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This mf’er blocked me for this lmfao. I’m not even against AI, it’s very useful! You just don’t learn anything using it!

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I think with AI usage something similar happens to us. We think it’s “just writing out my ideas” or “it’s just writing the code” and we’re getting something out of it. My friend, you let a robot do your deadlift and you expect to get stronger.

In school I would study for my French vocab test by just reading the words over and over. This is an incredibly inefficient use of your time spent studying. Strategies that actually work (like free recall) are annoying and hard. This however cost no effort and me me feel like I was doing something.

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Luuk @highfrontvowel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It is cognitive surrender if you use it in place of learning something yourself. I hypothesize that not only does AI make you learn less (at this point this is just scientific consensus), but AI usage also makes people believe they are yet learning.

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This new jobs got me fixing bugs in open source libraries and shit instead of making internal corpo slopware, now THIS is programming baby

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Luuk @highfrontvowel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

- passed driving exam - new job - wisdom teeth extracted - wasps dead Let’s friggin gooooooo

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Luuk @highfrontvowel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Jev is the first System One model that makes fast, structured decisions. Jev evaluates typed questions against a state and returns structured results” It’s a classification model. With N classes you can define at runtime. What is this word vomit prose? Can we please go back to speaking English?

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Luuk @highfrontvowel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Lifehack: bel de supermarkt om te vragen of de statiegeldautomaat op dit moment werkt voordat je daar met 3 tassen blikjes naar toe gaat.

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Luuk @highfrontvowel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Im back in academia, not as a researcher but as a software engineer. I’m really really glad to be not in corporate anymore. For all its faults, I share at least some values that are generally held in academia which I’ve found to be pretty important for my work happiness

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Luuk @highfrontvowel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Even in linguistics proper the distinction between dialect and language is considered arbitrary

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Luuk @highfrontvowel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What’s perceived as a language rather than dialect is not (only) dependent on mutual intelligibility or genealogy, but also on sociopolitical things like wether it has low status, or simply whether it’s an “official” language or not. He may very well consider it not another language.

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Luuk @highfrontvowel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

AI has some learning curve, but nowhere near the way the learning curve used to be for a particular skill. The whole reason LLMs are useful is because they are easier to use than doing something yourself.

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Luuk @highfrontvowel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Ongehoord Nederland be like ‘die linkse WOKE idioten die ons altijd maar nazis noemen… anyways hier kijk dit is waarom Hitler nou zo vet was’

Luuk @highfrontvowel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Maybe you don’t care anymore about the things you used to learn, but that’s a separate claim. If you go to the gym and ask a robot to lift the weights you may learn something about lifting weights and configuring the robot, but you’re surely not getting any stronger. I still want to get stronger.

Luuk @highfrontvowel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

For the same output there is less friction and less productive failure using LLMs than not, so you are learning less for the same output. It’s as simple as that. Also “feeling like you’re learning” != learning. And coding is still where you learn the most with LLMs, with writing it’s way worse.

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Luuk @highfrontvowel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Listen, AI has a bunch of problems. Ecological, intellectual property, cognitive atrophy, absolute disaster in education, but it is NOT useless.

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Luuk @highfrontvowel.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

TIL the exonym ‘Georgia’ is a folketymology from Persian ‘Gurjistan’ (land of wolves) which was assumed to be related to the popularity of St. George with the Christian population in the region

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Luuk @highfrontvowel.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This person seems to be avoiding singular they (“hir”) and also uses singular they in the same post. Love you bluesky.

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dus: je kan wel iets nieuws voorstellen, maar dan gepaard met een echte sociale beweging. Dan komt tone policing ook niet zo frivool en neerbuigend over. Het gaat dan tenslotte echt ergens over ipv alleen over of je goed metacommuniceert dat je bij de juiste groep hoort. Oké spreekbeurt klaar doei.

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Vormsverandering zonder materiële verandering van hoe we met een concept omgaan leidt tot een euphemism cycle, en in de tussentijd metacommuniceer je dus niks anders dan dat je een bepaalde beweging aanhangt door.

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De misvatting is dat dat stigma in de vorm van de woorden zou zitten, en als we de vorm veranderen (e.g. blank -> wit) dat stigma weg is. Dat veronderstelt dat woorden een intrinsieke betekenis hebben en dat is niet zo, betekenis wordt gevormd door de distributie van gebruik.

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Luuk @highfrontvowel.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Mijn toevoeging: intersectionalisme focust zich inderdaad erg op taal en dan ook nog op de verkeerde manier. Ben het met Butler eens dat taal handelingen altijd performatief zijn (metacommuniceren of iemand je sociaal erkent) en stigmatiserend taalgebruik daarom echt schadelijk kan zijn. Maar…

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Kan iemand me uitleggen wat er zo irritant is aan Tim Hofman? Ik voel het ook maar kan het niet onder woorden brengen

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Luuk @highfrontvowel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Voetbal gaat de wereldorde redden

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Luuk @highfrontvowel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I can get behind the ejectives in Georgian , but aspirated consonants in syllable codas should be illegal

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Luuk @highfrontvowel.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

De vrouw voor me in de trein is hardcore aan het dagdromen. Geen oortjes in of iets, gewoon met open ogen in zichzelf aan het giechelen. Respect.