Bram Gotink @bram.gotink.be · 13hDid you intend to write half of the error logs to stdout and a log file and half to stderr? Did you intend to write a nearly identical code block in two separate files? Did you intend to mix async and sync filesystem calls? A computer doesn't have intentions therefore a computer mustn't write code. 000
Bram Gotink @bram.gotink.be · 13hIntent is an integral part of code. I write two kinds of PR comments: "do X instead, for reason A, B, and C" and "why?" That second type is useless in an AI-generated PR because there is no "why." No one has thought about the code, no one has decided to write it like this. 100
Bram Gotink @bram.gotink.be · 13h"I've never been so productive before, you should try it!" Your productivity is destroying mine. AI-generated slop PRs are worse than those written by even the most junior of junior developers, for at least that junior developer has put thought in what they did—even if every line is wrong. 100
Bram Gotink @bram.gotink.be · 13h"Why won't you use AI?" I have stopped a nearly fully Copilot-generated PR with a custom JSON parser (in JavaScript) and a fully Copilot-generated PR with a custom parser for a very small subset of BASH (in BASH). Today. Both of those came across my screen *today* 100
Reposted by Bram GotinkFredo Fabrucci: The Poster's Poster™ @fredo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It is funny (in the joker way, as per usual) how so many people's lives were completely shattered over copyright trolling from companies who treated downloading a song as a capital offense but the moment they could make money on it themselves it instantly stopped being relevant 111179356
Reposted by Bram GotinkSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026when ai leaves u behind 75262379840
Reposted by Bram GotinkClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women 6138793685
Reposted by Bram GotinkJess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Here's what I actually think these incidents reveal (instead of a rogue AI terminator situation): Much of the infra we expect to be hardened is actually being held together by glue and popsicle sticks. 221378280
Reposted by Bram GotinkJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026went and tried the shirt that hides you from AI surveillance cameras, made this little video about it: www.404media.co/this-digital... 29773222
Bram Gotink @bram.gotink.be · 20/08/2026Same for yarn-switch vs corepack. I just today wrote documentation on how to set up corepack (our workstations can't access repo.yarnpkg.com, registry.yarnpkg.com, or registry.npmjs.org, so that's fun). I would love to see `brew install yarn` change from installing yarn v1 to yarn switch! 000
Bram Gotink @bram.gotink.be · 20/08/2026Yeah I saw the support for node version management and it looks interesting as that would mean we could stop using an extra tool for that (fnm), but until 6.x is stable I'm keeping my company at v4. Plugin support is important, though I don't work at the dept that heavily uses plugins anymore 😅 100
Bram Gotink @bram.gotink.be · 19/08/2026Found myself wishing I could manage certain non-JS tools I depend on in my javascript projects via @yarnpkg.dev so I wrote a (very experimental) plugin to install binaries from GitHub release assets. github.com/bgotink/yarn... 110
Reposted by Bram GotinkBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Avoiding AI is about to be a superpower. 13385592078
Reposted by Bram Gotinklauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10/08/2026thinking about what one trillion dollars of investment in clean energy would look like and getting so mad i need to lie down with the lights off 494111918
Bram Gotink @bram.gotink.be · 13/06/2026Got badly sunburnt while hiking despite clouds and mist all day. Make it make sense! *touches earpiece* Ah, I have just been told I'm a programmer and quote that's what you get for going outside unquote. 010
Reposted by Bram Gotink852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 08/06/2026NO ONE WANTS SLOP, NO MATTER HOW FAST ITS MADE 013137
Reposted by Bram GotinkBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/06/2026Unless there's some way to estimate how much money we have to give to AI companies before they cure cancer, we should at least consider the possibility that the true sum is "more money than exists now and that will ever exist." 26/ 110213
Reposted by Bram GotinkThomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 06/06/2026If you don’t know how they work, just know 3 things about LLMs: 1. They don’t learn 2. They don’t think 3. They don’t understand Here’s a good article that describes in detail what they do: www.0xkato.xyz/how-llms-act...0xkato.xyzHow LLMs Actually WorkA from-the-ground-up walkthrough of how modern LLMs work, from tokens to transformer blocks to the next-token loop 69630
Reposted by Bram GotinkKaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 05/06/2026Temporarily un-lapsing as a Catholic to avoid using Microsoft Copilot 9803218
Reposted by Bram GotinkThe Picture of Doriane Gros @grosdoriane.bsky.social · 01/06/2026You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know." 373166143810
Bram Gotink @bram.gotink.be · 26/05/2026Een geldige identiteitskaart, hoe belangrijk is dat eigenlijk? 000
Reposted by Bram GotinkTrish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...slate.comDrowning Doesn’t Look Like DrowningDrowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect. 253133929734
Reposted by Bram GotinkMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23/05/2026one interesting thing so far about loudly hating AI is the way AI lovers are like "wow so you're just totally closed off to hearing another perspective??" as if their perspective hasn't been relentlessly pushed down our throats with no space to push back (particularly in professional settings) 211119401995
