Posts by bassistance@chaos.social
 (DIR) Post #AhTZazMnva9w13dp9k by bassistance@chaos.social
       2024-05-02T07:59:31Z
       
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       Can't wait for this trend to die
       
 (DIR) Post #B2aBvOjxjrrqluMoJk by bassistance@chaos.social
       2026-01-23T16:28:26Z
       
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       Meanwhile in Borkum
       
 (DIR) Post #B2m3bZCOOSWQztlKvA by bassistance@chaos.social
       2026-01-29T10:05:36Z
       
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       Seeing some company-internal post about AI trainings and AI strategy kickoff makes me want to reply with “I really couldn’t care any less about this. I hope it goes nowhere. I can’t wait for the AI bubble to burst.” I don't dare, so instead I'll share some thoughts here.1/n
       
 (DIR) Post #B2m3baO7yJVGgaGDqq by bassistance@chaos.social
       2026-01-29T10:05:50Z
       
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       My much more negative stance makes me not want to interact with any AI, not so much because it has its flaws, but because the whole ideology and practical effects are fundamentally bad. For once, I don’t want my freedom as a programmer to be enclosed by Microsoft and Google, becoming completely dependent on subscriptions to their tools. That’s a direction they’re going for. I think we need to actively fight this and not just wait for it to fail in some way.2/n
       
 (DIR) Post #B2m3bbC6yTUBBbe8lE by bassistance@chaos.social
       2026-01-29T10:06:09Z
       
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       The other perspective is on all the damage these AI investments are doing: I read stories every other day about open source projects or small businesses dealing with AI scrapers, sometimes using a million unique IP addresses to scrape content, doing damage like a DDoS attack.3/n
       
 (DIR) Post #B2m3bbwCD8LhUXCwam by bassistance@chaos.social
       2026-01-29T10:07:10Z
       
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       Sites that used to collect and freely share knowledge among programmers like StackOverflow are on a sharp decline - the content was ingested into LLMs, which now are used by programers as an alternative to browsing the site. This is already a huge loss.I'm still unsure where and how to spend my social capital to fight this trend internally 🤷 4/4