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An open fascist is building one of the bigger sources of funding for open source fully under his individual control and sucks up a lot of money that otherwise might have gone to liberatory projects.

Making a Claude plugin named Bill Gates that makes Claude put a dollar in the swear jar every time it says “gate”.

My position on AI has been extremely boring and is basically, “if something is currently happening, the people who are saying that it’s impossible that it will ever happen are probably wrong”. danluu.com: How Accurate Have Ed Zitron’s AI Skeptic Predictio…

We’ve spent years loading an extraordinary number of responsibilities onto the humble code review: quality gate, security check, architecture review, mentoring mechanism, knowledge-sharing system, ownership model.

Shopping for an anonymous VPN service is so weird because all the marketing and all the reviews are like DO YOU WANT TO DO CRIMES?

I was trying to describe what working on code with AI while *all this* [waves vaguely] is going on.

Chris Oliver asked on LinkedIn: Spotted this in the Rails source today.

Creation is now near-free.

developers in Learning & Belonging cultures, who endorse a “coding is learnable” set of beliefs, experience this moment very differently.

What you spend your time on is what you practice, and what you practice is what you build skill on.