Reposted by Bram GotinkKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/05/2026My kingdom for a tech ecosystem that will stop smothering me with apps and devices that constantly try to engage me in conversation against my will 583588492
Reposted by Bram GotinkAndy Bell @bell.bz · 19/05/2026My apathy levels for the industry are absolutely sky high and I don’t even have a dickhead boss making me hit token targets 927830
Reposted by Bram GotinkKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 14/05/2026“Use AI or get left behind!” Please, leave me behind. Drop me off on the side of the road somewhere. Sentence me to a remote cabin with a typewriter and some wildflowers that don’t know how to use the internet 2631261080
Reposted by Bram GotinkJacky @jacky3344.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Interesting isn't it, that homosexuality (for men at least) is seen as unacceptable by the Evangelicals because it's forbidden in Leviticus. But then so are cheeseburgers. 2336
Reposted by Bram GotinkAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/05/2026JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible. 316171893451
Reposted by Bram Gotinkmaybe: annie rauwerda @annierau.bsky.social · 04/05/2026in 1997, "x.com" belonged to two guys named Dave and Rob and its slogan was "not nearly the worst place on the web!!!" web.archive.org/web/19970411... 850399
Reposted by Bram GotinkKumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 12/04/2026You may not know @taskmaster.tv. It's hilarious & joyful. I begged to do it, worked out my schedule a year ahead of time to make it happen & got to do the best show on TV w/ the loveliest ppl. Ep 1 is out &, trust me, you need this joy. All seasons free on youtube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRfH...youtube.comSeason 21, Episode 1 - 'Cube is good.' | Full EpisodeYouTube video by Taskmaster 722472323
Reposted by Bram Gotinkalyssa || lovelandisle @lovelandisle.bsky.social · 12/04/2026i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years 17793202287
Reposted by Bram GotinkBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/04/2026Crises precipitate change. That's no reason to induce a crisis, but you'd be a fool to let a crisis go to waste. Donald Trump is the greatest crisis of our young century, and the EU looks set to squander the opportunity, to its own terrible detriment. 1/ 312360
Reposted by Bram GotinkTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 02/04/2026I appreciated this article by Michael Taggart, on the temptation to use some of these coding tools and the pitfalls, from the POV of an experienced software engineer. This is why it's important to fight these issues collectively rather than at the individual level. taggart-tech.com/reckoning/taggart-tech.comI used AI. It worked. I hated it.I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means. 7390126
Reposted by Bram GotinkRobin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 02/04/2026The cool folks from the Eurosky team just brought you a new site: eurosky.tech, portal to the Atmosphere. I'd say it's the crispest explanation so far of what the Atmosphere brings: 1. one account 2. that works with a bunch of apps, and 3. your data from all apps is yours, portable, interoperable.eurosky.techEurosky - Building a thriving open social web for EuropeEurosky is a European initiative to build and operate sovereign social web infrastructure 5334112
Reposted by Bram GotinkPensioenspook @pensioenspook666.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Het is gewoon surrealistisch dat we dit gewoon allemaal laten passeren. Het is nog surrealistischer dat sommigen hier dat land nog altijd steunen. #NYTimes 162
Reposted by Bram GotinkNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Israel abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes in 1954. Today it was reintroduced, exclusively for Palestinians. Fuck the statements of concern from the international community, where are the sanctions? 3406127
Reposted by Bram GotinkRobin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 13/03/2026Repeating for those in the back: "The typical Belgian earns as much as the typical Californian but works about 24% less." 1213
Reposted by Bram GotinkBaldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 13/03/2026I’ve never used any of the LLM chatbots, avoided them even in the early days, because they had all the hallmarks of a major cognitive and psychological hazard from the very beginning “I’m not gonna use this shit unless I can be sure it won’t mess me or others up” is an entirely reasonable position 4467
Reposted by Bram GotinkMolly White @molly.wiki · 09/03/2026"This probably sounds like nightmare fuel to many, but to wealthy VCs and AI and crypto entrepreneurs it’s the next gold rush." is the quote of our time 581672407
Reposted by Bram GotinkRobin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 08/03/2026in-ter-o-per-a-bi-li-ty It may be an unseemly long word, but it's beautiful to watch at work. 25816
Reposted by Bram GotinkMicah @rincewind.run · 06/03/2026anthropic: I have made AI tech nerds: you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety 322832453
Reposted by Bram GotinkDave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Where are your "CSS is not a programming language" gods now?!?!? muwahaha. muwahaha. lyra.horse/x86css/lyra.horsex86CSSx86CSS is a working CSS-only x86 CPU/emulator/computer. No JavaScript required! 03212
Reposted by Bram GotinkMicah @rincewind.run · 23/02/2026at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology 3756731962