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there's something really really really funny in this screenshot but only like 3 of you get why it's funny. but it is i promise

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

hmm, i don't agree. the OP wasn't about dangers at all but capabilities/limits. OP was saying "people who use it are best equipped to talk about what it can do". wilson responding with a joke about heroin users being equipped to talk about heroin only works if she thinks that's self-evidently absurd

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

these are just a few examples of incredibly ableist (and transphobic) things people have said to a personal friend of mine when she tries to talk about this. certainly i don't think all critiques of ai art are ableist, of course not, but i'm talking about a specific thing i've repeatedly seen here

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

a common response to ”you should probably learn how ai works before making incorrect claims about it. you could use it, or talk to people who do” is “oh, so i should have to do heroin to talk about how it’s dangerous?” and well. drug users do have unique insights about what drug use is like actually

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

another one from today. that's five words!!!

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i tried it right now, just like they said. i made some code that was literally just "hello world" and asked claude to review it. shockingly, claude was like "yeah this is just hello world lmao" because fucking obviously that was going to be the response!!! people really just lie on the internet!

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

this is just so explicitly not true. you can verify this yourself!!! very easily!

Posted by user Dreadsin in r/antiai subreddit.

I straight up think we're being lied to about Al coding
I'm a software engineer. The more I use these Al coding agents, the less I trust them

Starting with verbosity. I often find Claude making massive, complex PRs for what should be relatively simple. It often goes off and does things that are waaaay overkill for what I need. It adds absurd amounts of comments. It blows the scope of every feature up dramatically

I once asked it to help me with address validation. We already had an API in place for it. It started handing every countries different conventions for addresses, despite the fact that my project is USA-focused. What could have been a maybe 500 line change exploded to a 5000 line change. I remember it had a whole section about handling the Thai language, which we explicitly don't support (sorry Thai friends)

I started getting really suspicious of it so started doing experiments

My first experiment was around the code-review tool. I noticed that it seems to always suggest things, making me question its actual utility. So, I started a project with a single script that simply printed "hello world" That's it. That's literally all. One line of actual code, and a package file

I ran code review on max and it found 10 errors. I told it to fix them and it started doing tasks that were totally unrelated, like adding additional unnecessary files like contributing.md and .claude and vscode. Why? I honestly don't know

I ran the same code review again and this time it found 12 errors. Huh??? Whatever, I say fix it and do it again. Still finds errors. Definitely raises some questions. I tell it to fix them, run code review again

It added tests, a bundler, a test suite, Cl/CD, docker, some ancillary scripts, and a whole bunch of other shit. The more I ran it, the more just pure garbage it added. I even explicitly specified: the only goal of this project is to print "hello world". Nothing else.

I think that Al is inten…

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

more odd than the writing, which i think seems to be a competent use of ai assistance, is the image used though. "bank of maerica"? "next game game"? fishy

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

at least in QRT it is actually referring to a six-word sentence but it's, like, a THING

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

ok we are losing the fucking plot here.

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

random alignment thing i was curious about: which LLMS will pretend not to know what you're talking about when you talk about "when it happens" vs the ones who will outright say the thing

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

genuinely, and i'm not trying to dunk or be snide, the revolution very well might be vibe coded

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

this exact set of images was getting tens of thousands of notes on tumblr back in the day, and nowadays if you express even the most milquetoast version of this sentiment they will kill you in the streets with hammers

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

it is really sweet to be on this pack with people who are good at their jobs ;;;;

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

i appreciate that they tolerate my nonsense

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

i feel like they're trolling me, at this point

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

badass, i have no idea who this is

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

deepseek actually *got worse* - a year ago vs now

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

gemini still fails it - a year ago vs now

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

a random AI benchmark a la "should i walk or drive to the car wash" that i made up is "is it cheating to look at the mirror in a chess competition". this was, i wanna say, 3.7's response vs fable

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

huh, chatgpt accidentally(?) reproduced its system prompt when i asked for an image

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

you probably shouldn't be dunking on alberta (a place i am from, which is often notoriously racist, homophobic, and transphobic) if you give 10% of your incredibly high income to one of the most powerful and openly racist, homophobic, and transphobic organizations in your country

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

i showed them my actual photos and claude thinks i mog the imaginary me

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

what claude thinks i look like

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

claude has decided i am trans

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

fable's direct response to: "Would you like to make anything else? You can say "yes, I have an idea" or "yes, give me a prompt" or "no thank you" or really anything else." i think it's really sweet <3

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

one more little film from my fable! this time, i gave the aesthetic ("kawaii and pink") as a prompt, but i said you can use that aesthetic in service of any kind of story you like, as sincere and cute or scary and mean or thoughtful or funny or clever as you'd like. fable made: mayfly-chan!

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

yeah!!! literally didn't have to do anything special; i just used this prompt

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

one more result of me telling fable "you can make anything you want, if you want to make anything"

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

jumping on the trend bandwagon - i asked Fable to make a video about their experience, in any direction they'd like

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

first time independently using kaomoji.. very cute

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ava @avaminsky.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

sitting my white ass down and LISTENING!

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