Anyway with these AI coding experiments I’ve been doing, it’s good to know my skepticism isn’t simply just being old and cranky for the sake of being old and cranky: my instincts (that they’re being oversold by people who have incentives to do so) is still correct
Yes it's obviously bad Facebook is getting rid of fact checkers, but no amount of Meta-funded fact checkers would address the real problem of the entire digital commons and all forms of public socialising and communication being captured by and dependent on for-profit tech companies.
This is the make shit up machine, it makes shit up.
We've made it so that it absolutely cannot tell the truth reliably.
We will now integrate it into every part of your daily life.
In THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, Jack Skellington sees something, decides it belongs to him, and pumps out an altered version of it that almost looks like the real thing (but which sucks and everyone hates) while nearly destroying the thing he claimed to be championing.
Jack is a dead tech bro.
Wow. @searls.bsky.social just wrote maybe the most succinct explanation of the benefits of automated testing I've ever seen:
> And once I've made something, I want to be able to change and improve it without becoming captive to the fear of breaking it.
🤯🤯🤯
sitting in a waiting room this morning while my partner had a 6 hour long cancer removal surgery when I saw the news that the insurance CEO was shot. Im paying out of pocket because the best alternative for us is partial coverage @ 1000 a month with a 15000 deductible. Anyway heres a unrelated comic
BREAKING: Brian Thompson, CEO of United Healthcare, was shot and killed outside a Manhattan hotel in an apparent targeted attack, law enforcement official says