using it as a springboard for what is abusive behavior.

The way he gets preemptively angry and defensive and is blaming people with generalizations and comparing them to a cult _before they even did anything_ is ringing my (tiny) alarm bells.

Of course that’s just my opinion, but I think I have sound reasoning.

(Anyway: I need to do more astro again.)

@peter @malcircuit @RnDanger @jonne this

Is this good?

https://apnews.com/article/heat-dome-snow-blizzard-cold-polar-flooding-55e3baf6877e81ee1961aade3cb361c3