I think the Vibecoding reddit has accidentally stumbled on the best description of vibecoding:
It's "roleplay for guys [it is always guys] who want to feel like hackers without doing the hard part".
#ai #vibecoding
"So if ChatGPT destroys literacy and law, then ChatGPT is going to kill God. By this I don’t mean that the bearded guy in the sky is going to be found dead of a gunshot wound to the chest, but that monotheistic religion as we have traditionally understood it will not be able to function in a post-literacy regime."
(Original title: ChatGPT is going to kill God)
https://itself.blog/2025/07/27/chatgpt-is-going-to-kill-god/
Read another "Diversity and Inclusion" thing by some organization that argues that "Diverse teams produce better results because ..." whatever.
We demand diversity and inclusion because it is _right_.
"There are hells on earth and Dubai is one: an infernal creation born of the worst of human tendencies."
Preview for the title slide of the keynote I just wrote for Soundtrack Cologne in Thursday (https://www.soundtrackcologne.de) about "AI" and music.
(I know that I have found a good angle when this framing makes _me_ think new thoughts about something, creates a new perspective. But that is my own dumbass brain who doesn't want to do things efficiently by just doing a thing that works again but wants to do something new every time)
"Whatever" is a brilliant essay on "AI" by nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqwlqdes0apvwprz6srs4j6nl0fhemfng8ece6ya6cpjunucwutrgqzxt7qq:
"But I think the core of what pisses me off is that selling this magic machine requires selling the idea that doing things is worthless. Because if doing something has some value, then it must be somehow better than pushing a button and receiving Whatever for essentially no cost."
Google's emissions are up over 50%, Amazon builds huge data centers powered by 75% natural gas.
Remember all those posts telling us that "AIs climate impact isn't that bad" supported by some really funky math/perspective and/or numbers Sam Altman invented?
Here's the actual impact.
"AI" is a fossil fuel technology.
"You can tell what happened — Google promised iNaturalist free money if they would just do something, anything, that had some generative AI in it. iNaturalist forgot why people contribute at all, and took the cash."
(Original title: Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage)
I have this idea of building a "Luddite Library". A set of information, tools and processes to harness luddite thinking when analyzing technological developments and "innovation".
Something that interested parties could use to understand that there might be a different way to think about what tech is/should be/can be/mustn't be for us. Thin for example sets of questions to use to analyze a new thing being pushed on you and similar tools.
I'm thinking about applying for grants to fund this. If anyone has an idea where to propose this, I'd be grateful for a message to: tante+ludditelibrary@tante.cc
It's 2025. How can that ever, like _ever_ happen?
Here's an idea: People in tech want better AI criticism? It's all just too $something? I'm willing to take off a month from work to write a whole bunch of detailed structural criticism if the people demanding better, more specific criticism pay my salary for that month.
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqf59u9hqqyee84qhec0636cq2c3dl8wvwg79uhetrfh3whhrmyzfqwdyu95 as a paying member of a left party in Germany I am well aware of those differences ;)
Loving this: "The Copilot Delusion"
Quotes:
"Copilot isn’t that. It’s just the ghost of a thousand blog posts and cocky stack-overflow posts whispering, "Hey, I saw this once. With my eyes. Which means it's good code. Let’s deploy it." Then vanishing when the app hits production and the landing gear won’t come down."
"The problem isn’t just laziness. It’s degradation. Engineers stop exploring. Stop improving. Stop caring. One more layer of abstraction. One more lazy fetch call inside a render loop. Eventually, you’re living in a cathedral of technical debt, and every user pays."
"At that point, you’re not working with a copilot. You’re playing Russian roulette with a loaded dependency graph."
"But even if you're just slapping together another CRUD app for some bloated enterprise, you still owe your users respect. You owe them dignity."
These 9 rules for evaluating technology sound very luddite to me. (which is good!)
(Original title: Nine Rules for Evaluating New Technology)
https://kottke.org/25/05/nine-rules-for-evaluating-new-technology
If you also use Fastmail and are annoyed by the lack of custom background coloring for pinned emails I wrote a small userscript to fix this.
"Discriminative AI turns the complex and contradictory, the wild and weird world of physics and chemistry and people into simple data. It is the tool to build tools. The mold that you can use to shape the world into computer-processable bits of information of higher abstractions."
(Original title: Forcing the world into machines)
https://tante.cc/2025/04/24/forcing-the-world-into-machines/
Using AI image generators to create Ghibli style images just shows that you neither respect those pieces of art and their creators as well as not understanding their message of the importance of humanity.
You don't compromise on people's fucking humanity.
(Original title: If Not Now, Then Never)
BBC tested AI assistants for summarization and concluded: "91% of AI responses had at least some issues. 51% had “significant” issues."
(Original title: AI chatbots are still hopelessly terrible at summarizing news)
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/02/11/ai-chatbots-are-still-hopelessly-terrible-at-summarizing-news/
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqyhj4ua6580h3w0kucwwrtwl4uv9pg7m2drxzplq5x3364jczp36sfkq54u es kommt dann zwei jahre nachdem alle wieder on-prem gegangen sind
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqpanluufkgsvzsga5zg0nj464kwg0hu66frdz5a3ht3qn7mdqckkqsyee82 und die einzigen Provider sind Amazon, Telekom und Microsoft
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqpanluufkgsvzsga5zg0nj464kwg0hu66frdz5a3ht3qn7mdqckkqsyee82 DIE ZUKUNFT HAGEN. DIE ZUKUNFT!
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
"In other words, the AI industry now finds that it needs all the allies it can get. And it can’t afford to be picky. If the only places that people are seeing AI imagery is (at)BasedEphebophile1488’s verified X account – well, at least it’s being used at all."
https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqwgwfydegda5x8j9rjrj7lqvl6r8ng7zsx39jrjsmkmefac0xngks2vgnzr nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqnhnnw7vge4w4pzp3nhndw06jvws96qxh0uxsr4m76s305elq7yyqq480xv "the souvereignity discourse has been turned into a nationalist/patriotic project" - "Always has been" meme here
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqpeyvkr6fgsp35glyrtq28hqpr338dpyh0enus6gf9330g28gypusht3kdd in Europe it leads to "we need technology by European companies" which does't challenge the dynamics, it just hopes for a European Microsoft.
I increasingly think that accepting the "digital souvereignity" narrative was a pyrrhic victory for European and non-European NGOs. It might have lead to a bit of money here and there but it also plays super into the cards of right-wing thinking.
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqp86ekc0qkqqrqazgan8wngs828ud2xvn54vpcd9ydzqsj2jae5ssg8tqvp yes on Rogan. Talking about companies who lack "masculine energy"
It's super revealing that Zuckerberg basically equates "lack of masculine energy" and "female energy" which then he calls "neutered".
Not great to kinda imply women are neutered men. His world view is basically at pickup-artist/incel levels.
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqnd86x5za0ascfmvmsxqyrzk4xc7l48h6gfmlcf5d3e9munenydysffmpj6 Also super revealing that Zuckerberg basically equates "lack of masculine energy" and "female energy" which he calls "neutered". Not great to kinda imply women are neutered men.
What a fucking fucker.
"Because #AI the 4 day work week can come true".
This is bullshit. Recent studies show that we could feed and house and take care of literally _everybody_'s needs with everyone just working 30% of what we consider "full time" today. We literally could all work less than 2 days every week and be fine. Capitalism just doesn't allow for that conceptually. Don't fall for that bogus argument.