What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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@swift I sometimes end up talking to them about it, and they seem to be aware AI is sometimes wrong... But yet they keep using it for literally everything.

It's almost like an addict who knows the addiction might be hurting them, but can't stop using.

I can see the damage it's doing to the long term maintainability of our environment and platform too :(

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Is anyone else experience this thing where your fellow senior engineers seem to be lobotomised by AI?

I've had 4 different senior engineers in the last week come up with absolutely insane changes or code, that they were instructed to do by AI. Things that if you used your brain for a few minutes you should realise just don't work.

They also rarely can explain why they make these changes or what the code actually does.

I feel like I'm absolutely going insane, and it also makes me not able to trust anyones answers or analysis' because I /know/ there is a high chance they should asked AI and wrote it off as their own.

I think the effect AI has had on our industry's knowledge is really significant, and it's honestly very scary.

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ICE has recently bought the capability of monitoring the location histories of entire neighborhoods worth of phones. The data is likely harvested from apps that sell your data, which filters up through data brokers and eventually to companies that sell to ICE:

404media.co/inside-ices-tool-t

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The important part of this is not that AI can be good at craft—but that, as Hollis says, no amount of craft will make us feel a model has written a “great” poem. AI keeps revealing that we care about human action, not about the abstractions (intelligence, creativity) we invented to describe it. +

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2swfvxtdfegcwxc6tnyczjo3/post/3mbvvfiso3s2p

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"a massive 5,769 acre datacenter being built in the Texas Panhandle and constructed by Fermi America" can i just say how much i hate this practice of taking a historical scientist and naming your random planet trashing startup after them for, i guess, "legitimacy"

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最近つべのショートでAIを隠して自作だしてた人の検証的なショートがあがってて、その中で毎回貼る画像サイズがきれいなサイズじゃないから(1024×768じゃなくて901×1237みたいな感じ)AIっていうのがあってひえっってなった。
ラクガキとかして画面キャプチャのコピペしたらだいたい適当なサイズなのにこわいなぁと…
そんなのを基準に考えてる人とかもいるんだなぁ
:yotimu_think:

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