2026-08-29T05:00:14Z https://nostr.ae Cameron Dutro https://nostr.ae/npub1w69lxw9zj0pjfjn77j50s0gch7qhaf6uqxlsc52hpm05wczzwu4sm4020w https://cdn.masto.host/rubysocial/accounts/avatars/110/522/237/503/133/221/original/2371c5983537d5d3.jpeg https://cdn.masto.host/rubysocial/accounts/avatars/110/522/237/503/133/221/original/2371c5983537d5d3.jpeg https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsp4s7pllj05jjzavmfkehlkhun8hv8m2vlyua69r7dx2gccgadrqczypmghuec52fuxfx20m6237parzlczl48tsqm7rz32u8d73mqgfmjk2xhrpj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswne0996fk8nu5c2rwvga0df5a67vlkna0rwvwn5xqsrq3ex9annge8tr2y'>nevent1q…tr2y</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Agree! I&#39;m at RubyConf right now and someone literally said they don&#39;t remember how to use vim anymore because they haven&#39;t written code by themselves in a year.<br/><br/>I refuse to get caught with my pants down when this all explodes. 2026-07-15T23:45:27Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgzwffc5t2q7qlds7f9pukdh3ac57v6ycjkzmr8eyxz8q5yxyn37szypmghuec52fuxfx20m6237parzlczl48tsqm7rz32u8d73mqgfmjk7gnql6 &#34;LLMs have democratized software development!&#34;<br/><br/>No, LLMs have democratized dependency.<br/><br/>The frontier labs are using the same playbook as drug dealers. Give everyone cheap access to a replacement brain until individuals, businesses, and entire industries are dependent on it for their very existence, then jack up the prices and watch society burn. 2026-07-15T20:50:09Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsx4y4z0mcqv7ccjtlkgqxehse6rneme6hsvq9029z4qez2eag2tdqzypmghuec52fuxfx20m6237parzlczl48tsqm7rz32u8d73mqgfmjkla2rpy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2sesa7qlr0pszmh8dlyvhfeta5mzxjxj00657yfdrn9dqtfra9dqcvzx0t'>nevent1q…zx0t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Nope! I&#39;m a software engineer with 20+ years of experience. Here&#39;s my GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/camertron">https://github.com/camertron</a><br/><br/>I use the tools every single day (as required by my employer), and find them useful.<br/><br/>That doesn&#39;t mean I can&#39;t also criticize them for the ethical horrors that they are.<br/><br/>Also, your argument that people who don&#39;t use LLMs don&#39;t know how they work is directly contradicted by the data: <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00222429251314491">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00222429251314491</a> 2026-06-18T23:23:40Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvapxlrvq7gzc5rj53a3mwak8lj5lt5gpjxsz2jt0ysttp0pvfrjqzypmghuec52fuxfx20m6237parzlczl48tsqm7rz32u8d73mqgfmjk2zw0vw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdkgd2dvcqvwxyq88k0yl6g9aa58rsh5wcu794sxezrz5u5heu68czy9hea'>nevent1q…9hea</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Most authors are happy to hear their work was seen by human beings who learned from it - that&#39;s probably why they wrote it in the first place.<br/><br/>If you instead tell those authors their work was used by hyperscaler techno-fascists to build a labor-displacing text extruder... they might feel differently.<br/><br/>Like so many modern issues, the problem is consent. 2026-06-18T23:12:26Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsg3wqqqnfu0dvuy7ydv3jymsmwr3k7xjurx0s59wjschkjnqrlk6qzypmghuec52fuxfx20m6237parzlczl48tsqm7rz32u8d73mqgfmjkp9dus8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrgh8g74eyuzf92d4cldrcrl8gypaaz55dpl2ufa6l5a0xayczcjs0wpht2'>nevent1q…pht2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There&#39;s a legal claim to be made, or at least the New York Times believes there is (they&#39;re suing OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft).