The psych #Ruby gem started incorporating slop code a few days ago.
Additionally, the most recent release published to RubyGems does not have a corresponding Release on GitHub nor is there an available CHANGELOG. Less important, but still notable, recent tags are unverified. Older tags were largely verified.
So, uh, FYI, I guess. Hard to avoid that dependency.
If you live too far from #WashingtonDC to donate your used books to us, look for nearby programs serving incarcerated readers. This article describes a group in #WashingtonState that collected books for the #OkanoganCounty Jail and the #Colville Tribal Correctional Facility:
https://www.yoursourceone.com/columbia_basin/group-donates-more-than-500-books-to-okanogan-county-and-colville-tribes-correctional-facilities/article_a7377579-f01f-43e4-a5cb-94621def833c.html
(Also in #WA is the amazing Books to Prisoners organization, which is based in #Seattle & has associate organizations in #Portland, #Olympia, & #Spokane. See https://www.bookstoprisoners.net/ for details.)
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"countering slopbots requires that you write an agents.md that uses gringo shitlib diction" i am going to become the anton chigurh
you know what else can turn poorly defined specs into poorly written programs for the cost of a software developer salary
if only there was a way of telling a computer what to do that didn't require paying data centre landlords four figures a month
…maybe they relocated the fountain in President’s Park closer to the White House, drained it, and dropped the Octagon right on top of it.
I haven’t been downtown in a minute, so who knows… maybe the south face of the White House now faces north.
Don’t be fooled by the slop-generated images in this post. Even a cursory look at White House photos or a map would make it obvious.
“AI” is the tool of the fascist. You can make your point without using it.
This particular gem is a dependency of a direct dependency in a project I maintain. The direct dependency is provided by Google and interacts with their services. So, not really a good opportunity to seek out alternatives. 🥴
A #Ruby gem with nearly 400MM downloads remained stable for nearly eight years before seeing a rapid uptick in releases beginning in February of this year. In the eight (8) days of May alone, the authors published nine (9!) new versions.
Guess why.
May this Pride Month be what you want it to be. Happy, vengeful, horny. Do your thing.
If you read only one essay today, make it this one. It pulls together and helps one understand many of the large developments in the world today which on the surface seem disparate.
Meet Dr James Barry.
Well, that’s a first…
Ordered food around 4:45 for delivery. Order got picked up at 5:10 by a gig worker who spent an hour moving around our area getting closer then farther away from our home. Like, literally circling the block. I finally tracked the person down on foot some time after 6.
They were riding around our neighborhood on a dockless scooter without any obvious means of delivering our food, which they did not have on their person. To my discredit, I wasn’t able to speak conversantly with them in their first language, so we weren’t able to sort out exactly what went wrong.
The restaurant, which is very much open, isn’t answering their phone and I have to wait two to three business days to dispute the charge with my credit card company.
Meanwhile, I’ve got two extremely hangry children to feed.
So, that was a whole ass ordeal.
Fetterman 2.0 is going to make an amazing Senator.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:opm7kjzippurg433jh7rt4ax/post/3mn3rsgzuhe2n
I too will be thinking about this for weeks
Everyone talks about not having senior devs in the future because we’re replacing the juniors with LLMs, but nobody’s talking about losing senior devs now because people who are competent and care about the quality of their work are leaving this LLM-infested hellscape of a career path to go into carpentry, hostelry, or subsistence farming