"So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think “AI literacy” is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed out of hand." "Using AI is not about communicating. It’s about avoiding communicating. It’s about not reading, not writing, not drawing, not seeing. It’s about ceding our powers of expression and comprehension to digital apps that will cushion us from fully participating in our own lives."
Against AI literacy: have we actually found a way to reverse learning?
So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think “AI literacy” is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed ou...
With so much hype and recent articles on "AI for coding" and how everyone not doing it is dumb maybe this is a good time to relink my article on "Vibe Coding". Which I think focuses purely on "output" when developing or creating something is not just about the output.
Smashing Frames
On "Vibe Coding"
The hype about the potentials (it’s always future potential, never real current use) of AI has discarded its last cycle (“reasoning mod...
After the whole "I asked ChatGPT" as talk opener I've recently seen a lot of "Look, my kids are using AI to build their own games and that's beautiful" stuff in presentations. Makes me sad that instead of wanting kids to learn how to build something they get taught to accept what the kinda-passable code generator craps out. What they learn is not how to conceptualize or build something, what they learn is that shit comes from nowhere if you just match your expectations to the output afterwards.
"As with many digital [vibe coding] doesn't fully stand up to scrutiny but show a deep misunderstanding of how software is made, the potential externalities (and internalities) software brings and a disdain for experience and embodied knowledge." (Original title: On “Vibe Coding”)
Smashing Frames
On "Vibe Coding"
The hype about the potentials (it’s always future potential, never real current use) of AI has discarded its last cycle (“reasoning mod...
Liberals (in basically any western country) think that the political victory of the right is due to messaging: "We just need to get the messaging right". No. Your politics are shit because you are adopting the narratives of the right (austerity, racism) and provide no meaningful alternatives.
I wrote about vibe coding and why it is not "democratizing" or "empowering". (Sorry for typos, it was supposed to be a quick note and then kinda exploded in my hands and now time I have for that today has run out)
Smashing Frames
On "Vibe Coding"
The hype about the potentials (it’s always future potential, never real current use) of AI has discarded its last cycle (“reasoning mod...
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."
Blogmobly
The Copilot Delusion
Disclaimer: This post was written May 2025, and the arguments apply to AI code capabilities at this time. The arguments around lack of competence a...
"Die derzeitigen Kabinettsmitglieder brauchten für diesen höhenmeterlosen Biobike-Weg nicht nur jeweils ein Auto im Wert zweier durchschnittlicher deutscher Bruttojahresverdienste, sondern sogar einen Fahrer! Um anschließend zu einer ersten Sitzung zusammenzukommen und den Radverkehrsbeauftragten abzuschaffen." (Original title: Faule Regierungsmitglieder: 1,6 Kilometer mit dem Dienstwagen)
taz.de
Faule Regierungsmitglieder: 1,6 Kilometer mit dem Dienstwagen
Unsere Kolumnistin wurde Zeugin, wie die neuen Regierungsmitglieder bei leichtem Sonnenschein den Weg vom Bundestag bis Bellevue mit dem Auto fuhren.
These 9 rules for evaluating technology sound very luddite to me. (which is good!) (Original title: Nine Rules for Evaluating New Technology)
kottke.org
Nine Rules for Evaluating New Technology
In 1987, Wendell Berry wrote an essay called Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer. In it, he outlined his standards for adopting n
Once again: We're almost there with the petition to demand the ban of conversion therapy in the EU. If you are a EU citizen and have not signed, please do so. https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home