If you’ve never reversed a link list don’t talk to me about your ai code

This was such a great discussion on the problems with AI and coding

OpenAI Anthropic and xAI also all want to raise like $60bn each in the next year, which is way more appetite than people regularly have for IPOs. For some context the total proceeds of all US IPOs for 2025 was $47.4bn. 2021 had $155.8bn back during ZIRP season. Good luck with that folks!

A collective photo taken at Firestorm Books. Our team, including five humans and two dogs, is sitting on the sidewalk in front of the building looking relaxed. The sky is bright but cloudy and flags on the building hang without any indication of wind. The building is painted forest green and various posters and signs are visible in the windows, which reflect the sky. The largest reads "Immigrants Welcome."

Like a lot of small businesses in our region, Firestorm has been in financial distress for the last year. Hurricane Helene was our tipping point, but local cost of living increases, inflation, and higher occupancy costs are huge contributors. 1/9

I think the subject of Tuesday’s newsletter is going to be about how weird AI is. It’s genuinely strange we have an entire industry that’s mostly sold on what people wish it did and a vagueness usually reserved for timeshare salesmen

“Q: What is the film about? A: The fight to make Rainbow Road less car-centric and more pedestrian-friendly.” Via The Onion

I’ve never cared about the Super Mario Galaxy Movie even a tiny bit, except now I care about it a whole lot.

Thanks @theonion.com @bencollins.bsky.social theonion.com/what-to-know...

Additionally a lot of corporations are pushing their use hard which doesn’t seem like organic adoption but rather corporate fear of not being part of the Next Big Thing™

I’d love to know what percentage of income for AI products is enterprise vs consumer

So, you are just trying to backdoor your way into speech regulation by making the product liable for whatever harm. There’s a part of me that buys this, but Casey, I know you think you can pull the two apart. CN: I agree that this is tricky and we should be careful and lawsuits are often not the best way to work through this stuff, because in general, I would rather have lawmakers and policymakers writing really careful versions of this. At the same time, why is infinite scroll speech? Why are streaks speech? Why is autoplay video speech? At a certain point, you can get yourself all the way to like, “Why do we make Ford put seatbelts on their cars? You’re compelling speed.” No, you’re compelling a seatbelt. You should be able to compel product safety features once it becomes clear that you actually have a product safety issue.

This is very silly, no one is saying infinite scroll is "speech", we're saying that these features are only "problematic" for their ability to deliver speech, and it's speech u have an issue w not the feature. We know that bc a zillion other apps have the exact features and u have no issue w them!

The character Klaes Ashford from The Expanse, played by David Strathairn, absolutely killing it

"The characters in the book are always so much more in-depth, complex, and enjoyable than in the movie/show."

Counterpoint: Klaes Ashford is roughly a billion-times better on the show in every possible way.

I agree. I find something like that much more meaningful than a like

.@lizardky.bsky.social raises a good point: per "social media addiction" proponents' claims, wouldn’t a platform like Bluesky, where there is no content-recommendation algo & users can tailor their feeds to contain precisely the ppl and types of posts they want to see, be even *more* addictive?

AI has been a helpful tool. It has also routinely tried to do things that just aren’t the right solution or it has completely missed obvious errors

The humanities are absolutely vital to a functioning democratic society.

It’s a skill in the way that following a recipe is a skill but making a recipe is a deeper much more complicated skill

I’m definitely a 5/Pilot fan

Ive tried using AI to help and augment my programming and most of the time it makes things worse. Many times when I’m stuck I’ve tried having Claude take a stab at the issue and the time I spent prompting Claude could have been time better spent.

To take this a step further working the kitchen at a Chick-fil-A does not make one a chef and prompt engineering an app does not make one a programmer.

Vibe coding is the technical equivalent of fast food and consuming the output does not make one a coder/developer anymore than consuming a Big Mac makes one a chef.

AI code is crap. There are some specific areas it can be helpful in, but overall it’s not great.

@libbyapp.com any chance you could update the CarPlay interface to have the bookmark button available?

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

“The collapse of the AI bubble is going to be ugly…AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector & tech monopolists run amok.“

Read this article by @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy. Whether you agree with it all or not, it’s important.

Another great quote from this post:

“AI multiplies what you already know.

10 years of experience × AI = 10x output
0 years of experience × AI = 10x slop
the output looks the same at first glance. the difference shows up when someone else has to maintain it.”

“when linus torvalds uses AI to help with linux kernel development, that's not "vibe coding." that's 30+ years of context, taste, and architecture sense — amplified.”

Saw a lot of headlines saying "wikipedia is embracing ai" being tossed around tabloids, and I'm pretty sure they were maliciously written to make you feel a certain way about Wikipedia. What's actually happening is that wikipedia is demanding payment for data scraping and the corpos don't like that.

Playing Kyber with the Battlefront+ mod pack has been one of my favorite gaming moments of the year.

The issue I have with vibe coding is that people who don’t have fundamental knowledge won’t know when AI is giving them terrible direction.

We’ve not had an issue booking a hotel in Asheville. We stayed there back in the spring for a couple of nights at the Aloft

Day 30: #100DaysofCode. Yesterday I finished up learning Redux. I feel a lot more confident about how to dispatch actions and how the reducers works.

Day 29: #100DaysofCode. Continuing my Redux learning. I've been working with actions and reducers. It will probably make more sense once I start building with it.

Day 28: #100DaysofCode. Forgot to post yesterday. I finished the React portion of my review. Then I started learning how to use Redux for state management.