davidgerard

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I do stuff.

Finance and crypto: "Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain". http://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/

AI hype: "Pivot to AI". https://pivot-to-ai.com/

Author of books "Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain" and "Libra Shrugged: How Facebook Tried to Take Over the Money".

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Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
yeah. The GA post reads like a less addled version of Yegge, but the same genre.
Comment · 3 months ago
> Only if you can reasonably separate LLM from non LLM code, which is in no way a solved problem.

It's trivial to detect when someone's coding with a chatbot - they tell you, repeatedly.

Nobody who doesn't code with a chatbot worries that it's hard to tell.

Comment · 4 months ago
yeah I use vp9 with opus for uploads by choice, it's great!

YouTube serves vp9 but it always re-encodes my videos as AV1. Annoying.

(I would upload as AV1 but the encoder is slooooooooow.)

Comment · 4 months ago
ssh -D

(really, that's what I do)

Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
I heartily endorse the Fuck You Pay Me support process.
Comment · 5 months ago
What if, right, what if Roko's Basilisk responded to a prompt injection and blew up the WORLD, huh? What then? That'd be pretty messed up!

Back here in reality, please show me evidence that any AI agent deleted a single byte on jqwik's say-so.

I'm seeing the cheering AI haters showing up on Mastodon, fwiw. This story is today's secondary main character, the main one being rsync falling to vibe code.

Comment · 5 months ago
The discussion around this topic is plagued with internet tough guy attorneys at LOL threatening Johannes Link with all manner of legal retribution.

If that's not what you're doing, I look forward to hearing your action plan.

Comment · 5 months ago
I'm seeing protesting AI fans and cheering AI haters. As far as I can tell, this is enhancing trust in the non-LLM users. Why would you think it wasn't?
Comment · 5 months ago
> no one will use your tools anymore.

pretty obviously, no one who he's stated repeatedly he doesn't want to use the tool will use his tools any more. But there are more coders in the world than ardent AI users.

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