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  • My understanding is that search on the microblogging side of the fedi is intended to be “broken” (from the view of someone expecting a Twitter-style search); hashtags are for opting-in to global discoverability whilst without them your posts are intended to be stumbled upon and/or passed around rather than sought out.

    Search is broken beyond the choice of being an opt-in. The fact that there’s no way to sort search in any way except chronological order means it’s hard to find anything relevant. Instead it’s usually just a bunch of spam blogs or replies


  • Feeling like you’re faster just because you can generate easy, boilerplate code doesn’t actually mean you’re faster if it spits out junk or takes longer to debug/integrate that code, or if tasks require more complex work that LLMs are bad at.

    I just wanted to see some concrete stats given how much everyone is implementing it and hyping it up, as anecdotal evidence is easily biased by shiny new toy syndrome.











  • What if the 2030s change the approach and use AI to teach everybody how to program?

    What does AI (already known to be an unreliable bullshitting machine) provide to students that existing tutorials, videos and teachers do not already?

    Also the companies investing in AI are not trying to teach their workers to be better, they’re trying to make more profit by replacing workers or artificially increasing their outputs. Teaching people to program is not what they care about