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."

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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)

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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)

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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

I had the great honor and pleasure to contribute an essay framing this call about "Refusing Tech Fascism":

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An essay on Refusing Tech Fascism by Jürgen Geuter aka @tante

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I think the most tragic aspect of deploying "AI" in teaching and learning situations is how much it pushes people into a situation of learned helplessness. This constant feeling of not knowing how to do a thing of being incapable of actually doing work on one's tasks is mentally so harmful. How do people under those conditions gain confidence in their abilities? Like ever?

"If all these big companies are shouting from the rooftops that AI is up to production code the money relies on, then zero open source contributions of substance is a glaring absence." (Original title: If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?)

Pivot to AI

If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?

You can hardly get online these days without hearing some AI booster talk about how AI coding is going to replace human programmers. AI code is abs...

Quick remarks on where the term "agentic AI" fits in and why it's a sign of the crumbling hype.

Smashing Frames

On "agentic AI"

There’s this weird phrase “agentic AI” which looks weid. But it’s a sign for how bad the state of the bubble is: Software a...