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@venir.dev

🇮🇹💻 Coding since 2006, struggling since 1992 Building stuff with Dart 🎯 and with Elixir ⚗️

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@venir.dev

The following might sound weird. But it's more evident than *ever* that code assisting tools lead me to *instant* debt. Yeah, I know, I'm doing it wrong. Hold on. When I fix their mess, I realize like these *products* are *designed* to behave like this. It's very subtle and *very* dangerous.

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@venir.dev

#microsoft before this layoff, microsoft had 1k *more* employees than in 2022; a surplus of *10k* than pre-2020s. they're still fixing the crazy COVID hiring spree, while periodically showing investors: "we're cutting costs we're going so make *so much* money, zomg". that's it. no need to panic.

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@venir.dev

also, laying off thousands of people at once like this "drugs" the labor market, in favour of big tech ofc, where there's a major human capital dependency. ... just like LLM coding, the goal is, and always will be: controlling the means of production of the millennia. see: bsky.app/profile/veni...

~venir 🇪🇺🇺🇦@venir.dev

The following might sound weird. But it's more evident than *ever* that code assisting tools lead me to *instant* debt. Yeah, I know, I'm doing it wrong. Hold on. When I fix their mess, I realize like these *products* are *designed* to behave like this. It's very subtle and *very* dangerous.

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@venir.dev

this would explain how I *immediatelly* tell schlop apart within the first 4-5 words.

Amber 🌸@shimmermathlabs.com

what makes claudish different from human text? we're getting real psycholinguistic research! idea is that models are optimizing for information density rather than human understanding. consequences flow from that. i think i buy it. arxiv.org/abs/2610.29162

arxiv.orgWhy is AI-generated language so hard to understand?There is a widespread sense that AI-generated text has recently become harder to understand. In this study, we investigate a set of psycholinguistic features that are known to correlate with human pro...

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Freya Holmér
@freya.bsky.social

local AI guy who could "finally focus on the higher level ideas" now asking AI to come up with some ideas

~venir 🇪🇺🇺🇦
@venir.dev

The following might sound weird. But it's more evident than *ever* that code assisting tools lead me to *instant* debt. Yeah, I know, I'm doing it wrong. Hold on. When I fix their mess, I realize like these *products* are *designed* to behave like this. It's very subtle and *very* dangerous.

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Like, all around me, slowly but steadly, I can see friends, colleagues, CTOs (et. al.) being more and more dependent on... them. I've even read the following recently: >what LLMs do you guys use to edit your spreadsheets? ????? like, try this?

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@venir.dev

Again, this does *not* mean that LLMs and the such don't have their place in our industry. This is *way* bigger than a simple "tech debate", our choices, or "which side of the argument" will emerge victorious. To me it just feels like... resistance.

~venir 🇪🇺🇺🇦
@venir.dev

The following might sound weird. But it's more evident than *ever* that code assisting tools lead me to *instant* debt. Yeah, I know, I'm doing it wrong. Hold on. When I fix their mess, I realize like these *products* are *designed* to behave like this. It's very subtle and *very* dangerous.

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@venir.dev

See how I do *not* feel threatened, job-wise? Hell, since 2022, income has doubled. Investments are good. For now (:D). Here, instead, I am saying: we're being *predated* by trillion dollar companies. They want the means of production of the millennia: creative and critical thinking.

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@venir.dev

That is exactly why these products, *since day *zero*, came after scientists and creatives, rather than focusing on eliminating repetitive, mechanical, and physical work. That is why it feels these products are more likely designed like an addicting drug, just like Zucc did with social networks.

~venir 🇪🇺🇺🇦
@venir.dev

The following might sound weird. But it's more evident than *ever* that code assisting tools lead me to *instant* debt. Yeah, I know, I'm doing it wrong. Hold on. When I fix their mess, I realize like these *products* are *designed* to behave like this. It's very subtle and *very* dangerous.

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@venir.dev

I think it's time that, just like when we investigated the psychological design choices social networks made, I think we should do the same for Claude Code, Codex, and the such. ASAP.

~venir 🇪🇺🇺🇦
@venir.dev

Obviously I recognize LLMs have their place. These *products* are.. way more than that. They are designed to come after *our* emergent abilities, so we lean towards *their* artificial ones, so we can *trust* them, and - most importantly - so we can throw away our problem solving *confidence*.

~venir 🇪🇺🇺🇦
@venir.dev

The following might sound weird. But it's more evident than *ever* that code assisting tools lead me to *instant* debt. Yeah, I know, I'm doing it wrong. Hold on. When I fix their mess, I realize like these *products* are *designed* to behave like this. It's very subtle and *very* dangerous.

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@venir.dev

Think: does it feel like these tools offer just *selfless help*, or are they maybe, *just maybe*, operating an *hostile takeover*? A manipulative, subtle, silent, and $1T marketed takeover? Notice how I am not referring to LLMs in general. I'm speaking about these *products* specifically.

~venir 🇪🇺🇺🇦
@venir.dev

All this would explain why most folks in the industry have this "soul sucking" feeling. And yeah, I know, I know. Let me get my tinfoil hat, sure. But it's been years now, and damn, it's so obvious to me. I can't possibly be the only one forming this thought.

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@venir.dev

the timing of this post, just a couple of days before several fragmented but terrifying CVEs are being released in other ecosystems, is borderline comical zach made an important point here, and I hope this is now even more crystal clear to everyone

Zach Daniel@zachdaniel.dev

@peterullrich.com recently ran a huge security scan on all of #AshFramework repositories. He found a lot, we fixed them all, and I wrote a bit about it here: ash-hq.org/blog/concent...

ash-hq.orgConcentrated LiabilityOn the security issues from a recent audit of Ash, and why a framework like Ash is both a concentrated liability and a safety net.

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hailey
@hailey.at

me knowing i’m not responsible for any php application right now

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Bluesky
@bsky.app

no kings includes billionaires who think they’re kings

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

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jae (hallowed)
@fubarchitect.com

wsocial doing important work demonstrating why identity verification is extremely dangerous and users should not participate

Elena Rossini ⁂@elenarossini.com

#WSocial’s advice here is TERRIBLE - deleting your account won’t change a thing. Just now I found the record of a minor (15yo) who was verified by #WIdentity. His account status is now “taken down” but his full name, nationality and approx. date of birth are still visible on W's verification list!

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apenwarr
@apenwarr.ca

Nothing has a moat anymore but somehow still none of the software does what I want. Interesting

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Lars Wikman
@lawik.bsky.social

Replying to @zachdaniel.dev

After 2 weeks of intense Goatmire for me, I still caught this one. AJ is a sweetheart. Also apparently a man of technical taste :)

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Hauleth
@hauleth.dev

The difference is that one wanted to share the knowledge with others, while the other one wanted to profit off that knowledge. If LLM companies would face a proportional government response to what Aaron faced, then that would be a different topic. Instead they were invited for dinner with POTUS

P(Doomien) Miller@damienmiller.bsky.social

I just don't understand how people can eulogize Swartz and simultaneously conclude that the world needs *more* intellectual property enforcement

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Louis Pilfold
@lpil.uk

It is wild that Jak rewrote the entire backend of the Gleam compiler from scratch and nothing has broken