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Lena of Lune @lena.isextremely.gay · 1h

HOW IS THAT BIRD SUPPOSED TO RUN THE CHICKEN LAMAZE CLASS NOW, JAYDE???

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Lena of Lune @lena.isextremely.gay · 4h

Mage Against the Rachine

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Lena of Lune @lena.isextremely.gay · 4h

I couldn't really get past the first songs on Weck of the Noods, which really focused on the "Sick" part of "Sickups." Too much sneezing and coughing for my taste, really Though their mirror universe band, the Silversun Pickups, are quite good

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Lena of Lune @lena.isextremely.gay · 4h

Any time a medical form asks for my sex and says "sex at birth," I say "female" Because otherwise everything gets coded for male ranges, the system balks at approving screening mammograms, etc. I've already been fucked by this with pre-transition providers! This is why I can no longer give blood

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Lena of Lune @lena.isextremely.gay · 4h

THIS IS THE SWAN ON 103.3 ZEUS FM, BRINGING YOU THE THUNDER

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Lena of Lune @lena.isextremely.gay · 11h

Hi there! Conveniently I am a trans person who has some connections in tech *and* the very awesome company I work for has a golang dev role open now (wundergraph.com/jobs#open-po...) and may have some others open soon. Hmu and we can chat?

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Lena of Lune @lena.isextremely.gay · 11h

Aren't I cute working a booth at a tech conference? Also *notices your large graph* Let me federate your APIs, uwu

Lena at API Days London, standing in front of the WunderGraph booth she was at all conference. There's a computer on it, various swag, and banners talking about open source API federation

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Lena of Lune @lena.isextremely.gay · 13h

💯 If it's not fun, why even do it?

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Lena of Lune @lena.isextremely.gay · 14h

Sex is a conversation, and that conversation is often very silly and has great jokes The number of times I've been going down on someone, for instance, and they blurt out something ridiculous and we both collapse into giggle fits is a wildly non-zero number

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Lena of Lune @lena.isextremely.gay · 14h

Happy to help 💜 It's something I've given a lot of thought to -- as a consultant, as a practicing architect and engineer, and as a woman deeply obsessed with ethical, sustainable, socialist policy

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Lena of Lune @lena.isextremely.gay · 14h

Oh, I guess postscript -- what models do I use? For local, gemma4 or qwen3, and for cloud inference, gemini flash. I've used cohere for text embedding work when I need multimodal vector search, too I don't touch Claude or OpenAI, nor do I use frontier models generally. Smaller = better

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Lena of Lune @lena.isextremely.gay · 14h

And being able to put these tools down on a resume skill list (which is just for ATS; the goal is to get to the interview) comes from that, and landing the job comes from saying, for example, "I know Mastra, but I don't use it because agentic orchestration isn't really helpful for my code" /fin

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Lena of Lune @lena.isextremely.gay · 14h

So my suggestion would be to focus less on "I know a ton of genAI tools" but rather understanding when and how to use genAI tools in the Current System and being able to explain and defend that position. This will carry you much further in an interview at a place you'd want to work

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Lena of Lune @lena.isextremely.gay · 14h

I feel like those are, given the current configuration of the System in which we live, defensibly ethical choices. I'm using the same level of GPU I would if I were playing a high end game in this case

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Lena of Lune @lena.isextremely.gay · 14h

That system has rules, and one of them is that I can't hire junior devs due to cost So when I need a mock built for testing purposes, or I need tests written using xunit for a set of acceptance criteria I already wrote, I reach for a low-end model and then I review its output

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Lena of Lune @lena.isextremely.gay · 14h

These are things I'd usually give a junior dev, and there's a whole *other* thread I could write on how one of the worst consequences of genAI is cutting out the dev skill pipeline But the reality is, I don't have a junior dev, and much as WG is awesome, it still operates In a System

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Lena of Lune @lena.isextremely.gay · 14h

When I use genAI these days, it's either as the glorified search engine (basically acting as an ignorant but enthusiastic research assistant who brings me sources) or as a writer of throwaway code. Sometimes I'll use it for code translation or writing tests whose acceptance criteria I already wrote

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Lena of Lune @lena.isextremely.gay · 14h

Such tasks are easy and quick for a human to verify but boring, time-consuming, and difficult (due to the boring and time-consuming) for a human to do. The classic example is note-taking in a meeting but for code? Try writing throwaway mocks, being a glorified search engine, or writing tests to spec

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Lena of Lune @lena.isextremely.gay · 14h

Part of this is minimizing resource usage, such as by using smaller cloud models if you must and ideally local models when you can. Part of it is knowing what tasks can be safely and usefully automated, in the same way you don't use a hammer to put in a screw. I call these "agentic-ready" tasks

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Lena of Lune @lena.isextremely.gay · 14h

So... my honest nuanced take is that the magic smoke is out of the CPU at this point; we're not going to eliminate genAI. The trick is how we live with it -- what do we do personally, and as policy, to minimize harms and maximize benefits to society, not to billionaire techbros 🧵

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Lena of Lune @lena.isextremely.gay · 14h

I mean, who am I to deny you 😎

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Lena of Lune @lena.isextremely.gay · 15h

Yay! We're staying in downtown Seattle and are there Dec 10-14. It'd be fun to meet up!

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Lena of Lune @lena.isextremely.gay · 15h

If I were a smaller person, I'd be ecstatic about my growth -- I'm roughly a 42B which is too small proportionally for me but the same growth on one of my partners would be 36DD which, I'm told, is the height of hawtness Hoping you get the growth you're looking for!

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Lena of Lune @lena.isextremely.gay · 15h

Anecdotally, the big boost seems to be year 3-4 for people I know with age ranges of 25-50 It seems to be burstier with trans women, again anecdotally, and I'm not really sure why

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Lena of Lune @lena.isextremely.gay · 15h

It does! When you should take it isn't well-studied, but a study recently came out showing that following the standard regimen of "start prog after year 1" helps breast development. And this didn't require boofing it, either YMMV of course, as genetics play a big role in tit growth

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Lena of Lune @lena.isextremely.gay · 16h

I had a very similar experience I went from "eh, this thing is okay, I guess" to "get this fucking thing off me" over about a year and a half It was like a lovely necklace that didn't go with every outfit and that I could never remove, and while now I'd love to have both, I can work with my strap

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