I suspect:
1. there are real hollowed out humans sifting through this cruelty and making noises about labor rights and quitting
2. the model takes all the abusive language and spits it right back out at other paying customers because that's what it does
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/08/anthropic-bans-abusive-behavior-claude
well actually *we* are the ones being persecuted 🙄
A terminal UI is just a GUI where the graphics card is your imagination and the rendering engine is 50 years of accumulated technical debt.
Life is weird, I think back to all those times over the decades I tried to convince management to make CI, local deployment and build/test times a priority because that *does* increase productivity and *are* meaningful metrics, and I only get to work on it now because I spun it as "ai readiness".
Jfc working in this industry is a bunch of Joker moments and then you die.
RE: https://ruby.social/@passthejoe/117434223766023324
"emperor penguin torvalds"
Y'all should have been this outraged when cloud and front end frameworks were crammed down our throats but, nope, that was Someone Else's Job.
Devs who spent the last two decades babysitting big tech offerings surprised and outraged at having to babysit the new big tech offering.
He should have played off this AI slop take on Peter Watts' Echopraxia as meta satire and it would have been hailed as a genius adaptation and become an instant cult classic.
https://mashable.com/tech/neil-blomkamp-short-film-nightborne
Neil Peart was in a class by himself, but boy, so is Annika Niles. #rush
When your project has to work there's no difference between the boilerplate code and The Fun Code, some dumb little temp file logic can take down your app the same as anything else.
And ime more so because everyone hates testing that stuff. I've seen this many times the mundane bits are the highest risk.
@cstross They've clearly stopped giving a F.
Keep saying this but 90+% of llm usage is moving some surface syntax that is annoying and/or impossible to parse to another surface syntax that has the same problems, ad nauseum.
If this era kills "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.", which has been lousy advice at least as long as I've been doing this, I'm just going to throw that in the win column.
Free Pascal finally got support for if/case statements as expressions.
It's been getting tons of other features and bug fixes, surprisingly active project.
Most merges are on the small side so while slop possibility exists it's not disclosed and I can't tell so I'm following my policy of giving it the benefit of the doubt.
https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/commit/aecf80f5857f332566162a143ed56e2a34d552f5
Oh no, RIP Margaret Hamilton
https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
computer nerds (usually linux users) often emphasize reviewing a script/app's code before installing it, and will tell users who can't understand code that they have no right to touch a computer. sorry programming isn't my damn job and that the best i can do is squint and say "that's probably fine?"
listen i'm already looking at github pages to see if something passes the sniff test (no vibecoding) but that's kind of all i can do
TIL the function of macros is to "automate the copying phase"
https://lobste.rs/s/9fjar3/reasons_dislike_ai_coding
