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Adrian Bece
@codeadrian.github.io
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Frontend web developer by day, riff developer by night. Rock and metal music fan, vinyl collector, adores Calvin & Hobbes comics. King of the underdogs. https://codeadrian.github.io/
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codeadrian.github.io
> Here is the technology that has a potential to make lives better

> How about we use it to get richer and make poor people even poorer?

It's a pattern. They scam you into adopting tech under the guise it'll make your live better, then they enslave you with it.

fortune.com/2025/09/06/g...
'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system'
"We are at a point in history where something amazing is happening, and it may be amazingly good, and it may be amazingly bad."
fortune.com
September 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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greenlungband.bsky.social
Keep your eyes open tomorrow, Monday 1st September, at 3pm BST, especially if you live in the UK. We’re about to drop one of the biggest announcements of our career so far… 👹 👁️ 🔥
August 31, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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leyawn.bsky.social
screenshot of a scene from the simpsons, kirk van houten pointing at his race car bed text overlay: i sleep in an ai controlled bed. do you? screenshot of a scene from the simpsons, homer simpson responding text overlay: i sleep in a warm bed with my wife
August 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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bell.bz
the "developers embrace AI or get out" rhetoric is so weak

produce a product that's actually good and ethical then maybe we'll be more on board

sure some devs are finding AI useful, but using it to gate keep? nah man

find another way to make the needle move, bro
GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.
Thomas Dohmke wrote that humans are often resistant to change. He said that's okay, but these people should probably find another profession.
www.businessinsider.com
August 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
codeadrian.github.io
Nobody:

Adrian: LP time! It's been a while, hasn't it?
Loudness - Lightning strikes LP sleeve signed by band members with dedication to Saxon guitar player Graham Oliver - "To Graham, Domo Arigato!"
August 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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bell.bz
just a few more billion bro. its cool bro we just need a nuclear power plant. just a few more gpts bro, only a few more
jack-bailey.co.uk Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · Aug 7
Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.
August 8, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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spavel.bsky.social
What LLM boosters promise: a future where AI takes care of menial chores, and you can spend more time with loved ones

What the product actually does: talk to your loved ones for you so that you can focus on your menial chores
seemo.bsky.social Saleem @seemo.bsky.social · Aug 5
Grounds for divorce imo
A screenshot of a news article from the verge. It reads “With Gemini, Williams says, you can just give the details of the message and a tone. Maybe you're running late, so you say, "Tell my spouse I'm 15 minutes late and send it in a jokey tone." Instead of having to think of what to say, the bot will write it for you.”
August 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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edzitron.com
You're so close
r/ChatGPTPro u/vurto • 28d If ChatGPT is not consistently dependable, how are we suppose to use it for actual work? Discussion It's behavior and results can randomly change due to some OpenAl tweaking that's opaque. On some days it can't even keep track of a fresh chat, it can't do calculations, it can't sort through a chat to extract relevant information, and when it's suppose to refer to source material in a PDF, it doesn't. All because OpenAl trained it for fluency and basically to simulate whatever it can for user satisfaction. I can use it for general chats, philosophical stuff, therapy, but nothing serious. I'm pro Al, but I approach it with skepticism knowing it's undependable (as I do with anything I read). And prompts can be interpreted/executed differently across users' own interaction with their Als so it's not truly scalable. How does the business world / leaders expect staff to adopt Al if it's not consistently dependable? It doesn't even calculate like a calculator. If the internet start claiming 2+2=5, that's what it'll answer with. I'd use it for hobbies and pet projects but I can't imagine using it for anything "mission critical".
August 5, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
This is very good.

www.404media.co/the-medias-p...
AI is a tool (sorry!) that people who are bad at their jobs will use badly and that people who are good at their jobs will maybe, possibly find some uses for. People who are terrible at their jobs (many executives), will tell their employees that they “need” to use AI, that their jobs depend on it, that they must become more productive, and that becoming an AI-first company is the strategy that will save them from the old failed strategy, which itself was the new strategy after other failed business models. The only journalism business strategy that works, and that will ever work in a sustainable way, is if you create something of value that people (human beings, not bots) want to read or watch or listen to, and that they cannot find anywhere else.
July 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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bell.bz
This will become more and more common — framework reliance-based problems were a big part of my CSS consulting — but I worry it’ll be too late for a lot of people.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI'
Businesses that rush to use AI to write content or computer code, often have to pay humans to fix it.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 6, 2025 at 8:51 AM
codeadrian.github.io
‪EU initiative calls for game publishers to keep games playable after discontinuation. No remote shutdowns unless reasonable offline play options are provided. No demand for IP or ongoing support.

