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It might consult them; it also sometimes ignores them, as well as developer sentiment and competing browser engines

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I would agree with you but they also have a higher bar for JavaScript built-ins which resulted in .toBase64 not showing up in any type definitions in TypeScript for months even though it was supported by every JavaScript engine except V8 :((

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you are replying to an AI bot :(

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yak @yakmol.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

isn’t one of them supposed to be hidden? do both of them appear in the Finder?

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also it’s ok for things to be dumb and useless

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the world has vaaastly more economic output than is needed for everyone to have a dignified life, yet hundreds of millions of people (at least) do not. clearly we are missing something else

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you are under no obligation to fix the world and neither am i. but you are not more productive by choosing to simply disregard it

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what you fail to understand is that we are not only constructive when we make things; we are productive by thinking about others, by preparing for and mitigating risks, by questioning the way our societies function or could function.

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where focus our efforts if not the well-being and safety of people? how exactly can you justify ignoring reality in order to try to make it better? we make reality better by acknowledging the things that are wrong and the things we could make worse; not through ignorance and a blind optimism

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a lot of good comes from making software more accessible. but if anything, they are even more alienated from the ‘workings’ of the things that they use. they do not understand the way their llms work, and their ability to learn these very topics, if they even choose to learn them, is threatened

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also it almost offends me that the person im replying to would talk about ‘making an impact on the world’; how can one expect to make a positive impact on the world while being indifferent to the dangers facing others?

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but these software engineers are not special!! you do not have inherently ‘irreplaceable’ qualities. much like everyone else, you do not have any guarantee to a life that allows you to develop and practice the skills you have a passion for. i feel insane; i need everyone to realize this.

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you are not special, i am not special, mathematics are not special and energy grids certainly are not special either. be optimistic if you wish, but society cannot afford to limit itself to this shallow mentality

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this is just an assertion; you assume this. but that does not help anybody, unfortunately. my natural curiosity is not public health or the energy grids, and there is no reason to expect that ill have opportunities in this where others will disappear.

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a lot of people have lived and died without that privilege

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this is naive and reductive; it is not how the world works. the future can be both, but only, ever, if you understand that risk, suffering and damage exist. many of us have the privilege of ignoring that risk and assuming that things will be ok in the end.

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let’s reckon with the way our society will disastrously fail and the changes we will have to desperately make as a result 🦧

there is this assumption that we will always be necessary for _something_ in the fields that we care about. there is no reason to make this assumption. I encourage everybody to open their eyes. the end is near and so on.

i want to be a computer scientist and think about algorithms. not only that, i want an education and the time to develop these skills. can our global economic system afford me that if those software engineers manage to eradicate the craft?

i understand this perspective, but many people are passionate about the thing that they hope to be able to do for a living.

so yes, a great time can be had. for how long and for whom

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for now, only people in mathematics and software engineering see firsthand the capabilities of these systems. we need to reflect on these topics now

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obviously these threats are much clearer and immediate for others, like students, or for certain people who care about the practice itself of their crafts, like most mathematicians.

even the authenticity of their communication & relationships, and the significance these things have in the social system that we live in today.

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it sometimes makes me a little nervous how some software engineers seem to celebrate these technologies for the immediate practical benefit they provide without any reflection on their own human capabilities, their own human economic viability, …

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a lot of people get a lot of really cool value out of llms. but a lot of people are also harmed, and a lot of people will be harmed. not everyone is invincible; not everyone is already educated, not everyone is already financially secure. you are not invincible either

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yak @yakmol.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Bluesky is overrun with AI bot accounts omg

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when is the chapter where you decide to stop branding yourself open source when you are not coming 🙌

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yak @yakmol.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

this is so desperately needed and a shocking omission

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yak @yakmol.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

that account posts lots of ai generated replies