Everybody's Lost Their Minds
A pretty great rant about all things AI.
Stop Using Conventional Commits
Even though I use emoji-based prefixes for commits on my personal projects (mostly just for the shits and giggles of it), I detest the "Conventional Commits" thing. I sense this post captures some of why I don't like it.
On AI Coding and Its Discontents - Cal Newport
I'm still trying to decide if this is a totally made up story or not. The whole thing about "there was a bug in production so I was told I might get fired" sound so damn toxic... On the other hand though, even if it's 100% fake, I get the concern that is likely being spun here.
Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was, in Fact, a Correct Rejection
I didn't know this was a site, and now I'm glad I know this is a site. What got me here was the drama around this particular app. It's got everything: claims of unfair treatment, claims of unfair portrayal of an application, claims of copying by AI, the works. Well worth a read.
Don't be a meat proxy
I'm going to remember the phrase "meat proxy". In fact, I'm tempted to keep ask the question "Are you being a meat proxy?" the next time someone sends me something, a question or a reply, that is so obviously just a copy/paste from their chatbot.
The team is the product
A good take on something I've thought for a long time, and which is more important now than ever. The idea that a team of people is an unfortunate requirement to get stuff done is wild and short-sighted.
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicity
I feel this so much. I wish the people who need to read this would read this.
AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy
Interesting take on the two "sides" of the debate about AI.
Potentially Useful | Hating AI in 2026
Kind of hard to argue with the content of this.
The Eternal Sloptember
This post more or less reads like how I feel. The author seems to have had more problems with the generated code than I have, possibly, but I know where they're coming from and feel the same sense of concern.
Linus Torvalds (@torvalds@social.kernel.org)
Linus being "woke".
Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
Nobody will pay attention, but this is a good call to calm the fuck down when it comes to going all in on agents.
360 feedback: why it fails (and what actually works)
Lots of good quotes in here relating to how negative the 360 review process is; and I find myself nodding along to a lot of it.
RFC 406i - The Rejection of Artificially Generated Slop (RAGS)
Gonna have to keep this to hand...
The problem with 360-degree performance reviews
I'm very suspicious of any form of peer review in a workplace context, and this article does a good job of outlining why I distrust it, and any leadership that decides to make use of it.
Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
Most of what I'm seeing related to "AI" I hate. I'm also fed up with the whole vibe-coding thing and folk who should know better hyping it up. On the other hand I recognise that there's utility to these tools, even (and perhaps especially) as a software developer.
I sense this blog post has some sensible things to say on the subject.
Fuck You I Quit (@fuckyouiquit) on Threads
Quote:
Stop making me justify my paycheck
I don't want a yearly performance review. I don't want to spend two hours filling out a form about my "top accomplishments" like I forgot what I worked on all year. You saw the work. You paid me. That was the agreement.
I also don't want to invent five ways I should magically do more next year for the same money. If I mess up, tell me when it happens. If I'm doing fine, stop asking me to write essays about it.
Let me just enjoy the holidays and leave me be!
The f*** off contact page - Nic Chan
A nice little rant about how many company websites have a contact page (or a lack of contact page) that is designed to discourage you from contacting them. Nothing says "we want your money now fuck off" like a "here's our knowledge base" link...
Why I'm declining your AI generated MR - Stuart Spence Blog
I've been thinking recently about AI/LLM-created PRs on GitHub. I've only received a couple, and they've not been great. This has got me wondering if I should entertain them at all from both a software development point of view, and also an ethical point of view.
This blog post is an interesting read for someone else's take on things.
React Still Feels Insane And No One Is Talking About It
React has never felt quite right to me, but I've never been able to put my finger on why. This article does a good job of gettinng a similar feel to what I feel.
🚨🚨 That's a lot of YAML 🚨🚨
YAML is bad m'kay?
(like, really, it is actually bad).
I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity
"The recent innovations in the AI space, most notably those such as GPT-4, obviously have far-reaching implications for society, ranging from the utopian eliminating of drudgery, to the dystopian damage to the livelihood of artists in a capitalist society, to existential threats to humanity itself."
A rant that's pretty much about how money-grabbing idiots are slapping AI on any old shit. We all know who they are.