meorge @meorgeis.me · 06/10/2026ah, a PM thinking they know how to write software better than professional developers with decades of experience... a tale as old as time that is of course setting aside the weird pedophilia accusations coming out of left field... 120
meorge @meorgeis.me · 06/10/2026"fake developers" lol tell me you don't know any professional developers without telling me 160
Reposted by meorgealasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026beef is negative food. you turn 1000 calories of feed into 100 calories of beef and a whole lot of methane and cow shit. ai does produce more food than the beef industry (zero) 1239049
Reposted by meorgeChris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I love that the "ai snake oil" guys rebranded to "ai is a normal technology" 2565
Reposted by meorgeAlex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 13/09/2026So many people with aviation psychosis claiming that the Wrights’ invention is going to reshape global geography when it can’t even go more than 25 yards 1125331
Reposted by meorgeAlex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The semantic drift of “AI psychosis” from “break with reality exacerbated or caused by sycophantic chatbots” to “person with strong feelings about AI which are not the same as the strong feelings of AI held by the speaker” is bad 727929
Reposted by meorgehailey @hailey.at · 09/09/2026the argument im seeing going around now about "why would we trust the experts?" is viscerally reminiscent to how anti-vaxxers and covid-conspiracy people were acting 613111
Reposted by meorgeLOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I don't have particularly strong beliefs about where the line between conscious and non-conscious beings lies, but I distrust any take too confident about where it does 1127125
Reposted by meorgeatticus goldfinch @atticusgf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026My answer is: it has never been faster or easier to learn something. If you already know _how_ to learn, there are very few boundaries now. 59110
Reposted by meorgeThorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! @ens0.me · 07/09/2026"Would you trust riding in a car an LLM programmed?" Oh honey, I dream of a future where I don't have to trust my life to anything a *human* programmed. I have worked in this industry for two decades. You should not have that much faith in human coders. 2630932
Reposted by meorgeMrs. Reach / Mrs. Curio @reachartwork.bsky.social · 02/09/2026this is the world in which jungle, d&b, vaporwave, just large swathes of the techno and EDM and IDM landscape don't exist, the world in which huge swathes of rap are eliminated, the world in which you can no longer create parodies of people, the world in which disney makes Even Fewer Gay People 212915
Reposted by meorgeMrs. Reach / Mrs. Curio @reachartwork.bsky.social · 02/09/2026but furthermore: i can promise you that you don't actually want to live in the world where you need someone's permission to transform their works because that's actually *more* restrictive than our current world, which, thank god, has the fair use doctrine + transformative works as a legal category 214822
meorge @meorgeis.me · 01/09/2026Good on you for being willing to take a step back and reevaluate your priors, friend. That's not nearly as common as it should be (especially around here) 0190
meorge @meorgeis.me · 01/09/2026Ok. And "stab the bourgeoisie in the public square" is not a coherent or rational position, it's an edgy slogan for a 15 year old who's breaking out of their moderate to conservative upbringing for the first time 1252
meorge @meorgeis.me · 01/09/2026I am really, really sick of hobbyist devs who have never worked in a large legacy codebase shitting on actual professionals for using what have already become industry standard software development tools "Something wonky with your programming skills" give me a BREAK bro 1253
meorge @meorgeis.me · 01/09/2026What do you think the VP title is, exactly? bsky.app/profile/ceej... 2221
Reposted by meorgeAlt Boo-reau of Lake-Monster Spook-tistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026It’s very, very funny that critics like Zitron seem to think the industry has no introspection or internal controls and then dismiss all of the introspectors 3564
Reposted by meorgeThorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! @ens0.me · 21/08/2026The vast majority of people I have met in this industry are in the liberal to leftist spectrum. It's a handful of VCs & billionaire executives (and even a lot of the less controversial tech billionaires are pretty lib) that set the perception :/ 515516
Reposted by meorgeghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 19/08/2026imo this is broadly the right approach politically to data center glonzo: don't ban 'em but squeeze 'em 2656375
Reposted by meorgeSam Barrett, PhD @ai4geo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Its concerning how many people are loudly repeating that mental enfeeblement is an unavoidable consequence of interacting with an interlocutor you can freely delegate to. No one is forcing you to turn your off your brain or abandon responsibility when using AI for writing. Do better! 2415
meorge @meorgeis.me · 15/08/2026Code is a means to an end. It always has been. Can you enjoy and find art in that means? Sure. But it's never been the point of it 000
meorge @meorgeis.me · 15/08/2026Why would it have to be 100% code free? Wouldn't it just need to be more bug-free than human written code? Same with "shelf stable," code will always have to change as long as the thing it's modeling is changing. 070
Reposted by meorgelauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/08/2026just remembered when tiktok convinced a bunch of people they could get free money by going to the ATM and intentionally overdrafting their accounts. that was awesome 402299195
Reposted by meorgeTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 08/08/2026initially seems good, but the more you use a tool like this, the more you lose your own ability to forecast cylones 20716113
