Honza Dvorsky

🧵 One thing that concerns me about the current AI mania is what I see as people embracing full on nihilism - the "nothing matters" philosophy. - "LLMs have a massive environmental cost? Doesn't matter, because *future smarter* AI will solve climate change." 1/7

it is my deepest and most fervent wish that the tech oligarchs suffer consequences for openly allying with fascism the world over maybe we can extradite zuck in 2029

What I think is important is to continue caring about the things you love despite anything. The storm will pass. The chaff will be blown away. Good work will continue standing.

Reading books indeed feels like an antidote to AI psychosis and letting LLMs completely fry your brain.

nice to get mask off with it

AI shouldn't be able to fire you, fire a weapon, or deny you healthcare.

And staying on the Windows theme, there's now a community client transport for WinHttp, allowing you to use the official windows HTTP client with Swift OpenAPI Generator! github.com/apple/swift-...

As of version 1.3.0, Swift Configuration is officially supported on Windows! github.com/apple/swift-...

This means that the increased price of RAM and consumer electronics was a result of an artificial "supply chain crisis" created by Jensen Huang pushing NVIDIA's customers to take early delivery of GPUs. Jensen Huang is responsible for making life worse for everyone.

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

The sharpest executives in the industry are noticing this only 2 years after ordinary workers. This is why they get paid the big bucks.

Mandatory viewing for all men in tech. youtu.be/WXL6K1lhvt0

no kings includes billionaires who think they’re kings

It’s okay, we can fix agent-generated code with better tests *begins generating tests* It’s okay, we can fix the tests with formal specs *begins generating formal specs* It’s okay, we can fix the formal specs with better intent docs *begins generating intent docs* It’s okay, we can fix the int

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

This is the person whose feet most of the tech CEOs kiss regularly now. History will not be kind to them.

Swift Package Index now supports Swift 6.4 and uses it to generate documentation 📦 Package authors, check that your packages work with the move to Swift Build: swiftpackageindex.com/blog/swift-6...

Swift 6.4.1 is out now! ⚙️ This maintenance release improves compiler stability, enhances dependency resolution in Swift Package Manager, and includes fixes for Foundation and Swift Testing. More here: forums.swift.org/t/announcing...

@pointfree.co's series on advanced macro techniques wraps up with part 2: type inference. A great read for Swift macro authors. Check it out at www.pointfree.co/blog/posts/2...

AI is conscious AND it is my girlfriend AND it is my slave. A perfect scenario for me, a normal person. Not gonna think too deeply about this. Now do all other living human people deserve the level of investment devoted to my Tamogotchi slave girlfriend? Not so fast.

In fact, I'd love to see every tech exec who approves multi-billion opex or capex on LLMs to have to *bet their job* on them producing at least a reasonable, measurable ROI. Otherwise they lose their job *and* stock. You'd see a VERY different LLM industry. A much smaller yet healthy one. 🫢

Maybe it's not the best idea to let un-fireable man-children like Zuck run our economy? At some point real-world consequences must meet these clowns. Imagine losing your company $80b on fhe Metaverse, and not only keeping your job, but then investing $200b for no particular reason into LLMs 🙃

And with that we have our first dead AI startup

> Bluesky and Mastodon are too small for most people to care about  Let's check the receipts, shall we? On Bluesky, he has 54k followers, on X 334k, so 500% more. Engagement? ~1600 here, ~2000 on X, only 25% more. Oof. But on X you get 100% more Nazis, including the owner. What a bargain!

Zelensky: "When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations... It’s pretty clear where those bots were coming from."

This, friends, is *how* fascism gets normalized.

I'd believe them if they'd go live next to an AI datacenter, powered by on-site fossil fuels.

Oh god Anthropic will argue this axe is conscious won't they

Forward-Thinking CEO Hoping Company Can Capture New Audience By Making Product Worse In Every Conceivable Way https://theonion.com/forward-thinking-ceo-hoping-company-can-capture-new-aud-1846058985/

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

can't wait to build my Robot That Mag Dumps 14 Rounds of 400 Winchester Magnum in a Random Direction Every Hour. i assume this is legal, since the precise time at which the trigger gets pulled is randomized!

This is the man responsible, through defunding life-saving programs at USAID, for the death of millions of children. Don't look away. Don't use X. Don't use Grok.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Harvard researchers studied 718 companies and found AI coding agents increased lines of code by 30%, but no major increase in completed tasks or projects. Meanwhile, review time rose 49%. Generating code faster hasn’t translated into completing more work. The bottleneck has moved to code reviews.

Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.

The fact that unverified leaks from private companies move billions on the stock market is such a strong argument for regulating any private company worth more than $10b similarly to public ones: mandatory disclosures, published audited financials, etc. So much opportunity for fraud here otherwise.

Lots of great highlights this month. One of my favorite parts: ten years of Vapor, and the release of Vapor 5 beta! Congrats to the team on the milestone.

there's really no difference between this and saying that playing violent video games is harmful to the characters

🗞️ Swift 6.4 landed in September, with Swift Build as the default in SwiftPM, Subprocess 1.0, and more capable Embedded Swift. Plus Vapor turns 10 and Google releases official Google Cloud client libraries for Swift. Read the latest digest: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

Powerful statement from mathematicians around the world. “We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding.” The backlash to AI is only just beginning. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/a...

The American white collar workforce started working from home three days a week for like six months a year into COVID and executives so thoroughly lost their minds over this that they installed Trump II. If anything, AI will create the 7-day workweek.

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

Prediction for part two of story; Humans less happy. Tool very expensive. Human Reviewers very expensive. Nothing better.