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"Now, when we program with the artificial intelligences, we are exactly that same thing. We are Linus Torvalds, not always with the talent that he has, but the role we should assume"
"In the AI bubble, we are pressured to build things nobody wants, poorly. Pop the bubble."
"People accuse each other of using ChatGPT like they’re exposing a steroid scandal in professional baseball. Someone uses an em dash and suddenly we’re convening a digital ethics tribunal. God forbid you use an antithesis statement. Meanwhile the people actually building this stuff are moving at corporate scale. Quietly. Casually. Confidently."
So am I an “AI” fanboy now? Most certainly not. Likewise, I am not apologetic about using it. It is a technology that has helped me. Using LLMs has improved my tools, both at the code level and in the user experience. That is a win in my book.
When a maintainer reviews a contributor’s PR, there’s an unspoken contract. [...] the human stays accountable regardless; the tool doesn’t absorb the responsibility. [...] it assumes someone is actually there to take responsibility. For most projects, nobody is. The social contract isn’t being broken by AI — it’s already being broken by silence.
"Morgen fahren wir nicht nur 800 Kilometer nach Hause. Wir reisen 30 Jahre in der Zeit zurück."
"I'm not writing this to come to any particular conclusion, just to note that it's happened, that it's a set of events that I've experienced as they're happening. This is a journal and sometimes all I can do with it is log events. I don't know how this is going to end, or what to make of it all, I really don't."
Skip the first few paragraphs and start at the first headline for a very interesting read about poverty and the working poor.