Friendgineers: Abstractions and Indirections can look like the same thing, but they're actually very different. It's never a good idea to confuse two things that sound similar but aren't

#friendgineers #abstraction #indirection

https://friendgineers.rosenshein.org/posts/2025/08/15/

🚀 Ah yes, Go's infamous labyrinth of #indirection strikes again! 🎯 Our brave hero battles valiantly with the io.Reader interface, only to discover their cherished bytes lost in a sea of over-engineered #complexity. 🌀 Spoiler: they could've just used the bytes directly, but where's the fun in that? 😂
https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/too-much-go-misdirection #GoProgramming #ioReader #CodingHumor #DeveloperLife #HackerNews #ngated

My new series explores a #LLM #AI #indirection hack of sorts. Can large language models produce pictures too? The answer (I find) is abstract and odd. This new, experimental technique "opens up" the AIs to representing uncomfortable topics, stepping around some guardrails. I am focusing on human-made disasters that have impacted me personally, or around which I developed my sense of environmentalism and outrage. #teia

Tubbs Fire 1
https://teia.art/objkt/860456

Idea: speculate on the level of #indirection that exists between your favorite #media (#TV, #comics, and #movies work particularly well for this #exercise) and the #reality of the fictional world it’s about.