YorickPeterse

By taking responsibility of it, maybe by saying "Hey this is not a good idea", and if that doesn't work perhaps by switching jobs if that's an option?

The mental gymnastics developers are willing to go through just so they can avoid standing up for something is quite perplexing.

And for every such person there's another person of similar experience that doesn't use an LLM nor wants to.

Probably because the shovel Anthropic is selling may not be as good as they claim it to be.

Banning AI generated content works just fine, and arguing otherwise is nothing short of FOMO.

As a random example, AI generated content is banned from the /r/ProgrammingLanguages subreddit and any regular visitor that _isn't_ suffering from AI psychosis/FOMO will tell you it's for the better. In general it's not that difficult to moderate for it either as AI built projects consistently contain the same patterns _over and over_ such that 98% is easily detected.

Competent or not, slop is still slop. The website in particular uses the exact same copy-paste layout/style produced by LLMs and used by pretty much every slop project out there.

One very quick "slop or not?" test is to see if em dashes are used in the source code where they literally never make sense. It's not a great test, but it's one that consistently turns out to be good enough. The results should speak for themselves: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Ajolt-lang%2Fjolt+%E2%80%9...

No one is dead because I launched a nuclear missile.

That doesn't mean I _should_ be given access to a nuclear missile.

There are many arguments one could make in favor of keeping AI around and using it, but your "argument" here is just about the lousiest and most naive argument one could possibly make, and shows a complete lack of empathy and understanding from your end.

I think that's called a train.

Oh no, anyway...

What's a search engine?

Probably more than we'd like to admit. This isn't new either (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 for example).

Thinking software developers have done no wrong (deliberately or not) ever is just borderline naive.

You're running an LTS release first released in 2024. What exactly did you expect was going to happen?

Ah yes, so if say Hitler says "millions of people should die" then it's not violence, it's "just" words.

Surely they can just ask Claude Code to fix this? After all, coding is a solved problem right?

So how is this different from Fedora CoreOS or bootc/RHEL image mode?

> Over 135 original creations published (essays, poems, blog posts, one interactive experiment)

Ah yes, the pinnacle of original creations in 2026: regurgitating content ingested from elsewhere.

> They connect NASA redundancy systems to African kinship funeral economics. They trace an em-dash from typographic style choice to surveillance detection signal to Cloudflare product name.

So basically it produces complete bullshit equivalent to that of somebody having some sort of mental breakdown.

This article and the general attitude of AI bros reminds me of somebody hearing a parrot blurt out something random they picked up, then try to assign some deeper meaning about the universe to it.

Just like Gaza right? Oh wait...

This is just the typical FOMO nonsense pushed by AI fans.

It's the exact same as seen with many past hypes, and every time the result is a lot more nuanced than those fans claim. It wasn't that long ago that people were claiming MongoDB was going to revolutionize the world and make relational databases obsolete, or how cryptocurrencies were going to change the world, or NFTs, and the list goes on.

An increase in right-wing extremism and racism, public transportation that is falling apart and ridiculously expensive, the water quality going downhill due to pollution, costs increasing far more than neighboring countries for seemingly no solid reason, a complete disregard for the climate and the EU regulations we're supposed to meet, and a lot more.

Considering the state of The Netherlands over the last two decades, I can't help but feel this report is straight up bullshit. The only way I can see The Netherlands rank this high is by only asking two people and some sheep in the middle of nowhere.

Is this why software transactional memory is so prevalent today and the actor model is barely used?

I haven't looked deeply into either, but how does this compare to the combination of Clevis and Tang that e.g. Red Hat/Fedora seems to favor?

For those looking for a more extensive article about bootc, I recently wrote about using it in https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/self-hosting-my-websites-..., including a comparison to some other existing tools.

Ah yes, because companies never lie about how they process your data...

I think sysusers _can_ technically run quadlets because you can log in as them, but it's definitely not what they're meant for so it's probably not going to work forever.

The type of people complaining about this are usually the people you don't want in your community to begin with, so I doubt Gleam is missing out here.

A user friendly distribution would be something like Fedora or Ubuntu, not "Arch but with some optimizations that probably won't matter much"

It's very much privatised in the sense that it's operating on a for-profit business model, rather than a for-benefit model.

For Linux this will vary between distributions and configurations. For example, based on some testing I did today using mkosi [1] (for reasons unrelated to this discussion), a bare-bones Fedora 43 installation uses about 130 MiB of RAM, while a Debian installation uses a little more than 100 MiB.

IIRC last time I tried a bare-bones FreeBSD installation it used about the same amount of memory, maybe a little more based on how ZFS is set up.

[1]: https://github.com/systemd/mkosi

The Netherlands has a very similar problem: the train system was privatized in the late 90s/early 2000s and has been going downhill since the 2010s or so. While it's still better than Deutsche Bahn, it's just so much worse compared to how it used to be.