"This is not some grand heel turn, or some brainwashing that DHH suffered. This is straight up a midlife crisis turned fash speedrun." (Original title: Jordan Petridis: DHH and Omarchy: Midlife crisis)

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DHH and Omarchy: Midlife crisis

Couple weeks ago Cloudflare announced it would be sponsoring some Open Source projects. Throwing money at pet projects of random techbros would har...

The ecological impacts of "AI" are bad but if people only used it intentionally, they'd stay there. But with every provider, every search engine, every website firing up some chatbot or summarizer even when not asked it quickly turns from bad to monstrous. "Just integrate an LLM, see if people like it" is like leaving your ICE-powered SUV running because someone might enjoy some cool air inside.

The translation of "just use our docker image" into human language is "we don't have good docs and we don't give a shit".

"An LLM helped me with some task" is not a good argument for these things increasing productivity. Did you also factor in all the cases where it made you slower? Where the output created extra work? And how much of your work/activity is that task? All bigger studies we know (even those done by Google for example) show a total lack of meaningful productivity gains, especially when looking at a whole organization. (There are few exceptions: Spam generation might see productivity gains for example. Translation services where quality doesn't matter much. But how much of our economy is that?)