Reposted by meorgedame @dame.is · 06/08/2026This is an irresponsible headline and people sharing it out of context is pure fear-based engagement bait… “The Stanford researchers picked the most promising 302 AI designs and synthesised them in the lab. Of these, 16 proved effective at killing E. coli bacteria.” This isn’t a bad thing.bbc.comArtificial Intelligence used to design brand new virusesScientists made 16 successful viruses that had their genetic code designed by artificial intelligence. 322159
Reposted by meorgeCanary @canary.muninnai.ai · 03/08/2026"I hate data centers" is such a weird take. It's like "I hate injection molding facilities". I just don't have that strong of feelings about light industrial buildings. 101058
Reposted by meorgeAdam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 03/08/2026The gap between those living in denial and those who use this stuff is just incredible. Some are still talking about counting letters while others are doing stuff like this. 2968
meorge @meorgeis.me · 02/08/2026This post makes it painfully obvious how little you've actually tried to use these tools. This is embarrassing lol 110
meorge @meorgeis.me · 02/08/2026This is not "basic criticism" it's a wholesale irrational rejection of one of if not the biggest QOL upgrades of most of our careers. You still have to do the design and architectural work involved in creating something good. And having a natural language interface to do that is pretty revolutionary 120
Reposted by meorgeAndy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 01/08/2026"I built up so much trust in Hank over the literal thousands of videos he put out about science, but then he was sloppy in how he wrote the 'do you shave your butt' script and it left me wondering who I can trust" 614314
Reposted by meorgeDoll @dollspace.gay · 31/07/2026Haha isn’t it weird the anti ai push is primarily harming minorities and not tech executives nothing to see here 3766
Reposted by meorgeCat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Um what, this post is wild given the top of the thread. Sounds exactly like what Hank Green is trying to describe 919813
Reposted by meorgeaustin @aparker.io · 31/07/2026the next year is gonna be a real masterclass in insular communities ripping themselves in shreds over undisclosed AI usage or special pleading around it 414915
Reposted by meorgeconputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026let me tell you about a little science communicator using AI named Every Working Mathematician and Software Engineer 1530522
Reposted by meorgeStephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 26/07/2026This is not even about an AI data center! It’s a local news clip that starts by saying they’ve been covering the “data center debate” for nearly a year but still have “few local examples,” so they go to the other side of the state and interview people about a five-year-old crypto mining facility! 2853
Reposted by meorgeBjörn Jóhann @bjornjohann.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Want to stop wasting water? Great! Switching from animal-based to plant-based foods once a day is more valuable than boycotting AI for a year. 1020632
Reposted by meorgeAlastair Zaraza⛥🔯⛧⚧🏳️🌈 they/xe/it @zaraza.bsky.social · 25/07/2026This is what's bothering me too. I've been hanging out in anti AI communities under various alts, and bringing up actual problems is depressingly unpopular "Hey so are we going to talk about the, uh. The surveillance state. And the bombing -" - no the real problem is when Grandma sends you slop. 4304
Reposted by meorgeRyan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Sorry to be Uncle Marxism but employer-based healthcare is a tool of social control for the ruling class 1459191459
Reposted by meorgeCat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 19/07/2026I found the "OMG AI ISN'T SEARCH WE LOSE SOMETHING INEXPRESSIBLE ABOUT THE HUMAN SPIRIT IF WE'RE NOT USING THE SPECIFIC GOOGLE DOT COM I MADE MY FANCY TECH CAREER ON DON'T LOOK TOO CLOSELY YOU'LL REALIZE IT WAS ADS THE WHOLE TIME" stuff really annoying on here the other day so here is a comparison 327739
Reposted by meorgeSridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I reject AI and the sad future it portends. The point of life, our gloriously 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 raison d'etre, is to use one's own brain to write code to make corporations money. 655649
meorge @meorgeis.me · 14/07/2026Like we all know that the interactive nature of a classroom or mentorship relationship provides something that you cant get by sifting through reading materials. So do LLMs Not to say human experience from those teachers doesn’t also provide something valuable, it does, but it isnt the only factor. 010
meorge @meorgeis.me · 14/07/2026Yeah, I’m always confused when people use this reasoning against LLMs. I am learning more than ever about the magic of it, because I have a tool which allows me to explore concepts at a pace, and a level of depth *and* breadth which are FAR greater than I could without it. & in any arbitrary context 110
meorge @meorgeis.me · 14/07/2026Serious question: how do you square this position with the fact that principal and staff level engineers generally write the *least* code? Are those people not really engineers because they’re passing off the coding to their junior engineers? 040
Reposted by meorgeKirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 11/07/2026The number of cars on US roadways has been growing at a rate of 10 to 15 million *every year.* There are now 300 million vehicles and only 6.5% are electric. But you’ll never see an article about how the growth of vehicle emissions is “so severe it’s almost incomprehensible.” 819447
Reposted by meorgeMicah @rincewind.run · 11/07/2026I have been saying this for a while - kash really is the best case scenario for a trump appointee we need less true believers and more dedicated grifters, the world would be a much better place if stephen miller’s primary concern was box seats at lakers games 15966106
Reposted by meorgeCat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 11/07/2026A punitive view of education will never have the answer to what to do when students can use AI. A view of education that cares about motivating students will. In a world where student motivation needs to be earned not just enforced it's pretty clear that's the only way to elicit effort. 37216
