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Most striking in this video was the plea that people "get to know the project and the people" --
Open issues, known bugs, feature requests... it's like some people think that you could just run AI and close them all and the development would be done. But software development is a conversation: something people do together, code is just the medium.
It's like saying "I have solved birthdays since birthday bot will give everyone a cupcake and card automatically."
No you ruined birthdays.
Computers may run code, but code is written for humans to read.
This is why there is a limit to the utility of things like "python one-liners" (although they are fun puzzles and brain teasers)
Just like an article, an essay or a story code needs to make sense to the people who read it. Hard to understand code is bad code.
IDK I'm just a HS CS teacher, I'm no dev. But the example in that video was a likely horror show.
But then I grade some messed up code so I'm sensitive.
AI pull requests are making people feel crazy.
Summary: An AI bot called "Claude" posts "pull requests" (suggestions to fix and improve open source projects) on GitHub. Users are also submitting AI generated pulls and it's wasting the time of the people who need to check and approve or reject these "improvements."
In the world of GitHub doing 'pull requests' gives devs a bit of status, but AI has upended this system and destroyed trust and annoyed many people.
If I'm a celebrity why didn't I get an invitation to the met gala? Or... IDK free potato chips or something?
"UpScrolled"
Which sounds like a better place than twitter, but it's not open, someone else could be in charge later... same old same old.
Thanks for letting me know about this artist!
Exactly. This is a response to images with "bad optics" not a change in what they will do.
Sorry that's gotta be a big letdown
We love Vulcanidris.
@kali @thetnholler.bsky.social
This broke containment and too much of the general public got a glimpse of what has been happening and what is still happening.
Now they are cracking down on tiktok, and rolling a few heads at DHS to try and pretend like this was all a terrible mistake. A few bad apples.
Not... what has been going on for MONTHS.
It's not praise to notice that people underestimate her ability to reason and therefore kind of give her a pass as if she's too clueless to know better.
My point is she knows.
That's it.
It has "investors"
Sorry. Feel better. My metaphor is probably tortured in some way.
She managed to write a mostly reasonable post about the ICE killings.
Mostly. But it was addressed to her supporters and designed to be persuasive.
It's an analogy about how it *sounds* to people who don't think of software as something they could change, or make, or demand that it be different.
Think of it like someone who comes up to you and says:
"You just breathe air? You just ... drink water? You think a filter will matter? Listen. I make my air and water from raw elements at home. Keep it in this tank. I have total control of what I breathe and drink! This is why you keep getting allergies and keep finding out you need a new water filter."
It's logical but sounds like way to much work and a little crazy.
It's not though. Not once you get things running.
same, this sounds delightful.
It's why I do all of this "why not draw some ants?" posts. I just want to look at a cool drawing of some ants.
"Many people are so focused on being wherever they perceive everyone one else is"
To be fair ... this is part of the whole point of social media. To... be where the action is and all the people...?
I don't know how to break the cycle.
We've put some cracks in it though. That's something.
She's a lot smarter than Comer, Tuberville (OK that is a low bar) and probably Trump?
"And whenever we try to tell them "hey, there is an alternative that won't screw you like that" they ignore us or even get mad at us."
To be fair. No one is hearing this. I've come to notice how there are big efforts made to migrate people to platforms. To recapture audiences in new spaces. This happens through media and influencers and I suspect some people spend a lot of money on it. Most people are simply not aware there is any other option.