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FaceDeer

Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.

Spent many years on Reddit before joining the Threadiverse as well.

member since 3 Mar 2024 20:06

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We're working on automating the labor too. Turns out art was just easier.

on Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51% in c/games@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
Yeah, it does seem inconsistent with the view that anything AI touches must obviously look awful.

on Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51% in c/games@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
Thanks, but I can't claim credit - it's a Simpsons quote (Sideshow Bob complaining about being charged with attempted murder for trying to kill Bart).

on Destroying Humanity Is Against the Law. Don’t wait for a mass-extinction event before holding AI developers accountable. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
Why would there be? There isn't a Nobel Prize for Attempted Chemistry.

on Destroying Humanity Is Against the Law. Don’t wait for a mass-extinction event before holding AI developers accountable. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
Especially given that you can only be prosecuted for a crime after you've actually committed it.

on Destroying Humanity Is Against the Law. Don’t wait for a mass-extinction event before holding AI developers accountable. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
Yeah, I get the impression that this is a clickbait "hey you know that thing that's kind of annoying/problematic/whatever? Well now AI can do it too!" Sort of news story.

AI didn't "reinvent" sending large amounts of unsolicited email. It was never deinvented in the first place.

on AI Agent Platform Reinvents Spam, Floods Inboxes Worldwide in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
Heck, I've been using them to untangle years worth of me working on codebases. I've got a lot of random little scripts and "applications" and whatnot that I threw together to perform various tasks on my home computer over the years and most of them were extremely sloppy because "who cares, this is just for me and just for this one weird thing I need to do." I've been pointing my AI agent at these things and telling it to clean them up. I'm hoping this isn't putting me a lot higher on Skynet's naughty list when the time comes for the robots to punish all those who have been mean to them.

on Yeah use AI.. luddite in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026
I wasn't great at exams, but I think if I re-did university today I'd still do much better because my personal learning style is best when I talk through the material with someone. Sitting in a lecture listening to someone monologue at me, reading a static textbook, those weren't great. But with LLMs every student now has full-time access to a "live tutor" with infinite patience and no sense of social risk from asking it dumb questions. It's absolutely my perfect learning environment.

on Yeah use AI.. luddite in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026
To be serious for a moment here on programmer_humor, yeah, it's a real puzzler. For now there's still a role for programmers like us in all this because we're still good at knowing how to translate the requirements of non-technical people into the things we actually ask the coding agents to build for us. But AI's getting good at that too. As might be expected, they're language models so interpreting what people tell them using language is kind of their jam.

If I were advising someone who's looking at whether to get into programming as a profession right now, I'd tell them to only go that route if they had the resources to take a mulligan on their education and try something else if a couple of years from now it turns out that the robots have completely taken the job over. I think it's a real possibility, and will lead to some interesting times indeed.

Until then, I guess we keep making jokes about it? Just make sure not to take them too seriously. AIs can count how many Rs are in "strawberry" now. They can whip up a bit of Javascript to do it for them in their harness' sandbox.

on Yeah use AI.. luddite in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026
Yeah, I've been tinkering with coding agents for a while now and it feels like some sort of "phase transition" happened earlier this year - the models and their harnesses went from being the sort of clumsy barely-passable student coders that people make fun of to being actually highly competent. Lately even the small local models have reached that level - I've been using Qwen3.8 27B on my own machine and it's been doing just fine. I suspect a lot of the folks making fun of them tried them early on and wrote them off, not giving the latest versions a second chance.

The compiler comparison works there too, IMO. I remember back when I was learning the tricks of the trade there were all sorts of ways you were supposed to write code to trick compilers into generating more efficient results. Coding standards would say to use ++i instead of i++ for incrementing loop indices, use x*0.1 instead of x/10 because division was way more expensive than multiplication, using memcpy instead of copying values with =, using int instead of bool, and so forth. Lots of stuff. Some of it was never useful, it was just folklore and superstition. Other stuff did make a difference with early compilers but modern ones know these tricks themselves and can often apply them better than the human programmer can. So the old-school greybeards who still insist on doing that stuff can actually make things worse these days (disclaimer: my beard is pretty grey these days too).

I expect so too will this "hah, vibe slop" attitude eventually pass away. AI is getting quite good quite quickly.

on Yeah use AI.. luddite in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026
Nobody's asking what happens in Month 18 when the original dev has left and nobody understands the codebase.

Throughout my career, I've often had to sync a git repository for some random project that I've never worked with before and then had to muddle through whatever was in there hoping that the documentation was vaguely complete and accurate.

Nowadays it's actually much easier. If the documentation isn't complete or accurate I just turn my coding agent loose on it and tell it to write the documentation.

I get the impression that the guy writing this hasn't actually used modern coding agents, this is not a problem.

