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Founder @ Devographics. I run the State of JS/CSS/etc. surveys. Kyoto, Japan. https://sachagreif.com/ https://devographics.com/

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Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · Nov 5

Looking for devs to follow on Bluesky?

I made Starter Packs of all the people mentioned in the latest State of JS/CSS/etc. surveys!

- State of JS: go.bsky.app/8PEMiMq
- State of CSS: go.bsky.app/4TsVohC
- State of React: go.bsky.app/LG1peYB

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Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · 5h

I'm probably in the minority in thinking that there's a lot of artistic potential in AI-generated art, but all the same the downsides just seem way too high to justify something like Sora existing in its current form…

[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 6h

not even slightly joking when I say that sora should not exist. it should be crime for something like it to be made available without restriction to the general public. its servers should be destroyed with hammers

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Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · 2d

I read this as "five londoners who developed superpowers to secure a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes" and was underwhelmed, yet also intrigued…

Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · 3d

Today the 7-year-old tried to lick an elevator button to press it because his hands were full…

At this rate he’s either going to become immune to all known diseases, or he’ll he studied in a virology lab… or both

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Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · 4d

Nostalgic for a time when billionaires were just plain evil, instead of cartoonishly evil…

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Igalia @igalia.com · 5d

🎙️ New Episode of Igalia Chats: The State of... The State of Surveys

@bkardell.com and @meyerweb.com chat with @sachagreif.com about the several popular "State of" surveys that he's organized

www.igalia.com/chats/state-of

A title card with a circular photo of sacha and "soundwaves" visualized coming from it - the words on the card say "The state of the state of surveys" featuring sacha greif - Igalia Chats

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Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · 6d

According to my Japanese dictionary, there is a dedicated verb (割く) that can mean “to have a tattoo in the corner of one's eye”.

I’m not sure how often that comes up outside of Kimetsu no Yaiba…

Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · 6d

to be fair, I caught myself using Airtable's built-in AI integration to convert Japanese Yen to US Dollar the other day… before remembering it's just a multiplication

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Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · 6d

When all you have is an AI hammer, everything looks like an AI nail…

A screenshot of google search results showing an ad for converting a JSON file to YAML using Claude AI

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Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · 8d

if you're curious I try to list all those I can find in every survey: 2025.stateofcss.com/en-US/resour...

State of CSS 2025: Resources

2025.stateofcss.com

Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · 8d

Me: makes surveys
Me: takes every other survey to see what the competition is doing
Me: regularly forgets to take my own surveys

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Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · 9d

The Japanese word for "jig" (as in woodworking jig) is, as expected, "jigu" (ジグ) since it's a load word from English.

But what I didn't know is that the word actually has its own kanji, 治具, which loosely mean "governing tool". Pretty fitting!

ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B2%...

治具 - Wikipedia

ja.wikipedia.org

Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · 9d

Current copyright law is way too in favor of rights holder imo.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncn...

Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams to pay $5 million to Marvin Gaye estate for 'Blurred Lines'

The five-year legal battle has ended with a verdict in favor of Martin Gaye's estate, who sued claiming "Blurred Lines" copied Gaye's "Got To Give It Up"

www.nbcnews.com

Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · 9d

If the end result is transformative and creative enough I think you *should* be allowed to “take ordinary people’s work” and use it to make something new

Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · 10d

I think this is already the case. But yes what you outline does sound great to me!

Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · 10d

A stopped clock is right twice a day. AI firms can be right about copyright and wrong about (most) everything else

Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · 10d

I believe the artists would have instagram accounts, patreons, etc. through which to build an audience and distribute their works. Similar to e.g. podcasts

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Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · 10d

maybe that's just me but I could probably pirate any media, game, font, etc. I want with no consequence, but I still pay for it because I want to support the creator; not because of the law

Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · 10d

you can still produce an album and sell it on Bandcamp, or get paid by Spotify when people stream it, even without copyright.

I think the fact that people spend 100x more for a real Louis Vuitton bag over a copy means they do value acquiring the original.

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Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · 10d

exactly. I think "artists need copyright to live" is a notion that's always promoted by movie studios, music labels, etc. but I think it's worth questioning.

Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · 10d

thanks for coming to my TED talk

Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · 10d

great idea! feel free to add it here: github.com/Devographics...

State of JS 2026 Suggestions · Issue #308 · Devographics/surveys

YAML config files for the Devographics surveys. Contribute to Devographics/surveys development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · 10d

Overall I think pro-copyright arguments play right into mega-corporation's hands, and take the attention away from much more serious concerns with AI such as the loss of truth and climate impact.

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Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · 10d

And anyway I'm not sure why we'd want to live in a world where you can't legally publicly post your drawing of Pikachu without exposing yourself to a lawsuit.

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Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · 10d

I'd consider myself an AI skeptic, but I find it strange when people bring up the copyright system as an anti-AI argument.

Even if AI-created works did lead to the end of copyright, I'm not sure it'd be such a catastrophe. Recipes are not copyrightable, yet there are plenty of restaurants around.

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Ilja @fubits.dev · 11d

This year's State of JavaScript survey has already crossed incredible 6500 submissions! Help make it 10000 - participate and share with your peers: survey.devographics.com/survey/state...

Screenshot of the post-submission screen of the survey. It shows a progress bar towards 10000 submission. Currently, the count is 6511

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