@kelseyhightower.com - Kelsey Hightower bsky.app

I'm learning the Zig programming language and I'm surprised that inline code examples are still not considered a requirement. For example, take this page from t...

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Back to textbooks: Denmark rolls back digital learning.

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I don't care about LLMs or AI. I care about people. AI is just a tool to me. Tools enable people to help or harm at a scale beyond their natural abilities. I ca...

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I don't use any LLMs, but to be fair I'm also retired, and get to write code on my own terms. Also, writing code isn't the end all be all for me, so I've never ...

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This version of the future isn't appealing to me.

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Why learn to code when you can use an LLM and pay a subscription fee for the rest of your life.

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The history of gRPC is well worth the read. Thanks for sharing this @danciruli.cloud

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Watching crypto exchanges pivot to prediction markets confirms they were always casinos masquerading as investment institutions.

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ai;dr

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Generative AI is a slop generation machine by default. You have to put in a lot of work to get something of quality from it.

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"Bad thing existed before I made it easier to do bad thing" isn't the argument you think it is.

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This can be enforced to the same extent that "handmade" is enforced today. That's to say, it's damn near impossible.

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Soon "No AI" labels will be used to identify content that is worth your time.

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Slop is the perfect word to describe the low-quality, high-volume, AI-generated content being thrown around.

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Now I'm going to include providing transportation to the list of things I'm willing to do to help my friends and family obtain a Real ID or US Passport.

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It took me about 10 seconds to check my voter registration using the @votedotorg.bsky.social website. I'm happy to report that I'm good to go. www.vote.org

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Poll taxes are illegal, but that won't stop them from trying. Requiring an ID to vote is a suppression tactic, which is why they are working hard to put them in...

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I miss the R&B era of matching jackets.

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The AI hype train is on the fast track towards technofeudalism. This is why I keep asking people to look out the window and show me something different.

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If I spend any meaningful amount of time learning MCP it will be because of people like Den.

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