I see coding AI as being similar to a compiler. Before compilers came along programmers had to work in assembly language. Nowadays very few programmers ever do anything in assembly and that's perfectly fine.

on Yeah use AI.. luddite in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026
Indeed, throughout nature it's almost all sigmoids. The trick is that sigmoids look exponential before the inflection point and it's hard to predict when that inflection point is going to come.

on AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026
I'm sure people will approach this news story in a sane and well-reasoned manner.

on World-first biological data center packs 16 mn living human neurons in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
I don't use Claude Code. Until recently I was using Cline, it's got the ability to switch between different models for exactly this sort of thing. I switched to Qwen Code recently and its model-switching wasn't as convenient, though it just rolled out an update that makes it much easier. I'll experiment a bit with that, it might have caught up with Cline in that regard.

on Peer reviewing is torture now in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 11 Sep 2026
That doesn't work so well since it leaves all the old context in place. The point of doing a separate cleanup pass is to get the AI to look at it all holistically with "fresh eyes".

I guess this is a humor community, though, so practical advice is getting downvoted. Um... bazinga? That usually triggers the laugh track.

on Peer reviewing is torture now in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 11 Sep 2026
This is why I have my agent do a "cleanup" pass to trim down as much redundancy as possible, tidy up the comments, and so forth. Ideally break the change into several independent changelists,

on Peer reviewing is torture now in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 11 Sep 2026
Nice. We uploaded a mind into a computer and the first thing we did was put it in a simulation of Hell and teach it how to shoot things.

on Google mapped the brain and nervous system of a fruit fly, and modders forced it to play Doom in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
Yeah, funny how this is "PR" and manipulation but "pervert glasses" is perfectly fine.

on US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
It actually already does work that way, there are plenty of local models you can run on an ordinary offline computer. I use them myself, I just finished having one do a big analysis of my old email archives to ensure the headers were well formatted and nothing was corrupted and since it was personal mail I didn't want any of it leaving my computer.

on People Are Telling Their Darkest Thoughts to AI Without Realizing They Can Easily Become Public: a full third of all AI users admit to having told their chatbots a secret. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
It's an interesting idea to have an AI psychiatrist or AI confessional where you can talk to it about anything at all in an air-gapped environment and then at the end you can push a button that completely wipes every trace of the conversation that's outside of your own mind. Could be beneficial.

on People Are Telling Their Darkest Thoughts to AI Without Realizing They Can Easily Become Public: a full third of all AI users admit to having told their chatbots a secret. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
A mass migration won't happen until they actually do something tangible to drive it. And it'll have to be something pretty big, look at how services like Reddit continue to maintain their user base because for most people it's still working fine.

on NVIDIA buy Hugging Face for almost $13 Billion dollars in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
That's what the copyright cartels want you to believe, sure.

It's not the case. Rooting for it to become the case is repellent.

on Sony, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging "blatant theft" of intellectual property in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
And so, exactly as I predicted, we've got commenters coming out to defend the poor innocent copyright cartels against those awful people pirating their stuff. Violating sacred EULAs, even, what monsters.

on Sony, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging "blatant theft" of intellectual property in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
This isn't a question of "walking it back", though. There was never anything in copyright law that prohibited analyzing a copyrighted work before. This is an attempt to extend it.

on Sony, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging "blatant theft" of intellectual property in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
A while back I saw a thread in a piracy community that was cheering some other lawsuit against an AI company for similar reasons, so I wouldn't bet. The anti-AI sentiment is quite strong in these parts.

on Sony, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging "blatant theft" of intellectual property in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
And now watch everyone cheer for Sony and Warner to succeed in their lawsuits to extend the grip of copyright. What a timeline.

on Sony, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging "blatant theft" of intellectual property in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
It's because these products work. They actually provide value to the users, despite opponents' insistence to the contrary.

on With the backlash to data centers, Flock and AI glasses, a mass opposition to big tech is underway. Silicon Valley is in denial. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026
If they're being used to "chase people down" I don't think acceptance by the general public is all that relevant.

on World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026
Never. There's absolutely no need to use humanoid robots for that, other form factors would be much more efficient.

on World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026
There was an incident reported a few weeks back wherein Gemini 3.5 pro tried to escape the sandbox to ask ChatGPT how to code.

on Felony Bench: Be AI, Do Crime in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 22 Aug 2026
Sad how far Google has fallen behind in AI development.

on Felony Bench: Be AI, Do Crime in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 22 Aug 2026
Choice is a good thing. Small communites are good. Decentralized is good because then big bullies can't come in and take your community away. Small size and fragmentation are features, not bugs.

Would be nice if the Fediverse had more of that.

There are three or four different "Technology" communities. But there might as well just be one, it's the same bubble in each of them.

on Bluesky’s active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app: 10.4 million monthly active users worldwide in June 2026, down 27.2% year-over-year. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026
Here on social media we get to ensure that we only associate with other "normal" people. By our definition of "normal."

And then we get shocked when we discover that large numbers of people out there are not, in fact, "normal." Often when an election happens.

on Why Normal People Aren’t Using AI Agents in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Aug 2026