<br/><br/>But the biggest ethical concern with the technology itself is that the models were all trained with essentially stolen data and constitute large-scale IP theft. 2026-06-18T23:04:15Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsddx6w2p46ng5tcxh558u4gnm32rq6p62lz46hhgwv5rxhyeg9kxczypmghuec52fuxfx20m6237parzlczl48tsqm7rz32u8d73mqgfmjkmdm7ln In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs82kx9szzugxgeeh5t9dyae3xudxp7dlj22jaxvlnqa0us46wrdfqe389ln'>nevent1q…89ln</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The SFC describes themselves as &#34;a nonprofit organization centered around ethical technology.&#34; LLMs are inherently an unethically-made technology. The number of individual ethical concerns is enormous. 2026-06-18T21:35:51Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0wshs7vzuugjjsu3ht2e3fhqwt3s9djf359ywpvdvynfl6fk0gmgzypmghuec52fuxfx20m6237parzlczl48tsqm7rz32u8d73mqgfmjkwhwuwa In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyyc40cythxum38krg7emdmvqsjdja0uvnkvhux9f3gkak8z6eptc80fu2q'>nevent1q…fu2q</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Surely you realize the copyright issue isn&#39;t the only one at play here? 2026-06-18T19:59:12Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs23hkrucgz62lm3em5k8mgs283qtullp9kx0ahr686er8z6s4v4jqzypmghuec52fuxfx20m6237parzlczl48tsqm7rz32u8d73mqgfmjkz27gvl Look, if you want to write some code with an LLM, fine. You shouldn&#39;t, but fine.<br/><br/>However you absolutely do not get to say *you* wrote it. You didn&#39;t. The computer wrote it for you.<br/><br/>If I buy a car from Honda, I don&#39;t get to say I made the car. It&#39;s the same principle.<br/><br/>We have to stop normalizing language like &#34;I made x with Claude.&#34;<br/><br/>No you didn&#39;t. Better: &#34;I paid Anthropic to write x for me.&#34;<br/><br/>The former is intellectual dishonesty. 2026-04-24T15:01:56Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2nrh4j3yr5ehm4555ftu8k7cl2ddujuaah7jy8rkcvuk0u2xgw7czypmghuec52fuxfx20m6237parzlczl48tsqm7rz32u8d73mqgfmjk75unqn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfquknl30jgkxcqldk52rm9yh68x9m5eap0gg9huaplayh36pya6c9nnqlh'>nevent1q…nqlh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Found it<br/> <img src="https://cdn.masto.host/rubysocial/media_attachments/files/116/435/320/528/541/171/original/73c08dd94efa0798.png"> <br/> 2026-04-20T05:17:19Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfquknl30jgkxcqldk52rm9yh68x9m5eap0gg9huaplayh36pya6czypmghuec52fuxfx20m6237parzlczl48tsqm7rz32u8d73mqgfmjkdmpzjz There&#39;s this Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin&#39;s dad says that if we actually wanted more leisure time, we&#39;d invent machines that did things more slowly, and I think about it all the time. 2026-04-20T05:12:23Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvpdgpd64kyf6yhmxj2werjndlhwt2l8fm9xlqspem2rmps3dagrczypmghuec52fuxfx20m6237parzlczl48tsqm7rz32u8d73mqgfmjkleklxl Dunking on Anthropic is so fun and I am absolutely here for it.<br/><br/>But we would all be dunking on them even harder if they 𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘯&#39;𝘵 used Claude Code to develop Claude Code 🤣 2026-04-03T21:38:41Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsge59wzsanjst2fre06rk2c0qp55mds0evxgcnfed7x86yh7wjf0gzypmghuec52fuxfx20m6237parzlczl48tsqm7rz32u8d73mqgfmjknzgjf7 My $0.02 on the ongoing drama: Ruby Central is really going out of its way to railroad someone who:<br/><br/>1. Disclosed his unnecessary access, multiple times<br/>2. Made no attempt to cover his tracks<br/>3. Did not access any PII, download logs, or exfiltrate any data by RC&#39;s own admission<br/>4. Was (apparently) the primary on-call engineer during a security incident and took what he believed to be appropriate measures<br/><br/>If you ask me, those do not sound like the actions of a threat actor. 