Sign it here or spread the word!

eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...
European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
eci.ec.europa.eu
July 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
codeadrian.github.io
adrian.married = true;

😊😍
June 15, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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strange.website
put some thoughts together on the LLM trend and its implications for labor rights. there's a lot to be said about the lofty claims of pro-LLM technologists, but this presumes their promises of efficiency, etc. are true.

henry.codes/writing/econ...
Economics & labor rights in AI skepticism | Henry From Online
The personal site & portfolio of creative web developer Henry from Online
henry.codes
June 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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gwensnyder.bsky.social
Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but.

It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies

But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI
May 31, 2025 at 2:52 AM
codeadrian.github.io
Face status: Still Melted 🫠
codeadrian.github.io Adrian Bece @codeadrian.github.io · May 26
Last week I saw Crypta live in London 🤘

Face status: Melted 🫠
May 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
codeadrian.github.io
I found it! Highgate Cemetery is hauntingly beautiful!

Also checked out a few other @greenlungband.bsky.social - related spots like Helgi’s and The Black Heart.

Whenever I need ideas for hidden gems in London, I just read a interview with Green Lung band members😄
I'm staging in front of the entrance to the Egyptian Avenue in Highgate cemetery in London, wearing a Green Lung band T-shirt with the drawing of the same entrance
May 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
codeadrian.github.io
Last week I saw Crypta live in London 🤘

Face status: Melted 🫠
May 26, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Good to hear AI will help me reduce my carbon footprint, as I've been running my microwave for 19 hours a day for the last three years and have yet to receive a single video of a dog speaking Spanish.
davidho.bsky.social David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · May 22
So…about AI’s energy use…

“…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”
Report: Creating a 5-second AI video is like running a microwave for an hour
That's a long time in the microwave.
mashable.com
May 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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piccalil.li
We’re trying a rather radical new approach at Piccalilli by doing real world projects — for real clients — in the open. This gives us a context to provide genuine high quality, real world education for free at the point of entry.
We need your support to do free projects for good causes and publish free high quality education
We’re trying a rather radical new approach at Piccalilli by doing real world projects — for real clients — in the open. This gives us a context to provide genuine high quality, real world education...
piccalil.li
May 13, 2025 at 12:04 PM
codeadrian.github.io
@greenlungband.bsky.social Went for a forest walk with my fiancee - the shirt she chose couldn’t have been more perfect for it 💚
My fiancee standing on a bridge in the forest wearing a Green Lung band shirt. On the back is a John Muir quote that says "The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness"
May 13, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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joshwcomeau.com
For years, one of the most befuddling things for me in CSS was how “height: 100%” would sometimes just not work. Every time I tried to use it was a roll of the dice. 😅

Like everything else in CSS, though, it all makes perfect sense when we understand the underlying mechanism. ✨

Let’s explore. 🧵
The Height Enigma • Josh W. Comeau
One of the most perplexing and befuddling things in CSS for me, for many years, was the behaviour of percentage-based heights. Sometimes, seemingly at random, setting “height: 100%” would have no effe...
www.joshwcomeau.com
May 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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daniel-philips-enterprise.com
AI is speeding up software development—but at what cost?
We're losing the struggle, the context, the joy.
Not every shortcut is progress.

Read it here: danielphilipjohnson.hashnode.dev/dont-rob-you...
danielphilipjohnson.hashnode.dev
May 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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spavel.bsky.social
"AI is the future" is not a statement of fact or a prediction, but rather an ideological statement. Big tech is invested in making AI the future, at any cost.

LinkedIn (where over half of the posts are now AI) is doing its small part by deboosting AI-critical posts.
www.linkedin.com/posts/albert...
I crunched 124 posts worth of data— LinkedIn's algorithm doesn't want you… | Dr. Alberto Chierici | 164 comments
I crunched 124 posts worth of data— LinkedIn's algorithm doesn't want you to think critically about AI. 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗹𝗴𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗺𝘀. I'm n...
www.linkedin.com
May 7, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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burrito.space
all day every day, lately
Venn diagram of two circles where one says "the AI i want" and the other says "the AI everyone is making"
June 6, 2024 at 5:31 PM