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it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive test suite written by somebody else, 5 different models, a megawatt of energy, a swimming pool full of water, and a month of spare time of an extremely senior engineer

pro tip, if you have to use Zoom, you can get rid of the "AI companion" on the web and in the app here; there are a bunch of toggles: https://zoom.us/profile/setting?tab=aicompanion

I'm trying to shift my perspective from "there was a glorious computer revolution that empowered the user and disrupted authority and we have fallen from the heights of its transcendental grace" and towards the more accurate "my formative years just happened to coincide with a period where a few technical innovations briefly conferred a small amount of power on individuals and labor, and capital has been efficiently reversing that small disruption ever since" but it sure doesn't *feel* like that

It is difficult to express how bad microsoft’s authentication system is. like it’s not just “bad” or “broken” or “buggy”, it is a world-historic interaction design catastrophe. no matter how bad you think it is, no, it’s worse than that actually.

i just want to go on the computer and have a good time but the gosh darn racket that civilization is making as it collapses is *really* distracting

Jeff Geerling, the affable and adorkable raspberry pi guy, was a misogynistic forced-birth tradcath extremist from at least 2009 to 2013, and as far as I know, still is today. Do not link to him and do not support his work. This is a matter of record on his own website:

abortion | Jeff Geerling

I just do not have the time to write anything long-form about this but the ongoing Mozilla AI debacle is really indicative of a very, very troubling aspect of the broader AI debacle, which is that a strong majority of even the *actually* well-intentioned, smart leaders in tech have had their brains fully cooked by these heuristics machines

New Blog: the "Dependency Cutout" workflow pattern:

Deciphering Glyph :: The “Dependency Cutout” Workflow Pattern, Part I

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.

is everyone pumped for No-AI November