Yes, it might be reductionist, but I think that the way LLMs might be incorrect isn't _that_ novel (comparing to everything else about them). But YMMV, obviously.

What I was trying to say is, I think there is so much of stuff written (in my teens and twenties I consumed it in tons), that [in my mind at least] we saw any kind of imaginary AI - friendly, hostile, 'mama knows better' type, dumb, smart, too logical, 'alien logic' logical, that "it is nothing new"

Yeah, I see where you are coming from. I can think at least of one classic "lying robot" story from the top of my head en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar!_(...
I think there were more, though in general I agree that "it just lies" was hardly a usual focus.

Even all the shortcomings, hallucinations and ability to be confidently incorrect is part of that same old "sentient computer" myth, which we are ready for, subconsciously.
We came culturally prepared!
...but it didn't help: even the basic Three Laws of Robotics aren't a given for LLMs.

My hot take is: "almost all of it" (especially classic period).
That's the reason why LLMs took off for general population so easily.
From the consumer point of view, the computer is finally "what we imagined it since 1940s": something you can just talk to casually, ask stuff and give tasks.

LOL😆

So you understand, Russia first reported that they occupied Mala Tokmachka somewhere in October 2025, and since then, almost every week they report that they have occupied it.

If we'd have it to be, say, "invoke", it will probably clearer from the "read as English" point of view. That's how I make sense of it, at least 😅

I think the "call" word itself is not ideal, but it is a historical compromise (not a strict dictionary meaning here), from the explosion of OOP, where we basically rewrote each and every foo(bar, ...) into `bar.foo(...)` ("call the procedure on that address" => "procedure.call").

IDK, honestly. Maybe because I am not a native English speaker, but for me, it is pretty similar: I have an array, I join it; I have a method, I call it.
If we rewrite it to join(array) and call(method), it would be more "English-like": both are an object, not a subject of an outside intention.

PS: Another interesting consideration about the matter in general, is that Ruby's combination of Smalltalk "sending" and Python/JS-alike "callables" never seemed fully consistent, neither in behavior or in terminology.

But it is what it is, I guess.

-> and Pythons ','.join(ary), while somewhat more grammatical ("comma joins items of the ary"), is quite icky.

That's an interesting observation... But isn't it quite usual for OOP? I mean, the convention that foo.bar() frequently meaning "make foo barred", not "foo does bar". Like, you can say that in ary.join(',') it is not "array who joins itself", but we all got used to it ->

Izyum in Hope, Laughter and Nets In late March 2026 I made a short trip to Izyum, an old fortress town, occupied briefly in 2022. This is a story of a thrilling walk with the director of the local ethnography museum, Halyna Ivanova.

A small love song to the chalk fortress of Izyum and the way local are addressing the wounds of occupation.

open.substack.com/pub/vika4goo...

It is "good people from the West" who normalized dealing with the madmen like they are equal.
Now the madman is in their home and they are flabbergasted.

I am really sorry we all have to live through this.

Hot take: "Why do we understand that..."
You don't. The first "man this crazy with nuclear weapons" was Putin.
And everybody treated him like somewhat eccentric yet sane partner.
"Reload of relationship" half a year after Georgia war (Obama/Hillary).
Meek response in 2014 (Obama).
And all the rest.

Seven Ukrainian Poems, Issue 13: Yuri Solomko Yuri Solomko, Territorial Defense Forces / Ukrainian Armed Forces. Seven poems translated from Ukrainian by Victor Shepelev

Yuri Solomko
Territorial Defense Forces / AFU

Seven poems translated by me from Ukrainian for #7uapoems project.
7uapoems.substack.com/p/seven-ukra...

if only there were citizens of post-soviet countries who vividly remember actual implementation of said "progressive values"

#UkrainianView
I remember the news abt this

Ukrainians:
Mariupol Drama Theater hit. People under the rubble.

russians:
WE HIT AZOV NAZIS... oh shi.
(delete post)
Ukronazis hit Theater with civillians!!!

global media: Mariupol Drama Theater is destroyed. Both sides blame each other.

I, myself, don't "mourn the craft".
I observe a tectonic cultural shift in a domain where its inhabitants never fully grasped the "cultural" part of things they do :)
So far, it is more bewildering than terrifying. But we'll see.

...but the software development, even before LLMs, was obsessed with "pragmatic generalists", so instead of specializing into "those who are best at quickly gathering together _some_ model" / "those who then give it shape", the industry surrendered to getting things done, moving fast/breaking shit.

-> only working together, those groups could produce a clear and comprehensive understanding. It would've been weird to describe a "split" between field correspondents and editors.
(Well, those are mostly gone too: who shouts louder with the most sensationalist "fact" wins the "audience.")

It is like with journalism (which is another way of "modelling the understanding of the world", like software development is).
In classic media, you don't pit various groups against each other: "gathers facts well" / "puts facts clearly into the narrative" / "sees which facts are missing" ->

I frequently think that the framing of "those who want to Get Things Done" vs "those who are in it For The Craft" is one of the most harmful optics in the industry, contaminated with mutual disdain between developer groups.
Tried to write about it a few times, but the world is too far gone.

Kotlin: inclusive `..`, exclusive `..<` 😁

Віктор Шепелєв: письменник, який може ще й софт написати Віктор Шепелєв — письменник і програміст із Харкова, а нині військовий. Усе життя він поєднує письменство з написанням коду.

Да Майже Справжнє Інтерв’ю своєму міському медіа!
nakypilo.ua/teksty/vikto...

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

вітаю!
закинув трохи

The U.S. administration did not send a single representative to the official commemoration events marking the anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, nor did it issue a single word through its embassy in Kyiv -- not even a standard diplomatic boilerplate.

Tomorrow everyone will be asking: when will the Russo-Ukrainian war end? The right question is: what can we do to make the Russian invasion fail?

Today, 12 years ago , Russia invaded Ukraine. The famous ‘green men’, occupying Crimean peninsula. 12 long years of my life being deformed by war with Russia. 12 years of Russia being so unable to just finally let us the fck go so much they’d rather kill my people than allow Ukrainians to just
be