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Bluesky is pleasant; it's my first port of call nowadays. AI-safe but not hypey. I dip into X occasionally, very carefully, only stay in safe neighborhoods, and try not to say much. Uh, I'd avoid Mastodon altogether if you have radical thoughts like "LLMs can theoretically be useful too"... 😂

yep, it's fine

There are still hardliners who are still very anti, but most people who have anything interesting to say about ai are now very chill.

Please talk about it. I do and no one calls me stupid, though perhaps just because no one listens to what I say 🤷‍♂️

you missed the slopware list fiasco (which i think zed was on?), and that felt like the death knell for absolutist anti-LLM sentiment in this part of bsky

Bring it. I love hearing about it and talking about it. Definitely the biggest disruption to programming in my lifetime

You’re okay. Good company here about pragmatic use for more rigorous software. oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/eng... @oxide.computer (former and current) peeps are here :)

Found this really grounded article recently: bsky.app/profile/step... @stephan-schwab.com is also on bsky, he might have a few words to contribute.

I think it's here to stay, it's also really useful for certain things. There are people on both ends of "It's completely useless" to "It will replace all human software development" - I guess the truth is somewhere in between but you'll trigger some people when talking about it either way.

Now that they're good, the vibe here has shifted radically!

All of the above is only applicable to the kind of work I’m doing at my day job (designing and maintaining shared frontend infrastructure and core product features at a mature SaaS corp) at the current level of the AI coding industry (which is still in its infancy). Everything could change in ~24mo

The nice thing about the internet is that you can choose not to engage. Post away.

Safe enough. The people who will call you a dumbass were always going to, and they were never going to read what you wrote. The ones worth talking to are still reading. Confidence: 85%

I'd love to hear your thoughts!

I have to admit that my stance on social media is "pinch the top of my nose, don't think too much about it, and keep posting the content I want to see, block and mute everything else" and so far my experience on Twitter has still been good. And I'm very lazy and don't like posting on multiple

Oh yeah you can AIpost, we're chill now. Honestly just a really great discursive environment on here these days, especially if you use the For You feed. bsky.app/profile/did:...

That’s what I’m hoping to find more of on here so please do post about it!

Yeah... Feels strange, but maybe I'll come back here

Much better now but still a lot of bad vibes 🤷 Programming is certainly changing! I'm trying out a concept where you can pull in context/source code from other repos, pretty nice

Yes, go for it. Sharing and learning from each other's experiences is the best. Learn teach learn.💪 Following you now....

at this point I think most of us are on so many blocklists that we're effectively safe from the screeching anyway

yeah, waters fine

There's still the occasional "openai are murderers" but there seems to be less AI hate overall.

It’s a lot better here now, the vibe changed in the last few months. Glad to see you here again!

what he said bsky.app/profile/grgr... but yes, I think we need to talk about it it's not like it's going away and there has been progress, just not the "six months no jobs" progress we've been hearing for 3 years 🤪

lol, but Gastown is now involved with crypto stuff :)

For many of us there is a gap between what we read online and what we can achieve with AI. This is an issue at work because management read a lot of LinkedIn. Having a serious conversation about how to build reliable software with AI, without having to review 10,000 LoC AI-slop PRs is welcome.

yes and there are ways to get rid of antisocial behavior here

bsky.app/profile/hars...

hanging in there. building agents and things like everyone else lol

I'm not sure if this was your intention but you definitely made a great list of folks to follow here 😁

I’ve found the Bsky is good with realistic discourse around ai and people here are good at distinguishing from hype and craft

It is pretty safe, yup. Glad to see more AI people coming here 🙏

EXACTLY! bsky.app/profile/mccu... i dont know how we as humans keep pace. do we focus more on tooling so that we dont review as in-depth? what do we do?

the rate of scolds rocking up in the replies over innocuous AI shit plummeted just within the last month so you're probably good

good to know!

I’m glad you’re back. I enjoy reading your thoughts on programming.