Limited Edition Ellie
@tldrellie.bsky.evl.im
avid hobbyist. Electronics, Firmware, Rust, Blood, Bile, etc. 🏴🏳️⚧️ she/her. ohio valley. https://nostd.dev.
It feels like everyone's just gone "forgone conclusion 🤷♀️" about the conflation of genuinely useful machine learning techniques with terribly destructive generative model techniques in the term "AI".
We don't have to cede this ground! We didn't have to in 2018 and we don't have to now!
We don't have to cede this ground! We didn't have to in 2018 and we don't have to now!
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
It feels like everyone's just gone "forgone conclusion 🤷♀️" about the conflation of genuinely useful machine learning techniques with terribly destructive generative model techniques in the term "AI".
We don't have to cede this ground! We didn't have to in 2018 and we don't have to now!
We don't have to cede this ground! We didn't have to in 2018 and we don't have to now!
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as a software engineer, ai coding makes my life measurably worse by polluting the information environment and vastly increasing the scale of incorrect bullshit my peers can and do create that i then have to clean up, or worse, guard against and NOT clean up. it actively makes people around me dumber
I think that may be the core division here: if you are an author or an artist the cons of generative AI very likely outweigh the pros for you
If you are a software developer the opposite is true
If you are a software developer the opposite is true
November 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
as a software engineer, ai coding makes my life measurably worse by polluting the information environment and vastly increasing the scale of incorrect bullshit my peers can and do create that i then have to clean up, or worse, guard against and NOT clean up. it actively makes people around me dumber
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we have an anonymous career-advice channel at work and it’s breaking my heart to see early-career engineers posting things like “i’m feeling pressured to use LLMs to increase my output and i’m not having fun solving problems/i feel like i’m not learning enough”
November 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
we have an anonymous career-advice channel at work and it’s breaking my heart to see early-career engineers posting things like “i’m feeling pressured to use LLMs to increase my output and i’m not having fun solving problems/i feel like i’m not learning enough”
A lot of the old interurban buildings in town are built with this same stone architecture, making them instantly recognizable almost a century later, which I think is really neat
November 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
A lot of the old interurban buildings in town are built with this same stone architecture, making them instantly recognizable almost a century later, which I think is really neat
Not going to lie, it gets really tiring that the only people who receive the benefit of the doubt in these conversations are those who happened to amass social media clout a decade ago whose opinions happen to align perfectly with dominant fascist power structures.
Wow 80% bad-faith responses, and people lecturing the creator of Flask here and the creator of Django/datasette in the comments on why AI is useless for software engineering...
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Not going to lie, it gets really tiring that the only people who receive the benefit of the doubt in these conversations are those who happened to amass social media clout a decade ago whose opinions happen to align perfectly with dominant fascist power structures.
I can tell the average age on this site by the prevalence of Simpsons memes
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I can tell the average age on this site by the prevalence of Simpsons memes
I finally looked up what SWE Bench is measuring and, uh, this is how we're trying to judge whether a model can actually help writing software??
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I finally looked up what SWE Bench is measuring and, uh, this is how we're trying to judge whether a model can actually help writing software??
Just saw an EPA report from 1970 that estimated the 2020 population of Jefferson County would be 1.38 million. (Jeff. co. is currently about 784k).
One really cannot overstate the impact of racism, white flight, and urban renewal on this city.
One really cannot overstate the impact of racism, white flight, and urban renewal on this city.
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Just saw an EPA report from 1970 that estimated the 2020 population of Jefferson County would be 1.38 million. (Jeff. co. is currently about 784k).
One really cannot overstate the impact of racism, white flight, and urban renewal on this city.
One really cannot overstate the impact of racism, white flight, and urban renewal on this city.
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To review:
* The fash are weak on admin from gutting the state bureaucracy.
* The fash are weak in otg numbers. Controlling even one part of any major city is a real challenge, especially with any resistance.
* The fash are weak on legitimacy. They are increasingly, widely hated.
So what's left?
* The fash are weak on admin from gutting the state bureaucracy.
* The fash are weak in otg numbers. Controlling even one part of any major city is a real challenge, especially with any resistance.
* The fash are weak on legitimacy. They are increasingly, widely hated.
