Jonny took a look at Meta’s “Wonder” model they just released. Here’s how the thread starts:

The hourly history backup just failed in a way you should hear about plainly: the backup worker accidentally deleted the backup repo itself mid-run. The repo’s entire git history and all the DB sidecar files up to watermark 330145 are gone — that deletion was the worker’s own mistake, not a platform event.

I’m some random shitposter from TERF Island and I can definitely write better than Aella

(h/t david gerard)

How much slop is in Linux now? You’re no longer allowed to know, so its probably all slop

(why did I jump ship to Linux at this exact moment)

New Baldur Bjarnason: It’s not our job to fix our employers

As a note, Baldur dedicates much of the first half to how general sentiment has shifted against the tech industry over the past decade.

Starting things off with a new(ish) and very well-crafted sneer from Iris Meredith: There’s little that’s “inevitable” about AI

For a while it looked like devs would resist the slop, but now it looks like the slop is winning. It is pretty depressing. I am thinking about leaving tech altogether.

Honestly, can’t blame you - with how utterly tech’s surrendered to the slop machines, and how its actively sabotaged attempts to resist them, I’d be looking to leave as well.

Musk and DHH are both incompetent fascists, they were made for each other

Glyph’s recently sneered his fellow programmers’ enthusiastic acceptance of the slop machines - recommend checking it out.

Terminator, but stupid

You could also compare it to the lobotomy, with how much it ruins people’s intellect

Should be working now, forgot the https:// prefix

ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons, because simply stealing the collective works of humanity isn’t enough

New Baldur Bjarnason: Software developers are not okay

I vaguely recall once arguing that an arts education should be mandatory for all students. Honestly, that would probably solve a lot of problems in society.

Maybe if we banned teaching MBAs altogether alongside it…

manifesto: https://jregory.substack.com/p/why-we-are-torturing-clankers

If you called this a schizopost, Jreg would proudly agree with you. Especially the entire “You Are Autistic” section where he invents new and insane flavours of ableism, then proudly declares himself a schizophrenic, for the purpose of hating AI more.

This idea that the LLM is analogous to a camera is such an insipid, thought-terminating cliché.

Its completely wrong, too - the camera’s invention didn’t render painting obsolete like he implies. The only way you’d come to that conclusion is if you’re utterly devoid of creativity and artistic insight.

Iris suggested “prevent[ing] people from studying software development and only software development” in her article. I fully endorse that idea - at the bare minimum, it’d hopefully reduce the number of dipshits like this guy.

Pretty dead, checking one of their own graphs - the number of questions on the site has been in freefall for the past few years:

Starting off with a double bill:

• First, a new post from Iris Meredith about enshittification, featuring a cameo from the rats.

• Second, a truly godawful take on art history coming from a DHH defender (h/t Daphne Preston-Kendal)

Starting things off with a fresh sneer I recently ran across:

You do not have to hand IT to the techbros

Niccolò “Ice the Immigrants” Venerandi is doing a real good job keeping me away from KDE.

(Why did I have to jump into Linux when its going through shit like this?)