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Apolitical vibes is a luxury that's hard to keep up given the level of insanity all around us.

I look at it like this: LLMs can generate code for those who know nothing about software development and they can generate text for those who know nothing about writing. Asking them to write it themselves will not get us better writing, but rather the opposite. If they were willing to learn, they would be doing that right now instead of using a tool that absolves them from learning. So, as bad as LLM slop may be, it's quite possibly still better than the alternative.

> The virtue of formal texts is that their manipulations, in order to be legitimate, need to satisfy only a few simple rules; they are, when you come to think of it, an amazingly effective tool for ruling out all sorts of nonsense that, when we use our native tongues, are almost impossible to avoid.

Hence, when communication via formal text results in nonsense, it is very clear that the originator of that nonsense is you. With LLM-generated code the nonsense may be much less obvious and when it does surface, you can feel like it's not your fault at all. You are a genius and the LLM fucked it up. No wonder all kinds of "developers" want their code generated by LLMs and don't even look at it anymore. It's the ultimate responsibility laundering.

Psy ops. Grabbing users for their IPOs. Once they have you the prices will go up again.

I envy you. If I only had the money for that sweet hardware. And the electricity bill.

IBM fucks sam and dario. Priceless.

This almost makes me want to have Minecraft, but apparently you need an effing Microsoft account for it. No way in hell.

You can still be a programmer. Ignoring all the stupid "why don't you use AI" questions makes you even more of a bad-ass.

I feel like I should be able to crash the Windows behind this page by triggering some bug in the app.

> our fingers will turn into undulating prompt tentacles.

Doubtful. Because in the brave new AI future the ability to prompt will be a hotly contested privilege. Obviously you can't let any random meat sack have the honor to directly interface with the Machine God.

> the Age of AI – Actual Idiocy, Actual Super Idiocy, Recursive Snowballing-Idiocy – is upon us.

At the risk of sounding derivative: She's absolutely right.

After being drowned ad nauseam in a deluge of refuse and bullshit day after day for years now, it is so good to read the writing of a true master once in a while. Not to mention: The truth. For a change.

That's only a bit less than half an eternity. Programming languages may have been supplanted by vibe slop by then.

Did you see those windowlings hovering over the background and casting a shadow? Later user interfaces may have had more pixels, but they never had that coolness.

Of course this is only one Jev. Other Jevs might behave differently.