Loving this: "The Copilot Delusion"

Quotes:
"Copilot isn’t that. It’s just the ghost of a thousand blog posts and cocky stack-overflow posts whispering, "Hey, I saw this once. With my eyes. Which means it's good code. Let’s deploy it." Then vanishing when the app hits production and the landing gear won’t come down."

"The problem isn’t just laziness. It’s degradation. Engineers stop exploring. Stop improving. Stop caring. One more layer of abstraction. One more lazy fetch call inside a render loop. Eventually, you’re living in a cathedral of technical debt, and every user pays."

"At that point, you’re not working with a copilot. You’re playing Russian roulette with a loaded dependency graph."

"But even if you're just slapping together another CRUD app for some bloated enterprise, you still owe your users respect. You owe them dignity."

https://deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusion/

Happy 30th birthday, MySQL! 🥳

Amazing differences within the EU.

Via prof. Marco te Brömmelstroet on LinkedIn.
NB: 2019 data.

@klausman @azureshit the point is that the given instructions (clearly for humans) will not work, because they instruct to put in LÖSCHEN but the dialog only accepts DELETE.

@selea oh, nice! What Node do you use?

Day 450. #Microsoft's OpenAI ChatGPT frontend probably was developed by some of their shitty AIs itself, because when you want to delete your account, they will translate "DELETE" to whatever language you're using but only accept it when you actually type "DELETE" to delete your account.

Reposting with alt.

Because I’m quite dim, I didn’t realise exactly what they had done and how extremely clever these women had been. #TransLivesMattter 👏👏👏

The government (and everyone else, frankly) need to stay out of trans people’s underwear. 🏳️‍⚧️

*edit to add the link to the Pink News article: https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/17/scottish-parliament-holyrood-trans-protest-supreme-court/

*edit 2 to add a link to an interview with Sugar, who organised and took part in the protest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbA0q0eqYnM (thanks to @anni for sharing this)

@carmensandiego haha, good luck with that lazy fella 😎

How often do you think about the Byzantine Empire?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire

#EvanPoll #poll

Next time railway lobbyists in Brussels demand "the railway sector must make faster progress with ETCS!" point them to this: DB is doing a complete rebuild of Hamburg-Berlin, and is NOT INSTALLING ETCS https://www.eurailpress.de/nachrichten/infrastruktur-ausruestung/detail/news/db-infrago-hat-letztes-baulos-vergeben-auf-ganzer-laenge-kein-etcs.html

The railways both say they want ETCS and claim they are doing it in Brussels, but in reality are sluggish!

“Everybody who uses AI is going to get exponentially stupider, and the stupider they get, the more they’ll need to use AI to be able to do stuff that they were previously able to do with their minds.”
https://gizmodo.com/its-breathtaking-how-fast-ai-is-screwing-up-the-education-system-2000603100

If you want an lol - Microsoft have implemented Copilot on its own GitHub repos and it’s a clusterfuck, you can see MS engineers publicly begging Copilot to work.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1krttqo/my_new_hobby_watching_ai_slowly_drive_microsoft/

The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.

@GossiTheDog Using DRM for a change to work "for the user" is a very clever idea to prevent Windows Recall from making Screenshots.

Kudos @signalapp for the creative solution👏👏

OH: Olidork (you know who is meant) 😉

I would really like to have one of those juicy AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000, but neither my Wallet nor the power bill are approving of it.

Still ....

https://pointerpointer.com/

🚨 *Attention!* We were made aware of a fake “KeePassXC Password Manager Pro” repository on GitHub that links to unverified external binary downloads.
- There is NO Pro version of KeePassXC!
- You get all the “Pro” features with the regular version.
Please download KeePassXC only from trusted distribution channels linked on https://keepassxc.org/ !

After Firing 700 Humans For #AI, #Klarna Now Wants Them Back—'Tons Of Klarna Users Would Enjoy Working For Us,' Says CEO

"Klarna is #backpedaling after cutting hundreds of human jobs and replacing them with artificial intelligence. The Swedish buy-now-pay-later company now says real people are essential to customer service and plans to bring them back"
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/firing-700-humans-ai-klarna-173029838.html

@krypt3ia @jwgoerlich reboot all the servers.