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Bram Bos @brambosofficial.bsky.social · 21h

Do you still remember living in the primitive barbaric times before 2022? How did we survive?

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects. Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it. apnews.com/article/open...

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 23/09/2026

Most of the time there are about 6 or more plates with side dishes and side salads ready to go, hot food in holding, preparing a new dish is quicker and easier than arguing, have to agree here

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 23/09/2026

Kotlin by making our work lighter, lighted the load, ie. do more with less, make it harder to make mistakes. AI goes faster perhaps, but usually in the wrong direction, making it easier to make mistakes, raising the cost of verification, I don't really feel it's that much of a win

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greatsatan69.bsky.social @greatsatan69.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Woof

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 07/09/2026

Nuclear isn't great, but it's much better than lignite, which Germany absurdly prefers, the Greens went blind mad on this pushing for total abolishment of nuclear power plants

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 06/09/2026

Best case scenario is the new government Saxon-Anhalt is incapable of forming a functioning government, the most likely scenario is that they join the other right wing governments taking power, this isn't going to be like WWII, WWIII will be fascism vs China, personally I'm rooting for China.

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 06/09/2026

Before Brexit I could vote for local parties, I usually voted Grün, but their blind abstention towards nuclear power has made sure I'll never vote for them again, you know... when I eventually hear back from the Eingbürgerungsamt....

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Amazon achieves enshittification inception; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/09/04/c... #Pluralistic 1/

Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Conjuror,' a painting depicting a medieval con artist playing a shell game for an audience of astonished peasant rubes. The image has been altered: the conman now has Jeff Bezos's grinning head, and the mouths of all the peasants have been replaced with inverted Amazon 'Smile' logos, so they are now frowning.

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeff_Bezos%27_iconic_laugh_crop.jpg

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 19/08/2026

or watch videos / play on their phone without headphones

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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 19/08/2026

Hi Germany. Want your kids to have functioning lungs? Here's how...

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 16/08/2026

Many things were now testing, we didn't need to test before because our tooling didn't try to actively lie to us

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 15/08/2026

One of the most disillusioning aspects of the AI boom has been the total abandonment of predictability, so much weight had been placed on the reliability of builds, predictability and idempotency of operations. But no, fuck that, lets go for hallucinations and randomness 🤷‍♂️

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 15/08/2026

Ultimately, I enjoy coding, I want to code, I enjoy problem solving, the knowledge building through community involvement I've been lucky to be a part of being compared to tokens, is just kinda depressing.

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 15/08/2026

I think the largest part of this is about job fulfilment, sure a machine might be able to produce something near the same quality overall. Arguments can be made for better or worse code from either party (if one could call an AI a "party").

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 15/08/2026

Ironically, hallucination is not something exclusive to AI, just more prevalent. Writing the code yourself brings you closer to the problem, understanding the product requirements better and feeling a better sense of contribution.

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 15/08/2026

I'm not sure that was the idea, AI can create "quality" code in terms of proper thread management, and technical aspects, but it doesn't understand the problem, because it lacks the necessary critical context. When asked to justify the solution it would be more likely to hallucinate.

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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 14/08/2026

mastodon.jakewharton.com/@jw/11709465...

Mastodon post from Jake Wharton:

As of today, the Lysine projects (OkHttp, Okio, Retrofit, and the SQL Delight family) have a contribution policy that forbids LLM usage for creating code and for PR/issue descriptions and comments.
There is an exception for translation assistance provided you disclose its use.
If you choose to use LLMs locally for research, analysis, and/or experimentation we can't stop you. But for contributing we require you to write the code, and for our interactions to be with you.

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 14/08/2026

I'm definitely at this stage, hand writing code for my pet project, which is mostly for the fun of coding, but also the same reason I haven't shipped v1 yet 😅

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 14/08/2026

They all knew it was a farce and declined to contest

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 14/08/2026

He was never meant to, if he won he'd be a real MP with all the obligations that come with it, he's a satirical candidate, his goal was to further mock the ludicrousness of the situation and embarrass Farage with how close he would come. He succeeded.

