technical and social are always intertwined so there is no such thing as a purely technical or purely social solution anyway

Love Chikako Nakano's boss designs

Yeah I often think about the Shit Reddit Says subreddit specifically in that context

The shape of its kanji name 嚻 looks very interesting (I’d never seen it until I read Shanhai jing. It seems there is no Japanese word using this character), so I designed the bird based on the kanji itself. The four 口 shaped wings, and an eye (目) at the center of the body.

it's all lies?????

I remember he did a twitter thread, it wasn't really presented as a "rebuke" but a statement of points of agreement & disagreement

When I first saw this use of "tech" around 2013 I thought it was weird? Like how was I into computers and programming for 25 years before then without, as far as I remember, ever encountering this

Yeah that's silly but I do wish I saw more people view this through the lens of "natural language vs constructed/formal language" rather than somehow "automated vs manual"

(hey a line of code can even call into an LLM API to generate some more code and execute it ... checkmate vibecoders😏)

Like people will contrast using AI to writing code "line by line" as if a "line" of code were something that does a fixed amount of work, rather than something that can call into arbitrary other code, use language features to adapt to context, etc., to do arbitrary amounts of work

Something I find very strange about AI in programming discourse is how much of it seems to proceed as though the previous 70 years of accumulated languages, libraries, tools etc to automate programming didn't exist.

Like cozy+gritty describes Twin Peaks

Young (troubled, mystic) witch in a small (insular, religious) village could easily get intensely dark

Yeah that's silly but I do wish I saw more people view this through the lens of "natural language vs constructed/formal language" rather than somehow "automated vs manual"

(hey a line of code can even call into an LLM API to generate some more code and execute it ... checkmate vibecoders😏)

Like people will contrast using AI to writing code "line by line" as if a "line" of code were something that does a fixed amount of work, rather than something that can call into arbitrary other code, use language features to adapt to context, etc., to do arbitrary amounts of work

Something I find very strange about AI in programming discourse is how much of it seems to proceed as though the previous 70 years of accumulated languages, libraries, tools etc to automate programming didn't exist.

Here is my “Abolish Confidence” presentation from Season 1! I hope it earns me your vote!