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i honestly love it when i see well-considered, reasonable criticism against either bluesky pbc or ai. that rules, i want more of it. but almost no one posts that, they just post lies.

i've lost mutuals at this point from harping on how these kinds of posts are just lies… i hate it, i have no strong desire to defend bluesky pbc or ai, but i can't stand lies and poor arguments that mislead everyone. it sucks

editors note: they were not right this post is about an earlier outage and is not about “vibe coding” at all

if you want some perspective from someone who was probably the "abrasive bluesky engineer" in question here, the abrasiveness came from the types of interaction people sent my way on a constant basis. its not really the right way to manage things, no, but its really hard to not be abrasive back

i feel like the end result is that less technical people genuinely buy into the thing you actually know is false. is this deception part of the joke? is pretending a false thing is true some kind of an in-group signal?

i mean there are hundreds of posts like this. yours is instructive because it tries to explain the logic behind them in plain terms. i still don’t quite understand what’s funny about collectively pretending that one thing is another thing — and i’m sure at least some people don’t know you’re joking

oh yeah it's absolutely not on purpose

it's such a gross abuse of trust to lie to people who believe you about things like this... i can't stand seeing it.

take a look at all the people in the replies and quotes who accept this blog post as evidence, when it doesn't say anything about vibecoding whatsoever.

i think both can be true at once, lolicon might not be into the 3D-ish depiction (even if it is somewhat stylized), but lolicon on twitter love being pandered to regardless... so if they perceive it as such they'll brag about it for sure

what commenters genuinely don’t seem to understand is that you can absolutely produce high quality work with agentic llms if you have good engineering judgement, know how to wield them, and maintain a strict code review culture.

so if you’re there it must be because you genuinely want the mission to succeed and root for the pirate ship to win. this means you (or your teammates) can’t afford or tolerate sloppy work because that brings the ship down. code review has always been pretty tight there and that wouldn’t change.

it isn’t too fun to work on an open source product with a userbase that unironically loves to “bully the devs” but will never actually jump ship. i think anyone who can do the technical work at bluesky could find a higher paying and much less stressful job. this acts as a filter for who works there

i doubt my word would convince the “concerned public” but this is a point i wish was more broadly understood. you can assume a high level of baseline care about the code because otherwise neither the company nor the product nor the protocol would survive. and engineers there are mostly ideological

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it's just too common for twitch emotes for it to be a dog whistle imo. the stars would have to *really* align for anyone to be able to pull something like this lmao

unironically a beautiful and effective way to keep grifters out. if you get filtered by an anime catgirl popping up for 2 seconds because it's too cringe and gay for you was your heart really in the systems programming?

yeah, it's just super common to use to express tears of happiness or even just generally that you feel very attracted to any type of character.

since @cleri.pet blocked me, just gonna link my response to its post here:

i don't see the need to be openly apologizing over my heavy sins for querying claude though... that's weird.

i don't currently use claude code, or any other ai coding tool, but i don't have any principled reason to be against them.
my two principles anthropic violates would be working with the us military and not releasing their models openly. happy to criticize them for that.

moralizing about what is right or wrong isn't really gonna enter into the equation. if it helps people, they will be open to using it. if it doesn't help, they won't. many bluesky devs feel it helps them.

you can have your opinion on it, but companies don't generally employ programmers to do artisanal coding... if programmers feel like it gives them benefits when creating software, the thing they're employed to do, then some will use it. some will use it on personal projects too.

yoooo look at BibleThump there are even more pedo dogwhistles on twitch!!!!

you're not wrong to look at, say, amazon's practices with ai coding and think it's a problem. but you also can't generalize to every company or organization, or to any way of using ai coding tools. there are reasonable and responsible uses of ai coding, and a lot of programmers appreciate it.

there hasn't been a single case of ai coding being the reason for bsky downtime, and it's unlikely it will be. ai coding is a tool, and they seem to use it responsibly. maybe a bsky bug will at some point trace its origin to ai code... then it'll be one case of ai code bug against many non-ai bugs.

you're assuming things about management here. from what i can tell, bluesky devs are using ai coding because it works for them and they want to. they seem pretty enthusiastic about it! they've also said that they maintain the same coding standards as before, and that all code is reviewed.

lmao

honestly you use it a lot more than any lolicon i know, so you've probably earned it...