Dave Pearson
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Don't Outsource Your Understanding
The article highlights the dangers of “cognitive surrender,” where individuals rely heavily on AI-generated content without proper verification. This phenomenon is evident in various fields, including law, software development, and academia, leading to errors, misinformation, and a lack of understanding. The author emphasises the importance of staying engaged in the cognitive loop, actively verifying AI outputs, and understanding the underlying processes to ensure the quality and reliability of work.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8195242/
There's a "fact" about COVID deaths that does the rounds, that suggests that deaths amongst Amish/Mennonites was no higher than pre-COVID times; the implication being that something else was causing the deaths. It's nonsense, of course...
Piloting Agentic Engineering - What Software Engineers Can Learn From The Aviation Industry
I sense this is a good analogy, if you're going to find yourself in a position where using these tools is expected, or even required.
‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia exec says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers | Fortune
Keep this up and squishy humans might end up being more cost effective.
Divine Launches in App Stores Expanding Its Vision for Human-First, AI-Free Social Media - Divine
(Re)do it for the (de)Vine!
Functional Programmers need to take a look at Zig.
I really should dabble with Zig.
The "contrarian dynamic" is that HN threads (and internet comments generally) ar... | Hacker News
A pretty good description of why, early on in the lifecycle of an article somewhere, the hate comments tend to be rife. I think it's fair to say it's even worse on HN.
Your Ai Hate Is Showing
A similiar post to one I also wrote recently, but from a slightly different angle. tl;dr: the most extreme of AI haters are just as bad as, and make just as stupid claims as, the most extreme of AI lovers.
in which more paths are charted towards code independence - Technomancy
A post on how git forges might be, or can be.
https://api.github.com/users/davep
The main information about my GitHub account, via the API.
Essential Emacs Packages for Efficient Software Development and Text Editing | James Cherti
A good list of useful packages that ever Emacs user should look at.
An AI Agent Just Destroyed Our Production Data. It Confessed in Writing. by @lifeof_jer(JER) | Twitter Thread Reader
No, it didn't, not really. What seems to have happened is someone didn't run their own setup correctly. Or do proper backups.
Flipbook
Why browse the web if you can generate the web, I guess?
Telemetry
All the telemetry that GitHub collects from the GitHub CLI (given the chance).
Hot-wiring the lisp machine
Using Emacs and Org to make an SSG. Cool!
Ye Olde Blogroll - Because blogs are the soul of the web
Handy site for discovering blogs.
Slop Cop
Does your writing look like it was done by an LLM?
Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted a Backdoor in All of Them.
Got to love WordPress.
Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits & paid services to improve itself? · Issue #3649 · gastownhall/gastown
AI eating itself... kindof hilarious.
Is Your Site Agent-Ready?
This looks daft at best, useless at worst. But I'm keeping it around because I know it will be something that's useful to demonstrate a point eventually.
Embedding a Mastodon thread as comments to a blog post
A method of using Mastodon threads as a comment system for blogs.
The Markdown Handbook
Page that mentions and links to BlogMore.
Automate your outgoing webmentions
I feel like this is something I'd like to do with my blog, and so will need to do with BlogMore, possibly.
Guernica Gigapíxel - Repensar Guernica
This painting has long amazed me.
You Should Probably Leave Substack
Every so often I see someone who should know better using Substack. This could be a good resource to point them at.
blogging more with BlogMore
Another blog post about BloreMore, that isn't written by me.
What modern Emacs packages am I missing?
Good little reddit thread about what "modern" packages there are that someone with an older configuration might be missing out on. My Emacs config started in 1994, got a reboot around 2017, and so is well over 30 years old in total and around 10 years old in its current incarnation.
I might benefit from this.
STARFLING
This is a PERFECT "one more go!" game, especially on a phone.
The Center Has a Bias
Found myself nodding along to this quite a bit.