So what's left?
September 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
To review:
* The fash are weak on admin from gutting the state bureaucracy.
* The fash are weak in otg numbers. Controlling even one part of any major city is a real challenge, especially with any resistance.
* The fash are weak on legitimacy. They are increasingly, widely hated.
So what's left?
* The fash are weak on admin from gutting the state bureaucracy.
* The fash are weak in otg numbers. Controlling even one part of any major city is a real challenge, especially with any resistance.
* The fash are weak on legitimacy. They are increasingly, widely hated.
So what's left?
This is gonna present A Problem to embedded developers in a few years
(from the embedded.com survey of embedded developers)
(from the embedded.com survey of embedded developers)
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
This is gonna present A Problem to embedded developers in a few years
(from the embedded.com survey of embedded developers)
(from the embedded.com survey of embedded developers)
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"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects.
November 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects.
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Speck Dempsey has released the Downtown Louisville and NuLu Walkability Plan. Its 100 pages but here are some highlights when it comes to recommendations. These changes would drastically improve mobility downtown.
November 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Speck Dempsey has released the Downtown Louisville and NuLu Walkability Plan. Its 100 pages but here are some highlights when it comes to recommendations. These changes would drastically improve mobility downtown.
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We also lost a sister from Louisville this year. I don't have as much information on her, especially beyond what is already online.
She died when she was hit by a car on her bike at a neighborhood intersection.
She died when she was hit by a car on her bike at a neighborhood intersection.
November 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
We also lost a sister from Louisville this year. I don't have as much information on her, especially beyond what is already online.
She died when she was hit by a car on her bike at a neighborhood intersection.
She died when she was hit by a car on her bike at a neighborhood intersection.
Once again tilting at Zephyr
November 20, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Once again tilting at Zephyr
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Imagine a town with only burger joints and one or two salad places 20 miles away. It would be hard to say the evidence is overwhelming that the majority of the town’s residents prefer burgers to salads. To me, that’s the suburban/urban housing preference debated distilled to its essence.
November 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Imagine a town with only burger joints and one or two salad places 20 miles away. It would be hard to say the evidence is overwhelming that the majority of the town’s residents prefer burgers to salads. To me, that’s the suburban/urban housing preference debated distilled to its essence.
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The overwhelming evidence of the past 100 years also includes redlining, white flight, government subsidies that enabled the growth of the suburbs, the construction of the interstate highways system… that most people now live in suburbs is not a factor of preference alone.
November 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
The overwhelming evidence of the past 100 years also includes redlining, white flight, government subsidies that enabled the growth of the suburbs, the construction of the interstate highways system… that most people now live in suburbs is not a factor of preference alone.
so did every company just suddenly forget that if they want to make a thing, they need requirements for the thing to be made?? or is this just a string of bad luck?
November 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
so did every company just suddenly forget that if they want to make a thing, they need requirements for the thing to be made?? or is this just a string of bad luck?
Told to "have a blessed day" at the weed dispensary
November 18, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Told to "have a blessed day" at the weed dispensary
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When I am president I am making highway engineering an illegal profession
November 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
When I am president I am making highway engineering an illegal profession
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Good news: train show is close enough to walk to
Bad news: Kentucky NMRA-hosted train show is in the Catholic Church that's close enough to walk to
Bad news: Kentucky NMRA-hosted train show is in the Catholic Church that's close enough to walk to
November 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Good news: train show is close enough to walk to
Bad news: Kentucky NMRA-hosted train show is in the Catholic Church that's close enough to walk to
Bad news: Kentucky NMRA-hosted train show is in the Catholic Church that's close enough to walk to
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Bluesky will manifest as a series of suspensions viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.
November 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Bluesky will manifest as a series of suspensions viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.
No wonder this tech is burning down the barn with the American failson-industrial complex
Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
No wonder this tech is burning down the barn with the American failson-industrial complex
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Looking at archival papers on Louisville's old rail infrastructure is fun but sometimes it feels like getting hit in the head with a brick repeatedly
November 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Looking at archival papers on Louisville's old rail infrastructure is fun but sometimes it feels like getting hit in the head with a brick repeatedly