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 13/08/2026

``` Upon reflection, I've come to believe that quality software is not about how many features something has or how quickly it is built but rather how cared for it is by the designers, developers, and product people who work on it. ``` This rings very true brettcodes.com/im-done-using-ai

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I'm done using AI

Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 13/08/2026

Except I doubt it will result in the slaughter of millions of AI models, but one can hope.

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 13/08/2026

With more and more AI content being generated, more of that content is inevitably being used to train AI models. In the UK during the late 80s, cattle remains had been used to feed livestock resulting in the outbreak of BSE, or "Mad Cow Disease". It's eerily similar...

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 13/08/2026

It's become impossible to escape, and you can't even be sure what is or isn't AI generated anymore

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 13/08/2026

It feels deeply hurtful that somebody had the idea that the problem with software development was the development part, like this craft I've spent more than a decade honing, needs to be done shittier by an overpriced waste of water

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 13/08/2026

> I had a conversation ... about how a developer's job is now is to teach the AI to be better, make fewer mistakes, etc. To review the code. And to test the changes that the AI makes. This is a horrible existence This is so relatable. brettcodes.com/im-done-usin...

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I'm done using AI

Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Today in Pervert Glasses news, Meta glasses have been banned from court in England and Wales: Meta glasses have been banned from courts in England and Wales: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Meta glasses banned from courts in England and Wales

Exclusive: Court service says anyone trying to enter buildings with glasses will have them confiscated and returned when they leave

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 10/08/2026

It's useful for them to exist as documented examples, but they are usually too specific to a project or team approach to be useful without giving a bias. Better would be documentation of how Gradle behaves differently when building them, plugin extensions, DSL, etc.

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

All this sweaty obsessing over vibe-coding is great. I don't use the stuff, never have. But now I get to put in about 40% the effort I used to. Everyone else's slowed right down, waffling on about agents or sandboxing or whatever. I'm more productive by comparison.

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 07/08/2026

Maybe we'll see some change with the RTBF policies currently in discussion, but it's still maddening that this isn't already a policy, I'm sorry you have to deal with this 😡

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 06/08/2026

This is just so fucking crazy, from a country with a history like Germany, to weaponise a persons medical history against them, fucking vile 🤮

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 06/08/2026

Not wanting to disagree, but I got into computer science because I'm better at communicating with machines than people.

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 06/08/2026

It astounds me that people can hear the terms "democratic socialism", "universal healthcare", or "nationalised infrastructure", and think that's a bad thing

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 05/08/2026

It's quite re-assuring to know the http framework backing 90% of the Android (and JVM?) ecosystem is free of AI slop <3

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 04/08/2026

I had the same answer when my doctor asked me if I knew what might be causing my back pain

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Two people are walking down the street when they see a billboard that says "The AI singularity is on the horizon!" One turns to the other and asks, what's a horizon? The other one answers: it's an imaginary line that moves away as quickly as you can approach it.

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 31/07/2026

I suspect that venn diagram is closer to a circle than you might imagine

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 30/07/2026

I do use "AI" for the stuff it's ok at, mostly NLP and finding documentation. But I feel coding is a creative process that you can pry from my cold dead hands. I do have an agents file though ;) github.com/ashdavies/pl...

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KAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

If pocket calculators regularly and randomly gave you incorrect answers to your queries like ChatGPT does, we would have left the technology behind, not insisted that 2+2=5 is HERE TO STAY, BABY.

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Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ashdavies.dev · 30/07/2026

For me, I've always used my pet project for the fun side of coding without the tedium of commercial responsibilities and corner cutting, so I still use it to keep my sanity, but it's unreasonable to ask somebody to do that in their free time, besides for the love of doing so.

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