Notices by Jeff Atwood (codinghorror@infosec.exchange), page 2

"A recent 2026 empirical study titled "Beyond Code Snippets: Benchmarking LLMs on Repository-Level Question Answering" (published on arXiv/ResearchGate) explicitly tested LLMs on codebase comprehension. The researchers concluded that high performance often "results from verbatim reproduction of Stack Overflow answers rather than genuine reasoning." " https://www.researchgate.net/publication/403262523_Beyond_Code_Snippets_Benchmarking_LLMs_on_Repository-Level_Question_Answering

You can count on Misanthropic. https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/

Raising the minimum wage, unless you ask sketchy bought-and-paid-for economists, turns out to be a good thing, actually: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/economists-warned-california-not-raise-110500084.html

@carnage4life anyone who trusts Misanthropic about anything will live to regret it. On the continuum of evil, this company is damn close to Larry Ellison, aka Palpatine.

I’ve been saying for a long time that decentralization is the way to go. We can and should have sane centralized services, of course, but it’s imperative that we also build decentralized services which empower users and give them control, rather than treating them like digital sharecroppers. That’s what our Discourse project is all about. I propose collective ownership of the content and the communities we build online. Yeah, it’s more work, it’s not “free” (sorry not sorry), but I have some uncomfortable news for you: those so-called “free” services aren’t really free.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/i-fight-for-the-users/

I don't make a big deal about it, but one of the reasons I donated to Mastodon is to improve the UI, and the stellar work of @imanijoy is a direct result 🤩 https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116302074492502983

Sometimes, yet again, there is cat

@ayo @elk I would like popular UI innovations in Elk to be folded into Mastodon proper (the web client should be default awesome) and would be happy to help fund this

I'm getting real tired of this "we must change the establishment by being the establishment" bullshit.

"The founders of Cooperation Jackson, a network of worker cooperatives in Jackson, Mississippi in the United States, cite Mondragon as a key inspiration." that's amazing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation

@Gargron yeah it's the "perfect album" metric I am going for, specifically

name a musical album you listen to, more or less, once every day. Strict ruleset. You REALLY listen to it every day, unless life intervenes, as it is wont to do

@evan you don't need food or shelter (or money), you need universal basic computing credits.. https://staygold.us

@evan but the LLMs can do this for free (on the free tier, if you have Universal Basic Computing Credits)

"Justice is what love looks like in public." Via Natalie Foster and Cornel West, commissioned by me through Clay Graham Art https://www.claygrahamart.com/products/robo-justice-battle-damage-variant-matte-poster

RE: https://mas.to/@trendsbot/116211553284922724

How about no, we don’t “pay people in Flooz”, but instead use the vast wealth of this second gilded age to reduce poverty and create new jobs? https://rgmii.org

I am going to be at TED2026 in Vancouver, but I'm unsure how useful it'll be.. anyone else going? https://conferences.ted.com/ted2026

@dangillmor I gotta defend Paul Ford here. He's an incredibly thoughtful and kind person.. some of his earlier pieces are the best I have ever read on the Internet. If you read this NYT piece deeply, it does explain, but I kind of agree with the criticism that it starts out far too rah-rah and many people just stop reading at that point..

@hpod16 people still use txwitter? News to me.

@xgranade LLMs told me something critical about my health that no healthcare professional -- and I have a whole team working on me, because I'm bonkers -- ever did. If you want to ask, ask, I can provide very detailed citations and proof.