2025-10-10T18:04:22Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrvm7qs29qfj6w5fyymjleuppnpe2vdezvrf9ce93uzkjsq7f0tuszypmghuec52fuxfx20m6237parzlczl48tsqm7rz32u8d73mqgfmjkjaxaf3 Man, talk about learning the wrong lesson 😂<br/><br/>&#34;React app build time: ~120s → Solid app build time: ~35&#34;<br/><br/>The fact we think 35s is reasonable for bundling files written in an *interpreted* language is batshit.<br/><br/>&#34;Bundle size: 1.8 MB → 480 KB&#34;<br/><br/>Jesus. That&#39;s still way too fucking large.<br/><br/>Stop 👏 writing 👏 your 👏 whole 👏 goddamn 👏 front-end 👏 in 👏 JavaScript<br/><br/><a href="https://archive.fo/lvNUy">https://archive.fo/lvNUy</a> 2025-10-04T17:33:44Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsyhu2zxrlsss9asjqwntjmpe3kw0m7ktrmjhzgtdw4yvq6p6pn8vqzypmghuec52fuxfx20m6237parzlczl48tsqm7rz32u8d73mqgfmjkpehmdl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrvtggqx75ccp98sy0k0y6u5uqp5er493eylm7jxy4eutvhqydcqgz87x2r'>nevent1q…7x2r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>y&#39;all clearly don&#39;t listen to Hard Fork cuz he discloses it every time they talk about OpenAI or Anthropic, which is almost every episode 😅 2025-08-06T01:46:29Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswwzj6wn2f2sdtftg4uwrlkrsztjzay5fj80cg4e446da5lhnwfwczypmghuec52fuxfx20m6237parzlczl48tsqm7rz32u8d73mqgfmjktn6k0m In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0l3d6s8a2p7en28fru0vtm92p390hrksukz6fq4te9fq2634yf3g85fajc'>nevent1q…fajc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This rhymes with Ed Zitron&#39;s &#34;business idiot:&#34;<br/><br/>&#34;The power structures of modern society are run by business idiots — people that have learned enough to impress the people above them, because the business idiots have had power for decades. They have bred out true meritocracy or achievement or value-creation in favor of symbolic growth and superficial intelligence, because real work is hard.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/">https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/</a> 2025-06-15T14:18:18Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsy6zkrpkn5ymyrkt50q7s2d6mxmtjpmd6p55k5vzgrgejxze4yh8qzypmghuec52fuxfx20m6237parzlczl48tsqm7rz32u8d73mqgfmjkrun4x5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq0sh6uwjn0jfnc385vrdwsp747murl8qap0g943n6ap0wsgh2rzq9kh2ee'>nevent1q…h2ee</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>this is great, but I really wish people would stop using LLMs as search engines. 2025-05-06T14:16:37Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqst78c3ghcyfdhpud0xrzuczzg8epthkt86tmt9sklek73udfwd6hgzypmghuec52fuxfx20m6237parzlczl48tsqm7rz32u8d73mqgfmjklyaaln In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs80rg5sqmqvkuemf9rr5e7trv0vxzp34essukretguvycx0s6smhc8cqr3w'>nevent1q…qr3w</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>😂 I don&#39;t know, and that&#39;s what makes it so fun! 2024-10-30T15:52:09Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqng2knxxu9077zutfqp9qnnuw7rak0hkndyywehg5p6cnt2x5muszypmghuec52fuxfx20m6237parzlczl48tsqm7rz32u8d73mqgfmjk368mk6 So the company that makes the app I use to open and close my garage door just sent me an email saying the next update would include AI-powered features.<br/><br/>For a garage door app.<br/><br/>Y&#39;all, have we reached peak AI yet?<br/><br/>Please tell me we&#39;re almost at the end of this nonsense. 2024-10-30T15:01:37Z