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• That’s a very good point

  on Yeah use AI.. luddite in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026

• I have a little more hope for future generations. Regardless of if you are primarily using ai to speed up a traditional work flow or vibe coding, there still are more and less effective ways to get things done. I’ve found if I write sonething I’m familiar with like bash or Python, I “know enough” to write functions and refactor incrementally. It’s a methodical process which produces code better than I can write by myself in less time.

  Compare that to when I write Lisp. There it’s more or less throw shit at the wall until I somewhat get what I want. It takes longer and can be next to impossible to extend or effectively refactor.

  Based on that observation of myself, I think we’ll find two (and probably more) kinds of programmers in the future. Ones who use it as an assistant to speed up a traditional workflow, and those who produce the slop that we are afraid of.

  Perhaps to give us any amount of additional hope/comparison to now. There still have been people who have programmed now who create slop. And that comes to the way we use references like stack exchange or the Arch Wiki. Are you copy and pasting while learning what things mean and learning in the process? Or are you just stringing things together to get results at all? I don’t think we would argue those references made all of us worse.

  So I think it’s an apt concern, but we’ll have to wait to see what it’s like whole sale. I was a doubter for a long time, but I’ve come to understand where Torvalds et al are coming from.

  on Yeah use AI.. luddite in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026

• This is largely an oversimplification because it depends on how you use AI in the first place. Are you building modularly and incrementally? Or are you letting it ride on black?

  on Yeah use AI.. luddite in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026

• Tell them it is against you religion stallman.org/saint.html

  on I am required to use Gmail as the email client for my school email in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 15 Sep 2026

• Tell them it is against your religion stallman.org/saint.html

  on I am required to use Gmail as the email client for my school email in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 15 Sep 2026

• Read the room and make sure others are onboard. Make yourself too much of a dug in wingnut and you’ll undermine your actual work

  on Suggestions for service for real time collaboration in spreadsheets in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 15 Sep 2026

• This is a great question I’ve been meaning to ask myself. Thanks for asking it. Having been vehemently against, I’m a recent convert. For me it was a matter of ethics vs convenience and efficiency. There’s a limit to how fast we can type that an llm isn’t bound by. I first tried running ollama locally, but it didn’t give me the power I wanted, so now I’ve been using Lumo and ollama cloud models for coding. I’ve been impressed with the results and it’s within my ethical standards. (As someone who isn’t a programmer professionally my concerns were primarily based on capitalism. Ollama is “better” but complicated)

  I’ve found two different modalities for the way I work both with different results. It comes down to how granular I can make my queries. When I’m writing something I’m more familiar with, like bash, I typically ask for things I already know how to do, but it would be slower to type. Then there’s other cases like writing elisp for emacs. Completely different. Those cases I admittedly vibe code with about the results you’d expect. It’s really given me something to think about.

  on FOSS and Artificial Intelligence in c/foss@beehaw.org · 14 Sep 2026

• Cult of personality and brand loyalty. They are still riding Steve Jobs’ creation of a “movement”. Bowel or otherwise.

  on Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consent in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 12 Sep 2026

• My understanding is that it has only been shown to have closed form analytical solution for very simple cases. “Solved” in this case would mean doing the same for more complex geometries. It would mean finding new functions like spherical harmonics or the Bessel Function.

  on OpenAI steals Human Mathematicians work to solve a Millenium Problem in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 10 Sep 2026

• Woah. Navier Stokes has been solved? That’s a huge deal. And fuck openai for undercutting the people who made it possible.

  on OpenAI steals Human Mathematicians work to solve a Millenium Problem in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 10 Sep 2026

• Is it better people think this is entirely true if it gets them to take their privacy and data sovereignty more seriously at a large scale? The average person already distrusts big tech and governments. What’s to say half truths don’t help us all overall?

  on Anyone else seeing that unhinged "UK phones require digital ID or get child-locked" screenshot making the rounds? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026

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  on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026

• Most of the time, but I would emphasize always in airports or public wifi

  on How often do y'all use a VPN? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 23 Aug 2026