RE: https://mas.to/@TodePond/117438467389365692

this would put me out of a job but i can’t say i disagree

people in my fediverse community feel very strongly about llm use and i wish to honour their perspective;

i don't address llm usage in this piece but long story short i'm forced to use them at work, and here are some of my existing views on the topic

https://hachyderm.io/@phillmv/116374969941559197

I've been wrestling with what it means to stop reading code, and I put some thoughts to paper.

How do we retain control over the integrity of the things we build?

https://okayfail.com/2026/what-do-we-do-when-we-read-the-code.html

i love hot weather. i love feeling enveloped by warmth. even when it’s uncomfortable it’s great.

i think i have a much higher tolerance for it than most 😅

the only truly embarrassing thing about being trans is coming to terms with how humans as a class struggle to empathize with problems that don’t affect them personally

i can afford ffs and i have been low-key thinking about it lately but:

- i’m worried i’d afterwards still over fixate on my appearance
- i’m worried that looking up details would give me more brain worms on the specific ways i feel unattractive

sometimes i feel cool and hot, but on many days i spend too much time thinking about my jawline

i would say the hype is about 12-18mo ahead of the tech; opus 4.6 is about as good as people said this stuff was a year ago

ie what ppl said was an urgent reality one year ago has actually finally arrived

i thing i’m struggling with is AI has crossed a threshold where it’s actually useful for work, gasp, but the discourse has been so poisoned by over-hype and fascism it’s hard to talk about

i am still sick and i want to watch something mindless and pleasant tonight (i can’t watch gay hockey cos my wife is out)

what should i watch?

the ideal show i suppose is like, lower decks

i spent weeks writing this essay, time i could've spent with my family, enjoying myself, literally anything else

it's resonated with hundreds of people, which is nice, thank you all for the nice messages.

i didn't cry while writing this essay but i just had a string of dms with a rails core member, and i'm crying now.

people who sit on rails core may not feel like David is humiliating them, but i don't think you're paying attention.

i'm sad to see that my words were wasted.

After the recent Rubygems drama, I felt anxious, and trapped, frustrated that I can’t escape evil people trying to dominate my life.

I found myself grieving, and mourning the future I grew up thinking we would have; but also feeling hope, that it’s not too late to stop enabling these people, and start choosing kindness.

I wrote about these feelings. Join me in building a better future:

https://okayfail.com/2025/in-praise-of-dhh.html

the fun* about taking progesterone and messing with your hormones in general is i am now becoming literate in peri- and post-menopausal symptoms, and i have to carefully monitor my subjective emotional state

*not actually that much fun

girls, i’m doin’ it: i have asked my doctor for progesterone 😤

the worst part is that this electrolysis session happened immediately after a one on one with my boss’ boss where he told me about

his face cancer his face chemo and the face infection he got during his face chemo

and that was a lot to hold in my mind as each hair was individually cauterized

becoming a woman is incredibly painful i hope it’s worth it for this filipa person whoever she is

paging @bascule’s special interest

“conservatives hate renewables” is easily explained by how they’re funded by ultra reactionary oil interests.

“conservatives love nuclear”, i don’t fully understand the political economy.

is there a large conglomerate that funds most nuclear or is there just some natural affinity for extractive industries?
https://mastodon.energy/@AndrewHenry/114941711511364056

i myself feel ambivalent whether i’ll be ground up, too. i work at an AI and layoff epicentre and… I don’t think anyone’s been replaced because an LLM took their job.

not yet.

basically, the anti crowd needs to acknowledge that most programming is slop & amenable to the slop machine

and the pro crowd needs to actually grapple with all the disruption it’ll cause & the evil it is enabling

I’ve decided that AI discourse rn reflects the extent to which the author expects to personally benefit from it.

- if you think it’s a meat grinder headed your way, it’s not relevant how good it is at weaving a bolt of cloth
- if you think it’s good & useful, you don’t think *you* will ultimately be caught in the teeth of the machine