jeremiah

he/him. Luddite. Technologist. Theatre practitioner on indefinite hiatus. Interested in meaningful agency and technology.

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2026-10-24 01:52:06 UTC

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Lol. I was just sketching out how data was going to be stored for this TUI app and it's so simple that it can be flat files but I feel SQLite lurking in the dark.

2026-09-29 22:37:58 UTC

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oh god. Didn't realize this was associated with Thiel. I've been using that since like 2017/2018. Ugh.
I know Capitol One has this feature but you need to be a customer.

2026-09-29 21:26:12 UTC

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Are you using another implementation of Cocoa or are you developing on Mac?

2026-08-24 19:38:38 UTC

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oh come on. I'm sorry people are being dicks to you but you must know how disingenuous a comparison this is.

2026-08-20 23:21:10 UTC

PNW has me thinking thoughts i've never had, like what if I had a desk outside??

2026-08-09 04:06:09 UTC

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I've got a friend who (for years and years before Stranger Things) everyone was sleeping on Kate Bush.

2026-07-30 18:37:14 UTC

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You've probably got as much programming experience as I do years on this earth. My point wasn't to doubt your ability.
I was more saying that when learning a new language, I would avoid an LLM. If I go pickup Haskell, I don't know what is good or not good Haskell becuase I've sent zero time with it.

2026-07-30 18:28:43 UTC

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Honestly, I'd go so far to say that even if you are experienced, if you're using a new to you language, you should avoid them.

2026-05-11 15:11:50 UTC

I'm in a presentation and just holy shit. Someone was like "in the early days we didn't know that LLMs were not good for getting deterministic outputs, so we've gone through and (added determinism)."
You might not have known but I definitely knew LLMs weren't deterministic. A lot of people did.

2026-05-07 16:57:12 UTC

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This is what I have been chafing against. I was venting to a colleague the other day and said, "you know, this is as ridiculous if management demanded every workflow involved running the debugger"

2026-03-11 15:50:08 UTC

Yesterday, a prominent open social web person made a post saying that they do not see LLM output as "derivative work" and that is just the most short sighted belief.
If LLM output is not a derivative work, then every single FOSS licensed code can just be laundered through the slop machine.
At HOPE XV I remember asking a speaker (who posts here regularly) if they thought we were going to see mass copyright laundering.
The speaker was dismissive of my question.
Anyhow, a few years later the sloperators are out there discussing how Claude laundering is their solution to GPL licensed code.
This was a very foreseeable attack on the commons.

2026-02-24 16:30:38 UTC

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I don't know what to do about KeepassXC.

2026-02-23 15:49:05 UTC

"I don't want devs doing manual coding" is a phrase that was said on a call today and then an explanation that if AI doesn't work, fix the AI until it can do the work.
Cajoling a bot that doesn't work and being responsible for its failure. God fucking dammit.

2025-11-21 06:33:38 UTC

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this feels like a troll
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/115/586/285/281/174/156/original/b86f519c226541cf.png

2025-11-14 18:46:41 UTC

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I have been tasked with implementing a new UI flow (I am a backend developer) in a large enterprise React application that I have never looked at until recently. I was explicitly told to use AI to help me.
The times where Gemini got it right are memorable because it so often got things wrong. It probably would have cost the business less money and gotten done faster if they allocated a senior FE pair with me for a week, show me the gotchas, preferences, etc and help implement the feature.

2025-06-13 13:37:27 UTC

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Trying to imagine our octagenarian rulers scaling a wall for me.
Maybe chuck can do it. He's a spritely 74.

2024-10-08 15:33:43 UTC

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A childhood friend did a stint in the Marines and any time he sees "military grade" he goes in the opposite direction now.